Recent content by Skutter

What is the big knob connected to, does it change the airflow or does it actually do something to the steam supply?

Nice sign and the way it's worded feels like it goes back even earlier. The electric light may well have been from lead-acid batteries, occasionally charged by a small generator, which was the state of the art for big houses for a while. Now come back around again with solar panels and power...

Do they still have access to Glaisdale, in case they need to divert from Grosmont?

Probably where the fishermen was parked. Find an interesting tin can, take it back to the car and open it ... oh dear! Full marks to them for calling the police, not just chucking them back in the river.

There's not one at Grosmont any more, it was only a small one and seems to have been removed in BR days. Even if it was usable, it's preferred to have the smokebox uphill on the long gradient to Goathland and give more water at the firebox end of the boiler.

Good to hear that, hope they can contribute lots of cash to a worthy cause.

Railway Operation Simulator can do that, you can set up line speeds and distances on tracks, power and max speed on trains, and get a service which is close to real-world performance. Very fiddly and with some limitations, but free. https://www.railwayoperationsimulator.com/

You could frame it as a positive too, with the current ticket there is no guarantee that you"ll be carried by a train (not a bus/taxi), or even, at all to your destination. Accepting a booking with reservation puts more of a requirement on the TOC that they have the obligation to carry you...

I forgot to say, the bus with us school kids crammed onto it was probably running with the destination blind "Duplicate". Several buses ran in the timetabled path but only one showed the normal destination. That afternoon service was the only time I saw it used, dont't know how common it was.

Related, "3 to a seat" instruction from the driver or supervisor on school runs, so three kids cram onto a bench seat and you can get 50% more than the stated capacity of passengers onboard. Never knew if that was legal or not.

And big, ornamental cigarette lighters. "Sausage dog" draft excluders for internal doors. Those plastic, circular ventilators in kitchen windows. How many houses still have their built-in coal bunker? or pantry? (My house has had both knocked through to extend the kitchen, before I bought it)

Definitely - thank you for posting.

Not valid on Northern services AFAIK although I"ve had one accepted when there was disruption, which is probably true for both operators. When NYMR first ran to Whitby the tickets were interavailable, but apparently this led to complaints from customers who caught the school train out of Whitby...

Thanks for that, very nice.1992 you mean, even better. 80135 which seemed to keep the entire service running. Blue and grey Mk1s as delivered to the line Grosmont Crossing signal box when it was just a frame in a shed All the stations in red and cream. Lots of track maintenance, and the odd...

Write and tell them you disagree, tell your SU or GSA too. It's unenforcable and useless in a shared room. Sadly the University is trapped and needs to go above and beyond with what it does, when faced with a genuine threat of being closed down, and news reports like...