This is one question I never asked on Sunday at my local train exhibition 29.1.2023 But I was an a salute honour to have met you David & some of your team You ll never know we might even meet and share a table for lunch in the future Kind regards Phill Emma & Millie
It's good to know that even your knowledgeable team are still learning. It gives our amateur friend modellers encouragement and drive. I'm still learning after 64 years of modelling. Thank you. Geoff. W.
One can only imagine the situations that are created from having guest running sessions. I’d be a typical train spotter and just watch the trains go by and laugh at the issues created. Must be some great entertainment, Clint
It is great fun. Making the railway resilient to guest operators is quite a challenge. However, the positive feedback from the visitors and the beaming smiles on their faces makes it worthwhile.
This kind of evening looks a lot of fun to participate in. But you all lose points,the mugs that your using for your cups of tea are to small. The British Rail 50's white china mug would have been double that size. Also Following British Rail so closely I trust your all getting enough tea breaks? Bob Essery told me on his very 1st morning on the footplate the driver said to him " Son, we'll have a cup of tea before we take off." Just keep the videos coming. Cheers, Chris Perry.
As regards running the correct locos/stock for a given era Hattons now provide excellent era information sheets in colour. These have been researched extensively to be accurate.
You lost me when you got to talking about tallying points. I know it's all 'horses for courses' but scoring teams in an operating session seems to me to have drifted pretty solidly into non-railroading territory. As one of your operators noted, lots of folks get a great deal of enjoyment running trains or running trains on time. I'll wager there are folks on your regular team that don't dig the scoring element but put up with it to maintain access to a pretty cool layout and talented group of people. Just my $0.02.
Hi, in addition to being interested in model railways, I have applied to do a Secondary History PGCE, at university, and I have been offered a virtual interview. In preparation, for this, I would like to practise answering possible interview questions/ going through a lesson plan/ discussing current issues in education/ why I want to come to train at this particular university. Basically this is how I can stand out when I have my interview. I would be very grateful if you could give me any help/ if I could practise answering these types of questions with you. I thought I might contact you, as having seen your layout, I am mindful that you have members of the team with different backgrounds, and experience. I apologise if this is not the appropriate forum for this. Many thanks, Alan Bevan.
At 2.40 the group is debating on train wagons passing from one region to another. Are they talking about passenger wagons or freight wagons. Would you not see different freight wagons in different parts of the country or would the freight be offoaded at the point of exchange between railway companies onto the wagons belonging to the rail company area that the freight is entering. Or would freight loaded onto a wagon in Norwich stay on that same wagon all the way to Glasgow? Thanks
In the era and country we are modelling, there was only one rail operator, British Railways. If you dispatched a fully loaded wagon from Norwich to Glasgow, the load and wagon would stay together for the journey. If the load was only part of a wagon then there would be a chance of it being transhipped to another wagon at an intermediate spot.
Hi Mick, We don't plan to add a Freightliner terminal because the layout would require two for reciprocal operation and the space required for each one is huge. We will have four different Freightliner scenic trains running to represent different eras. Regards David
@@dattouk thanks for the reply, look forward to seeing them running, I have some from the 70s, I bought new Axles and Wheels from Alan Gibson Products and they run much better now,
