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G'day all. It's a cold, cloudy and damp day here - again.
I see the first substantial snow has appeared in South/mid Wales - it feels cold enough to do similar here. I may have to go out and sell my body on the streets to pay the central heating bill
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14th November 2019, 09:35 | #149393 |
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Morning all, dry here but there's a perishingly cold wind blowing. I've had my blood tests done, been to two ATM's to get some cash out for an haircut & both were out of order
Got back home & found enough money down the sofa for the £5 barber Thought I'd take a short walk there & he was closed.
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14th November 2019, 11:46 | #149394 |
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14th Nov!! D-Day! for the release of the BR Class 31 on Train Sim World on the Tees valley line My gaming PC has been queued for the update since 9:00pm last night and still queued to get this.
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14th November 2019, 11:50 | #149395 | |
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I think it was more to do with him being 6' tall and occasionally having to go clambering around inside grain elevators to collect samples. He used to hate harvest time, he'd be away at 6 in the morning, collecting grain samples all morning, separate sample for each field harvested, they'd be picked up mid afternoon and taken to the lab to be tested for moisture content, protein etc. It would be early evening before the company's buyer analysed the results and had a bid price for each sample/field which he'd pass to my father who'd then be on the phone negotiating with farmers til 10 or 11 at night. |
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Temperature has dropped to 3.5, might have to put the heating on, sorry Rod.
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BR Presflo cement wagon, air braked, 60mph. There was also a Semflo, older, vacuum braked, 45mph. Semflos were a nightmare, took an age for the brakes to do anything. It was usually a case that by the time the brakes applied you were trying to get them off again!
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LOL I thought these class 31's were gutless? I don't know why they've got scenarios with heavy cement wagons! Just been reading some of the spiel on them and you're right! 45mph top whack & it said if I want to run it on another line (west Somerset) I have to make sure to couple the vacuum up for it. Looks like I'll be overshooting loading & unloading areas then I wonder if these 31's have the 2mph target speed control device for loading coal wagons? Might make a mess of them too
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Can't say a lot about 31s, didn't have them up here, just an occasional visitor with a Tyne Yard crew who took them straight back again. Dunno if they were slow speed fitted. MGR wagon loading and discharge up here was at 0.5mph, throttle in the "on" position and a wee potentiometer on the desk to adjust the speed and a specific slow speed speedo, usually had to involve a rub of the loco direct brake.
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Afternoon all, It's still perishingly cold out there so I've had a red hot bath to get some feeling in my back.
On the Deustche bahn this afternoon to Letmathe Baked potatoes with John West Tuna& lime topping with some chicken stir fry for tea.
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