And the same fom me.

Regards

Karl.

Morning

Last update, the groups plans in the future are to
reinstate the old corrigated lamp hut (which will
be situated near to the present running-in-board),
plus to reinstate old style gas lams obviously with
the new tungsten light fittings.

This will be last ost to this forum as you just
cannot do right for wrong sometimes on here.

Regards

Karl.

Afternoon

Sorry forgot to add tat the red lead is probably
the top coat of red, it would of been given oxide
coating underneath.

Regards

Karl.

Afternoon

And a friend of mine works freelance for the nationals,
but even so papers/magazines have got things wrong
in the past at local and national level about matters
related to railways as well, not that I was critising
your standard of journalism anyway!

I still think that the blue they got down to is a
base coat (being the first trace they found), in
those days things wern't given two pack paint and
sprayed on, they were given base coats and several
top coats.  The LNWR^▸ (London North Western Railway) railway gave their engines a
base coat colour entirely different to the top,
this was to get the desired top coat colour right;
eggshell undercoats and varnish were use used to
do this.

Your correct in the Midland railway using brown for
a very short perioed of time only.

Sorry this blue just doesn't sound right to me!  If
you can send a link to this article, I would be
interested in having a look at it.

Regards

Karl.

Morning

Willc, don't always believe what you read in newsprint
as its usually hived up, or wrong.  Blue??!!  You have
anwsered it with the "Midland Railway" which used either
Red and Yellow, the latter was replaced by white, but
in this case the girders should be Mildland Railway
Maroon.  Don't beleieve for one minute they ever used blue
on principal structures such as this for long.  They
did however use what they call eggshell colours mixed in
on pre-grouping railways a lot to make the colour mix up.
Although you have correctly stated that it would get black
very quickly!

Regards

karl.

Evening

Uprights are now in position and the sign will
hopefully be fitted in the next couple of weeks.
This will arrive in undercoat which means I will
be busy next week with my paintbrush!  The group
were on site this afternoon to clean off uprights
(which will have more work done on them to make
them look more authentic later), plus some earth
work has been carried out around them to tidy up
the bank.  We hoped by now that the bank would off
been cleared, but we're still waiting for the
contractors to arrive.

Regards

karl. 

quote author=Karl Friends of Penmere link=topic=2518.msg24870#msg24870 date=1217547437]

Morning

Another Update!!!

The uprights for the running-in-board at the Truro
end of the platform were meant to be installed today,
but the bad weather has thwarted this plan; however
they should be done iminently!

Regards

Karl.

Afternoon

Yes, have to agree that the Barlow trainshed at
St. Pancras station has been ruined somewhat by
an oversized greenhouse on the front of it.  Why
couldn't they have just left it as is, or have
canopies over the platforms only that are designed
to be more in keeping with the girders holding up
the trainshed roof?  Also I not a great fan of
the concrete platforms (couldn't they not re-used
the original brick with new London Stock mixed into
it to lenghten, or at least clad, not difficult
to find either).  Some ballest in-between the tracks
would look more in keeping as well.

In one or two journals it was stated that the colour
scheme on the girders is following the original,
which I would also question as being incorrect.

However that aside it does at least mean the Barlow
roof is secure and is given a good use, prehaps a
stactue of Barlow himself could be next holding
his plans and equipment whislt looking up at his
structure would be fitting?

And on the fares, a few years ago it was planned
to run a "Eurostar" service from Plymouth to
Waterloo, then onto France, but never happened!

Regards

Karl.   

Evening

Well unfortunately in Cornwall I doubt whether there would
be any scope to introduce a complete new HS^▸ (High Speed (short for HSS^▸ (High Speed Services) High Speed Services)) line, due to
topography plus the present line connects up pretty well
with 'most' places with little walking distance, so it
would have to be rebuilding lost bits such as at Long Rock.
I doubt whether the HS line will go any further than
Plymouth even if it was built.  But indeed a tinker here
and there to eliminate the margority of the problems will
benifit the erea and passengers.

And I would prefer 19th century railway stations anytime to
the modern glass, last 5 minutes, not weather prof, lovely
anti trespass grey liveried bus shelter!

What gets me is that people these days want to get from
A to B like yesterday.  Ok things could be a little more
punctual agreed.

Regards

Karl.

author=Tinminer link=topic=3009.msg24906#msg24906

Tinkering with this passing loop here and that new station
there is all fine and dandy , but what we really need are
goals for the next fifty years, not just the next five or
ten years.

Do we still want a 19th century railway in the 22nd century?
'Cos that's what we will have, if we don't start planning
now!

Morning

Another Update!!!

The uprights for the running-in-board at the Truro end of
the platform were meant to be installed today, but the bad
weather has thwarted this plan; however they should be done
iminently!

Regards

Karl.

Morning

Yep, Smokey, these points have already been covered in
previous messages in this title, some for and against from
other members.  I think you may just be able to sneak double
track behind "Long Rock Depot", I think its the carriage
washer plant that will be in the way the most.

With regards to St. Dennis to Burngallow line, I think there
is something that has pretty much stopped the use of trains
going back along the whole line, I was told something on the
lines of this by an BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) employee, but a long time ago so can't
remember exact details.

Not sure if it would be possible, but I don't think anyones
looked at reinstating the "Trenance Valley Line" west of
St. Austell?  Is it possible to use the old trackbed, then
build a new extension onto it with a new station/s?  Is it
near to the Eden Project or could the old Retew/Meledor Mill
line (off St. Dennis Junction), be used for this as an option?

The two viaducts in the Glyn Valley have also weakend over the
years as well as the heavier trains, so would need redecking,
but hasn't been done already in Cornwall surely at Liskeard?
Why not again?!

The good thing about the missing bridge span near St. Budeaux,
is it isn't a large area to gap, so another good possibilty.

Regards

Karl.

Morning

One or two Guards (I don't like the term Train Manager), in
the far SW I noticed are removing reserved seat labels from
seats in quite periods, they know that people (after a while),
haven't turned up to claim, which I find very helpful.  I
always have it in the back of my mind when looking for a seat,
with reserved labels, they gone to the loo or buffet coach so
don't usually risk it.  If people book seats but can't gurrantee
getting themselves there for the train they booked for, just
don't bother with the reservation of the seat and buy a normal
Day Return e.t.c?!  Make it a bit easier for everyone else!

I wonder how many of them have a good reason over how many
couldn't be bothered to say i.e get out of bed in time?

Regards

Karl.

Afternoon

Some of the very early railways (I think "The Bodmin
and Wadebrige Railway" was one of them), used furlongs
instead of chains!

Regards

Karl.

Afternoon

Well as you have mentioned the weight devasite,
could I ask a QS, something which I have been
pondering over is whether there is any play in
sightly uprating the MTU^▸ (Motor Traction Unit) engine?  This beween the
two power cars would surely be enough to overcome
any weight issues.

Regards

Karl.

Afternoon

Well the hope is that there will be a lot more
people travelling.  The problem with the timetable
at the moment is there are too many big gaps and
timings that are not always ideally suited for some.
Once the timetable is in place I would expect to
see double the amount we already have, with hiking
fuel prices and a return bus fare (falmouth to Truro),
being around ^4.50, it is hoped that a half an hour
or 45min timetable will entise a lot more people.

As regards to motive power it will be a 2x single
c153's, but once the service is up and running, if
funding a vailabilty are there it could be 2x c150's,
but only if its vaible.

There 'maybe' a chance of an additional train after
the last arrive at Truro (which currently is
MON - FRI 21:54pm, SAT 22:08pm) which will be 22:xxm
off Truro (probably 22:30pm for Falmouth).  I would
guess that Sundays (22:00pm) will stay the same
don't know why FGW^▸ (First Great Western) have done this on the present
timetable; it should be either FRI or SAT?

Regards

Karl. 

Evening

Well I passed St. Austell on Wednesday and was taken
back a bit that the downside area where the old bus
depot used to be as largely complete.  Did someone
tell them to get a move on?  There was still a lot
of hacking however behind the up platform, but I
think really if they got on with this new disabled
lift/bridge and restored the up building (which is
being funded by "The Railway Heritage Committee"),
it might look substancailly better than without the
odd boarding it presently has; but it is coming
along!

Regards

Karl.