Scalefour Forum

DRAG's treasurer acquired a Zoom licence and hosts our meetings. The licence was paid for from group funds, which are healthy having accumulated a surplus from our weekly subs for physical meetings. So essentially we have already paid for it.

Any update on the 'Goodall Evergreen Strip' stand Andy?

Given it's a school and not at half term, when is access for setting up available?

Is it possible for others to send to you footage for the years that are missing? as this would become quite an archive of footage of what happened each year! I'm sure it's possible, but it then needs someone to edit and prepare them for Youtube. The Magic Box videos 1996-2001 come ready-made in tha...

So they originated a bit earlier than I thought then

Looks like one to me David - date?

As long as Lapland doesn't become a Covid hotspot with Santa grounded indefinitely

Fibreglass septic tanks (made by the likes of Klargester) were certainly around in the late 1970s, not sure when they originated - possibly in the years after 1963 when regulations came in requiring discharges to ground to be licensed. They have an inlet and an outlet which leads to a herringbone ne...

Lewes is/was famous for its forest of semaphores. One of our DRAG members, Adrian Musgrave, has kindly volunteered to build them. One of the demos, not commented on as far as I am aware, explains how he is going about it.

https://www.scaleforum.org/demonstrator ... e-signals/

Thanks Danny - no rush, you deserve a break!

David, just watched this and can reinforce what others have said. At DRAG we have benefitted from your demos face to face of course but your video is just as helpful and I did pick up a couple of tips myself. Mainly I hope this will encourage more people to have a go if they've never tried it. Quite...

On that subject, is the 'scalefour1978' channel going to be merged into 'Scalefour Society'?

I’ll offer another thought. I suspect quite a number of our contributors are feeling a bit flat compared to a normal event. For whatever reason, their contributions garnered no comment, or only a couple of notes. A normal day as a demonstrator is to be talking to people all day, so it will necessar...

I hope they have many and capacious lifts then!

Tony, I didn't know you were doing Brighton until yesterday. Can you share some more details (scope of layout, schedule, time period)?

Good news, which I hope will be realised; there will of course now be feverish speculation as to where it is!

To maintain balance, and cater for other interests, we ought to have Drighlington, Halifax King Cross and Dewsbury GN at the other end of the hall, maybe with a line down the side of the hall so that Steve's Bradford express can run into Bob How's Kings Cross. I'll have a word with my friends in th...

Hi Jim, fascinating stuff, many thanks. I suppose it's a little easier to 'run the railway' (a Fiennes quote?) when you are modelling a real place with access to all the WTTs, CWNs etc. I loved the story of the Glasgow-Edinburgh push-pulls and the shenanigans with train heating etc. On the SR(E) in ...

And of course, when it is finished we can hire a hall at the NEC and set up Lewis and then connect Plumpton Green, Pulborough, Ferring, Eridge and Elcot Road. There will of course have to be a little bit of modellers licence with the trains that are run!! :D :D :D Terry Bendall Can't wait Terry. it...

mike wrote:Back on watch at what I'm slowly learning to describe as 1500 rather than 3pm...

Mike

At least you're not an American Olympic track coach.

mike wrote:I could have built the one with inside valve gear but inevitably decided in the end to do the one with outside Walschaerts.

Mike

Mike graciously left me to do the other one - one day.

Here you go

Thanks Tony, and, erm, no!

I notice there's no track plan in my presentation, so here's one Lewes templot copy.jpg Also, since I sent off the presentation I have acquired a proper station plan which is invaluable for infrastructure and platform furniture. I had it photo- enlarged to 4mm scale so it can be used for final align...

Bit bigger than my tiny 5m x 3m one then ...