{"id":3074,"date":"2023-08-19T01:29:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T01:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/saturday-variety-8\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T01:29:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T01:29:18","slug":"saturday-variety-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/saturday-variety-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taken Aback By Double Stack<\/span><\/p>\n

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Confused.com? Where within the UK loading gauge could you ever run a double stack container train? What’s one of them when it is at home anyway?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Here is a video of a double stack container train in the good old U S of A – well actually Canada.\n
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The video says 220 wagons; fbb counted 226 and two locos, but he is unreliable eyeball-wisr. But what is a few double stack containers between friends?<\/p><\/div>\n

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But that is NOT what Tesco are trialling!\n
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Rather uninspiringly the roof of Tesco’s wagon can be jacked up to get an extra layer of pallets in and then lowered to the correct UK loading gauge.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rather boring?<\/div>\n
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Fake Sheffield Wagons<\/span>\n
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Rails (of Sheffield) have recently come up with a couple more of their private owner never owned wagons. In just over 20 years in Sheffield fbb never knowing sucked a Maxon’s sweet. But this small company still makes its product in the traditional small-batch way.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you fancy a wagon plus small bagga, remember there is postage to add to the \u00a325 retail price. Likewise with the Potted Beef wagon.\n
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fbb cannot ever remember consuming such delectable scrumptiousness.<\/p>\n

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Three flavours are available “in the shops”.<\/p>\n

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These are boiled up (literally) in a small “works” situated in a pleasant wooded avenue …<\/div>\n
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… that lies between Crookes and Walkley.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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There’s no sample with the Rails wagon, sadly – or fbb would order one, simply for the taste of real potted beef, not the sanitised de-flavoured stuff you get “dayn sarf”!<\/span><\/div>\n

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Now Here’s A Spiffing Idea<\/span><\/div>\n
To more huge containers around why bother with a nasty stinking planet destroying diesel “switcher” as out chums from across the pond would say.<\/span><\/div>\n

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So you load the container onto two disconnected bogies …\n
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… you program the bogies to take the box wherever it wants to go.<\/p>\n

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When it gets there you program it to autonomously load on the lorry (truck!), presumably equally autonomous and off it goes to the Emerald City. Perhaps.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n


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One possible flaw occurs to fbb. How do you ensure that the bogies and the box match up? Perhaps the three bits are positioned by some version of Sat Nav?<\/span><\/div>\n

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Isn’t technology wonderful. IF it works!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Answers to Quiz Part 2<\/span>\n
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This is the over-priced tram which runs between Parkway and Airport at Luton<\/span>. And here are (or maybe were) the straw hats.<\/p>\n

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Birmingham New Street<\/span>. The property is for sale. It has a reasonable view of the western exit tracks but that is the less busy of the two ends, so perhaps not an ideal pad for a wealthy trainspotter.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rugby<\/span>. Very much changed today. Just a simple canopy protects passengers, but …<\/p>\n

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… trains still thrash past at speed on the “avoiding lines”.<\/div>\n
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The tunnels approaching Liverpool Lime Street<\/span> being opened up for extra tracks.<\/div>\n
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Ryde Pier Head<\/span> showing the new windbreak. And this is what used to stand where the car park (above right) is now.\n
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Woodhead Tunnel. The new bore was built for the very short-lived electrification at 1500 volts DC.<\/p>\n

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EM1 loco No 27000 was named “Electra”.<\/p>\n

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This was Brunel’s original terminus building at\u00a0Bristol\u00a0Temple\u00a0Meads<\/span>.<\/div>\n
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Notwork Rail show the platforms in use in 1956 …<\/div>\n
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… but can’t spell “Brunel”!!<\/p>\n

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It is the very original Severn Bridge<\/span>, not either of the modern upstarts. After a meeting of barge abd bridge the link was closed and the bridge demolished. It had a swinging section as well.\n
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Tinsley Marshalling Yard<\/span>\u00a0Sheffield – all gone now.<\/p>\n

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Of course The Tay Bridge<\/span> disaster.<\/p>\n

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And, as a special treat; extracts from William McGonagle’s Tay Bridge “collection”.<\/div>\n
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Opening if the Tay Bridge<\/span><\/div>\n
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Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay!<\/div>\n
With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array<\/div>\n
And your central girders, which seem to the eye<\/div>\n
To be almost towering to the sky.<\/div>\n
The greatest wonder of the day,<\/div>\n
And a great beautification to the River Tay,<\/div>\n
Most beautiful to be seen,<\/div>\n
Near by Dundee and the Magdalen Green.<\/div>\n
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Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay!<\/div>\n
That has caused the Emperor of Brazil to leave<\/div>\n
His home far away, incognito in his dress,<\/div>\n
And view thee ere he passed along en route to Inverness.<\/div>\n

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Tay Bridge Disaster<\/span><\/div>\n
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Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv\u2019ry Tay!<\/div>\n
Alas! I am very sorry to say<\/div>\n
That ninety lives have been taken away<\/div>\n
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<\/div>\n
Which will be remember\u2019d for a very long time.<\/div>\n
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\u2018Twas about seven o\u2019clock at night,<\/div>\n
And the wind it blew with all its might,<\/div>\n
And the rain came pouring down,<\/div>\n
And the dark clouds seem\u2019d to frown,<\/div>\n
And the Demon of the air seem\u2019d to say-<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Opening of the New Tay Bridge<\/span><\/div>\n
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Beautiful new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay,<\/div>\n
With your strong brick piers and buttresses in so grand array,<\/div>\n
And your thirteen central girders, which seem to my eye<\/div>\n
Strong enough all windy storms to defy.<\/div>\n
And as I gaze upon thee my heart feels gay,<\/div>\n
Because thou are the greatest railway bridge of the present day,<\/div>\n
And can be seen for miles away<\/div>\n
From North, South, East or West of the Tay<\/div>\n
On a beautiful and clear sunshiny day,<\/div>\n
And ought to make the hearts of the “Mars” boys feel gay,<\/div>\n
Because thine equal nowhere can be seen,<\/div>\n
Only near by Dundee and the bonnie Magdalen Green.<\/div>\n

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Well, he was\u00a0Scotland\u00a0worst poet<\/span>, possibly even the world’s worst\u00a0poet<\/span>!<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Next Variety\u00a0Blog : Sunday 20th August\u00a0<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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