{"id":8382,"date":"2024-09-28T01:29:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturday-variety-32\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T01:29:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T01:29:17","slug":"saturday-variety-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturday-variety-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
Remembering Semmering!<\/span><\/p>\n The sobering thought is that all the construction was done without the benefit of modern machinery amd without a single computer. They did have slide rules which appeared in the 17th century when you could blame John Napier for inventing logarithms [Weren’t they fun at school?] …<\/p>\n … and mechanical calculators. fbb still has his father’s slipstick. He used to take it into IT lessons when being a supply teacher. Hidden in a wrap of brown paper, the question was, “What sort of computer is in this bag?” The kiddies were amazed!<\/p><\/div>\n The film doesn’t obviously say when the line was electrified but fbb guesses either just before or just after WW2. Most shots show the poles to hold the catenary; but of particular interest to fbb were the pictures of steam hauled trains.<\/p>\n A close look reveals that they were all double haded with two small locomotives.<\/p>\n Might that be, thought fbb, because the bigger locos wouldn’t go round the corners?\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n And a sleek diesel unit bumbled out from one of the tunnels.<\/p>\n Very art deco, very 1930s.<\/p><\/div>\n Popular Pounds Park Provision<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of a “public open space” it morphed into a children’s urban adventure park, and very popular it is with the kiddies, fbb is told.<\/p>\n It has just been announced that the Council has agreed to spend \u00a3914,000 on the long promised “transport hub”. So about five years late, then.<\/p><\/div>\n Quite how you can spend half a million smackers on three bus shelters and some real time displays is totally beyond fbb’s understanding.<\/p><\/div>\n Today’s Triang Toy Train!<\/span><\/p>\n The R2 had different electrical equipment.<\/p>\n Essentially the consist was one Jinty 0-6-0 tank loco and two maroon coaches. Here is the loco back then …<\/p>\n … and now.<\/p>\n And here is a coach, then …<\/p>\n … and now.<\/p>\n The track then was Mark 2 grey based …<\/p>\n … with the modern version being far more realistic.<\/p>\n The trainset as a whole is much better than in 1958 …<\/p>\n … and it beats inflation, being about three times the price after adjustment for the changing real value of the pound.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n
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