The minute that we switched from "personnel" to "human resource" was the time people in the workplace became no more valued that a photocopier.
I'm more thinking a reduction of ambient temperature within the enclosure rather than anything else. Unless you go full Mil Spec, most components...
Right next to the river of the same name too.
Not quite the Nene Valley, but close enough: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvqg34lq6qo
It was suggested to me at the time I drove 55 019 that the panel of six gauges in front of the driver could be replaced by a computer screen...
I wonder if the issue of cooling electronics in such an environment could be done using Peltier-effect heat pumps? I still want to know exactly...
Here's a working you'll never see again. [ATTACH] I took this around 1979 or 1980: the 08 is on the Conington Tip trip working, an occasional...
I think I can give the musical "attraction" at Wansford for VE-80 a miss but I think a look around Overton is a must. Glad the Branch Line Goods...
Another Open Day 2025 video, this time by Tom Ingall. [MEDIA]
The maverick colleague I had just ignored whatever I asked him to do safety-wise. In the end I just made sure that I had a witness nearby to see...
You've clearly never had to deal with some of the maverick staff I have then.
I'm astounded: my rough old comp had all of that stuff back in the 70s. As it was a feeder school for the likes of Perkins Engines, Peter...
Someone has posted a video of the Open Day on Saturday (which, due to family circumstances I couldn't attend) and it was interesting to see what...
I should offer the myriad of wartime radio sets I have for display...
And yet only today have I heard of trains with double-headed 56s and a 66/59 double-heading. I was speaking to the photographer over lunch!
I have many fond memories of 31s - from hearing them slogging away on the ECML on cold and frosty dark nights on goods trains in the 1970s to...
Indeed. I noticed that Royal Scots Grey is going to pioneer this for the Deltics: when I did my driving course back in 2019 with 55 019 I asked...
Dunno about you @osprey, but I'd like some details on how this all will interface with the brakes in particular. Like I said earlier: curious...
Working within live electrical equipment? Absolutely verboten where I used to work, even back in the 1980s.
Just received from the A1SLT: https://www.a1steam.com/tornado/news/tornado-details/world-first-digitally-signalled-steam-locomotive-begins-testing
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