The Bristol Railway Archive

The Western involved in the forthcoming Eden Flyer is making a test run from OOC to Bristol Parkway tonight.

Times are listed as being:

Swindon 2111-21
Wootton Bassett 2130
Hullavington 2140
Westerleigh Jn 2155
Stoke Gifford 2200

Stoke Gifford 2305
Dr Days Jn 2311
Bath 2323
Thingley Jn 2333
Chippenham 2335
Wooton Bassett 2348
Swindon 2354


Thanks to GWOT for posting the timings to the Yahoo gen groups.

Currently (9.06) running about 25mins down.

A very grainy pic! Hand-held camera in the dark in the rain

I couldn't see anything until I raised the brightness by 30%

James wrote:I couldn't see anything until I raised the brightness by 30%

Really! ack!!

Actually I have this problem all the time. My work computer and my home computer have completely different tolerances in the way they display pics. My work 'puter doesn't see 'dark' pics at all, but the same pic viewed at home is fine.

It makes processing some of the pics for the website very difficult because I have to try to guess if other people are going to see them once I've uploaded them!

I encounter the same 'problem' all of the time with pictures taken with a digital camera - not just with night time shots but with bright daylight shots of landscapes etc.

The same picture can vary drastically between two different monitors (in particular between a 'tube' monitor and a flat screen) and there is a further difference when the shots are professionally developed onto good old fashioned photographic paper.

My monitor is knackered whichever way you look at it

Hence the new Laptop I just bought.

Although I dunno how to copy the things from my old PC hard drive to the Laptop's.

Old PC has no CDRW or LAN card.

They both have:
Serial
Parallel
USB Ports

Hmmmmm...

Whenever I've done this I've simply stuck my old hard drive in my new 'puter as a slave disc. That way you can have a clean system on your new harddrive and still use all your old programs on the old hardrive, or copy the files across and then remove the old harddrive.

Can you do this with a laptop?

nope...laptop drives are smaller

that's what I did with the drive from my previous PC when I bought the one I'm currently using, but I dunno what to do with the laptop

Probably cable to cable then. Nasty!

How about uploading the files to any webspace and then downloading them onto the new puter?

Or get yourself one of those USB memory sticks? Probably wouldn't cost much more than a serial/parallel cable.

oooo memory sticks...hadn't thought about them! Look cheap too, might pick one up!

Cheers

edit: actually, USB cables are even cheaper

Just a (daft!) thought.

You say laptop hard drives are a different size, but what about the cables? Is it possible to have your old hardrive just hanging off the end of the cable, outside the laptop, so you can copy the files over, or do they use a different cable size?

Um..er...

*runs away screaming*



p.s. this has gone waaay off-topic hasn't it? Never mind, it was only about some grotty old diesel

have a look at this link:

http://www.rail-net.co.uk/storypage.php?storyid=184

This beast can out-clag any old kettle

Doesn't look healthy while doing it though

And they smell a lot worse