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    Now available in Haxby, York.
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    Interests include walking, reading, music, comedy, eating, travel, talking, shopping and driving....aka Life! My railway interests include BR Blue 1970-1980's, Motorail, Cross country services and the Rio Grande. I currently model in n scale and am constructing a layout of Kensington Olympia.

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  1. Everything is boxed up and ready for Friday. York Racecourse here we come. Stand 75 on the first floor.
  2. A nice relaxing week away in Amble, Northumberland. The railway has been long gone and there’s little sign of in the town although it had high level coal staithes on the dockside. This is the site of the station now. The newer buildings have been built across the formation, although you can easily follow the route out of town. Tomorrow I should be able to get Olympia boxed up prior to pick up on Friday for the Racecourse.
  3. These are also available as undecorated or chassis only. The chassis only option is useful as it is the same WB as many European ferry vans that visited the UK.
  4. A few days away prior to the York show but where might we be?
  5. Can anyone recognise where D5344 (26044) is in this view from November 1968. I’ve just purchased the slide.
  6. Thought I’d back up the PC today and use my Seagate portable storage……..last one I’d done was written on the box 19/6/2021!….oops.
  7. Well one bus comes along and another two arrive! This another one of those roundtuit jobs. This pair of BT Models Atlanteans have been dismantled for about two years awaiting to be ‘converted’ very loosely into MCW Metrobuses. After the issues stripping the ODC Routemaster of paint I thought I’d get some plastic safe stripper for these bodies. Only the chassis on the BT Models Atlantean is metal everything else is plastic. After reading the instructions to DO NOT ALLOW the item to sit in the stripper for more than 5 mins and only paint it on the surfaces, I left the model for its 5 mins…………..and absolutely no paint came off. After probably 6x5mins the paint still wasn’t shifting although had softened. So the body got removed and rinsed with just the shine taken off. With the second body I’m not even bothering with the stripper. Anyway some progress photos. The completed Metrobus has the doors from the TPM Models DMS conversion kit added, kindly supplied by Grahame Hedges. As this is no longer available I’ll have to make some doors up. The Atlantean having four part doors.
  8. Yes it appears to have pick ups on the tender. DCC socket is in there too.
  9. The RML gained its advertising and route blinds today, I’m quite pleased with this one.
  10. The RML also gained its decals….and got varnished when I got home. Clad with typical 1980s adverts.
  11. A productive day at the Yorkshire area NGS meeting. A bit more weathering done, The Royal Kensington Hotel block painted ready for planting, The Duchess had a good run in too.
  12. After lots of Anglo -Saxon cajoling of the PC it finally behaved itself long enough to edit and print the first lot of adverts. I’ll let them dry off overnight before sealing them. They look OK to me.
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