Santa, assisted by the elves at Kernow Models, brought me a Derby Lightweight for Christmas. (My family are good an knowing just what I want). Also delivered came a set of conversation wheels from Branchlines.

So last Friday night the two presents were put together and by the end of the evening the unit was making jaunts up and down a Midland branch in South Cambridgeshire (thanks Brian!). More suited perhaps to East Anglian branchlines that Empire Basin's north London but that is the way my mind is leaning at the moment.

Also in the post all the way from Poland came a tiny motor and gear box which is intended to go into my Wickham trolley. I'm going to need to do something a bit clever to go from the 1mm axle of the unit up to the axle diameter of the N gauge wheels but that'll be a challenge to keep me quiet for a few weeks.

Happy New Year everybody.

David