Will any of you who enjoy reading my ramblings under the "Honley Tank" heading please accept my apologies for such a delay since my last input.

Quite drastically changed family commitments mean that I now have very much reduced time to allow for my hobbies.

As the Honley Tank verbiage has always been based on my activities in the workshop (i.e. Honley Tank), this means that not only have I less to say but I'm more reluctant to use what little time I have available in whittering away on here; sorry about that, assuming you will miss these postings!

A brief update then:-

The Class 101 DMU has gone to traffic; it still has the original Dapol numbers because my searches have not revealed numbers that I can be sure reflect what actually appeared on the Hayfield branch. Because it is not really finished it has also not been weathered. If and when I obtain reliable info about running numbers on the branch then both numbers and weathering will be added.

'Bowtons Yard' has managed with a very ancient, Midland signal cabin, - an original Airfix kit circa late 1960's and in a disgusting, battered condition. A slowly moving project to scratch build a highly detailed signal cabin of more likely proportions is underway. "Scratch built" is perhaps doubtful as it's based on the Scalescenes 'print-it-yourself' kit with some etched parts but it is suffering my normal 'Booth' modifications The aim is that it will quietly emit the typical bell sounds of a busy box.

There are some pics in the camera and I'll take others as the job progresses.
I'll leave you with what I hope is the tantalizing thought of seeing and hearing more in a few weeks (months???) time.

Model well,
Dave