Hi Rod

Only just caught up with the ambitious plan to link Balcombe with the rest of the known universe: looks brilliant, go for it!

The ###### boys were at Geoff Taylor's on Monday night: his railway has four scenic 'locations' and three fiddle yard locations: the sense of driving a train from one place to another (rather than just fiddle yard-scenic bit-fiddle yard) is very satisfying, something that your scheme would definitely provide.

Good luck with it!

Edit: rather amusingly, the ###### in the paragraph above is because I used the acronym for the Shropshire and Herefordshire Area Group!

Thanks Jim but nothing like! Ours are semi-circular arches on piers with c/c distances of 140mm in 4mm scale, with the piers themselves up to 300mm high.

I'll put some photos up in the blog so you can see what we're letting ourselves in for.

Hi Rod

I was thinking of this bit - http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/330163818_e0091eee46.jpg However having found a pic the ones on the ouse Viaduct have 3 rows of bricks not two.

Kindest regards

Jim

Ah, understood now - at the moment we are just thinking about the carcass but when we come to the brickwork details ...