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And so to the canopy glazing! Must admit that this has been a bit of a headache. As Geoff Taylor reminded me, anything to do with glazing needs painting first before the glass is fitted. So my first thoughts were to construct a frame of glazing bars to which the clear sheet could be added later, but it would have to be too thick as can be seen in the first pic. I then tried cutting the glazing from 20th Perspex intending to fit the bars over it but again this was unsatisfactory. I have now decided to use the Portrait cutter to produce a self adhesive vinyl overlay for the bars stuck to slaters 10th clear sheet. The vinyl is Dark Grey matt so no painting required. The clear sheet is cut after the vinyl is stuck on. I think it works Ok!

A few Settle and Carlsile photos today, from a range of dates. Kirkby Stephen damaged Class 156 15th April 99 C24396.jpg Culgaith 4th April 97 C21739 Langwathby 80080 Carlisle to Kirkby Stephen 22nd Feb 93 C18282.jpg Langwathby A2 60532 Blue Peter special The Waverley Newcastle Leeds Carlisle and back 6th March 93 C18338.jpg Low House Crossing Class 158 Carlisle to Leeds 30th April 08 NDSC_4296.jpg David

Golf soon, and it isn't raining, yet. At PN the light must be fading, as it is getting on for 9.30pm. 61603 has come off the Glasgow, and 60002 has backed on. Tim can't wait to get his hands on this one. It won't be leaving yet, so another J6 hauled trip working can pass by on the slow.

For a moment I was worried you were talking about your own personal pluming system!

Brave photographer!

Greetings one and all I received an e-mail yesterday from Santander, the well-known if not notorious banking house. It invited me to supply my mobile number in connection with how I log on to online banking. The flaw in what on the face of it is a not unreasonable request is that I do not have an account with Santander. I phoned them and 20 minutes later spoke to a human. He could find no trace of a Santander account in my name. He said that someone would look into it, or words to that effect, but somehow I expect to hear no more about it. Goodness me, there are some chancers about. What else? The ironing was accomplished after lunch to the accompaniment of music by Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, whose concert was the last that I attended at The Stables immediately before lockjaw - sorry, lockdown. My mind must have been wandering, looking for a better place. A Zoom session comprising a HMRS meeting occupied the evening and those taking part enjoyed a fine selection of photographs and commenting on them. The midday meal comprised a rediscovered pasty from the fridge, plastered with brown sauce after being heated for the time and temperature stated on the packet. Right on schedule a heatwave is developing. I would have found it easier to handle if there were balmy breezes coming off the sea, for I find humidity so much more uncomfortable than mere heat. In today's parallel universe I would, at the time of typing, be somethere west of Oxford on the A40 heading for the misty bit of the Cotswolds with little else on the road. My favoured route to the south-west entails avoiding Cheltenham and Gloucester and joining the M5 at junction 11A. Breakfast is preferred at Michael Wood services, which has a Harry Ramsdens where the fried bread is crisp to an exemplary degree. I have not yet thought through the next leg of the journey. Before she moved into a care home my aunt in Bristol was always happy to make a cuppa for her nephew at 8 am. Somehow I suspect that 8 am is not a good time to visit a rellie in a care home. Who knows what next year will hold? Best wishes to all Chris

Just had a surreal two and a half hours talking to one of the Microsoft 'customer service team' trying to sort out why my Dad's Outlook account seems to have gone mammaries up and despite their website having all the correct details it still won't let him in because it says they are wrong - even when they are retrieved from said website. After resetting passwords and going through myriad other procedures that had absolutely no effect he said that there was nothing else that could be done - and this from what is probably the biggest software company on the planet!!! God help us if they ever get to market AI systems. The net result is that I eventuallly told them where to stick their account and tomorrow will be looking at getting Dad another one with a company that could probably find its own ar*e without a map. Rant over - time for some sleep. Night all. Dave

A busy day today. A new Bed is arriving with the same Company removing the Old Bed. And my Shed is finally coming down and going today. I was hoping for a gust of wind, that would have saved me the job of the final bit of dismantling. Once gone I'll have a nice area for the new decking.

Ey up! Sleep very badly interrupted by some very noisy foxes in the garden overnight. I love animals but the noise levels were enough to wake me up abd continued for a long time. Her indoors ( who is a "light sleeper") didn't stir. Today will involve a bit of cleaning and , when it stops raining, may include some grass cutting. Her indoors is off to moreasons shortly. My mugatea has been delivered so..time for tea drinking then.....breakfast. Hope all is well for all ERs! Baz

Haha, When we viewed the property, it was chukking down with Rain, and I mean chukkin it down, like sideways at force 8 or something, so I didn't venture outside to inspect the Shed. The owner did say say it was not water tight and in a gust of wind, might fall down of it's own accord, so I wasn't surprised when we moved in and had a closer look. The original plan was to weatherproof it with some new cladding, re instate the power that had been disconected and I would use it for my Weathering Shed with a nice bright set up. Inside was some decent shelving, or so I though, they were only there to stop it doing the Frisby Flop on windy days. The floor has it's own built in Bouncy Castle, so I could have rented it out for Kiddies Parties. Two Adults inside would have been a bit risky, unless you stood in the corners. It's also in the most stupid of places, and at the moment is an eyesore from the Lounge, so after today, I can plan the Decking, and Sun Shade.

Good moaning.

Here goes with a couple from me. Not a train (or Pannier) in sight...!

I do hope you looked up and found the telephone number to use yourself, not one off the email, or that phone call could be very expensive... Mooring again, After breakfast , head to the bathroom for the morning ablutions and.. a loud explosion of air came out with brown coloured water. This would tie in with another loud noise from the house plumbing last night. On the way home the water was still flowing across the road, this morning there are barriers up just off the road and a big hole. But no water , just a desert of sand left on the road.. I have just seen an email from the company XXXXXXX who turns out to be the "Executive Administrative Assistant, Engineering" I think that means secretary.. to the unkown person. asking what time I finish work.. Sometime today I'll have to reply but I'm not sure how I'll phrase it yet...

47 407 ‘Aycliffe’ storms out of Catesby tunnel towards Charwelton with the 1O09 Newcastle - Poole service.

I've just remembered that there are a few plonks left, so here's another DE view.

I have a theory that wooden garden sheds are actually a species of slow maturing puffball, appearing practically overnight, and then spending decades developing, softening in the damp and finally, given a strong wind or minor impact, bursting open to spread their infernal spores (which look remarkably like broken garden furniture, rusty department store bicycles, and mysterious gardening implements) across the lawn.

I have a similar shed if you can get it listed will they replace the felt? (last seen shredding on a very windy day 3 years ago).

I must admit to have not reading the previous 517 pages of this thread, but thought my three classic cars might be of interest, as outlined below. 1950 Morris Minor Lowlight Saloon: Fitted with 1275 engine and 4 speed plus overdrive gearbox, tele' shocks, Marina disc brakes and a Morris 1000 rear axle, running on Morris Van 4.5J wheels. 1967 Morris Minor 4-door Saloon: Fitted with 1275 engine and 4 speed overdrive gearbox, fitted with tele' shocks, Marina disc brakes and a Marina rear axle, running on MGF spare wheels. Both of the above are daily drivers'. I'm also currently working on a 1950 Morris Minor Lowlight Tourer imported from America and to be fitted with an Alta OHV head conversion.

Timber framed, weatherboarded, a fine example of a vernacular domestic oubuilding! I shall contact Waterlooville Council and Historic England immediately to have it listed!

Presumably that means tracking down all those endless companies, people etc. to advise what the new email address is? One of my many regrets is having my main email address linked to the provider, though I also now have outlook and gmail accounts; it makes swapping to another provider a pain. I do have an inherent distrust of gmail, outlook accounts though, as well as such things as "cloud storage". Perfectly secure? Yeah, right.... I too thought this posting was referring to a bodily function not functioning as it should, and was bracing myself for the rest of the post. I now realise it was all perfectly innocent.....

Good moaning all. Not very rested due to more interruptions by mozzies in the night. However a very good day was had yesterday. Beth and I did whatvwe needed to do in St John of the Danglies, had a good lunch in a lakeside restaurant then after getting home set off to meet my trainspotting pal. A very good evening was had watching trains and got home about midnight. Breakfast has been had and in about 20 minutes 3 friends are due to help fit the new pool liner before it gets too hot. Regards to all. Jamie

We should have been suffering form jet lag still. However up at 2.30am then in shed at 4am and back in theh osue at 5.30am to have breakfast and make cup of tea for her still in bed. This morning aff to Mums to take her to doctors. Later today off to our local brewery for 5pm opening.

Mooring awl, inner Temple Hare, A solid 6.25 hours sleep which was good. The aches and pains from last weekend work seemed to have a delayed reaction this week, upper arms a shoulders quite painful yesterday afternoon and evening. I'm still feeling the effects this morning but to a lesser extent. This is just in time for raiding the orange shed, on the way home tonight for supplies for next weeks work.. It will get expensive.. Today was chosen as it includes sheets of insulation, loading that on the roof of the landrover is fun if it's windy, and today is promised to be light winds. I got a missive from the person desiring an interview, he's cancelled that and said xxxxxxx will contact me to arrange a more appropriate time. Well xxxxxxx we receive missives from every day, normally total carp , talking of candy store events, virtual dinners, and attending "meets" nearly 5000m away at stupid o'clock in the morning. I and everyone I know deletes that carp on mass , we just don't have the time to read it. Time to get up and make some porridge.

Tony, It was lovely to see you and Mo yesterday when you came to see Retford. Thank you for kindly lending me some stock and converting it to EM. As I said to you, now I am the owner of Retford, my aim is to complete it. A large amount to work has been done on the layout but a lot still needs to be done, particularly in completing the buildings many of which are just mockups. I admired the layout from the moment I first read about it in MRJ. I was lucky enough to talk to Roy Jackson at an Expo EM exhibition and to my surprise he invited me to visit Retford. On entering the railway shed I was completely captivated by the “train-set” as he called it. It took enormous imagination to visualise a project such as this. He started it not even having anywhere to erect it in full. It even went out on exhibition two or three times which must have been an enormous undertaking. In the marvellous photographs taken by Tony two of the locomotives are mine. The V2 is from a Nucast kit I built and painted during lockdown. It still needs weathering as well as crew and lamps. The A1 “Madge Wildfire” is actually a Hornby “Tornado” converted to EM gauge by changing the bogie and tender wheels but moving the Hornby driving wheels out on their axles to the EM back to back. Other changes have been made including extensive alterations to the tender and new smoke deflectors. Although Roy Jackson was the driving force behind Retford many other people made enormous contributions to the project. I would love them to continue to work on the railway if they feel they can . I appreciate that without Roy it will not be the same but I would like the railway to be finished as a tribute to Roy. Sandra

A few quick shots of the new Hornby large prairie this afternoon. I was a bit concerned on unwrapping the parcel as I could hear the dreaded rattle inside. A front buffer had come off in transit but was in the box and duly returned to the hole with a push. Now my thoughts. Very plastic looking ,look at the shine, although the green is better but still miles behind Bachmann. It runs through all my points with no problems, the pony truck is fine on mine although so have had issues. The front steps are splayed like @County of Yorkshire pointed out yesterday. They may correct with light pressure. I had hoped the front boiler step was in the high position for this version but looks too low to me on inspection. Not having much diecast in it's construction means it's a lightweight but it appears elsewhere to have prototypical haulage capacity. Photos on an up service anon.

BIN day - Mrs still on BIN duty, a stretch for me at present <sigh> Little to report from yesterday, the UPDATE on my client "access" was a further request from the IT department informing me that they were TEMPORARILY resetting my access but to expect details of a different VPN I was to use. They also requested details of whom they should contact to provide authorization for my access. I dutifully responded with the name of the VP I work for and cced her. Her reply was a curt "APPROVED" single word email. Knowing her pretty well I can just imagine what she'd have liked to have written Follow-up after that was an email including her and the head of IT, sheepishly informing me that I could continue as I was and no change was necessary I'm expecting someone got a swift verbal kick in the nuts over the entire exchange - serves them right Today awaiting the imminent arrival of Whitney, as Jemma and her boyfriend are off to Chicago for a couple of days to celebrate his mums birthday. They had all originally planned to do that in England (his family have relatives there) but the plague quashed that idea, as it has for so many. 17 first thing, sunny and pleasant, expected to make 28 for the high. Tally ho.

if there a confused button?

Morning all, Rick I trust that cat is improving or at least has had the problem identified and it is being treated. Alas kidney problems are a common complaint in cats as they age and out sammy went that went but Henry - tough old chap that he was - started to improve markedly after 4 days in intensive care at the vet's establishment but he wouldn't and nothing the veterinary nurses could do would encourage him to eat. We duly explained the secret and delivered some ready to heat and eat Peking Duck from Tesco to the surgery - he was home in less than two days after that and managed quite a few more years. Any eating problems and offering their favourite food usually seems to work, cake would no doubt have been just as good to get Henry eating. Chrisf appears lucky - I get regular calls from Aam-a-zon telling me that my account is about to be renewed and what to do if if I don't want to pay 40 quid. i also apparently have occasional problems with my Paypal account; of course I don't have either. A more recent trick involves cavity wall insulation and some goon - in England for once judging by their accents - calls to tell me that they noticed that I had cavity wall insulation installed some years ago. I duly correct them by pointing out that I didn't have cavity wall insulation installed so they then ask it I have solid walls so I explain the house was built with cavity insulation in accordance with the Building Regulations, this sort of technical (ha ha) information leaves them flummoxed so I remind them how stupid they are and put the receiver down. Mind you calls from 'Microsoft' (not) about problems with my 'windows' can be really good fun. Have a good day one and all. More pasties for dinner tonight as a good sufficiency of them were made yesterday - an excellent batch which caused me to eat an extra half of one for dinner last night.

That shed looks like it's due the attention of Petethemole

Good evening everyone It’s been a lovely sunny day here in the England’s northwest, but we did have a few dark clouds around dinner time. Thankfully they didn’t hang around long and the sun came out again and remained out until it set. Another day spent mostly tidying and sorting out stuff in the cellar, where progress is being made steadily. The box that stores all the spare light bulbs has been emptied, cleaned, restocked and now resides in the office under the wine rack. Once the arrival of the expected package had taken place, I opened it for Sheila as she struggles with such tasks, but left the contents undisturbed for her to sort out at her leisure. I then went back downstairs and carried on with what I was doing. Yesterday I filled 2 boxes of stuff that was destined for the shed and workshop. These were taken outside and emptied into either the sh d and workshop as appropriate. Whilst I was outside I did manage to do a small amount of gardening this morning, but I’ll hopefully do a lot more tomorrow. I also managed to get the first coat of primer on the fascia of the control panel, tomorrow, before heading outside, I’ll give it a rub down before applying a second coat. Goodnight all

As promised a few more. The plastic coal load pops out easily if you want to model half a bunker full.

I believe I have the answer. The road has been up all week while the People in Orange Clothing connect several new feeds to the water main. These all cross the width of the road and enter a private estate. I suspect someone might be about to create Muddy Hollow (Upon the Hill of Strawberries).

Afternoon All Sorry, been absent for a few days due to problems with this laptop, which I think is nearing the end of its life, as it is taking longer and longer to boot each time it is switched on. Today it has taken twelve minutes - the tech guy at PC World said that it will take a fair amount to fettle it, and I will also need a new version of MS Office (J know other freeware is available) if I upgrade to W10 - and as I have missed the boat with the free upgrade to W10. Also the fan is knackered, and I don't really think it is worth going everything So I think that the recommendation of PCWorld to buy a new laptop is probably for the best, and I am having a new Dell set up, and will be having the data from this one transferred tomorrow. Bang goes another chunk of my PPI refund. I suspect that if the new machine is not up and running tomorrow, I may well be absent for a couple of days. Boiler is not being surveyed today as the surveyor has been taken ill - possibly with COVID19, so we will have to wait until a new surveyor can be drafted from another area. Generic greetings are, of course, on offer to all fellow ERs. Regards to All Stewart

Jinty

Well someone has being trying to drain my hollow of muddy water. Now I know the culprit!

You have to do it yourself but you cant just use any old felt, it must be identical to the original. If the original felt is no longer made you will have to pay to have some made and it will probably give you cancer.

Best get the replacement felt on it tomorrow then, a hot day always helps the felt sit and bend nicely.

Good moaning, just, from a rather warm Charente. A good evening's trainspotting was had last night and our new pool is finally starting to fill up without any apparent leaks so I've time to post some more photos. The Tardis has been reversed I I realised that I'd missed some slides that I took in 1991. First off the ferries of the time soon to have severe competition. This batch were all taken late July/early August 1991. Then we visited the exhibition centre at Cheriton and the 1880's tunnelling machine that had been recued from it's chalky grave by TML. Then the one from, I believe, the 1920's attempt that was entombed in the cliffs above Folkestone. Finally Finally one of the 1980's ones that had bored from Folkestone to Cheriton. I seem to remember that when it's twin was being lifted out it got dropped and the 500 ton machine caused a measurable earthquake in the area. Then to Leeds and a 307 coming in from Doncaster. I seem to remember that West Yorks got some other ex Eastern region units until the 333's came along when the Aire Valley scheme went live but the order for extra 323's had been scuppered by privatisation. Finally a visit to Crew Electric depot and a line up of early series electrics probably due for scrap. More to come. Jamie

hoovering of carpets and washing of tiled floors completed. Still raining so no grass cutting for me today.. now let me think..what can I do with my "spare" time?? Baz

Morning, damp and dull best describes the weather almost Autumnal in fact, at least there will be respite from the "G" word today. Yesterday began with a trip to the tyre depot to have them checked prior to arranging the MOT, good news all are well in spec, so much muddling tokens saved there, down side was the hardware shop had no shed/fence preserver, seems there's been some sort of panic buying of that too..................who'd have thunk it?

Good morning everyone Like yesterday, we slept in again this morning, even after we’d had an early night last night too! We’ve had rain during the night, which wasn’t unexpected, but the sun is now shining so an attempt to spend most of the day in the garden will the order of the day. I’m also hoping to get a second coat of primer on the control pane fascia at some point today. Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later.

This was always my favourite picture of Highbury even though very little of the colliery is visible. The composition is perfect and it really captures the drama of No. 88 slogging up the bank with a heavy freight - I even like the added smoke effect which I'm normally a bit ambivalent about. Andy Y took it - the boy takes a good snap - and it did appear in BRM some years ago but it was unfortunately in an issue when the chap in charge of the inkpot forgot to turn the tap off and the pictures were very dark and completely saturated which didnt do them any favours at all. Agree with the comments about the 47 on Charwelton picture above - simply stunning. Jerry

Yes Mr Bear, With my last Shed at the previous abode, I put in a Brick course around the bottom, but NOT cemented and mortar, just loose enough to allow air to pass through and under the said Shed, but not room for Meecees, Rats and other Critters to get in under. Thanks for the reminder.

...followed by a bit of duff action...

May I suggest making it nice and rodent proof - the little b'stards love living under decking, apparently

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The sore ankle is back, I've realised now that a lot of it is due to the weather, not just that its warming up but its getting very close and sticky and that seems to set it off. Tomorrows task is to start clearing the old shed, A lot of items are to be thrown out but some shelves will have to be emptied so that said shelves can be fitted to the new shed. I also have to still assemble the wheelbarrow, I have just discovered that a couple of nuts are missing, not a problem as I still have the faulty barrow that they didn't want back so there's plenty of spares. I've put my battery drill on charge as it hasn't been used for almost a year but I have a new second drill that I can use that will also be on charge tomorrow.

Happy ending story; when the lottery first started up and before we'd all got it into our heads that you need 6 numbers and the bonus ball to get real money, friend of ming was in a syndicate in his local pub, a fairly rough one on the western edge of the city. 'Bout 3 weeks in, they came up with 5 balls, which sounded like at least £20k each they reckoned, and proceeded to drink the place dry on tick. My friend, we'll call him Dave to protect the guilty (and because it is his name), woke up with a very attractive 19 year old barmaid who he vaguely remembering exchanging bodily fluids the night before, and they had breakfast and made their way to the pub, which had restocked and was well into another drinking dry on tick session. He woke up with her again the following morning, and this time they had breakfast before going to the pub to find out how many 10s of thousands they were now in possession of. Turned out they were in for about £80 each which was about enough, amongst the whole syndicate, to cover 75% of the bar bill. The landlord, as culpable as the rest, decided to call it quits and forget it, and they all went home to cancel their orders for new tvs, cars, hollies in the pyjamas and so on, sadder but a little wiser. Except Dave, with a big grin on his face. He took the barmaid home again, since she was still smiling back at him. They are now happy grandparents and still potty about each other; I'd call that a happy ending, wouldn't you!

It's time for some more Duff action! 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Joining the fleet this week is a varied pair, Railfreight Distribution 47146 Loughborough Grammar School and former Post Office 47575 City of Hereford. The starting point for both locos is the Bachmann model, both were in the right colour schemes but just a little plasticky and needing their respective body detailing to be updated, along with a simple renumber & renaming. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr The areas to look out for on a '47' body is the boiler area at the No.2 end and subtle variations around the ends, headcode panels and jumper cables and so on. Numbers and nameplates come off nicely with Humbrol enamel thinners, before coating the whole body in gloss varnish before the new transfers and plates are applied. I love cutting corners where I can, one bodge is using Humbrol Maskol over the windows to save removing (and the pain of them not refitting in as well!) - just dollop it on and give it a few mins to set before spraying the varnish, and remove later in the project. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr As with the previous projects, nameplates are applied using varnish as the 'glue' - giving hours of setting time and any overspill is hidden once the final layer of matt varnish goes over the top. The final matt varnish layer also hides a multitude of sins - handpainted in-fills soon disappear after a gentle coating! One of the fun things about all the recent loco projects is finally mating up all the cheap spares I've accrued over the years, ending up with a few dummy locos for double heading or top n' tailing trains! 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Using spares from places like East Kent Models and some from Bachmann themselves, the innards of 47146 come together, the other chassis heading towards one of the other locos in the project. I also pugged away a good number of Freightliner Class 57s as chassis donors - back around 2008, there was a Bachmann 'Fire Sale' resulting in retailers knocking them out for £39.99 each! 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 47575 City of Hereford was a long term desire - it was one of the motley collection of EWS locos that used to help out deputising for the unreliable Virgin Class 47/8 fleet in the late '90s, as well as turning up on all sorts of freight work too. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Having not visited the paintshop since 1990, as the Millennium approached, 47575 was looking rather tatty indeed! The faded livery was covered in numerous chips and the plaques accompanying the City of Hereford nameplates long since disappeared. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr One interesting weathering aspect was the amount of yellow showing through the battered livery - a fantastic hangover from the full wraparound-yellow ends carried during it's BR blue days before its Post Office livery was applied all those years ago. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 47575 was fun to do, the original-style bufferbeam and train heating sockets setting it apart from many of the pure freight 'Duff's tackled recently. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Of course, we can never have too many RfD 47s! 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 47146 Loughborough Grammar School is another one that was long crying out to be modelled! The loco had the full complement of underframe tanks, paired with an odd variation of the cutaway bufferbeam, but retaining the existing body fairing! 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr And to top that off, oval buffers at the No.2 end - a bit of an oddball! 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr The loco was in fairly good condition in the late '90s, livery largely intact with only a few paint chips and surface rust spots, and glorious large nameplates still attached! This is another perfect one to double-head on the automotive trains, as well as appearing on MOD trains of the time. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Bringing the story up to date, our 47146 here was an early casualty, laid up in August 1998 and left to rot, later losing its big plates and eventually being transformed into scrap metal by Booths of Rotherham in 2006. 47575 meanwhile would be slightly luckier, soldiering on until 2001 with EWS, later seeing a refresh of it's retro red Post Office colours under ownership of Riviera Trains. However, as nice as it looked, the sound of the gas axe was never far away and the loco met its maker at the same infamous Rotherham yard in 2010. 47146 and 47575 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Another fun pair to create, and some interesting trains await these locos in the future! Cheers, James

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I was going to do a few things in the garden today but its too hot to do anything. Even doing nothing in this heat is tiring. My cottage in Burnham-on-Crouch was built in 1862. I was trying to find the date when I espied a wall plaque on the larger end house that read 'Crouch 1862 -.......- The last word had been obliterated but I could just make out the word 'terrace'.

I had a friend sadly no longer with us, and his house says 1679 proudly on it... The near enough automatic listing age is anything before 1700... he was careful not to get it brought to the attention of the authorities, as his wasn't listed..