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Just picked mine up from my local newsagent on Tyneside. I agree with Neil and his earlier comment it looks a very good issue and as a Highland Railway modeller very happy and inspired. I was happy collector and reader of the work of Iain Rice, loved his style and spent many a contented hour armchair modelling with one of his books. Nicely done commemoration.

Apologies for this very bad photo (taken on my first camera, a 110 film camera) but this would have been the very first Class 26 I ever saw let alone the first one I saw in Newcastle. 26.015 in August 83 about to head over the King Edward Bridge having hauled in a failed DMU off the Tyne Valley line.

Apologies if this has already been brought to everyone's attention but it was new to me. Alphagraphix are now on the world wide web with their lovely card and brass kits. https://www.alphagraphixkits.co.uk/449034706

I sure someone will have picked this up but on my model they are crossings not frogs and the whole unit is a Switch and Crossing not a point. Catenary is the wire that carries the droppers that support the contact wire, not the whole system which is called the OHLE. The signal is at yellow not amber, it's a conductor rail not a third rail and my models are either 4mm running on OO (actually HO)gauge track not OO scale. But what you call them on your model railway is fine with me.

Apologies if this has already been posted but these rails are behind the Theatre Royal in Richmond. North Yorkshire. They were used to move scenery between the store and the stage.

Lovely modelling, the philosophy behind your modelling must be very satisfying on completion. A different species for the modern image modeller https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/crabs-metro-video-posted-crabs-10081881

I've picked up about 10 of them, they sell them for £1.99 out of Home Bargains. What started as a silly gift from my son has ended up with narrow gauge rabbit warren with Shorty type Dapol railbus chassis and a little garden or should that be back yard) layout around my Belfast sink pond. Great fun. Love your little wagons, I think I''ll give that a go.

Following this thread with interest. On holiday in the province in the towards in the early 00's, saw a pair flying through Lisburn on a special from Dublin to Londonderry for the Apprentice Boys parade, and another on a Londonderry service on that skewed level crossing on the way to Belfast International. Markle DVD NIR Then and Now Vol. 1 has some excellent coverage of the class. Which Mk2's do you use as donor's.

A beautiful part of the world. Could have struggled on like the St Combs branch in BR days.

Picked it up in Newcastle this morning

I've a video of them double heading a freight on the Waverley route.

Apologies if this is the wrong area, of if it's the sort of thing that shouldn't be in RMweb. The art supply company I use for my hobby of drypoint printing has just e-mailed me details of an aerosol can that you can fill with any medium and you can re pressurise. Maybe useful for those of you that don't like airbrushes. https://www.lawrence.co.uk/jacquard-youcan-refillable-air-powered-spray-can.html

Arrived at Newcastle WH Smiths this morning

There was a book produced, Backworth, An illustrated history of the mines and railways by Chilton Iron Works which has everything you need. Superb volume, loads of maps, plans and photographs. My grandad and a couple of my uncles worked at Eccles pit, and my dad was born at the terrace of houses at C pit.

Not seen it in any shops on Tyneside yet