Tequila Sunrise

Excellent topic - just wondered if you have seen the photos on the RCTS mystery photos site. Amongst other things it suggests much of the track thereabouts had been relaid with jointed FB rail on wooden sleepers some time before closure. http://rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/index.htm?location=Millers+Dale&srch=&page=1 (2 pages)

The approach used for Finetrax in N might be a way forward - a half-way house between a kit and RTR http://www.britishfinescale.com/

and a smoke unit?..........

Can't wait 'til you set fire to it Brilliant model!

In the first colliery shot, you can clearly see the MR's Pinxton signal cabin on the far left. Your car is just about to pass over the road from Pinxton to Kirkby-in-Ashfield, just south of Junction 28 on the motorway. The colliery is Brookhill Colliery.

Not sure of the collliery name, but you are looking at Pinxton, with Selston on top of the hill on the left.

...........in any case, you will need all the space under the bonnets for the two smoke units

To my mind, simplicity and reliability and price are far more important than an empty cab. Anyone who wants to add the detail afterwards could maybe build their own chassis and sell the original to someone who wants to power their dummy version.

Great photos as always - one query though is "Bottesford North Junction GNR and LNWR view towards Newark taken from Nottingham to Grantham train c1950 JVol4287" really the case? The camera seems very high above the rails to me. Was your dad standing on the roof?

Let's hope he had enough film left for the wedding

No, they never ran on MR metals at all. They used the station on the LNWR/GE Joint Line at Melton (long disappeared), then down south to Welham Junction and onto LNWR metals through Market Harborough, where there were additional platforms on the west side of the station for LNWR trains, now also long gone. Then on LNWR metals more or less due south to Northampton.

They ran south out of Victoria and turned left at Weekday Cross onto the GNR line to Grantham, almost to Bingham, turned right through Bingham Road, then down the LNWR&GNR joint line through Melton Mowbray It was originally a L&NWR service, running into Nottingham London Road

Do you really need all the capacity when you are playing at home, or just for exhibitions? If the latter, then space ought not to be such a huge constraint - just have everything on one level, but remove a portion when at home.

Glasgow St Enoch had 12 platforms, a triangular junction, various locomotive release roads, numerous single slips, 3-way points, scissors crossings, access to a loco shed, a turntable etc I am afraid it was frighteningly complicated - sorry! See http://www.wbsframe.mste.co.uk/public/Glasgow_PWI.html for a taster - this was a simplification of the earlier version, I believe.