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East Coastway seems to have increased its capacity. For the last two days Seaford has been getting 2x3 car 377s, for at least some of its turns. I have seen pairs four times in the last two days.

Given the odd-ball rolling stock that is on the market these days I wouldn't be surprised if these turned up one day - an exclusive from Harburn perhaps. Somehow I doubt that they had glass in the windows when in service. There are plenty of detailed photos of its reconstruction in StoneRoad's PQR album. http://www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/43562028/in/album/620941

Yeah - kittens can be quite stuck up pets.

DMUs not EMUs - but consecutive numbers going opposite ways on the Salisbury - Romsey route.

I guess that the fairly easy interchange at Farringdon off Thameslink and onto the Liz Line must have reduced the Gat Ex demand.

Brighton 4 - Palace 1. Palace used to be our local club, but I have always supported (in spirit if not in person) a local club where ever I lived. Bristol Rovers when I lived in Somerset.

I wonder how confusing it is, for people who don't travel in this area south of London, to find a Gatwick Express train turning up to take them from Brighton to Seaford or Eastbourne or to get on a train at Eastbourne thinking 'Oh good. this is a direct train to Gatwick' when it is heading to Brighton or even Ore!.

I didn't have to travel as far for these snaps. I was just depositing some railway magazine back-numbers onto the charity fund-raising book shelves at Seaford station when this rolled into view. Regarded as a local derby match - Seagulls vs Palace - things can get a bit rowdy, particularly at Brighton station.

A few from a trip to Southampton to use up the last day on my Senior Railcard.

My son and I reroofed our summer house roof, a couple of summers ago. Having previously done it just with roofing nails, the large headed stubby type, and a thin strip of black mastic gunge, which failed dramatically in high coastal winds. We recovered it with roofing felt, staple-gunned at the top of each strip and under the eaves at the bottom of the lowest run. Then we applied a good four inches wide strip of black mastic about an inch in from the bottom of the next strip, allowing an overlap of about five of six inches. This has held well throughout the subsequent winter weather.

I am not sure what size this is, but it looks larger than others that I have seen attached to Saints

Ask the Ukrainians!

There is a wide choice of locations to pick from, to create the Del Boy atmosphere - but none were actually in Peckham. https://findthatlocation.com/television-show/only-fools-and-horses There was an episode of The Sweeney with a chase across Peckham Rye station.

Pearly kings! More suited to GER or LTSR I would have thought, or possibly SECR.

The 7mm ones are £2.99 for 20. I remember seeing some, real ones, being released - at Templecombe, I think, back in the '60s.

https://www.scale3d.co.uk/products/mma001-1-76-oo-gauge-pigeons-x-10 They actually have 20 in the pack x 25 = £50. Perhaps you need to print your own! No connection - just a happy customer.

I don't know whether this is any help. It appears to be of an engineers train. The vehicle after the crane and its match truck could be a brake van and part of the end is visible.

Hi Andy, I seem to be able to view the videos from the WoR video archive, but I can't find access to the BRM, from the WoR site, apart from via a purchase or subscription. As it is I prefer to have hard copies of magazines and have bought the March issue, so that's not a problem. My computer can only read the video, with the sound and vision playing from separate files, but not at the same time! Obviously I haven't got the right software. I do appreciate the hard work you and your colleagues put into both BRM and rmweb. I just cannot see how Traction and BRM fit together. I appreciate that there are connections and overlaps, but the styles of the two are vastly different and I would think must appeal to different readerships. I wish you well with the new approach and hope my fears for its viablity are unfounded. Best wishes Phil

What you omit to say is that Bumper Edition comes at the bumper price of £9.99. Whether that is good value depends on whether you want the Traction content and a DVD.

The important announcement for readers of Traction - is about Traction being permanently part of BRM. My thoughts which I have just posted in the Traction thread are- BRM is usually £5.49. If there is going to be more content with the Traction element added, how is that going to be sustainable? The Traction journalists have to be paid. The production costs will surely be higher. Was the extra £4.50 for the March issue purely down to the DVD, which doesn't run on my computer? I assume that it was as the Traction pages were described as '32 pages of bonus content.....' Please don't spoil an excellent modelling magazine by putting in a large wadge of prototype material, which may not relate to modelling projects, and risk it becoming unviable unless the cover price rises.

BRM is usually £5.49. If there is going to be more content with the Traction element added, how is that going to be sustainable? The Traction journalists have to be paid. The production costs will surely be higher. Was the extra £4.50 for the March issue purely down to the DVD, which doesn't run on my computer? I assume that it was as the Traction pages were described as '32 pages of bonus content.....' Please don't spoil an excellent modelling magazine by putting in a large wadge of prototype material, which may not relate to modelling projects, and risk it becoming unviable unless the cover price rises.

I get books from World of Books online - including railway titles. They are linked with charity shops and help them move books to where they can be sold to the best advantage. They have a book-buying department. I have never used it but you might find it of use. https://www.ziffit.com/en-gb/about-us

I have just started to upload photos to a new album - Highbridge Wharf - Road vehicles. The first few photos will show two new purchases from a wargames and military model 3D printing supplier - Paint and Glue Miniatures - as they arrived or were initially put together and when they are painted. As with other 3D printers he offers his models in a number of scales. There are very few items in the range which are civilian types. The Liberty B truck, supplied by the US Army towards the end of WW1, apparently didn't make it to England. Most returned to the US after the war with a few remaining in France and Belgium. I found this after having ordered one! So I shall have to apply rule 1. Perhaps someone bought one from a French haulier.

The oldest car I remember seeing in day-to-day use was when we lived on Mendip around 1960. I think that it was the local GP, who drove an early Alvis, with a dicky seat and the first Bath registration number FB1.