dunwurken

Thank you. I am aware the runaway took place on the Welsh Highland. The announcement refers to the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway.

With so much off-topic postings it is getting harder to search this thread for on-topic items so apologies in advance if this has been mentioned before and I have overlooked it. Appears the Ffestiniog has had another case of a loco failing to stop. in this case 'Vale of Ffestiniog' ran away for 1.25 miles through open crossings and Beddgelert station and onto a single line section without authorisation before coming to a halt. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/locomotive-runaway-at-beddgelert Malcolm

IIRC PDH said that his Hanson cabs came from cereal packets. He also used some Campbell's Scale Model whitemetal kits from the States but these are H0. He also wrote and illustrated the article 'Motor Vehicles for Pre-Grouping Layouts' in the Jan 1952 RM. Can provide scanned copy if required.

Hint of the Craig and Mertonford later 'Hancock' s Improved Engine Green' livery in that base colour. Malcolm

Steam World January and February 2002 two part article by Dr Ann Glen entitled 'Whisky Trains in the Highlands'. Sorry but I do not have copies.

Haig has been seen on Newcastleton but only in the ELMRC club room. At exhibitions Newcastleton is run to a strict sequence timetable featuring trains with the correct formation, locomotive etc for the period. Malcolm

I think Nigel McMillan is still with us but he must be into his 80's. He was an engineer at the North British loco works in the 1950/60s? and has published a book based on his experiences. As well as his well known model he also had book on the Campbeltown and Macrihanish Railway published. I do not recall any connection between Nigel and Bill McMillan the owner of the model shops in Glasgow but memory is not infallible! Malcolm

The distilleries must have been very trusting to move casks filled with whisky in open wagons, pilfering must have been rife! I presume, unlike some of the brewery companies, none of the distilleries used special empty cask wagons - basically high sided, slatted sides and ends, roofless with long wheelbase. I think Ratio do or did a kit of an NBR cask wagon.

Sugar beet was I think a crop which was tipped directly into open wagons.

There is a photograph in the Gifford and Garvald Light Railway book of an open wagon with large whisky casks in it which had come from or were going to Glenkinchie distillery, (Saltoun station)in East Lothian.

There is an 0-4-0ST and wagon with barrels at Aberfeldy distillery. I may be wrong but I think the loco may be on loan from the SRPS and may be 'Dailuaine' which came from the distillery you are thinking of modelling.

The 009 Society is at Glasgow show this weekend, just ask at any of the 3 x 009 layouts. Malcolm

Any idea who makes the wheeled stool? Malcolm

Report of a nasty one in the USA with a 13 year old killed. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Child-Killed-When-School-Bus-Train-Collide-in-Athens-504888691.html

Thank youMalcolm

I have Scotrail Cl47 and 3 coach Lima set produced a few years ago by Harburn Hobbies. I purchased an additional two coaches at the same time and now that I have my Bachmann Scotrail DBSO I have an Edinburgh/Glasgow set. One small point I would appreciate guidance on. The Bachmann DBSO has the roof colour down to the orange line whilst on the Lima coaches the roof colour stops a little way up the roof so that you also have the coach side colour above the orange line BUT, on the recent videos on this thread at Glasgow QS et al the roof colour on all coaches comes down to the orange line. Was taking the roof colour down to the orange line a later painting alteration or this a painting error on the Lima coaches?? Malclom

I wonder how many children were disappointed on Christmas Day when they opened their train set box and found a replacement bus instead? Malcolm

I had that yesterday on a Condon ballast train wagons listing. If you had it on a different item that would confirm my view there was either a technical glitch or a hack!Malcolm

I think the other depot further down Leith Walk on the other side of the road has also just been demolished.Malcolm

MartinJust in case you decide Puddlebrook is not quite right and decide on Puddlebridge I would advise you the Edinburgh & Lothians MRC has an O gauge layout by that name, an actual bridge at Ormiston at the junction of the former Gifford and Garvald Light Railway the NBR branch to Macmerry. As a further aside the next signal box back up the line was Bog Siding! Malcolm

I had not picked up on that detail but then research into the buildings has been a bit haphazard, so far! When time permits I will research them all, in particular those based on actual buildings. Today there are no signs of any of the SuperQuick buildings having survived, not even the goods shed from the second layout.Malcolm PS - sorry about the thread drift.

Pubs were not a feature on Craigshire which was probably a reflection of the character of its creator P D Hancock. The one pub, sorry hotel, I can trace was, for Scotland, the incongruous half timbered Red Lion Hotel which had previously featured as housing at Altbeg on the second incarnation of Craigshire [circa 1960/1970]. The building's are Ballard Bros of Birmingham castings from the 1950's. On the third version of Craig [circa 1970/1987] the hotel was situated at the opposite end of Harbour Street from Craig Castle, partly hidden behind the large Geo. Stewart and Co. warehouse, and only appears in the background of one published photograph on p45, RM Jan 1993. The buildings still survive in the Edinburgh & Lothians MRC P D Hancock Collection. I am hard pushed to trace a pub on the first 1950/1960 version of Craigshire so maybe before 1960 Craigshire had been a dry county, especially on the Sabbath. Maybe there was a public vote in 1960 to allow licensed premises! Malcolm PS - hope you have all seen Skinnylinny's recent photographs of Dundreich in post #277 on p12 of the Pre Grouping Layouts thread. [/url]C&M1032 - May79 - Red Lion Hotel crop by Malcolm MacLeod, on Flickr">http://C&M1032 - May79 - Red Lion Hotel crop by Malcolm MacLeod, on Flickr

Was in Blair Atholl today at about 1300 when a 2 + 4 was heading north presumably on a training run. Too far away to ascertain what loco numbers were but I could clearly hear the set had a flat on one of its wheelsets.

Did not a press run break down in Fife the other day on its way from Aberdeen to Edinburgh. Arrived 30mins late and could not return to Aberdeen as planned.

Not forgetting CR419, NBR673 etc at the SRPS museum at Bo'ness. 61994 is also currently in residence at Bo'ness.Dunwurken