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pm me I have one(BR livery}, you can have for 15 quid plus postage from OZ if you want, it is new(impulse buy!!), I will check how it runs.........never been out of its box in 20 yrs. Rgds.........Mike

Happy and lovely, well done OD and Sherry(how could you resist a name like that.......hic!!!), hope you are both very happy...........Mike

Thanks Andy, don't want to sound like some sycophant but your balanced views certainly help someone from the Antipodes, thus cannot be in attendance,to understand and appreciate what happened over there especially in respect of KR. Thank You............Rgds Mike

Well done Keith,can't wait for my GT3................now for the Fell!!, I love this brave approach to manufacture. I reckon you're on a winner. Despite the skeptics, I reckon these unusual one offs are very attractive propositions. Rgds.........Mike

I didn't need a DELTIC but i bought one, I don't need a 37...............!!!! Mike

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your layout, there are a couple of great layouts on here based on the Peak, I am originally from Derby and remember the area with great fondness, a really beautiful part of Britain. Rgds.........Mike

That is superb!! Mike

I may be being "visually conned" but as far as I am concerned the photography and modelling on this layout is as close to reality as it gets............brilliant stuff! Rgds.......Mike

Isn't this one the most superb layouts ever, apart from the missing steam and smoke,,,,,,,you would swear you were at the lineside.....Mike

Lucky you...... because it's not coming to Adelaide, cos I can't pay for the ride MIKE

What an interesing and fascinating thread ......thank you folks...............Mike

She looks lovely..........thanks for posting. Rgds.........Mike +++

46112+D100 both with the Sherwood Forester namplates in place were displayed at Derby Station in the early sixties, 46112 losing her plates soon afterwards, whilst I do not like locomotives assuming identities they did not carry in BR service, I cannot begrudge the name on a locomotive of the regiment in which my dad served....1st battalion in WW2 and in the territorials after in the 5th. his commitment to his country, makes me proud and somewhat humble. Rgds.........Mike

In late 57/early 58. I went on a hike through the Peak with the Scouts, I remember three things..........it was bl00dy freezing, my mother made me wear these horrible hairy short trousers whch chafed my legs and that we were hauled by 45509 from Derby to......yes you guessed it..........Chapel en Le Frith. Great layout chaps. Rgds.......Mike

When I was in the workforce, the company who employed me produced expensive equipment. In the last few years I was there, we experienced myriad complaints that the machines were not fit for purpose. In one of our regular management meetings I fronted the expat European MD with the question " who is doing the R&D on this stuff........he looked at me, winked and said "the customer"....bloody disgusting!! Small people were experiencing extreme difficulties(some went broke) at the hands of a very large Europe based multinational. Glad I'm away from this hypocrisy. Mike