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Much obliged, now to measure mine, as I find it too high for comfort.

I've only just found your thread, and would like to ask the height of baseboard above floor in the shed picture, please.

One day I'll manage to get to a show and see Spilsby in the flesh. Anyone know the layouts show programme for next year?

I understand that, as far as the full size shed, but was thinking more of the model version, without a big hand descending from the sky.

It6's not in Suffolk, it's in Lincolnshire on the line to Skegness, though the station is barely a husk of its original self these days.

Can I bump this topic, please? I'm still interested in the progress being made on the two stations, as I have drawn them both up in 4mm but never got any further. I'd be very interested in how shunting the goods shed is intended at Halton Holegate.

Pictures would be delightful (a picture's worth ... etc.) , thanks.

I have a situation where I need to move my controller around from mini layout to mini layout, being too mean to buy seperate ones for each. I have been looking for a small version of those rubber two piece three prong cable connection plugs and sockets but can't track anuthing down. Being an electrical idiot I wonder what other plug and socket gadget anyone can recommend? I'll be using normal peco wired track type wire.

Can I bring to your attention a recently published title. "Boston's Railway Heritage" is written by Stephen Priestley and Neil Watson at £12.50 (plus £3 p&p). Contact neilwatsonphotography@gmail.com for details. The well illustrateed book covers a trip along the line from Kirton to Hall Hills covering the major sites along the way. I have no connection to the authors apart from being a very satisfied customer.

Probably a silly question, but what's 'a metric inch' ?

Slight edit, he must have done some work, as there's a photo of the station building on the cover of one of the MRC's.

Many years ago a gent named Alex Bowie was very productive in producing track plans, He had them published in Model Railway Constructor, Model Railway News and Airfix Magazine throughout the mid to late 1960s. Amongst them was a short series on his own line "The Cowbell Line", and although I've tracked down what I think are all the articles on its design I can't find anything about it getting built. I'd love to see some photos if there are any, has any long-winded reader on here got anything in their old files? Or even an index of his various trackplans? Thanks for reading, here's hoping.

Hornby 3-rail Duchess of Atholl. Screwed down to an 8x4 sheet of hardboard that lived behind the settee, only coming out during the Christmas holidays, when it stayed up on a dining table till school term beckoned. One picture still exists, but It's buried in the albums somewhere.

There was also 'Range Rider' and Tenderfoot. At one time it seemed that there was a western on every night of the week.

I can recall Billy Bean, and sing the song. Probably dates us as ancient. One I can never get confirmation from anyone else about is a Children's Hour series by Annette Mills (Muffin the Mule) about a veteran car that wore a deerstalker - Colonel Crock.

Some parts of the Cardi-Bach have already been done, I think in 3mm. Details can be found on the Chuffer Duffers blog. Can't provide details as I'm away from them.

Thanks. Going to be a long wait. I really don't understand this business of announcing things years before they go into production.

Just to bump the topic, has anybody news about the progress of the coaches?

I found it by typing in - Games Workshop Warhammer Townscape 1988 - it gave a free download for a 46 page pdf. The link might be under - www.scribd.com

Did you know that Games Workshop once produced a book of building templates for their figure ranges, very similar in style to your buildings. Some of the non-domestic buildings might work as railway structures with some adjustment. I think my copy was tracked down as a free download a couple of years ago.

Not only do I remember Rubovia, and the adjoining countries of Borsovia and Humperstein, but my forum name on a number of sites is Albert Weatherspoon. I always thought that King Rupert looked like Peter Bull, while the Queen bore a resemblance to Margaret Tysack.

I thought, as soon as I pressed the button, "you should have checked the bookshelf first!". Never got on with the other chaps dystopian fiction.

Or, to go strictly Victorian, try - The Black Battlefleet, by Admiral J.G.Ballard.

Just off the top of my head, wasn't there a rail crash in 'The Wrong Box' (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, et.al). Though it doesn't have actual train footage, the swing Bridge over the Witham leading to Boston Docks features as part of the escape route in 'One of Our Aircraft is Missing'.

Hayfield - this little book was an adjunct to the Modelcraft selection of road vehicle plans, mainly busses and lorries with a few cars from the 1950s, all at 4mm scale.