john new

Fully concur. Across the board sports commentators on TV are so bad these days I usually watch with the sound off. The other thing for cricket is the stump mikes picking up inane comments, often in the language of players who don’t speak English plus bursts of unwanted (by me) stupid music blaring in the ground. Fortunately radio is generally still listenable to.

Back in the 60s the first power drill we had (from Wolf) came with various bolt on attachments, including a hedge trimmer and significantly a casting that fitted onto a bench. The drill sat in that so you could add a grinding wheel into the chuck.

Not sure exactly what flavour of Mk1 coaches they have previously used but for Harry Potter fans it ideally needs to be Mk1 side corridor compartment stock to be authentic to the books. Not fitting CDL on their Mk1s is rather like Mother Goose shooting her golden goose.

Unexpected reactions can be weird. I have used 50:50 mix PVA for several years as a base coat/primer with no reactions. On a recent open wagon no problem with the outside surfaces but after drying the inside layer peeled off as a thin sheet. Weird as inside and outside must be the same plastic - it is one moulding. It will be a scrub off and restart at some point and see what happens second time around.

These pictures are also included on our show travel page for arrivals by car plus one showing the Sunday & Monday site. As per the travel page suggestion anyone mobility impaired, but not with a blue badge, will have a shorter walk on either Sunday or Monday. Navigation glitch affecting i-pad and i-phone users also discovered and fixed. The Arriving by car page link from the main menu was not opening the current Arriving by car page. It worked on desktop and laptop PCs and Macs but for some reason not with Apple's mobile software.

Two more late changes as we count down to the Show. One amendment on the Traders page (Powerbond Adhesives replacing Booklaw/Santona on stand 120) and The Scalefour Society added to the Societies listing. Pre-paid tickets available until Good Friday. Book ahead, spread the cost, grab the discount. Hoping to see you all over Easter. #YMRS2024

Might copy your insulation foam layer but overtopped with cork to avoid any glues or paints dissolving the foam. My own inglenook started without any sound absorbent layer and it is noisy.

I will be interested in how well this lasts without showing signs of mould growth etc. I have always been wary of using organic matter after past problems.

I know very little about the detail of Chinese railways therefore to me if the outline of what I see matches my limited knowledge the variety option is best. As @CameronL says above most people won’t know. Perhaps add into the show guide blurb, .. and features rolling stock you might have seen if you had visited China in 2001. You can get away with things an equivalent modeller of a UK layout attempting accuracy can’t because of the comparatively limited audience knowledge. There are two approaches by modellers within the hobby towards divergence from modelling place X exactly at period dd/mm/yyyy - (1) those who know what it should be and, for whatever reason, relax things (your might be seen approach) and (2) those who either haven’t yet learnt enough to avoid howlers and mismatches or don’t care because they just like running trains of any make/format. The small local show scene across the country has a lot of type (2)s, which is still a good thing because they are doing some modelling.

A bit more testing led to the decision to add two check rails with timber infill for a foot crossing. Method, bend rail to fit and file a notch for the pins, shorten two brass panel pins by snipping the head end off - solder to new check rail - position and hammer down into place. A minor adjustment also made to the point motor's base position. The limited testing before adding the timbering suggested the issue is now resolved. Planning to leave the Araldite to dry for a decent period as have no wish to get on onto wheel treads. In place but not yet given any wood staining. The timber is just plain coffee stirrers trimmed to fit..

I doubt Brunel will sue!

Since the post above I have not had much time for test running or work on this layout; however, have done some general modelling work on other projects (for example see on Wright Writes). Test running on this has identified the oldest point on the layout (an old PECO Y) has become problematic. Diesels seem to go through it OK but the longer wheelbase steam locos shift the point when set to the right hand divergence to slightly open. The outcome the front flange pushes it across enough for it go through swinging left or it just derails! The problem I am pretty sure is the point motor and associated surface mount motor rodding being a smidgeon out. A bit of ballasting has also been done. A trial of chinchilla dust plus a bit of budgie grit and chinchilla dust alone. Prefer the latter. Lots still to do but scenery on hold until the track is sorted. Final updates - the Hornby Rowntrees livery Ruston loco has finally arrived - three years since I pre-ordered it! The truck and bucket excavator were picked up at a garden centre and don't seem that far off 4mm.

Or destroyed by fires.

It is also a major name in a long-running radio serial (The Archers).

Thank you. Excellent search work, much appreciated. Sadly the missing parts include the glazing mentioned and those protective side bars. Now to track down more images of the prototype and then fabricate some of those extras..

The Whitby service can be almost regarded as the town’s second Park & Ride service. From the south it is far easier to park in Pickering and take the train over the moors and back. Given how busy Whitby’s car parking gets that is one reason why people go through on it for their day at the seaside.

This image found via a Goole search is what made me think it is a model of the Foden R type. Managed to find it again. This one also seems similar.https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1265287

In the past we have often parked at Goathland station to get the first train. It is a worthwhile option but only ever has, presumably now it is had, limited spacing so you needed to be on the first train.

Thanks @Flanged Wheel. Most of the kit images I have found are for lorries that are 8-wheelers or have twin rear axles. This one has single axles but twin rear wheels/tyres. I am hoping when I get to York over the show weekend I find someone will have one. My suspicion is that there should be a horizontal bar across the front windows as many in that era had a top bit that opened outwards for ventilation but I don't want to fit that and find that type didn't.

A question about a white metal kit. At last week's Missenden weekend I picked up a couple of boxes of assorted white-metal parts to practice soldering on - the bonus finding in amongst them a mostly complete part finished truck kit (2/3rds roughly). I have progressed it, including fabricating a few bits to replace the missing front axle and adding a radiator protection bar. My white-metal soldering fear now overcome, with a truck model in due course as the bonus. Plenty of extras still to make and fit. My query though - what is it? At first I simply assumed (always a mistake!) it was the common model of the AEC Monarch (Springside?) but the current version of that is IIRC plastic as is the ex-Airfix AEC Matador. I found a (the) radiator loose in the box and from the location pimples I think it is the right one: that isn't an AEC rad' though and it is just readable on the casting as Foden. I don't recall a Foden kit, nor does Google find one. From looking at photos the prototype might be a Foden R. Has anyone any ideas as to what it is (prototype) and for my curiosity what kit it began as?

After a full day's editing the site's maintenance and updates review for 2024 has been completed all bar one still outstanding public transport matter (noted on the relevant page). The most recent blog post made today also looks at the current situation surrounding the question of - is the hobby too expensive? Feel free to comment on that in the comments option on the website's blog section but please keep this thread here on RMWeb just for YMRS issues.

When I was an active volunteer a few decades back Newtondale loop was on the cards and, at the time, the partial remains of the former signal box were still extant. It was subsequently demolished.

I can’t recall which book, or booklet, it is in but I have in one of them a copy of the mining map showing the gallery layout for the level mined under the station. Over it is the overlay of the surface level station. Best guess as to which source is one of the small A5 booklets on the Cleveland mines.

Either (1) Maybe they have updated the policy since my family last visited as group for my wife's birthday trip last summer or (2) we were given false or more likely misleading information. That was what both my married daughters were told last year at the booking office. Not relevant for my wife and myself as we are life members.

The Demonstrators and the most important Layouts listings both re-checked again today and are current: therefore, barring any unexpected occurrences, all four of the pages for attending stands should be final. If a late change should occur updates will be posted on our website, here and on our two social media feeds [Facebook & X (Twitter as was)]. Today's remaining updating is a general site review and update to the travel page to include the car parking, bus fare, the bus timetable etc., as per my earlier post above. A repeated warning of a scam email, they even sent one to us this morning! Idiots. Please don't fall for it. Email scam - An email scam is, again, circulating ostensibly offering to sell recipients an attendance list for the Show. Such a list is NOT compiled. The YMRS Directors confirm that any attendee data that we do hold is not released to 3rd parties as we comply with data protection principles. As a further point some versions of this email illegally include a copy of our registered trademark logo. Please forward any you receive to report@phishing.gov.uk NB. This warning was originally posted following the 2023 event - it is recurring for the forthcoming 2024 event. Pre-purchase tickets - a reminder these are on sale through Eventbrite until Good Friday, the day before the show opens.