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Yes it was MS&LR - running into Chester Northgate. The overbridge is still in-situ but the station site is a housing development. The trackbed is a cycleway and footpath. (Alisdair)

Perhaps the short stub siding behind the platform accommodated horse boxes, and flat wagons for carriages, arriving by train for the landed gentry and guests to the nearby Shotwick Park estate? (Alisdair)

Do they do it in P4? (Alisdair)

May I am also being a pedant on this layout? The cover image on the RM shows telegraph poles on both sides of the tracks with different numbers of arms on the poles. It is unlikely that the wires would cross the tracks. There is a pole up on the bank over the tunnel mouth. Would the wires not have been gathered together into a cable tray / conduit and then fixed to the tunnel for the length of the tunnel? (Alisdair)

Snap! Another model of 57375. This one is on my 4mm layout model of Whithorn. And it's another DJH kit. An interesting branch line. Photo courtesy of Mike Wild of Hornby Magazine. [Alisdair]

Is that a different size to a 00bra? (Alisdair)

Thank you Hroth for providing a great and concise explanation. (Alisdair)

The Scousers among us will recognise Dicky Lewis in the picture (Alisdair)

A map of Lincoln's railways as part of the story would have added much to a most enjoyable programme. (Alisdair)

The worst is trying to find a phone at a red traffic light. (Alisdair)

Isn't a tattoo a type of steam locomotive? (Alisdair)

And how were the wagons cleaned out at the end of the journey? Hose pipe or basic jet wash? I recall somewhere that lime was used. The picture farther back up the thread of the cattle wagon appears to have a white 'weathering' lime? around the solebars. (Alisdair)

Yes many thanks for a most enjoyable weekend at Preston and a great selection of layouts. Well done Les and the whole Preston Team. Whithorn back resting in clubrooms and me resting at home! (Alisdair)

I seem to recall somewhere in the back of my mind of a story of a signalman lad somewhere who had all the tokens out of the machine and was polishing them all up with brasso. (Alisdair)

Looking forward to bringing Whithorn to the Preston weekend. [Alisdair]

You should have told him that you were having a great day fettling your bogies. I am sure he would then have been the one to have the embarrassing silence. (Alisdair)

Callander - Killin school train and also Killin branch service. (Alisdair)

So it means you get different miles per gallon results when you drive your car in England and over the border in Wales? (Alisdair)

I go along with Peter E's thoughts on the type of containers used and the demand from customers of a guaranteed service which would have achieved the full train each night. (Alisdair)

The Condor was introduced and running a regular service in the days before intermodals were on the scene. Maybe the Condor containers which could not be loaded one night went the next. So always a full train in a fixed rake. And there may have been empty ones travelling as the demand for containers perhaps varied at each end. Do we know what was carried in the containers and who were the customers? Was it regulars who used it and therefore the loadings would have generally been known in advance? (Alisdair)

I used to see the southbound Condor most evenings when it headed south from Glasgow - and there was never any empty flat wagons with no containers in the consist - if I can use an Americanism. (Alisdair)

Is that a full beard on the one at the back ? (Alisdair(

How about "It's not a model - it's an investment!" (Alisdair)

There are comments on this thread about basic errors with the model of the Fell I cannot comment on the rights or wrongs of the perceived faults. I know nothing about this particular model. But surely the test is this. If it is a must that you must have that model of the Fell on your layout do you still purchase it despite knowing its faults? And do you take into account the reviews in the model press? Or do you walk on by and not make the purchase because the faults are too much for your sensitivities and you end up not having the model you must have. (Alisdair)