Graham456

Hum ! All of these are available if you spend some time at the workbench kit building! Only the N7 SECR H out of that lot I haven't built and thankfully unlike a lot of the other kits I have built better rtr haven't come out yet....the mainline 53xx and Bachman 93xx got there wheels all mixed up so it was back out with the K's ones,until I get the comet replacement chassis built!

Annoying what's happening to kits what with Cambrian wanting to retire as well , RTR stuff is very nice now a days but none of it is of the Coopercraft and Cambrian type/model

Stu with all the interest shown in your efforts, once you have lead the way and sorted the glitches expect a flood of copy cat show stoppersPerhaps Staplegrove 2020 ! Can have a patiala take over in the small room ?

Haveing thought about it a bit ... Yes there are double standards...in this hobby Double O standards! They might be two narrow for some ! But their standards

Sad to hear the old PSMR has been mothballed but at least you tried and deserve praise for haveing a go

I thought the quarter inch was on bends only to allow the long fixed wheelbase "no bogie" locos of the time a bit of give on the bends But I only read this in a book so it might not be gospel which is why I asked about the quarter inch Hurray the guests have come back I can go to a much needed bed and rest this addled brain. 4"71/2 what was I thinking?

My understanding and with out going into rivet counting territory is that all the bits came about due to changes in where to measure the gauge, with edge rails the flange is on the rail, so the wheels have to fit outside the flange, then we have people measuring from the middle of one rail top to the middle of the other, then you change your mind when you realise that a heavier rail affects the gauge so you go from inside edge to inside edge to keep it the same for you wheels back to backs and you end up with all sorts of silly bits, At least this is easier to answer than why 16.5

Yea god you can tell I have been up since five this morning brain failing , I leave my post as it is for your amusement of my tired ness showing that I can't remember the track gauge,,,,,told you the Padarn had taken over my railway and brain Did that 1/4 inch exist or only on bends?

I sorted this one out so easily My railway is run by the Padarn Railway who took over the world with their 4ft 1" gauge, I find that shuts them up ! OK so I am still 0.15mm out but at least I am wide of gauge this way P S were does the 7" come from isn't 16.5 equal to 4"1 1/2 in 4mm I make that 6" undersized, is this another case of the 18.83 lot over egging the pudding again by clameing more that it really is, Sturr sturr egg egg wind !

O ! Yes you did. In that last line!of yours

So Andy like the country you choose to leave rather than remain ! In his remains

Close but ! The trains in Lynmouth were in the same room not outside! And No I won't be getting up to see if it's in or out. I wanted ' shake it all about' but that wasn't on the options

Andy are you sure you hadn't sneeked off to a train show where our lesser washed brethren frequent, whilst clameing to be voting

I was amused today whilst visiting Lynmouth on a nice sunny day, to see that the model railway in the church hall in Lynmouth by the coach park is also a polling station today, sadly the trains weren't going around but you could still look around in between the polling tables Any one else able to train spot in model form whilst voting or know of a model railway acting as a poll station today?

Hum hadden't thought of that one! How do I check! It's a long time since I heard one peeping at TM as it whirled past

Shouldn't take that much thinking in that case, some times just remember it's your railway run by you Not the real LNER, there's all ready a big problems with the accuracy of your railway,in that you shove 12V in the loco not Coal! just keep it until you run out of things to do on a wet weekend ! And enjoy!

Haveing a interest in the Welsh Highland from my late teens and haveing walked it from end to end in pre rebuild days I have a collection of scrap track spikes, telegraph insulators,and even a lump of coal found trackside or track bed side on a sharp curve near plas y nant far from any where, all heavy junk I carted miles on my back to the nearest transport Then there is a bit of rail out of a north Devon mine adit that has rusted to portable size, a BR brown ERWOOD enamel sign from a friend's shed that lead a previous life on the station befour he bought it to use as a shed And finely from a now dead ex fitter at bath road one whistle ! But from what? It's not a standard gwr fitting and is a bit small single note five inch long by two and a half inch wide I won't go into the lumps of coal picked up not far from my home to crush up and fill 4mm coal wagons

PANIC ! BUY !.....actually don't give me a chance first,if I can think of which ones to horde, but seriously hopefully like the amount of old unbuilt Ks kits still around we be able to get them for a while after they have gone,just don't ask where, if not I have a stock of X04s and MW1001 for a bit of retro kit building!

Why does it have to be 4mm string ? The stu-delicious PSMR isn't.4mm or haven't you noticed that? Anyway string comes in all sorts of scales,even big enough for those up in Bowes who model in 12" to the foot outdoors, but by then it's called rope!

String has wonderful advantages....No solder required,No burnt fingers,No shorts,no burnt out motors, Pah ! to DCC faff, all breakdowns cured with a quick knot And the price! Well 1p worth of string will buy you yards of the stuff, just pull and the trains GO Hum think I had better go to bed and lie down.......night night

Actually if you used swish curtain rail you won't need any electricity or motors, you would just stand at the end and pull the cord!

Full marks! 1953 80" I bought it the summer I left school in 1979 so it is my first car if you can call it a car! So it's just been a passing interest compared to trains ..... Or one of the two loves of my life....OUCH yes dear make that three!!

Quote " it even comes with authentic Indian outside wiring " I would love to claim haveing been to India and been on the patiala state railway the wiring was arranged to remind me of the visit, but no it came courtesy of the elecky board when I bought the property last year. A big thank you to the show organisers and in fact everyone who came for makeing it such a good show, we can't afford to loose it, so being just up the road I offer on site help to the person taking over for next year, if I can P S I have offered discount to RM webers

Hang on Stu you said you had a good nights sleep and now I found out you were awake at 02.29 in the morning.. I will have to put something in your tea if you stay next year, I can't have people not sleeping well at my B &B Still looking on the bright side it proves I have free wifi for guests

Well when Stu arrives at my B&B the night befoure Staplegrove I will leave the dining room table clear, have the soldering iron on! And if needed the heating on full blast to dry the paint! But if any of those orange snakes escape....I only have some spair black or yellow ones ! Thanks for the thanks Stu but aren't you supposed to be cracking on with it , not wasting time on RM Web?