stewartingram

Plrnty of aftermarket ones (usually better anyay) online. Try Wizard for starters?

Online Preserved stocklist site: Preserved Railway Stocklist - Preserved & Private Coaches, Wagons and More (ukprsl.uk)

Given the choice, I won't use couriers. Mainly on principal, I like to support our national (now partly privatised) Royal Mail service. Incoming mail I don't usually have the choice (I'm not sending), but outgoing I do. By choice I certainly wouldn't use Evri or Yodel under any circumstances. RM has always been good for me without exception in all cases over many years. All the couriers have given trouble at one time or another. As stated above, there are many options with RM, don't take the 1st offer as the best.

Why would a Lincoln bus be in Peterborough?

Ah D6704. I have an electrification flash from this loco. which apparently fell off the loco (I was NOT involved!) during a strike day in the early `1960s. Don't ask.

I remember being taken to one in the Cambridge Corn Exchange when I was knee high to a grasshopper. Possibly I went to 2 there? Must have been the early 1950s, perhaps setting me on the path of modelling.

That pic has been on here before. An export order being trialled on BR tracks as I remember it, but I have no more details.

I have one I converted from a Hornby 110 when they were introduced. No added bits from anyone, all my own work. I picked up an etched 104 cab conversion in recent times to improve it, but I'm tempted by the Heljan version. (Never had a problem with Heljan, despite what others say). An absolute must for my Cambridge collection, green with one blue car; added to my Bachmann 101 converted to a 3-car from 2 x 2-car + a Lima centre car (again 2x green + the blue centre car). But I'm bauking at the price at the moment.

If you get a replacement psu with the wrong plug, chop it off. Cut a length of cable (a few iches) off your defective one, and join it with a choc block. If you want it really fancy, put the chock block in a plastic box. Just make sure you get the polarities correct!

Needs one after travelling from Cambridge 😀

Not a problem if you want a remag, just pm me.

That may have been a glorious typo! When I was working for Pye/Philips, I acquired a stash of tubing which I used for point control (& still have some). I typed polythene without thinking - just substitute PTFE! Used as wire insulation at work, that fact is also useful if you wish to feed it between the sleepers to cross tracks.

Try electronics suppliers for polythene tubing. The likes of RS Components, Farnell, etc.

Looks like Amanda Holden...

I mremember riding on the old emus from Lancaster to Morecambe, with the hand operated sliding doors fully open. It seemed that most people used them like that.

During the big freeze of 1963, I walked to school past the Eastern Counties bus garage in Hills Road Cambridge. Inside were many buses, (few went out that morning). They all had naked flame fires under the fuel tanks in an attempt to defrost them. At the same time one of my (later) mates dad started work with BR in the diesel depot. He told me about refuelling a shunter, presumably with gloved hands, scooping jelly-like diesel into the tank.

To say the 1960s covers 8 years, but to say the period of lower top headlamp is a lot less than that?2 years maybe? I actually meant Royal Train steam hauled. HMQ cut down on personal trains quite a lot, preferring to travel on normal trains, or add a coach to them. I suspect that 1967 shot might be an 'add-on'? Maybe not, I really don't know. I know diesels became much more prominent.

Nobody has yet commented on that pic with the Royal headcode - with the top lamp on the bracket lowered to the mid rh side of the smokebox door. A position brought about in the last part of steam days, to move it away from the proximity of the 25kv ohl. This is a period when there was NO haulage of Royal trains.....

With frosty windscreens, I always give an extra 10mins to clean ALL windows before moving off. Actually I don't usually bother with the rear window as I have a super efficient heater on it, and I'm used to driving small vans with no window!. I use a scraper bought from Tesco years ago. I also clean door mirrors (though they are heated and quick to clear), ALL lights (how many bother?) are also done. When in the car, I start the engine (waste of fuel and not good for the engine to leave it idling). Now, heater. Most cars used to have (I'm not up to speed with modern cars though) no hot water to the heater matrix until the thermostat opened, so a total waste of time to turn the heater/demister (fan) on until then. Actually, it makes it slower to warm up too! However, my heater is in a different part of the water circuit, and the matrix is always fed, even in the closed position of the thermostat, so warms up much quicker. And, if the 'climate control' (fancy words for heater control) is set to auto, it directs air to the most appropriate places in the car. I can override it though with demist if I want. So even before I move the car off the drive, without waiting, the screen inside is clearing. The car? a 20 year old Rover 75, built as cars should be. I've never driven a car with such efficient demisting, and I've had 75s since 2007.

The sayings 'six foot' and 'ten foot' are just that - a nominal figurative description for that part of the infrastructure for identity purposes. Think of the 'four foot' - actually 4'8-1/2". I was always taught to think that the 6' or 10' only identified where I was, and could be narrower - and I've seen that on a few occasions.

Your choice I know (& respect) but I don't like dipping them in custard!

In the centre of Cambridge there was a Woollies and an M&S store, with a large frontage, Opposite side of the road was the main set of bus stops going north. Southbound buses entered from a one-way street from the west to pass the stores, swinging round the corner to do so. Everyone parked there bikes on the kerb outside the stores. There was one driver who had a reputation....especially if a northbound bus was at its stop. ....He used to clip every bike in the row as he swung round the corner.....

Though I admit to having far too many "diecast" road vehicles (why do we call them that when many are plastic mouldings) to consider repainting all of them, I find that they seem to be "dipped" rather than painted. My core collection that I bother to paint, have been stripped, revealing finer detail. Then a quick Halfords sprsy primer before a repaint. Much better finish.

Airfix figures?

Model Rail has a close up pic of the roof in the new issue.