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Hornby magazine last month and this has a two part article on the conversion from class 110 to class 104. I've done a conversion using the Silver Fox bits and it didn't look half bad. Made a mess of the priming before paint so haven't gone any further. Iron Mink cab ends are very nice indeed.

How many do you want? I might be able to spare a few. I'll drop them off if I'm ever passing. 🌍↘️🌏

Seek help.

A woman’s rather or wedded bliss? You’re a braver man than I am to even contemplate fencing in the kitchen.

Go on.

Please read Father Ted reference. Then you'll understand.

September 1969. Just changed schools and ended up being reacquainted with a friend from Juniors who was and avid spotter. Neil Cowie. I hope you're still out there Fido. My first of many sessions lineside at Croxdale, on the end of the viaduct, started soon after. Being on the ECML were standard fare at the time. My first was D9010, The Kings Own Scottish Borderer, I remember Fido asked me to try and read the nameplate as it whipped past, just a few feet away. The Kings Coin was what I thought I saw. Happy days. Most of our spotting was either Croxdale, Durham or Newcastle (on a platform ticket from Durham). The platform tickets at Durham were platform specific (North and South) so the trick was to buy one from each platform before you travelled. Then get off either right at the back or right at the front so the ticket collector at the barrier didn't see you get off. Standing at the West end of platforms 9 and 10, at Newcastle Central Station, with a Deltic on both sides of the platform, throbbing, waiting for the off, is something never to be repeated. Absolute joy. No wonder I have tinnitus.

Somerset in June. WSR Diesel Gala. That's it but you know I like an opportunity.

Phil, Any outings planned for this year? Bob

Blue, I think. It would give the impression of continuity behind the trees.

How about putting a screen on the other side if the hole and beyond the tracks, painted the same blue? With the trees and a blue screen to eliminate the through light, the hole will be all but invisible.

It is a risk but a good idea all the same. Maybe something I might try myself, when the coast is clear. And as for his lordship, he does seem to like life on the edge.

Hope she's not reading this.

You dare do that?

Not exactly signalling but Castle Junction is getting there. The check rail gap requirements for bog standard 00 gauge is a bit embarrassing. Hopefully, it won't be so obvious once the track is weathered.