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Can anyone tell me how often a wagon would be overhauled/repainted in the period 1948 - 1960? For example, if an LMS wagon had been overhauled/repainted in 1947, how long would it be before it was repainted in British Railways livery?

Thank you for all your feedback. It has been very useful 🙂

Does anyone know if the Bullied Q1's ever worked west of Salisbury in the period 1948 - 1960?

Regarding the continued fall out from John Bennett's letter in MRJ 280. I think Trevor Potts puts it very nicely when he quote's the late Carl Legg's response to critic's "Fine - where's yours?"

I think the only person being "priggish and self-righteous" is the gentlemen from Towcester.

Gas Cupboard Models was a model shop in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. I'm not sure if they are still trading. The model shop I remember is H.A. Blunt & Son in Fretherne Road, Welwyn Garden City. As for Alex Bowie, I remember he did a series of articles called "The Pictorial Layout", in Model Railway Constructor (I think). The abiding memory I have of those articles is the sketches of the scenery and buildings, in particular a sketch of a row of three shops that included Earoff the barber and Bunce & Burner Hardware. He also did a sketch for branch terminus for the Great North of Cheam Railway, motto "Trust in us, you have no choice."

My copy of MRJ 273 arrived this morning (27th September). I phoned Cygnet Magazines yesterday and told them that my subscription copy had not arrived. During the course of the conversation I was told that this had happened to 7 or 8 people with issue 273. I must admit that I do not understand what goes on at Cygnet Magazines. I have bought MRJ since issue 1 and I have had a subscription for several years. I have grown accustomed to the delays but this time I think things have gone too far. Yes I know there was a breakdown at the printers (I phoned Cygnet Magazines about a week ago enquiring about issue 273) and that that caused delay but I cannot understand why they could not have told us that they were having problems. It is easy enough to put an announcement in RM Web. Am I the only one who feels that his customer loyalty is being abused. I must admit that I am left wondering how many customers MRJ would have lost if Bob Barlow's Finescale Railway Modelling Review had not been cut so tragically short.

Nah, not at all. He's excellent value all round. I enjoyed this show more than any other TV for a long time, it was just fab. CTMK and I had a seriously loud 'LOL' moment about the young people with their faces blanked out. He's probably not the only 'civilian' in the UK population to feel that! If he was to come to Scaleforum and wanted to understand more about 'why we all do this stuff', then he seems like the kind of chap who'd be happy to have it explained to him over a pint or two in one of Aylesbury's decent pubs after the show. Fair enough, not all TV presenters are to everyone's taste. I take your point about Pendon though.

I watched the programme last night and, like most people on here, I greatly enjoyed the heavily edited interview with the Visitor Centre guide . However, am I the only one who found James May's approach a bit patronising and condescending? He seems to have no understanding of the diversity of the hobby, for example, he visited Pendon in another programme and seemed bewildered by it. I am left wondering what he would make of Scaleforum or the Gauge O Guild show at Telford.

I haven't read all of the posts on this topic but for me the inspirational layouts over the years have been PD Hancock's Craig and Mertonford, Ken Northwood's North Devonshire, Castle Combe by Ken Payne, Gorre and Daphetid by John Allen, Garsdale Road by David Jenkinson, Clarendon by the Leamington and Warwick Model Railway Society, Bath Green Park by the Taunton Model Railway Group, Gordon and Maggie Gravett's Pempoul, Eastbourne by Vivien Thompson, John Ahern's Madder Valley and last but by no means least, Pendon. I also remember seeing Doreen Andrews Torander Valley layout at an exhibition in Welwyn Garden City in the 1970's. It was at one of the Welwyn exhibitions that I saw JP Rowe's beautiful model's of Gresley teak coaches.