Bilbo

They don't say if they have tested it with other makes of controller. Is this likely to be viable option ?

I have checked "Portrait of the Central Wales Line" by Martin Smith published by Ian Allan. There is a photo on page 52 looking down the line towards Mumbles Road Station near Blackpill. It seems to confirm what Jeremy Cumberland says. A further inspection of the photo does show a white stone wall about 2 seats down on the promenade. This looks very much like the wall around the centotaph. B&R dvd No 10 gives a little more evidence of the buildings and one of the signals.

The Swansea Bay line was on what some would call an embankment as it was at the same level as the promenade that runs alongside the road which is at a lower level .You can't see the Mumbles Railway because it ran at road level which was of course below promenade level.This road would not be visible in the photo because it is at the left of the scene. It is hard to make out the Cenotaph/War Memorial which is on the promenade but if this photo is as early as you say i'm not sure if that would have been built. Likewise the Grandstand at St Helens Rugby Ground would be to the left but in the distance and it is hard to say if it is in the background of the photo and again may not have been built then. Its demolished now. The trackbed of the line from Victoria Station has now become part of the current promenade along with the part of the promenade visible in the photo. I have to say as soon as I saw the photo and without reading any comments I was convinced it was Swansea Bay and part of the line between what we knew as Swansea Bay Station and heading towards Mumbles Road Station which was close to Blackpill.

It was removed and rebuilt/restored at the end of the old Prince of Wales dock.It became a studio for a jewellery maker amongst other things. Not sure what it is now.

I remember wooden pit props which were imported.They were cut to length on the docks and the resulting offcuts were plentiful. A local charity collected them every so often and sold them as logs for a log fire or they were cut as sticks for fire lighting.Every so often a 7/8 plank wagon would be filled with these offcuts which were then taken to a convenient sidings and reloaded on a lorry from another nearby wood merchant which I think was Hughes & Morgan/Hughes Morgan and taken to a wood yard the charity had rented.There was the occasional cut head when the log being thrown into the railway wagon overshot and hit someone on the other side on the head . No Health & Safety then !!!

And then there will be The Catalogue for 2024. I'll be leaving now .

Here is this years offering. A little different but I quite like it

I rang them recently to ask about this and I was told dual membership would be £60 and you could have both annual models.Got the impression though that I might have 2 magazines and 2 of everything else but don't quite me on the last bit.

I don't know if this has been mentioned but Cheltenham Models are now advertising themselves as TT:120 stockists. So with Gaugemaster already on board it looks as if it won't be all direct selling. I wonder if they have a invented a new TT Tier. And who will be next ?

This has to be a record(for me anyway). I ordered some couplings from them yesterday afternoon (10th February) and had the acknowledgement from them at 16:14. At 16:23 yesterday I had an email saying they were despatched. At 0910 this morning the postman delivered them. 10/10 for New Modellers Shop and 10/10 for Royal Mail as Well.

I thought someone had suggested they would not be going for the January "Big Bang" .It wasn't SK was it ? Might explain why certain people haven't had an invite. Would make sense being as they still have lots of already announced stuff still not delivered. Much preferred the drip feed method the developers were using via Engine Shed before SK got his grubby little hands on the process and took it back to the dark ages.

O/16.5 you heard it here first. They can't do OO9 as Bachmann et al have cornered that market.

Any Triang/Triang Hornby collectors living in the Nottingham area. Oxfam in Beeston have a selection of items coaches , shunting locos and a good sized basket of track plus a country station in its box. The track was £25. Worth a look if you're in the area.

The sprog guy(Crosland) on here is incredibly helpful and when I've asked anything he has been very quick with an answer. Perhaps you can message him I think his member name is Crosland.