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  1. doilum
    Spring bank holiday was introduced to “fix” the holiday previously known as Whitsuntide. In some parts of the country this was the time when all the factories in a town took their annual fortnight shut down. As a religious feast it moved around with Easter. 1971 sounds about right. The early May bank holiday may have had something to do with our friends in Europe.......
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    Big thanks. Exactly what we were looking for.
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    Some thirty years ago our club layout Ramsfield had an independent branch line running into a bay platform controlled by an automated shuttle module. Can anyone remember the name of this module, who made it and is it still available. Whilst Selby will be a full dcc layout, I can see the advantage of having a simple, independent dc line capable of distracting the public should the digital gremlins escape their box. In fact, we might have two!
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    doilum replied to didcot's topic in Wheeltappers

    I know you are in there. Breakfast will be served when you hatch. Meantime, let’s keep you nice and warm!
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    As far as I recall the only time Mallard ran with a corridor tender was during the locomotive exchange of 1948. The tender was swapped with Woodcock and returned almost immediately afterwards. Woodcock retained the now modified tender until withdrawal. Pause to await correction........
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    Or glue them into dead biros?
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    And for those in the truly tight part of Yorkshire, there is always the dead biro and epoxy solution....... Seriously though, the smaller the screw size the higher the quality of key required. And bonus tip for those of us coming to terms with failing eyesight and shaky paws, use a pin vice to locate those tiny b.a. nuts.
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    Radio Spares. Not cheap but excellent. Mine came courtesy of my wife who rescued them from the works bin where a service engineer threw them in disgust after snapping the tiny one. The broken one was cut off with the Dremel. Full set restored.
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    Many thanks. I have a birthday next week........
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    The owner of our Selby project has a lovely rake of LNER tourist stock coaches ( they may have been acquired via the Guild ET service). They connect via bogie mounted KD couplings and have simple but effective corridor connections made from black paper which concertina correctly. These appear to be a commercial item. Can anyone help to identify them as I could use a few on my Gresley sets.
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    The WD looks remarkably clean considering the date. Prototype for everything?
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    On a recent visit to Beamish I watched them prepare one of their live steamers. There was a pile of imported coal which I barely recognised as the same stuff we used to heat our homes. Full of strange mica like faces that seemed to change colour in the light, it gave off an acrid smoke that brought tears to your eyes. Not a good example for younger modellers who will not remember the real thing!
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    Back in the day the motive power was a a handful of large Manning Wardle tank engines which survived the grouping to become J— and N— ( I need my book!) In BR days J 52 ( with a sun roof / ventilator) and latterly J 94 seemed to do most of the work. To these had to be added the eclectic mix of colliery locomotives which had random running rights which occasionally ended in tears. I actually have the J 52 in 7mm although I think it is slightly over scale due to a well known limitation of enlarging images on early photocopiers.
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    Was your nice shiny coal anthracite? Being brought up in the heart of Area 8 I was surprised when I first encountered this “ foreign “ coal. The families of miners could identify which seam a particular lump had come from by the colour and dust. When I needed real coal for a working model I went for the anthracite as it is relatively clean to handle. The grey is spot on.
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    I have always assumed them to be bare wood. Pitch pine was readily available in the first half of the century and probably didn’t need further protection. The floor planks took most of the wear and were replaceable. I know the area well and the E&W YU Rly is one of several that I researched but never got round to modelling.
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    I haven’t managed a decent scan of my old photos yet but looking at the ones I took in January 1984 the hulls are quite weathered. Imagine the boiler of a WD late in life and you have the picture. The decks however were bright orange in well maintained condition as was the wheel house. These comments apply to all of the four or or five examples moored at Castleford on that afternoon.
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    Probably not. Seventies electronics were pretty indestructible. Dry joints or worn out contacts are the usual suspects if they fail to perform. My current favourite is a Kentroller hand held, due to its tiny size.
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    Slightly off topic, but does anyone else remember Carlos Fandango?
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    There was a series of ads featuring these gremlin like superbugs that lived around the bend and laughed in the face of regular disinfectants / cleaners. They of course met their gruesome end thanks to the product being advertised.
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    The ECM compspeed controllers also had red/ white as the track feed. Two orange wires supply the ac input.
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    I was just about to add Domestos to my list!
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    Sounds like an ad for a disinfectant/ toilet cleaner. I seem to recall something similar with gremlin like germs being dispatched by the product in question. Harpic is a leading brand in the UK which had a big advertising budget at the time. The other big name being Detol.
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    At a guess they owned some coke ovens. I seem to recall that this was one of the byproducts.
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    doilum replied to didcot's topic in Wheeltappers

    You have five minutes cat. Then it isMax Bygraves greatest hits. At 11.
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    Have you any information about this wagon?
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