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Only ten? In 1970 Castleford were drawn away to Barrow in the RL challenge cup. BR put on two special trains the first of which consisted of 26 DMU cars. This required the loading to be done in two stages as there were no through corridors between the three and five car sets.

From automotive suppliers cellulose body stopper. Available in tins or tubes.

Were the Manchester Oil Refinery wagons " internal use" to the MSC system, or did they travel out onto the network?

Sadly not the breakthrough. I am on condensed view. I wonder if it is to do with the amount of photographic content? The prototype discussion page is slow to load but does eventually.

Is it just me? Wednesday saw a new homepage but half of the regular features are missing. The old navigation menu has just returned but wheeltappers refused to load. Noone else is grumbling. Any ideas welcome.

Selby is in the process of having a new footbridge with lift installed. The existing arrangement is for disabled people to pre-book assistance across the barrow crossing. Back in the day there were plenty of staff available to assist.

Good to be able to access this part of the forum even if I have to use a devious route

Use Matt. Don't paint from the tin, use a '" palette". Put a spot of Matt white and Matt black on the edge of the palette and occasionally mix in a tiny amount especially on skin tones.

Just worth mentioning for those new to construction. In the UK buying a 4x2 sheet is an expensive approach unless you only need a single sheet. The DIY stores all add 100% to the price so that an 8x4 priced at say £40 will be cut into four 4x2 retailing at £20 each. Worse still they are almost always cut across the sheet so that the grain is running the wrong way. B&Q will cut up the big sheet the correct way gree of charge. For the record, Houghton Street had the back scene as an integral part of the board which allowed the two 5' boards to slide together face to face for transport .

Kouger? I need to check with Peter Filbys book.

In Reykjavik they use timber scaffolding. I also have childhood memories of buildings propped up with massive baulks of timber, in our case the result of mining subsidence.

Florist wire has some real modelling uses but this is probably not one of them. It bends easily and retains this shape. Scaffolding on the other hand is made of very straight tubes. If bent they are condemned.

0.8mm (7mm handrail wire) should scale out about right. Very thin brass tube for the joints and make a proper study of how the prototype is actually assembled.

Red was the official colour of Area 8 and was applied to all locomotives leaving the Allerton Bywater area workshop, sometimes plain but usually lined out and often with a black tank top. For reasons unexplained the Fryston / Wheldale locomotives were green some almost apple green others closer to Swindon poverty spec. This was probably sheer bloody mindedness on the part of individual managers who, given an instruction to paint them green would have immediately ordered gallons of red paint. Oddly Glasshoughton. #4 was green as was Ackton Hall #3 but in this case it was the standard Peckett colour. The most photographed of all, S134 aka Wheldale owed it's green livery to a BBC contract but that is another story.

Problem is that this is nothing like the marroon used in area 8, so a standard NCB maroon probably doesn't exist. If this is the colour you want take the photo into Halfords or a similar shop and compare it to the cans on the rack. Alternatively take it to a . automotive paint supplier and get a rattlecan custom mixed. This is how I obtained something close to the Area 8 red.

Note the odd wheels on dirt can #26. Proof for those people who questioned my model.

Your space would almost equate to 12'x2' in 7mm. There are plenty of O gauge layouts in this space. I certainly did one. One left field idea is to model the station at the Beamish museum. The name of it's original location escapes me.

I had deliberately omitted the seaside resorts as these were much larger than the terminus that the poster had in mind. Thanks for the others there are certainly plenty to investigate.

Are you looking for rtr or serious kit/ s cratch building ? Scale? Available locomotives? At the risk of being corrected the LNER didn't do the GWR type branch. There were however several light railways that came into their ownership. Easingwold, Cawood&Wistow, Nidd Valley to name but a few. Use rule one to pair up the most ancient examples you can find from one of the constituent companies. An old articulated pair might be a starter. Or a pair of ancient six wheelers? The Derwent Valley line ran mixed trains including a pair of ancient four wheelers

I had a look whilst glue was setting on another Selby task. It doesn't look as bad as I feared and with 35 years of grime removed might even take paint. Getting running might be another matter.

He has the look of a Gethin. Talented flanker from the valleys shunned by friends and family when he took the money and signed for Salford or St Helens. Now in more enlightened times he.has come home with tales to tell and memories to dream.

The second one reminds me of an early attempt at scratch building . The drawing came from a library book "Locomotives worth modelling". Sadly it was never completed and probably still lurks in a long unopened box somewhere.

Food for thought. I had always assumed that the hydraulic ram lifted the rear axle in the manner of a trolley jack causing the wagon to pivot on the front axle. More research needed.