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I have done hook turns quite a few times when driving in Melbourne but my preferred option is to proceed to the next intersection and turn left three times.

I didn't eat much of my last crop of it. It kept getting stripped back to the stems before it got big enough to harvest. I suspect the local possums might be the culprits.

I really need to update the GPS in my car. The last time I used the M4 tunnel, it kept telling me to turn right or do a U-turn with monotonous regularity until I was out in the open again.

And, although I have had quite a lot of Dublo locomotives that have been in drastic need of a service when I bought them, I haven't had any that acted as if they were seized up, other than one 0-6-2T chassis which must have been assembled from left-over bits and pieces. It would only travel very roughly in one direction and wouldn't move when you tried to change direction. After dismantling it I discovered the reason - it had a coarse threaded worm, and a fine threaded gearwheel......

I have been using Labelle 102 as my lubricant of choice for at least 8 years now and don't have any issues with it.

Didn't Wrenn do an LMS version of the Fruit D?

3830 at work on the layout. She can handle four Dublo tinplate LMS coaches fairly well, but struggles with the SD ones, slipping now and then.

After spending more time than I probably should have on Google Streetview, I'm convinced that was where it was taken. I couldn't find the buildings, but there are a few relatively new large buildings and also some areas where demolition has taken place some years ago, so I'm guessing they no longer exist. The location sort of fits my recollection, as I'm pretty certain I took the photo on the same day I visited the Glasgow School of Art in Renfield Street. For what it's worth, here's another photo I took that day, probably in the same area. Nothing much in the way of old cars, but at least there's an old bus....... And, staying in Glasgow and getting back to the subject of old cars, here's a photo I took of the exterior of the old Glasgow Museum of Transpot:

I have had my Skoda Octavia for 10 years now without any trouble from it. The servicing costs don't seem unreasonably high either.

The high rise flats in the back make me think it might be looking towards Woodside, but I'm from the North East, so I don't know Glasgow that well. If it were Dundee or Aberdeen I probably wouldn't be asking the question......

One thing about the "Duchesses" was the variety of liveries they carried - just about everything imaginable. My version of Queen Elizabeth is finished in the plain black she wore for a short time after having the streamlining removed. She was soon afterwards repainted in the then new LMS post-war lined black livery. This model is a repainted Dublo City of London (which I bought in a rather scruffy state and minus a tender) converted to three rail and coupled to a tinplate Dublo Duchess of Montrose tender (mainly because they're cheaper and easier to find than City of London tenders).

Seeing as how some of us are showing off old photographs of street scenes, here's a few I took in Scotland in the 1970s: Bank Street, Galashiels High Street, Montrose Princes Street, Edinburgh Somewhere in Glasgow (I can't remember where it was, but it ight have been somewhere around Pollockshields) I do have more, but I think that's enough for now.......

I had a similar problem with one once and, although it could well be something different in your case, for what it's worth, my problem was caused by one turn of wire sticking out a fraction more than it should have, with the result that the wire would occasionally touch the magnet.

If you don't mind a few inaccuracies, having to replace the roof, and having to order and have them posted from Australia, a repainted NSWGR GSV sheep van could pass as a Highland Railway sheep wagon from a distance: https://www.australianmodeller.com.au/products/nswgr-gsv-4-wheel-sheep-van-nos-26566-26573-26579-26585-pack-2

Well, I've already got two DJH Jones Goods (I was intending to turn one of them into a Loch, but haven't got around to it) and two 439 class kits, all more or less unmade. There are one or two I missed out on, but they're no longer available anyway.

Thanks. I'll give it a go. Jim

Hi Ray. Just one question if I may. When using these, is it best to print them on ordinary paper and glue them on (as with the old style litho papers), or print them on adhesive paper and stick them on (as with the sort of overlays that the late Laurence Hogg sold)? I suspect that the latter might be the better way to go, given that they are to be stuck onto metal, but I'm not sure. Also, as I will have to use an inkjet printer, any excess liquid glue might cause a run in the finish. Jim

I took one look at the chassis and it shouted out LNER Z4 (ex-GNSR X) Manning Wardle 0-4-2T. https://www.lner.info/locos/Z/z4.php

No, I was talking about the real thing. I must confess that the WD Austerities fall a bit outside my area of knowledge, and I had assumed they were bogie tenders. I stand corrected.....

And here is the "City of Bradford" as she appeared when on the Southern during the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges, fitted to a bogie tender due to the lack of water troughs on the SR. Three railed Dublo "City of London" coupled to a tender assembled using a Bachmann WD tender body and a Dublo A4 tender chassis, the tender body being shortened by about 5-7mm to fit.

After running “Coronation”, I started looking through my collection of Duchesses, of which I have quite a few, and here are some of them: “Princess Alice”, a similar collection of bits and pieces to “Coronation” but this time in blue. “Duchess of Montrose” of which I have two, one in gloss, and this one in the more usual semi-gloss finish. I will probably rename and renumber this one as “City of Glasgow” (in her post-Harrow condition) and keep the gloss one as “Duchess of Montrose”. “Duchess of Abercorn” in the LMS post-war experimental blue-grey livery. I didn’t realise it at the time, but this one is fairly popular in model form, being something a bit different (only two LMS locomotives wore this colour - the other one was a Jubilee). Some models I have seen photographs of show the colour as being quite light which, given the state of cleanliness of post-war British railways (and the LMS in particular) seems most unlikely, while others are in a colour similar to mine (the version by Ace Trains is in an almost identical colour). The only photograph of it I have seen of it in this livery is by H C Casserley and is reproduced in one of David Jenkinson’s books. Unfortunately, it is in black and white, but it does show up as being about as dark as this. Anyway, as there do not appear to be any colour photographs and it’s unlikely anyone who could remember seeing it is still alive, I’m saying this is the right colour and, if anyone thinks it isn’t, let them prove it……. Last in this little selection is my “Duchess of Atholl” which, as it has a horseshoe motor, is either the oldest or the second oldest Dublo locomotive I have (the other contender is a horseshoe motored A4). She does look a bit tired, but has a lovely patina, which I would hate to destroy by repainting. I will have to touch up the paint on the cylinders though.

And a couple more of my almost Dublo locomotives. First is the LMS streamliner "Coronation" in its USA visit guise. If anything is Tri-ang/Hornby, this one is. Tri-ang body, Dublo A4 chassis, Dublo Duchess bogie, Tr-ang Coronation trailing truck and Tr-ang tender (which of course has a Dublo type chassis). The bell and headlight are Cal-Scale fittings for US models. Second is a Dublo Highland Railway 0-6-4T banking tank. Basically a stretched Dublo 0-6-2T with a styrene sheet fabricated extension to the bunker end, a safety valve cover made from styrene sheet to replace the safety valves, and a Dublo 2-6-4T trailing bogie in place of the pony truck. The coaches began life as Tr-ang clerestories. They run much better since I fitted them with Dublo bogies. And yes, that is a three-railed Tri-ang/Hornby Caledonian Single on the turntable. The van in the distance at the goods shed is a Dapol NB gunpowder van.

Thanks for that. I might give that a go after I have a few other projects out of the way. All my SD coaches are mint or near mint condition, but I do have four very scruffy and rusty D12 coaches I bought to dismantle for their bogies that I could use. I would have to shrink the image a bit horizontally for them to fit, but it should still look OK. It could take a while before I get around to it though.

I haven't been able to test it to it's limit, so maybe it could still do it. I don't think I could get any of the grandchildren to still for long enough to do it though.

I had three Hornby Dublo green Co-Co diesels, so I decided to turn the one with the least impressive paint job into something different, so here we have "Meld" in BR blue. All I need now are some blue and grey coaches for it to pull........