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Rather than try to extend my Plasticard station platform, which is on a curve, I reckon it's going to be quicker and easier to just build another to the required length from scratch. Rather than use Plasticard again, I've found a couple of suitable bits of green (moisture-resistant) MDF which I can join together to get the length, and I've even found a couple of new jigsaw blades for the cutting thereof, so I'm all set except for one aspect. When you guys make platforms from MDF, what do you do about the ramps on the ends?

I'm confused here. Can somebody please point me to wherever the OP reveals his technique for that amazing grass/scrub/undergrowth?

Am I alone in reading this thread and thinking that the only way the OP can achieve his objective in the space he has is to go to N gauge?

Cheers gents. I like the fall plate/false floor idea! And maybe it's time to fork out for some Deluxe Materials Tacky Wax, which I can probably find plenty of other uses for ...

What's best for fixing loco crews in place in plastic-bodied 00 RTR locos semi-permanently? Ideally, something which won't be noticeable in open-cab steam locos such as the Bachmann half-cab Midland 1F.

Ah, thanks. I was aware of Mr Kirby's coupling mod, but I assumed that "BK uncoupling" was a specific method of uncoupling.

Sorry, but that term's new to me so I have to ask ...

Oh. So they 'ave carpet in't shop then? Mekkin too much money if th'asks me ...

Don't know how this one got past me until now, but it did. Cornershop and Paula Frazer

And a good job too, for I've noticed of late that wonky pins on SEEP solenoids seem to be more common now than of yore

I was actually wondering about that. I doubt it'd be that risky with tractors, particularly if they came off back end first. Thank you, gentlemen.

Let's say we have a small goods yard on a branch line, and one siding in it has an end loading dock. A nearby business deals in agricultural machinery, so one day two Lowfits turn up with the pickup goods, upon each of which is a tractor. These are shunted down to the dock. Once the first tractor is driven off, does the loco draw both wagons back, deposit the now-empty one in an adjacent siding and run the other back to the dock for unloading? Or does some form of plate get put over the gap 'twixt the Lowfits so that the second tractor drives off over the empty wagon? Period is post-war to 1960ish, and this sort of load is not unusual at this station.

Fair enough. Thank you Robin. I know they're good 'cos I've got three of theirs on one side of the layout, but I found out the hard way that the ink's not waterproof on the standard ones. Polypropylene it is for t'other side then ...

Can anyone please tell me if the "premium" iD backscenes which are printed on self-adhesive polypropylene are glossy or matt?

Does your panel use push switches or toggles? Does each switch control just one solenoid? When one of the affected solenoids doesn't throw the point properly, how hard is it trying i.e. does it give a weak kick in the right direction, does it just buzz, or what? Does the affected point switch easily by means of the pin protruding below the solenoid?

Just had my first order from Collets Models and am well impressed with price, communication and the way the item was packaged. Top marks to that man!

Fortunately I'm old enough to remember what they were like at the time - particularly around 1963 going to the buffet car whilst travelling over a big junction somewhere between York and Newcastle at a fair rate of knots ...

Strewth. I'd never have thought of that, so I'm really glad I asked!

I am reliably informed that for much of the time, it was best not to look down that hole. And now I'm wondering whether or not to bring in the hilarious and rightly famous letter to Indian Railways written by Okhil Babu following his misfortune at Ahmedpur station. Oh, OK then ... https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/indian-railways-history-160-years-interesting-facts-180735-2014-02-12

Ah, of course. I kept thinking of those old carriages on Indian railways which had the little compartment at the end with the hole in the floor ...

Very neat indeed. But what's the hole in the floor for? Enquiring minds need to know (unless of course we're better off not knowing ...)

OK, so the "handing" in non-corridor stock might just be one of those things the GWR did for reasons now unkown. So while I'm at it, what exactly is the deal with the "bow ended" stock? Why was it bow-ended (which I've always taken to mean that the ends are slightly curved in plan view rather than straight across)?

Good grief! Well, thank you Tim. I would never have worked that one out myself. How strange though. Unless you had OCD, which probably hadn't been invented in those days, why on earth would it have mattered which side the ventilators were on?

When Collett 57' bow-ended non-corridor coaches are described as "left hand " or "right hand", to what does that refer?

Dunno about managers, but as a potential punter I'd like to see ... Layouts on which at least one train is usually running, preferably at something like scale speed. Layouts on which The Hand Of God is not needed to get locomotives over points. Layouts of which the operators are not too busy chatting to each other or eating to run trains. A mix of eras and scales. And a fair few trade stands. That's all I ask