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Tonight I will round off the type 5's, with classes 58, 59 & 60. Living within the 59' main stomping ground, I dont know how come I have only 2 shots of them - and one of them is taken miles from home! 58004 at Bristol TM, 1st July 1990. This was a special train i/c/w that days Gloucester Open Day 58008 passes Radley with another train of coal for Didcot Power Station. 20th July 1988 58012, Merehead open day. 25th June 1989 58032 heads a line of locos at the back of Saltley depot. 7th June 1986. Also on this day, I had taken a shot of 58037 at Coventry working a cross country train to Poole - shame it didnt come out! 59003 departs Westbury April 1989. 59004 passes Ruscombe with empties heading back to the Mendips. April 1990. 60078 passes Loughborough. February 1992. 60096 at Sheffield Midland. February 1992. Next time we will move onto electro-diesels and ac electrics. Iain

Due to the large number of class 50 photos Ive got and I dont have any "in service" Western or Deltic shots, I will skip forward to the Class 56'. 56002 passes Oxford with Northbound empty coal hoppersfrom Didcot Power Station. August 1988 56031 "Merehead" at Merehead open day. 25th June 1989 Not sure if this is 56035, 038 or 040! Woodborough. 20th July 1988 56045 on a cement working at Drynham, Trowbridge. 24th May 1989 56046 arrives at Westbury with more empties for one of the Mendip quarries. April 1989 56048 departs Westbury with a set of ARC PGA's. 7th May 1987 56051 Westbury Depot. 10th May 1987 56053 Westbury Depot 17th October 1987 56062 Westbury 14th May 1988 56075 passes the old station at Patney & Chirton with loaded PGA's. 20th July 1988 Iain

The grey looks too blue also imho

If we are just looking at the livery, I have to agree, 47813 looks best. However, the overall shape of the loco and around the cab windows, looks odd to me.

Last lot of 47's 47627 passes Totnes 26th February 1990 47628 at Reading 24th February 1987 47632 departs Salisbury on a Portsmouth service 28th November 1987 47809 at Totnes 25th February 1990 47826 Plymouth 25th February 1990 47826 Taunton 21st August 1989 47827 Exeter St Davids 21st August 1989 47901 at Merehead 25th June 1989 Iain

Some more 47's this morning 47525 waits to depart Blackpool North with a London Euston service, Sunday 20th September 1991. The 47 worked to Crewe, via Preston, Warrington and Chester, where the train was propelled around the triangle of lines, West of the station. 47535 at Salisbury with a Cardiff to Portsmouth train. 23rd September 1987 47536 on a weekday ballast train, Bristol Temple Meads, 8th August 1986 47569 prior to its naming at Gloucester Open Day. 1st July 1990. Later that day, England would lose a famous penalty shoot-out, in the World Cup semi final. 47580 at London Liverpool St. 7th March 1987 47581 at Basingstoke rail event 23rd September 1987 47585 on a Bristol to Weymouth train at Westbury. 25th June 1989 47592 passes Penleigh on the Westbury avoider, with an Up West of England train. August 1988. 47605 moves onto the loco holding sidings at Liverpool St. 7th March 1987 47620 at Merehead open day. 25th June 1989 Iain

I was, at first, trying to fire the points in pairs, but soon realised this wasnt going to happen, so now fire each individually. I think I will try another cdu.

Good evening. Tonight we will start on the class 47's. 47118 at Salisbury 23rd February 1990 47202 dumped at Westbury depot 11th April 1987 47322 at Waterloo on an additional service to Salisbury Sunday 24th May 1992 47324 at March TMD 23rd August 1986 47462 passing Somerford, on the approach to Christchurch, with a cross country working. November 1989 47466 races through Culham with a cross country working. 20th July 1988 47478 passes Bratton with a Paddington bound train from the West Country. 30th May 1989. 47479 & 47829 inside the HST shed at Laira. 15th September 1991 47487 at Liverpool St. 26th February 1987 47490 working the lunchtime Dover Marine to Liverpool Lime St at Tonbridge. 30th October 1986 Iain

Ive looked through a few threads on here with questions regarding Peco point motors, but not found the answers im looking for. Ive also checked out Brian Lambert's Flashbang website. On Baker Wood Bunker, ive only got 4 turnouts and have gone down the road of fitting them with Peco PL-11 side mounted point motors. These are switched using the Peco sliding contact levers, with power supplied by the aux output on my Hornby Elite controller, through a Peco PL-35 CDU. The problem I have is that only 2 of the motors throw the turnouts correctly. The other 2 tend to bounce, meaning the points don't throw. I tried a fair amount of adjusting to put the situation right, but to no avail. I contacted Peco technical department about the problem. They suggested the Elite' power output isn't enough to power these motors, which I thought odd, as when tested, it showed up as being 15.8V. So, I am now looking at using an alternative transformer and am drawn to the Gaugemaster, cased, transformers. But which one should I use? 16V or 24V - Im leaning toward the latter, but will this be too much for the cdu?

Mission accomplished - loco enroute!

I am looking for the following Dapol Limited Edition wagons: Wessex Wagons: 31 "Ministry of Munitions" gunpowder van, no.4159 168 "Ushers" Trowbridge vent van, no.83 245 "LMR" vent van, no.WD1902 247 "F" Radstock 4plk open, no.158 248 "H" Radstock 4plk open, no.289 Burnham & DMRC: "Wilts United Dairies" Melksham vent van, no.2 "Wilts United Dairies" Melksham, 6w Milk Tank, no.21 or 25 "The Earl of Waldergraves Collieries" 4plk open, no.563 I am keeping an eye on the usual internet websites. Reasonable! prices paid

Don't we have 47625 "City of Truro" too? http://news.Bachmann.co.uk/2018/02/city-truro-class-47-sales-area-exclusive/

Unfortunately, I dont seem to have taken many images of class 40 to 46 on slide film, so here are a very few that I did. 40012 is seen at Carlisle, whilst being towed to a new life in preservation. 7th September 1988 D200 / 40122 is seen in the next 2 pictures, at Basingstoke. 23rd September 1987 45125 arrives at York 7th February 1987 45135 is seen (whilst in preservation) at Laira Open Day. 15th September 1991 45140 backs onto a Cardiff bound train at Bristol Temple Meads. 8th August 1986 Next up, the 47's. Iain

Great to see this layout on Saturday at FEBEX. Its been a while since I saw it in the flesh, so it was great to catch up with it, in all its beautiful splendour. If you've never seen, get to a show where its appearing - you wont be disappointed! Thanks chaps!

I've been lucky enough to have seen both of these layouts in the flesh and have to agree that they are really superb examples of what can be achieved in 2mm. Railways in South London are more interesting than North of the river and the time frames are right up my street! Many thanks for posting.

Seems a bargain and have been browsing a copy this morning. It is a shame there are some real howlers in the photo captions - it always makes me a bit wary of such a publications usefulness, as a source of reliable research material, when this happens.

3 car Class 166' have been working a few diagrams on the GWR Weymouth line for the past 5/6 days - 2O98 has been stabling at Weymouth for the next mornings 2D05 - as well as a few forays to Salisbury - 2O01 from Westbury / 2E16 from Salisbury, to name a few.

And, no doubt, there are probably hefty penalty payments, if you stray into the red.

This evening we will have a look at some of the refurbished freight machines. 37350 blasts out of Bradford on Avon with a Bristol to Weymouth train. 2nd June 1989 37350 at Merehead 25th June 1989 37354 at Merehead 25th June 1989 A pair of unidentified 37/3 storm through Twyford April 1990 37673 at Par 4th May 1991 37674 (& 37417) at Laira open day 15th September 1991 37703 & 37897 at Appleby 25th May 1992 thats all folks next time we will move onto some type 4's. Iain

He is marginally worse than the bloke who is "Mrs Brown" - a show that gets load of laughs for gutter comedy.

How about doing a bit of double tracking rather than extending? It may not be that exciting for many, but I think, as someone has already commented, its quite a long railway and I just think it would add something to it, having the opportunity to have trains passing each other - just as at the Great Central. With the potential increase in passenger loadings, thanks to the Broadway extension, could a portion of double track, somewhere between Winchcombe and Cheltenham, allow for a slight increase in the number of train services? Any extension at the Cheltenham end, would be a winner, if a little more difficult to achieve.

Tom Kerridge - another poncy foodie trying to make simple food too pretentious and over the top. Keith Floyd was the best TV cook - well, other than Nigella at her sauciest best I used to work with another guy who would join me in crewing up a one way trip into space for musicians - but that's probably best left to another thread!