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Sorry for the slow response Marke. Thanks for the reply. I'll need to see if i can make some like yours then for dad! He's 87 and even in his younger days (when his eyesight wasn't so bad) he was no great scratchbuilder, so it's either straight out of the box or I make it! Mac

Hi. Really like the layout. Very impressive. A trivial question if I may: where did you get the hydraulic buffer stops from? They look just what my father needs for his layout, but can't seem to find anywhere. Thanks, Mac.

Thanks for that Wickham. I knew the Casserley family slightly and was lucky enough to get some of Henry's duplicate prints when the family were thinning out the archive some years ago. There are indeed some shots taken from almost exactly the same spot on the northbound slow platform in the small collection I have and that was what made me think the Tank train image was one of his also. Always had a hankering to build a layout based on Berkhamsted, so anything additional background info like the above is always interesting. Thanks. Mac.

Out of interest, does the book say where the photo was taken? Comparing to some images I have, it looks like Berkhamsted? Ta. Mac.

Just to pick-up on "Coach bogie"'s and others assertions, in Appendix 7 of the HMRS's "Great Western Way", 3711 is noted as being observed in Khaki livery in September 1916. This would appear to support the livery choice of Bachmann. Mac.