Andrew Thorpe

You paid £20 for her? Oh well done! They are a great model aren't they? Runs beautifully too! Good effective haulers as well.

I had/ did/ suggested it to you, (aka Christhorpe Junction, I made that as a fictitious station I was going to make based on my mothers name), I'd suggested that it'd work with the Ratio engineers wagon set (possibly).

That's fantastic! Looking forward even more now! Dioloch!

I'm hoping to get one of these which will get backwarded in time to ROD operations being as they had something very much resembling these. Colourwise im thinking they'd keep them black? Difficult to tell on B&W photos. Then build up a small RCC rake, should look rather different.

Hello Mike, to be honest it was a Ratio model of a signal box. Don't get me wrong it's fantastic, but I'd dipped my toe in with the Metcalfe newspaper stand and I really struggled with that. The signal box happens to have firebuckets placed outside it and the instructions for the handles to use fine fuse wire. Sounds ok, except the buckets are half a grain of rice in size. Not with my great big fingers is that happening! Shame really. Good luck with yours!

Wow made your own controller! Impressive! Must admit it's electrickery that worries me the most, such as motorising points etc. There's also a surprising amount of research needed with this hobby I've noticed, after all nice to get things done right, or as right as we can.

Bora Da all! I'm a returnee to model railways and very impressed by some of the developments that happened during my 35yr hiatus. I did take a first and false start with n Gauge but worked out it wasn't for me, after buying a fair few bits which I'll now have to sell on, such is life! Anyway I have now settled on WW1 after buying the Bachman ambulance train pack. This was followed up after watching Sams Trains with the amazing N7, I've also got Oxfords gun train and Dean Goods, the Hattons P class in ROD. I'm running at present on a make do track with a gaugemaster controller. Now I really like that controller, solid build! im now starting to think about a layout and based on my stock let's face it, it's WW1 isn't it, so epoch two with a continental tinge, possibly! I did come up with the idea of Heaven and Hell ie a split board with one half idyllic scenery, nice things happening e.g. Children playing, harvesting, etc and then the hell of the front. However thinking it might be too ambitious and crowding too much in. I'm still in fact attempting to establish how big it'll be! Very lucky to be where I am in that one of my shops customers happens to have been a Swindon Works apprentice back in ahem and helped build the Evening Star as well as servicing a whole load of different engines in his time. I'm attempting to pursuade him back into the hobby and dust down his collection! I feel I owe big thanks to several Youtubers who've been generous to share their knowledge, Charlie, Callum and Sam being but three, all of whom have excellent and very different channels.