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Anyway, LEAVE THOMAS ALONE !! You'll only upset Annie & Clarabel & wellard Gordon'll come after you! Can't say you haven't been warned...........

Fizzgog common in N.West in 70s/80s.

Thanks all ! Needed an excuse to have a road running across a bricked-up tunnel. Digression: If you've ever seen the war film "The Bridge at Remagen" the tunnel on the east end of the bridge is still there, bricked up, but used as a mushroom plantation.

Any examples, ever?

My best trees have come from 3-core electric wiring. Strip back the top half & tease out the wires for branches, then it's glue n tealeaves/herbs [depending on season]. Dry-brushed green on north side of trunk. Lot's of posts here from ages ago on same topic.

Thanks everyone for the info! Have also found out that in some places the first service of the day at daft-o-clock was the local shunter with geriatric van and coach to take a workmen-only train at cut price [subsidised by the workplace?]. This would return to the BLT with the day's newspapers.

Any idea where I could find that info? Looking for rough guess of what a 12 mile trip along my branchline would've cost [Single - Dinsdale to Barnstoneworth].

Go on .... someone create a Wiki entry about the famous LNWR Webb 9-wheel shunter...

If I want to know anything about railways I dredge through here first. As for Wrongepedia I once, ok after a bit of a session, looked up the village I came from and added to the "famous residents" bit. So I made myself "a successful Formula 3 driver who never quite made it to F1" while several of my then friends became triallist for Liverpool/respected brain surgeon/convicted member of IRA. All that crap is still on there. So yes - always recheck anything on Wiki!!

Think rubbish. Behind every shed/outbuilding is an area where the weeds thrive and crap gets slung. And if you're doing 80s then there'll be a shopping trolley somewhere, along with a few drifting carrier bags.

I cheated and created The Great Dales Railway. An independent concern but operated as a joint line with some LMS services. Really a pretext to have different coloured engines/r.stock. GDR are blue, the odd crimson LMS plus lots of weathered black things. Also I can, as the fattish controller, import locos from anywhere on the basis that GDR picked them up 2nd hand from elsewhere. Scenery etc based on DerbyDales (hence my newfound knowledge of cows & sheep from elsewhere here). A BLT at Dinsdale connecting to junction at Barnestoneworth.* So, as many on here have said, if it looks ok to you then it's ok. And if your mates come round with a few cans so they can be a signalman for an hour all the better. As long as you've got the area "feel" right, eeeeeee Bob's yer mum's brother. *and yes B'worth United played in the Yorkshire Combination. I do know.

Wonder who did the necessary shovel work upon departure? Railway or those who'd (presumably) rented cattle dock space.

Great stuff all. Thanks. Like Nearhomer says half the fun of doing any research on here is getting side-tracked. Might get round to building a railway some time...!

Thanks pH, I did try! But I agree with Ray Von (and how long has it taken me to twig that forum name!) but my "white lines" search only gave me some (very good) ideas on road lining, sadly not relevant to my era. Anyway I've got my answer(s), thanks all. And I've had barbed comments throughout my life, some from being "that prat with the train set". But they all wanted to look at it sooner or later!!

Thanks for info all. Spent lockdown wading through the whole forum and STILL missed the other threads on the subject. D'oh!

When did this become standard? I'm doing late '30s LMS-ish. Photos from the time show that some stations didn't, some did. Ditto the white-washing of the bottom half of poles/posts in the yard. I've heard that both became universal in the WW2 blackout. Another theory is that it was just used anywhere that had rubbish lighting. Mind you, if I keep getting the advert below here that Russian ladies are waiting to meet me the painting might be deferred for a bit.

...and on his grave they wrote but one word. PILLOCK.

I've just taken apart a dead old-style telly. A cornucopia of goodies!

Thankyou livestock lovers! Did get a breakthrough on sheep. Seems I need to paint off-white ones, as Roja said, with weird black n white faces. They look like Welsh collies in disguise. Apropos of which I'm on to sheepdogs next then.... So onward with my cattle education. Wonder if you get udder-counters like rivet-counters?

Ashtrays?

Modelling 1930s Derbyshire Dales or thereabouts. Got lots of info online about general look of the area , even a very nice lady from one council whose grandad was LMS. But no-one could say what the sheep and cows looked like back then. So... Has anyone ever found a site that'd tell me what sheep/cattle were about in different parts of UK prewar? I know that I might get everything else fairly right but don't want to hear "Them cows never came to Britain til.."

Speaks a man from Southport. Rest my case. APART from rock stars. Remember Canned Heat? Bob "The Bear" Hite - the fattest singer you ever did see but all smackheads. Waiting for a thread on the Modelling Tips for buying rough sleepers..

OI !!! I'm from Birkenhead and there's no way we're that skinny!!