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  1. The article gives no mention of him other than he modelled LMS and Midland which made me presume the link with Nottingham.
  2. Hello Jim, Was this Peter Dobson? I was looking at his locos from card in March 2005 RM recently if so. Very impressive.
  3. Yes the grab rails and the wipers are too thick. I really wanted a 50 but the pictures have put me off. Weathered up and in the flesh it may look the part so I'll wait and see.
  4. I've had the same problem with my MN and also Castle, whereas my Jinty can pull almost anything. Does anybody know of a way around this? I was hoping my MN would pull a decent rake. One of the reasons I wanted a smaller scale.
  5. When did large Model Railway Exhibitions start? I presume they were started by MRC's and grew from there but were there many pre-war?
  6. Great work as usual. Are the ends of the tank from the pipe or styrene?
  7. I've always thought it was a shame there is no national archive for images of landscape and architecture. All depends on how good the local archive is. As you said Newton Abbot has a good library collection. I think it would be good for a national diary archive like Italy has. - http://archiviodiari.org/
  8. Not in my local charity shops or boot sales 😒
  9. Agreed. I have no local model shops or model railway club as a grapevine. I do belong to a national society and so the only way to ask a question is online! My Dad however still prefers to speak to people via a phone even if he can use a computer. On the other side I miss the presence of shops/businesses for a bargain. I do shop online for groceries but I still go to supermarkets for the discounted items at the end of day/week. I remember when small businesses or shops, on occasion, would chuck in something extra for free.
  10. I presume as it has been taken up so readily by current modellers that their costs are being covered and they will advertise in the lead up to Christmas as planned last year. Newspaper advertising does seem a little strange though if trying to attract a younger market.
  11. But if you are buying secondhand that can get you a lot of locos and rolling stock for a year.
  12. I've just heard. Good luck in his retirement and yet again my prevarication has left me empty handed. 😫 I presume 2nd hand prices will increase too although I'm told they last forever
  13. I don't think I've ever found a bargain on Ebay. I've seen a couple of items that i'm gutted missed but everything else still seems to go for silly money.
  14. There is definitely less variety but I would say the same if I went on a car journey now. I have a colleague at work who goes trainspotting and I don't see the attraction compared to when I was his age over 30 years ago although I can see why people who saw steam think lesser of the time I spotted. (I still find it strange I was born eight years after steam and 4 years before the Class 43). Last year I went up to York by train and saw how different things were from 20 years ago when I probably last travelled regularly by rail but there were still things to see. On one side it may be duller but it is far safer and more comfortable, if the train isn't overcrowded. I enjoy train travel in Italy because they still have locomotives and large goods yards but less comfortable.
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