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Or as my mate says "There's a clown in the wardrobe handing out the clothes" Which one's Jimmy?

And yet in 2008/9* when I completed them, I had 7 people fighting to buy them as they loved the look of them ! They did have a really good floor layout with no wasted space and generous room sizes. The 3rd one is a difficult one, I'm happy with it but did think it might look a bit 'Twee' the internal room layout is excellent though, in fact the family that purchased moved down from a 4 to 3 bed as it was better laid out and more usable than the 4 they were in. * this was when house sales and values fell through the floor with the banking crisis.

Slightly OT but building design is difficult to please the majority. What some people think of as aesthetically pleasing others think bland I've built various styles of houses, and they've generally been Brick and tile or slate. After an initial application all of these below have been designed by the conservation officer who can have very different ideas of what he wants to see as part of the street scene. This was an identical pair of 4 bedroom houses(apologies for the fuzzy pic), they could not have any detail that reflected or copied the 2 houses either side, on the riht was a large 19th Century Farmhouse, and on the left a Grade 2 listed cottage from the late 1600/early 1700's. As they spanned 2 centuries and had a mixture of detailed brickwork, render, timber boarding , slate and peg tiles there isn't a lot left you can build that doesn't show something in either finish or detail. Both houses could not be a mirror image but had to be identical. This was built where an old pig sty had been and so had to reflect the buildings previous agricultural look, hence the black boarding, the brick choice roof etc was all the officers choice. This one was difficult as it is opposite the oldest known building in town, the look is attributed to the conservation officer including the railings which he especially wanted as he said they " Add character to the existing street scene" they brought the total of houses with railings in the street to 2. I probably would have fitted them anyway but it was his insistance on round topped which I fought (and lost) as they had only been used on the church school in town with private houses having something more elaborate, (spikes) And finally there is this one, a shop to house conversion where the shop front has to stay so one wall of the kitchen will be glass ( no issues with overlooking as the internal floor height is some 450mm higher than the pavement). Again designed by the conservation officer after protracted negotiations, it is adjacent to the one above so I did know the application would take as long as it did. These 4 planning consents were in 3 different LPA's over 5 years in 2 different counties. A couple have been described as "a bit plain" but generally they're described in a complimentary way. They've been popular at sale and I could have sold them all several times over so maybe the conservation officer was right.

I used a latex based carpet tile adhesive which is similar to copydex, it is very sticky and has 'grab'.

If the Suffolk Punch, then the power could be equated to lawnmowers.

Are you using the 2 wheel carts ? If you get a RoSCO to build some 4 wheeled ones you can increase the payload.....maybe couple a few together with a few more horsepower upfront.............................just saying......

I'm afraid I now use the 'Family Guy' version for reference.

How far apart are the Poles ?

Depends how they cross reference against Nelsons Column.

It might be, but you're not going to fit a Mk1 and the T3 into the shed. As the railways priority is (and should be) a community railway, keeping the railways stock in good order to do that requires the use of the Goods shed.

Yes....but how many Double Decker buses is that.

I know have an image of you in my head doing the "Shadows dance steps"...................nurse......

So where does the C&W go ? I know you can fit a Mk1 and another vehicle, but not something the length of the T3.

As it's Cambridge, that will all be considered as 'yesterdays technology'

The Oasis would probably have started a fight with it's younger sibling anyway....

Must have built a new shed when I wasn't looking.....

Isn't a Parsec a measurement of distance.............

Probably when Victoria was on the throne.

This is the priority for the Swanage railway. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/123172-start-of-the-swanage-wareham-trial-service-13-june-2017/ As well as covered storage for the existing stock.

Yeh....all that power ....

I reckon you pinched that from my garden.......Might explain why the Moggy was slow getting away.

Just to clarify, although the layout is operated by a group it is the work of one modeller.

Swanage railway is not your normal preserved railway, it runs a very intensive service shifting holiday makers from cheap parking at Norden into Swanage (where there is very little parking) for a day at the seaside. It has no rail connected workshops and its locomotives are (apart from a couple of exceptions) owned and restored by SLL (Southern Locomotives ltd) and leased to the railway. There is a drive at present to re-connect with the main line at Wareham and the current coaching stock already has to be restored off site at workshops such as Ramparts as there is insufficient space and volunteer force. A locomotive like the T3 just doesn't fit with that at present, very nice to see such a locomotive running but it would take too much labour and money from the railway to restore. I would say that as an occasional C&W volunteer on the SR, I have had to go to Corfe a few times to cover graffiti that has been sprayed overnight on stock stored there.

Thanks for the reply Tony, The DCC quip was a bit tongue in cheek but I was refering to the many sections required in DC for shunting. A couple of the problems encountered were down to the rail expanding/boards shrinking and closing up the gaps. I fully agree that no layout should be immune from criticsm, but the mantra that P4 cannot work is tiring. I say this as a committed 4mm modeller in OO.

I liked it, never would have guessed you were a newcomer.