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Station cat at the Eizan funicular, near Kyoto. After observing for a while and taking the photo I chanced the briefest of strokes - to be met with not even half a raised eyelid and complete indifference. Seen it all before!

How about something like the original Brill coach? Would go nicely with your tramcars:

Could I ask which issues of The Engineer these drawings are from please? Are they the same as the Locomotive Magazine ones or different? Thanks

Is it me, or do the train describers around Bristol now bear little resemblance to reality since the Easter resignalling...?

Thanks!

Is anyone able to confirm what the wheelbase of the Smokey Joe chassis is please? Thanks

Thanks very much for the interest guys. The project isn't dead, but there hasn't been any further progress unfortunately. I ended up moving back to the UK last year and although I brought it with me (all the parts and materials conveniently pack inside the APA Box!) I don't have my own place yet so it's sat in a storage unit with all my other stuff. My modelling interests have moved onto 16mm scale (as happened the first time around) which is equally frustrated due to lack of a garden, but I would like to finish Riverside when I get the opportunity. Watch this space......

Miner and Smelter both started out as 'standard' 0-4-0 box tanks, but were quickly turned into 0-4-2s for stability. When the railway needed something more powerful, Neilson produced the 0-6-0 version Spitfire, and Miner was later rebuilt to match (with the addition of the distinctive haystack firebox). Smelter remained largely original to the end, and was relegated to spare and little used.

I have been toying with the idea of 3ft/1000mm gauge on 32mm track as a way to: model some of the wonderful metre gauge electric lines in Spain and France make something out of the 1:32/1:35 Timpo coaches that I have picked up here and there be able to run said models on the same track as my SM32/16mm models (but not at the same time!) The passenger section of the Timpo coaches would actually pass OK for the FC de Soller coaches with a new roof:- http://www.figurenschnapp.de/Timpo-Toys-Rare-Mississippi-Santa-Fe-passenger-carriage-incl-Dr-Tripp Although they are perhaps closer to the Sociedad Explotadora de Ferrocarriles y Tranvías stock from the San-Sebastian-Hendaye line (El Topo):- http://www.spanishrailway.com/2012/05/07/ferrocarril-electrico-de-san-sebastian-a-la-frontera-ferrocarril-de-san-sebastian-a-hendaya-el-topo/

Coming through the ticket barriers at Bristol Temple Meads this evening, I overheard part of a conversation between the staff and very well spoken lady of a certain age, who was dismayed to learn that there were no Porters to carry her rather large suitcase.... So when did Porters disappear from BR (or was it British Railways)?

This popped up on Flickr recently: 2-2-2 steam locomotive (Lilleshall Locomotive Company, Shropshire 1862) by Historical Railway Images, on Flickr Edited to embed photo

It's just copy and pasted from the magazine - quite often you can do thus in a pdf with a right click on the photo. And, if it's been cropped in the dtp software after insertion, you get the whole thing!

Yet more Bristol Temple Meads - although from a very different period this time

Have you seen this picture from SCC Weigh House No.51? http://www.coalcanal.org/wh/backissues/51imposed.pdf Possibly a later coal dram with flanged wheels but definitely local! Edit: Although comparing the two pictures, they may actually be a matching pair....

Brighton Beach and Flinders St stations from above. Melbourne, March 2013 Brighton Beach by Stuart, on Flickr Flinders Street Station by Stuart, on Flickr