Enterprisingwestern

S'funny, it was your good lady and self I had in mind when writing that comment! Mike. Fellow member of the sausage finger club.

"Only used to test. Very nice unit when in a mint un used condition." Which this one obviously isn't, so therefore it's not a very nice unit? Mike.

What's the plan for the transfers ? Mike.

Lets go back to the days of tactile on/off pushbuttons and sliding lever heater controls and suchlike, it's only a bloody car, it doesn't need to be dripping in excessive electronic wizardry installed by manufacturers purely so they can willy wave. Mike.

https://www.dccsupplies.com/shop/class-52-oo-lifting-eye-fret/ Mike.

Marginally! Mike.

A Statler and Waldorf moment! Mike.

Apologies, I blame that Wright bloke!! Mike.

Poor business model IMHO, spares are factored in at the beginning of the run, Ford don't not make spares in case the car doesn't sell. Mike.

Sitting!! Mike.

It's a lot to pay for spares though!, which have been unobtainable since day 1. Mike.

I think you've missed a trick, Facwr would be a more interesting derivation! Mike.

Quelle Surprise! Mike.

As someone without an artistic bone in his body, this is weathering of the highest echelon, I couldn't even aspire to it! Mike.

They will be! Mike.

I'm going to fit a recording of Sean Dyche gargling, not be far off I'll wager! Mike.

Gulp! Mike.

Mike.

Not all shunting is bucolic! You've obviously never observed shunting at a one engine in steam/one loco in diesel branch terminus and having to do the entire shunt in the short time allocated to it between passenger trains, I had plans of a leisurely set of photographs of the Pembroke Dock coal shunt, from when the driver collected the token at Tenby I was having to really get my foot down to attempt to get there first, for those who know the roads in the area it was 'interesting' to say the least, and I still came a poor second. My plans for a carefully staged set of shots became a panic stricken abandonment of the car, running up and down the yard like a headless chicken trying to keep up with the shunter, and forgetting any thoughts of getting some shots of the return empties and the token exchange back at Tenby. Mike.

Apologies, but I can't get this image out of my head! Mike.

Mike.

I believe there is an ointment for it nowadays. Mike.

It would be quicker to list the Dapol wagons of that era which are correct. Mike.

She had a cracking pair of pins did good old Rhondda, earned good money around the docks in Cardiff allegedly. Mike.

It's probably in Heljan's to do pile! Mike.