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Brian Harrap last won the day on May 5 2012

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  1. Such a delight to operate Ramchester, everything runs so smoothly and the vast expanse of the station area makes it feel like you are at a real place - quite a walk up and down to see to the uncoupling etc when shunting, I'll take my bike another time. Baron
  2. Sad news indeed, Ian was such fun and always had a friendly word.
  3. Easy frogs now and again crop up in conversations at shows and things and the other day a member of this parish drew my attention to the fact that the original illustrations i had put up here had been zapped in the great picture loss back along. So I thought I'd give them another airing here.
  4. Hello Geraint, Seems you had a fun time in Holland with Gerco. I hope you didn't have too much trouble with getting Ians' railway stuff passed the border police, how things have changed now - no more easily trundling across with a layout to a European show. I did enjoy the visits I was able to do, such fun. It would have been a very early version of QUAI:87 you would have been looking at, before the wagon hoist and the higher level was added and a lot more buildings too of course. As for the brainstorm of trackwork you sent, no thanks if you don't mind, the old eyes and fingers aren't what they were. all the best and thanks for the update, happy modeling, Brian
  5. New hearing aids - none of my stuff runs as quietly as it used to. Bah
  6. Great day out at Thornbury with Rod and Howard, thank you both. Thought you might like to see the 3way crossing nose I was on about for the new tramway layout, but don't hold your breath. Baron
  7. Hello Geraint, The stop sign. I came across this contraption whilst ferreting around a cement works at Lixhe in Belgium (I had thought such smashboard signals were confined to the wild west) but here it was clearly allowing access to only one siding at a time although quite why I was not able to find out. I had to have one on QUAI:87 of course and I rather cheated a bit by installing it at the confluence of several diamonds that needed a polarity change switch so thats what rotating the stop board on the layout does. Driving you loco onto a wrongly set diamond is thus averted. Of now to check out oebeek........Obeka......... you know the one Best, Brian
  8. It was while John Farmer and I were fiddling about photographing his ES1 which he had kindly brought over to QUAI:87 for a play that I noticed that the kilometer marker on the quayside was gently reminding us that for all its attractiveness, it is the wrong scale.
  9. Whileing away a lazy afternoon on QUAI:87 recently, this came along. You never quite know what odd barge loads will pass by on the canal
  10. Twas Iain who, many moons ago, approached me in the cake shop in Chagford ( I don't know how he knew which cake shop I frequented) and suggested we (he and I) take ourselves and my first P87 layout on a jolly to an exhibition somewhere in Holland. That turned out to be the precursor to many such trips with various layouts and friends to exhibitions all over Europe. Thank you Iain. Brian
  11. By the way, in passing, did you know that the track and stock on this layout is all to Proto Z standards. The equivalent of P4 and the like. 0.2mm flangeways - even a bit of narrow gauge. Thanks for posting Ian. Brian
  12. Thanks Neil, thats fascinating, still can't get my head around how you would actually use it. Brian
  13. Does anyone know what this is? Ok its a crane. But with two jibs mechanically linked together, neither having slewing capacity. How on earth would you use such a thing? Brian
  14. On a modellers licence of course B
  15. Here's something you don't see very often
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