Legend

The wee trip across to Rothsay is nice too . Wemyss Bay is a gorgeous station . You still get that sense of occasion that you are going somewhere when you get off the train and walk down the covered walkway to the boat . Probably best late spring/ summer when they have great flower displays . Hopefully we can get out and about later this year

Wow! These look absolutely superb . Got the TPEs on order .

I’m suppose it all comes down to what we are used to. And you are correct I wouldn’t like a continual engine hum or roar at the bottom of my road . Standards are changing though, and that’s a good thing . Relating this to aircraft noise you can barely hear an A320 as it goes overhead , but back in the 60s you knew when a Trident , 1-11 or Dan Air Comet went over because the window panes shook . But these were different times

And I think it was part of a set released relatively recently

Another aside , Scotrail are putting up cab views of some of their routes on YouTube . Yesterday I did Crianlarich - Oban . Very relaxing . I've done the route several times by car , and a few times by rail , so I was picking out all the familiar places . Only thing is theres no sound , but it was still very good . Well it beats Midwives on Ice or whatever was on last night!

It does look like this is only available from Hornby direct John . Just in case you waste time looking for it at retailers . Yes that is good price .

I think she did replacing 50s with 47/7s on the Salisbury Exeter route , In fact do Kernow not produce a really weathered Scotrail 47/7 with NSE flashes applied?

Was going to say , weren't we in lockdown 1 from 23rd March . And you could see it coming . I was due off on holiday to Vietnam on 11th and only decided not to go day before as things rapidly deteriorating

Scotland . They are called midgies locally

Yeah but people here think 15 degrees is Scorchio

Summer in Scotland can be quite short , it’s usually the third week in June . Wonder if Rails know that ?

Kind of puts things in perspective ,Huw . So sorry for your loss . It is strange that when one parent goes the other quite often follows fairly quickly. . My mother died nearly one year to the day after my father . They’d been married 65 years and suspect that she just gave up the will to live . It’s a horrible time for you, then of course you’ve got all restrictions on top. My trains , escaping to the loft certainly got me through . I remember my first exhibition , Ayr 2016, about a month after my Mums death I just wondered round not really taking it in . Really I was just going

Thanks Keith . I didn’t know that . Looks like Sam was calling out a known fault then . You would wonder given he was reviewing a 2019/ 2020 trainset and that the N has been out for quite some time ,why that hadn’t been corrected . As to running stuff on the carpet we all know that’s a no no. And I really wish he’d put track on a board . That said he does service his locos regularly and doesn’t seem to suffer undue carpet fluff ! The other thing to say is that by definition he is running on less than perfect laid track , so in some ways it’s more typical and useful for me . My layo

Regrettably I only got to go to the shop once. But what an Aladdins cave of model railway stuff . Superb friendly service .

One model that I keep an eye on is the Dukedog or Earl class . Surprisingly this has never been available in GWR for DC users . It’s always DCC or sound fitted . We’ve had black ones but never a GWR green one .