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  1. That is fantastic. Thanks very much to both of you. This kind of helpful information makes RMweb worthwhile. I can plan ahead in the knowledge I am not throwing good money at something that will not do. I am pleased to see the amount of detailing underneath seeing as it will show from above through the glazing. I want to create a light & airy platform and will be using my own glazing material.
  2. Dapol C010 platform canopy it. Does anyone know its width and can show what it looks like underneath please?
  3. "Just got mine"....."My cards been debited"..... "Where's my box?" ..... "Mines been dispatched"..... "Mine has arrived" ...... Is RMweb affiliated to the Guild of Master Box Openers (GOMBO's) ?
  4. The rate of change in 1958 to 1966 was phenomenal. With no future for single wagon load freight, which had been the bread and butter of marshalling yards, places like Gowhole were transformed into empty weed strewn wildernesses. The wayside goods yard, a feature of the railway scene from the very early years, began to ebb away too. Fields of ash appeared where motive power depots once stood and potholed ballast where once lay double track or quadruple track or even whole branch lines. Closed intermediate stations also became more apparent as the 1960's wore on. Steam traction was merely a part of the whole and I seriously doubt the travelling public gave a damn what motive power was on the front so long as it got them to work on time.
  5. "The railway stayed the same" is one of the more bizarre comments emanating from this forum. It was the changes that hit the railway employee, the travelling public and the enthusiast. The railway landscape of 1958 and of 1966 couldn't have been more different.
  6. They all look alike to me so I can only see that as amazing for a two year old. I wonder if he will remember the occasion in later years. I could tell an SHMD Thorneycroft bus when I was three before war ended because I drew the missing bar down the middle (dad thought it was an AEC.........dork!)
  7. Gemma brought my great grandson over today; a sturdy little Manc. A 47XX was running round, so up went his arms, which roughly translated meant hold me up so I can see the thing. He noticed I pressed a button on the handset so a tiny finger pressed one too. The train stopped and he spotted this straight away, so he pressed the same button again and the loco set off again. 18 months old and he chose the same button! Having mastered DCC, he went on to set my chuff and acceleration rate rate as I carried him up and down the garden chasing the train....
  8. Thanks for posting. I aim to keep to two through tracks and so, except for the two through lines, the track layout is similar to that which I had in mind, Coincidence.
  9. From what I read Paul, you had a very good time of it and it makes me wish I had spent more of my runabout ticket days on Chester-Shrewsbury trains than on the rather quiet Cambrian Coast. It might seem extraordinary that I was born on the LNER, but that I never model it. When I did build for myself, it was always LMS. But just as I chose to live in Wales rather than England, I chose the GWR over the railway companies of my youth. Layout-wise, things are pretty well settled now on the GWR mainline from Chester, on which I can also run some LMS locos using Rule 1. I am aware the LM Region took the line over in early 1963, but I have no interest in modelling the 1960's. It'll be a kind of Wrexham/Ruabon or Wruabon(!), but using the well-trodden S&C track layout based on Lazonby. I have followed an evolutionary path and now feel ready for a mainline with hell-for-leather running in addition to operational shunting. Research shows I will be able to use existing station buildings, albeit attached to GWR canopies. I did everything I could to Carrog short of laying double track, but Barmouth Bridge at the other end of the route was always the stumbling block to expansion due to weight restriction. The arrival of Heljans 47XX's precipitated the mind-swing to a heavier route, which in turn opens the door to 'Castles' and 'Halls'. Modelling is modelling, but it ain't nuttin' without 'fun'.
  10. We had company today and did a lot of chatting & listening, as you do, but afterwards I sat myself comfortably in the quiet of the shed and just let a train chuff round and all was well with the world.
  11. That's a fool way of looking at what I posted. I was addressing the matter as a commuter during the era and it was not an argument.
  12. 'Modernization' is a funny word. Are we any happier with our railways today? When steam worked the Oldham Loop, trains took 30 minutes into Manchester and 35 minutes back up to Oldham. In late 1958, DMU's brought in a journey time of 20 minutes, so there was a big improvement. When steam finished on the North Wales line, diesels did not and still have not improved journey times into Manchester. In fact, DMU's surplus from closed branchlines took over from steam and many of us promptly bought cars in 1966 as preferable to a lousy decidedly uncomfortable 2 hours ride in DMU's. Once you force folk to look elsewhere, they never return. In other words, many of us were satisfied with our steam trains for longer distances because they hauled comfortable carriages.
  13. Ugh? Dus that mean they were Saturated until 1945? Or dus tha mean the superheating was improved? Tell yer wot, I luv this forum....It is soooo hilarious.
  14. I wouldn't be surprised if someone decides it cannot be arsed with the toy train market after all this drama.
  15. I'm still planning and plotting and nothing will be removed until I am really sure of my ground. Several things in mind are a double track mainline. New baseboards constructed with a steep climb up to the station. No points on cambered curves. The station to be on a curve at the shed door end with a mainline appearance. Location likely to be the Chester-Shrewsbury line. I have to choose location to determines the scenery. Fiction enters the door because it will be GWR & LMS Joint with the GWR responsible for the infrastructure. Obviously, the pre-grouping company would be the LNWR. I would have to think hard if it is to be the Midland!
  16. Untidy workbenches, in fact anything untidy does my head in. My missus, on the other hand, can't stand tidy with a vengeance! When I rearranged the cutlery drawer recently, she just wanted to mess it all up again. Go figure!
  17. Don't take film literally, just see it is giving an indication of what a colour looked like.
  18. Atmospheric on a fine summer Saturday yeh, but it was steam that made it really. A Fowler 0-8-0 blasting upgrade was something to see! I didn't look at it twice in the 1960's while working on the express buses, but Greenfeld station itself was a pleasanter place in the 1970's when the canopies had gone. I actually holidayed with family so i could revisit many of my old haunts armed with a decent camera.
  19. 'Hornby's Best Ever Models'? Throwing Airfix aircraft into the pot because Hornby is the parent company is a bit slim. What next? Hornby's Seven inch Flower Fairies with little petal outfits and wings.
  20. Bakewells last years wasn't on my mind when I said I may not bother with the other platform canopy. I know well the environment in my shed and a dark brooding station hid by canopies does not work. I saw this first hand with my model of Greenfield. The model was more depressing than the real thing on a wet day! Chatting on line has helped me decide not to model Bakewell. A work of fiction seems the best course.
  21. Not on your leef, as Eamon Andrews would say. I'm just reading at the moment and kicking ideas aside when they look too depressing.
  22. A bit of fun from 1957 that might be enlightening to those who think loco green is pale and 1949-56 carmine red resembles maroon....
  23. Thanks very much for the link to this thread. Very interesting and it gives me something to read.
  24. T'was a big 'un.... Telephoto pulls Trawsfynedd Power Station into the background.
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