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Photo of part of Sunday's achievement. Let me just say that it was incredibly boring assembling these darn things! Next I will finalise how to install them above the station.

I now have 16 Peco platform canopies to build a roof for Glasgow George Square!

Hi Peter - that's a Wednesday right? What time? It would be great to catch up again. Doug.

Yes Peter, wonderfully mundane. I have been collecting DMUs and have about 5 now of various types and liveries, so my terminus can be DMU only from time to time :-) Great to see your layout again. The attention to detail makes it one of the best ... Where else can you see a carefully placed brick lying on the ground in OO scale!

Thank you for your kind comments. A beautiful day here in sunny Melbourne. Once my son is off to bed for his afternoon snooze, I will aim at getting all these station canopies finished for a photo. Son and I spent this morning zipping around on the Metro trains.. Jolimont to Flinders St, then Flinders St to Southern Cross, then Southern Cross to Caulfield, then Caulfield to Parliament, finally Parliament back to Jolimont. 5 trains in about 90 minutes. Not bad for a Sunday eh?

Oops! I meant REcommissioned!

I also painted the kitchen this Christmas!

It's been a while, but I have now got my layout up and running with DCC, and I am making very good progress this Christmas on the remaining Peco station roof kits. My son is approaching 3 now, and is wanting to "go up to the loft to see trains" :-) so it's all systems go to get the railway decommissioned :-)

The major components for the Glasgow George Square Station bus interchange (on my kitchen bench)

I missed these before, thought they were only N and I didn't realise they were lit.. What a FANTASTIC development and at a good price too. Dave - Dapol deserves huge congratulations for this, and I hope these products continue to sell well with an ever increasing product range. Very well done..

I must admit the Lodekkas look absolutely fantastic. I lived in Dundee when young, and recall the introduction of Routemasters on the Carnoustie/Monifieth-Dundee routes. They were much older than the buses they replaced, but the service was far better.. a much faster service. No less reliable either. It's a shame that the new "Routemasters" to be introduced to London are frankly nothing like the originals. A wasted opportunity.

Heh heh.... my railway generally is viewed through my rose tinted spectacles as well as being upside down. Something to do with photos taken by iphone. They seemed to be the right way up when I loaded them. All my other photos are usually taken with a Nikon that knows which way is up

The "authorities" have ordered some new buses to go alongside the Central Loddekas and Glasgow Corpy buses already in the stable: http://www.ehattons.com/42674/EFE_Diecast_Buses_Vehicles_25811EFE_Daimler_DMS_bus_Western_Scottish_/StockDetail.aspx http://www.ehattons.com/52175/EFE_Diecast_Buses_Vehicles_38301_Alexander_Y_Type_Bus_Western_SMT/StockDetail.aspx Plus a fictional Glasgow George Square station - Glasgow Airport bus: http://www.ehattons.com/51072/EFE_Diecast_Buses_Vehicles_36203_RMA_Routemaster_double_decker_bus_trailer_British_Airways_/StockDetail.aspx and a few black cabs for a cab rank too.

Looks great Peter. Don't know about Wales, but in Scottieland early 80's there was some uniformity. e.g. this block of houses had been upgraded while this block hadn't. Only once Thatcher's revolution of council home buying had taken effect did the uniqueness of each house start to take effect (with horrifying effects like "my window panes should be Elizabethan"). Of course I have no idea if your back scene is privately owned or a council developed area... but looks good to me! Hope you are all well and not getting too cold in your garage!

Heh heh yes I am using modeller's licence. But I did check prior to purchase and Lodekka's were still going in 1980, eg: http://www.centralsmt.co.uk/features/Memories_02.html You are right about the logo though, but logos are easy to change. So I feel very comfortable with having some of them on the layout. Cheers Doug.