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If it was me, I would have used 'L' shaped brass strip to start with. If you are looking to just reinforce the existing, I think (that's just me) I would glue a flat bit of 0.25mm flat strip underneath, probably hard brass or nickel silver. BUT, these are just what I would do, not suggesting they are THE things to do. Be aware I think what your doing is excellent, that's why I'm following this thread 😎

I have to admit I don't understand W3W at all, and how I would go about getting my address stated in W3W, let alone as an earlier post indicated they could distinguish between their front gate and their front door in a W3W text. I've only just started to understand about 10% of what I can do with my iPhoneSE 13.7.

Then again - House name clearly displayed, yellow bucket - I had ordered a Battery for my Austin 7, Guaranteed delivery next day (Saturday) to enable me to participate in a Rally on the Sunday. As I waited / hovered (feet on the ground though) near the gate a white van raced past the gate and on up the road and out of sight, which I later learned was the delivery van I was waiting for. Of course no battery, thus no chance of getting to the Rally and on Monday the Couriers advised me the Driver had been a relief driver and some other clap-trap. The delivery driver on the Monday was the regular one for west Cornwall and said I didn't need to put BIG signs out for him, as he knew where to deliver. Didn't get a refund either for the Guaranteed next day delivery.

I agree. In the finer detail, it would help if properties had clear numbers and or names on them, Some are difficult to locate in the day time, let alone at night when it can be almost impossible. Amongst other guides (names) to our House, we have a yellow bucket by the gate, when advising a delivery, taxi etc., we give them the post code, house name and mention the bucket, most say "Oh yes, know the place"....

Thank you Compound2632 and airnimal, I wonder why my searches didn't pick them up. For the moment, I shall await my order arriving from the USA.

A police car pulled up outside our house one evening about 4 years ago and asked me where a location was as shown on the map in their hands. The location was about 4 miles away, and to have reached our house they would have had to turn off a B class road, and drive down our unclassified road to get to us, and if they had continued, they would have been in the Harbour. They also had some form of SatNav in the car.... I allowed them to turn round in our drive (more complicated than you think in Mousehole) and directed them the best way to reach their destination, basically "Up the hill, take the first road turn left, follow it through (a very winding road, but no chance to get it wrong) to the 'T' junct, turn right and it's about 1/4 mile along - "You can't miss it". I later heard on the Village grape vine, a Police Car had stopped somebody 'near' that route a bit later (after I had spoken to them) for directions.......,

My youngest lad went through the whole cub/scout/venture scout process and I once asked him how he remembered which way to read 'Eastings and Northings' - "They are in alphabetical order". When I was in the cubs in the 1950's. we had a alpha-male cub master, his method of remembering which way was completely different, but has stuck in my brain ever since. Unfortunately there is no way I could repeat it on here, and if the words were taught to young Scouts today, their parents would have a field-day (OK, I see a possible pun there) in taking him to court etc.,[ BUT, I remember what I was told 🤐

Did you source these in the UK? I couldn't find any recently, in spite of various searches, etc., I've had to get mine from over the pond 🏊‍♂️

Step boards - Brass 'L' section, such as 'Eileens Emporium' https://www.eileensemporium.com/materials-for-modellers/product/brass-l-section-3-5mm-x-1-5mm-x-250mm/category_pathway-1082

Yes, that's what they are 😎

Oh that poor horse...... 🥴

The barrels in the foreground look like some of the offerings for 4mm scale casks - heavy bands

John, thanks for the correction,. I was just following the information for the Dia. G2 1st Class Family Saloon. I believe I was aware of it's status for discretely conveying members of royalty etc., in which perhaps they could draw the curtains to contain (draw a veil over) their activities within the coach, as opposed to using the 'Royal Train' and all the palaver that would entail. Did anybody else notice this coach on Pencader at the exhibition?

Although I'm trying to reduce the numbers of wagons/vans I have - currently about 125 over and above what I can get on the layout, but like the recent 3D printed LNWR Fish Vans, I would be interested in a couple of LNWR Beer Vans, should somebody be producing some before I go blind 😎 I have somewhere in all the varied paperwork I've accumulated over the last 50 years, that there was ex. Burton Ale traffic down to Swansea via the LNWR Central Wales Line.

.... and all I asked was "Is that a large barrel..." 🤓

Compound2632, thankyou, the reason I was seeking some knowledge is that I have some 4mm scale casks in a set which has some very big ones too, and I was thinking of ditching them, but perhaps I need a re-think on this. Agreed easy to move (roll) around at 1:1 scale.

We also seem to have lost my question : 'Are they BIG barrels in the wagon on the RH side.....' If full of liquid they would be very heavy.

Amongst that host of paneled coaches, well at the tail end of a passing passenger train, was a GWR 1st Class Family Saloon to Dia., G2, the one that at 1:1 scale is now preserved at Bodmin, though this summer is on loan to the South Devon Railway. I was told that Madam Patti was on a circuitous return route to Penwylt from Aberystwyth via Carmarthen on her tour of West Wales, though with the time frame of the layout set in the 1930's (I believe), it would suggest she may not have been a passenger as she had passed away in 1919. 🤔 For information, the 4mm coach is available as a kit? from Worsley Works - 'Sides with overlay window bolections, ends floor and clerestory roof'.

I thought I could see some discrete AJ's on the stock. Very nice layout

When I was working in China in the mid 1990's, there were almost daily mentions in the national English Language China Daily (I think that was what it was/is called) of workmen falling off scaffolding etc., say 20 storey's high and being killed or seriously injured, invariable it was the workmen's faults as they were not wearing safety helmets, etc., no compensation. Some of the working practices were............

Safer there than on the cassettes with no ends 😳

Well I was only 148 miles away, and still in the west country.... Good journey up, and back (2hrs 10 mins each way), and a very enjoyable 3 hours at SWAB. Even managed to procure some Welsh Cakes to bring back to the Village for some Welsh evacuees stuck down here. And Barbies? There's a few doll's way down west, but barbies (cookers) are banned from our beach(s). Second time since March 2020, I've been further east than Truro. It was good to see some familiar (if looking older) faces again. Next week Bristol............

To fill the empty spots of attendees arising for various reasons, it looks more than likely I will be able to attend, though it's going to cost me a lot of Domestic Brownie points, and a bit of time to get there (and back) from West Cornwall.......

STUBBY - Is Stubby#1 sorted now?

I thought this topic was about pre-grouping goods traffic speeds........