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  1. Hope you cut the coupon for the free rolls out first!
  2. You'll most probably be wanting the platform 'legs' from Dart; https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/dartcastings.php#DETAILINGPARTS(OOGAUGE)
  3. One of my more eccentric habits is to catch up on the day's news from over 100 years ago. Way back in 2014, the Daily Telegraph started sharing their archived edition - Sundays, aside from a few in the very early part of World War One, are missing (they didn't exist), and the actual dedicated website seems to have vanished too, but the files are still active if you search for them on Google - for example February 19, 1914; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02821/Telegraph1914_1902_2821342a.pdf Edit; missed a sentence! This was done to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, and goes up until December 31st 1918. Anyway, today in 1914 there was a fairly interesting piece on Frederick Restall, who was evidently a very popular man. Note the (very) thinly veiled dig at the Great Eastern for appointing the first non-British General Manager towards the end! I'm hoping that as this is now 110 years old it is considered out of copyright, but if it isn't and needs to be removed, apologies!
  4. Have now had a chance to have a proper read - inspiring stuff with some stunning photography as previously mentioned, and as close as I've seen to a 'coffee table' book for model railways. There are some great ideas, but also much to ponder, showing that the whys and the feelings that something invokes are just as, if not more, important than the 'how tos'. You have a lovely style @James Hilton , and with this and the Small Layout Design Handbook on my shelf, I look forward to a third joining them...(?)
  5. My copy was delivered today - some stunning photography and some really interesting ideas. Looking forward to a proper read over the weekend.
  6. Yes, I seem to remember you sharing the pictures of your last visit! Am currently weighing up a midnight trip to Eastbourne.
  7. Heads up for tonight; https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=H09040&d=2024-02-07 Rail Record reports 37057 on 3Q08 Hither Green-Hither Green
  8. Been following on the blog - it really is a lovely layout/diorama. Oozes with atmosphere.
  9. Must say I'm very taken with the LBSC horsebox! Looks like a range of very useful kits!
  10. Late to the party (was expecting to be able to pick up whilst away with work earlier in the month, but didn't manage it), but what an excellent issue. Geoff Kent's new layout looks as if it will be exquisite.
  11. Disarano and Coke. So smooth you could drink it for ages without noticing the alcohol. Happy new year to the ovine collective!
  12. Advanced notice for Friday for those of us in the East Rail Record reports 1Q77 - a rare daylight hours (the Sussex parts anyway!) test train from Tonbridge Yard to Woking CHS; Full gen - https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U27506&d=2023-12-22 Obviously things can change before Friday, so don't bank on it until you see it!
  13. Timings for Wednesday; Out; https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U14383/2023-12-06/detailed EBN-HGS; https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U14385/2023-12-06/detailed Back; https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U14386/2023-12-06/detailed
  14. Does anyone happen to have the basic Minories plan in XtrkCad format? Looking for 00 ideally but can work with anything else. Many thanks
  15. Yes, undoubtedly the wrong way round. Practicality again I'm afraid - If the layout 'runs' the other way, the end curves would have to be across the shed door, which is possible with a lifting section but less than ideal. No goods shed planned, although it was included on early plans it was more of a placeholder to ensure I had left enough space in the yard for goods loading.
  16. So I hear...! Must have been the reason why I'd always imagined it there! Certainly makes sense in that it flows nicely from the preferred of my two Alfriston locations, and also would allow the narrow gauge to follow the bottom of the valley, running, with some inevitable deviation in places, pretty much alongside the river.
  17. Somewhere into the teens now! I've kept the 'goods yard' to a single siding, although the curve into it can be changed to another set of points, giving a second siding that ends by the cattle pens, but I've been down that road before and it quickly begins to look overcrowded. I don't know if the shingle line needs an engine shed, but if it did it would probably make more sense for it to be this end of the line than the other.
  18. @Nearholmer Yep, same kind of thoughts as I had. In real life, the station would be behind the Plough & Harrow, but to add interest and save having to model the backs of buildings and nothing else, liberties have been taken with the road. A quick screen grab; Red circle is where I've always seen the station in my minds eye. Blue is an alternative that , if I pull the station inland a little, would potentially allow the shingle branch to go off the same way the standard gauge comes in, with a sharp curve Yellow is a more inland route that perhaps flows better from the previous station at Alfriston (see below) Another screen grab The three colours are as previously. The two black dots are locations where I'd planned the Alfriston station; The first is just before the present day 'The Willows' car park. It is currently, and probably always has been, low lying fields between North Street and the river. The other is on the other side of the river, more or less opposite the church. The track plan for this would be pure Rice, his plan for 'Clun' from 'Finescale in Small Spaces'. I'd love to build it one day as it offers pretty much everything I'd like from this kind of layout. There is not the space at present to do it justice, however!
  19. Yep, that's the plan! 1931, apparently. Another anomaly I'll have to live with! Yes, fair point.... Yes, this would make more sense. Back to the drawing board. Again, a fair point. It's all a little bit 'planned to fit' at the moment rather than looking natural. I don't think I will need to be able to remove it, at least not at short notice. I wanted a cameo-style box, because that is fairly straightforward to build and apart from the fiddle yard(s?), would be pretty self contained - I am conscious that other things (the mower, paint, gardening tools etc) currently cluttering the utility room will need to be found a space in there too! There won't be space in the house until at least two of the kids have moved out (at least another 8-10 years!), so it's a case of, as is so often the way, compromise or nothing.
  20. There is, of course, another solution... That's Peco 009 track with a 'mainline' point (couldn't get the curve to work neatly with the small radius ones). Very simple, running onto a raised strip/bank (I think the standard gauge siding will need to be lowered due to the position of the river. I've not really got any knowledge of narrow gauge operations, so it is possibly just as unrealistic as the rest of the scheme, but it does add another dimension to it perhaps? The Water Tower shown is dimensioned for the rather attractive new Scalescenes kit. The only other change, apart from a readjustment of the road and river, is that the factory has gone*. I'm sure this will cause great distress to many 😜 Two versions, both use an asymmetric 3-way (because I can't see how else to do it), one at the start of the loop as you enter the station, the other accessed from the platform road. *I'll just have to call the shop 'Kane and Son' instead!
  21. Scenic length is exactly the same as before?
  22. I think mostly is probably fair, but not exclusively! This is a bit of the front and side of a cottage we used to live in. Side wall was very much the 'pebbles in mortar' style, and whilst I can't find any pictures right now, I think at least part of the back was too. Edit; The adjoining cottage (well, it was the landlady's!) goes one better in the 'how many Sussex building cliches' race by also including hanging tiles
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