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  1. Possibly try Peter Wood in Doncaster? He had a stand at Doncaster Show and can make virtually anything (he reckons!) . www.menp.co.uk I'm considering ordering some industrial name plates at some time soon.
  2. Thanks Dave. I've cycled along the old embankment many times, down onto the towpath and up Balk Lane but not realised that the staithes were opposite. No trace of them now of course - or any photos?
  3. That's all very poetic for the Wakey Express! Where was the Hartley Bank staithe situated?
  4. The one that Chris sells to power the Judith Edge 48DS. I used it to power my Hornby bodied one.
  5. Where are you in the UK? I'm sure someone would be able to point you in the right direction for a local club or dealer. Model railways aren't all that complicated. If they were I wouldn't be involved............................🙄
  6. I've used 'Klear' for ballasting lately and it works fine, dries clear and is easy to apply with an eye-dropper.
  7. I scrapped mine 🙂 But I've still got a Bentley.
  8. I'm surprised that the motor/gearbox unit actually fits! My Hornby one in P4 with a High Level power unit has a haulage capacity far in excess of the prototype!
  9. I feel really hungry now..................................🙂
  10. A long time later I know - but how did this progress?
  11. Got in touch with Chris via a PM here. Hopefully he can help me out!
  12. I sold all my large collection of USA HO stock to Contikits last year. I had no response from several other dealers about the (long) list I e-mailes them. Contikits were the only one who replied with anything like an acceptable price. They came to the house to collect it all and paid in hard cash at the time. No way was I going to go through all the messing about with e-bay with all I had. Doing it this way was quite a relief and a weight off my mind - even if I didn't get as much as I might have done with e-bay.
  13. Really like the L&Y van Sam. I must try and get a 4mm scxale drawing done. Did Chris supply the buffers and plates? I wonder if he could provide 4mm scale ones?
  14. Been trying to contact Chris via website 'contact' but I'm not sure if it has worked. When I hit 'submit' I get a box about number of characters that only opens for a second so unable to read it properly! I tried a few times so if it has worked then Chris has several duplicate e-mails! Anyone else had the same?
  15. KING - no 'S'. A mistake that is regularly made so you are by no means the first. Even seen it spelled wrongly in Exhibition Guides but this weekend's one is correct.
  16. Excellent show. Arrived 9.50 and found a long queue already forming. Got in just after 10.00am and left around 4.00pm so got our money's worth! Met lots of people I'd not seen since before the first lock down etc. and it was good to see how far many of them had come. The place always looked busy to me with a good 'buzz' in the air. Get there if you can tomorrow!
  17. Alan appears to be a Larger drinker😄 Tetleys, Websters, John Smiths, Taylors, Sam Smiths all bitters available in Dave's time frame. A lot of them gone now - in their original form anyway. I was a Wrexham Lager drinker in my youth (mid 60's). In town it was priced the same as bitter, around 1/6 - 2/0 a pint at most. On holiday in Somerset with my mate Ray we went to a pub in Glastonbury and asked for 2 pints of Harp lager. The barman said (in broad Somerset accent) - 'you sure you wants pints?' We responded 'why?'. He replied 'cos its 3'6 a pint'. We had 2 halves😁.
  18. Hmm, could be worth a trip down the A1. I'm not a 'collector' at all but I do like a bit of vintage clockwork!
  19. What a bl**dy stupid attitude. I don't generally 'bite' at things like this but this one takes the proverbial! There's a lot of club members who don't exhibit either so the statement doesn't hold water. I take it the 'someone' is a club member and exhibits a large layout he has built entirely by himself?
  20. My Manor is in the same condition. It's a Black one. Original intention was to build a new P4 chassis for it but (so far!) that hasn't happened. It's in my Round Tuit pile along with a Mogul (which I do have a chassis kit for!). One day perhaps................................
  21. Thank you very much Bruce. For the first 15-20 minutes of the show I was ready to take it outside and set fire to it 🤬 ! However, things gradually improved and by the end it was working a lot more acceptably. I still can't understand why my 2 'primary' locos were stalling (even though wheels were cleaned, pickups tweaked etc.) and the 2 'reserve' locos worked almost faultlessly - even the Ruston 48DS which hardly faltered at all. The layout will be in hibernation for a short while so I can get on with a few unfinished projects that have been bugging me for some time. Currently, the next outing will be Expo Summer/North here in Wakefield in August and then possibly Scaleforum end of September in High Wycombe. BTW, which 'layout viewer' were you? Did we talk?
  22. Looks good to me - but I'm easy to please.......................😇 Seriously though you've done an excellent job. Loving the well used lumps of wood. I'vce got a few of those as well. Come in useful for all sorts of things.
  23. I've rather fancied a fireless loco for a while and would readily grab an Impetus kit if I found one. However, Ruston and I did consider building a pair a year or 2 back (or 3 or 4!) based on the one at Locomotion Shildon and I turned a dome as a master for casting. Some suitable diameter tube for the boiler and we'd have been on our way. I'll have to have a quiet word and see if there's been any progress of late.
  24. Last minute jobs almost finished (mainly a dead track length now sorted and some minor scenic details). Stock has had wheels cleaned and track will get a going over on Friday. Checked that it will fit (minus FY) across the car back seat to give it a cushioned ride to the venue. Still not operated it with a 'purpose' so Saturday will be a (steep?) learning curve for me and my mate. Just hope it doesn't go all pear shaped on me! See you there!
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