Siberian Snooper

Have you tried the Templot Club, forum? They tend to be very helpful, there.

Gibson EM wheels are 22.3 over the tyres, so a good half a mil of play each side. Thanks.

Many thanks for that, I will measure the width over the wheels of one of my outside framed locos, to double check, but I think all will be well.

Not all trains stop at Blakedown, if it had been a non stopper, the situation may have been different!!

Do you think that there's enough space between the frames to fit an EM gauge chassis?

The Treasury won't be getting much fuel duty revenue when all vehicles are electric, or are they going to add duty to electricity prices?

Hi All, Do you have any recommendations for a soldering station? Mostly I will be using it for 4mm kits, Brass, Nickel Silver and Whitemetal and occasional use on 7mm kits. Many Thanks.

Perhaps, the Cape, is Horn!

SEF kits that have etched chassis are produced by branchlines. I don't know if the artwork was transferred to Squires along with the cast kits. A phone call to Squires will ascertain whether they can supply an etched chassis. The Branchlines chassis go together well.

I saw the fs at Paignton in steam when it was there for a season in the 70s, the last time I saw it,it was a pile of bits at York. The trouble with all the hype, with fs, is the trespassing and people putting themselves in danger every time it goes out.

Tenders were swapped nearly as often as boilers.

I would go with the 2nd running in board, the 1st strkes me as being post grouping, or post nationalisation, where two or more companies had stations of the same name.

What you call a Charlie was known as a flying dustbin, when I was a kid in Sussex.

I'm with t-b-g, I have times 3 prescription glasses for modelling, I found that using an optivisor for any length of time was uncomfortable. I use it occasionally with my x3 glasses when I'm working with small bits.

Thanks, got it now.

Not being aux fait with Southern NPS, would a stove fitted BY have a chimney on the roof? I can only see the periscopes and vents.

I bought a Silverline 60 watt iron a couple of years ago and a set of bits, not used the other bits yet. My Weller 40 watt temperature controlled iron bit is getting a bit long in the tooth, but as I'm soldering white metal at the moment, it's hanging in there.

Mr Duck, Not only Whiteball, but Somerton, the one between Castle Cary and Frome (I can't remember the name of it) and Savernake.

I would be interested in your approach to regarding. If there is still available when you have found the pitfalls, I will invest in one.

Yes it will undo 188C solder. I don't know how hot a hair dryer gets, as I don't need one.

When I go to visit the girlfriend, who lives just outside Reading, or go to gigs in London, I catch the 09.15, they tend to run to time, until arrival at Exeter. From a usual 2 or 3 minutes late departure, it tends to lose time, between 5 and 10 minutes down by Taunton departure, I now expect to be at least 15 minutes down on arrival at Reading. I usually catch the "14.29" back, I regard anything less than 10 minutes late as an ontime departure, if the 14.37 to Newbury leaves before us, we will lose time until it arrives in there and then continue to lose time all the way to Plymouth. I assume that the late departure from Pad, is that the crew have arrived late and need to have their required break, or the stock arrived late in Pad. The 80*'s don't have the get up and go of the HST's, to recover time and with big brother watching, there's no opportunity for the driver to give it a bit of extra, here and there.

Is it being sent to your address?

Soldered construction can be deconstructed, by using a hot air paint striping gun, or possibly a hair dryer, I don't have enough hair to warrant one, so I can't give a definite answer. The only warning is don't get the brass red hot.

It may be because the original line was single track and it was the best that could be done to get the best alignment in confined space between the cliff and the sea, without a prolonged line closure.

The edit definitely has my support.