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At least the tunnel remains in good shape, keeps the dream alive.

I replaced the screen in my Traveller with a laminated one over a decade ago. Managed to get it in the rubber myself, so rather surprised that the professionals can't do it.

I'd love to drive north out of the station. Sadly the line is having to work very hard just to survive, not helped by the previous management that was in force for a shortish period of time, but did so much damage to how everyone felt. Therefore and with everything I've outlined I very much doubt it will happen in my lifetime.

Scott the Brake Gear may be fidley but it looks really good. I looked at the Ambis website.....do they do special order for S or is it part of their range?

Actually looks to have been motorised using the Kitmaster power bogie… I should really pick up another K’master power unit, thinking of tossing one into the German 2-6-2 they produced… Speaking of… @33C, does your WD 2-10-0 use the tender from that German loco? Just a hunch after looking back through the thread…

The Barrowmore group have the BR coach diagrams on their website. They aren't the most detailed drawings, but they are dimensioned and you can see stuff like the different window spacings. http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/CS/Book_No_200_EK_web.pdf I guess it was thought worth having the expense of different body shells to get an extra three feet of van space in the later Mk2 BSOs.

Gandalf walks into a shop in Rivendell and asks the assistant "Do I get any money off for having a big stick". Assistant replies, "sorry we don't offer staff discounts, and by the way it's elf service"

That’s a lovely prototype! I look forward to seeing the model too. As you say, there’s not much of the bogies to be seen and the eye will be drawn to the bodyshell.

Different factories ?

Evening All I wonder if anyone here could help me with some information regarding the above locomotives. Alf was one of a pair of Hunslets that found their way to the Talyllyn Railway, and as I understand it, one of the locos was used as a donor to get Alf up and running. Alf is works number 4136 of 1950, which is easy enough to find, but does anyone happen to know the works number and year of the second Hunslet? Cheers :-) Dan

Good evening, everyone. Firstly, thank you, Mick, for that excellent photo’ of Anlaby Road crossing. Also many thanks for the information about the slide show at the Carnegie Centre next Wednesday morning, the 22nd, May. I’ll go to it all being well. Now, this evening we have four photo’s courtesy of Andy Hughes, Ingy The Wingy, David Barnsdale, Syd Young, all on Flickr. The first one shows Ex LMS 8F 2-8-0, 48151, `Gauge O Guild', as it passes Dunswell Road, Cottingham, with train, 1Z24, the 15:23 Scarborough - Skegness, on the 28th September, 2011. The second photo’ is a view of the National Railway Museum’s former Southern Railway Maunsell A 4-6-0 ‘N15’ class locomotive number, 777, Sir Lamiel, as it passes through Gilberdyke railway station on the Down Fast line with a Humberside Locomotive Preservation Group railtour which it worked to Hull where it was replaced by Albert Draper and Sons Limited’s former London Midland and Scottish Railway Stanier 5P5F 4-6-0 ‘Black Five’ class locomotive number 5305, on Wednesday 29th December, 1982. The next photo’ shows a two car class 108, DMU, passing Oxmardyke crossing near Gilberdyke with train, 2C33, the 14.18 Hull to Sheffield service on the 16th September, 1985. Finally, here is a photo’, from a departing DMU to Bridlington, of 55014 The Duke Of Wellington’s Regiment is seen waiting to run back in to Paragon having run round it's train on the 19th May, 1980. The Deltic had arrived with train, 1D02, the 12:05 from King’s Cross and would leave with train, 1A28, the 16:30 Hull - King’s Cross. Best regards, Rob.

So Iwas right not to worry. Excellent. Thank you for the response.

Brighton East (Stand 11) A 4mm scale EM gauge BR Southern region terminus inspired by Kemp Town. Set around 1998 – 2003 where 3rd rail EMUs prevail on Passenger services. DCC operated. Featured in BRM. More here:- https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/16217-brighton-east-em-third-rail/#comment-152666 Roy Photo Andy York/BRM

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic set of photo’s from the Ipswich area, in 1975. J4284, of a Class 31, on a Peterborough to Parkeston Quay service, in May, 1975, is a most atmospheric shot of the train. The photo’s at Kegworth are a superb selection. The last photo’ of a Class 47, on a down ballast train, in August, 1983, is a splendid and well composed shot. It can be seen that the second wagon is empty for some reason. With warmest regards, Rob.

Exactly that. There was a discussion under the 89 thread but essentially partial.ly flagged a number of orders as paid that were not. Where that happened we have closed out the original order and raised a new order for the balance correctly. If anyone has any concerns do please reach out to support

My late friend Ray Ellis collated information about rolling stock purchased by the WD in WW1 from the C.E.R. Sherrington article in The Railway Magazine as well as other records and drawings, and below is the list of 12t open wagon noted: However, note that this list is not complete, as Ray's sources did not include any of the rolling stock supplied directly to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. This stock (mostly later passing to the Palestine Railways) also included c. 1000 WD 12t opens, from most of the same wagon works mentioned above with the WD prefix. Edit: somehow the line relating to Accurascale's choice got left out:

fortunately for me, the class 50 is the only thing i have left to pay for. I think Accurascale have mentioned there was a problem with partially. No doubt they are aware of the situation, and, are working to resolve it. As I have previously said, I am not going to worry about it. I will pay when I need to.

I keep coming back to this thread as I am captivated by the model. the audacious choice of prototype and its execution. Sadly world events have added an extra angle to the damaged buildings; those of us old enough to remember when "Beirut" meant what "Gaza" soes now. The point of my comment relates more to your Cuban layouts. When I worked in Grand Cayman a couple of years back, a few of my team were Cubans, mostly boat refugees. One of the team had never really had any contact with railway modelling, but she was fascinated by your layout, and came back to me to ask for the URL for the thread on RMWeb. I believe she screenshotted some of the photos and emailed them home to her family in Havana.

I cant understand why the Main lighting functions Like the main Head Lights (Day and Marker) and tail lights are not put on lower out put numbers as everyone will be using them. Compared to other features and then the build the numbers up with the function output which will be more popular. Or those that you will hardly be able to see from a viewing distance e.g desk lights on the higher functions. Instead of them all being mixed bags and the main ones cant be used. Espically as the originally Hattons 66 head lights worked with the markers apart from the error with the bug eye lights. Hopefully Accurascale will work with ESU to resolve this issue and put the Main lights on the lower out put numbers for the next batch of 66's. Chris

Ho, yuss! But being somewhat more petite their consumption is modest by comparison to … certain other of God’s Creatures.

Dreaming for me is triggered by Ibuprofen - it's not known for it, but it sends my dream-ometer loopy, with often wild and sometimes quite disturbing and dark dreams. I only take it when I really really need it. IOmoreimportantN, a big plus today from our visit to the vet, Mrs NHN given the all-clear for bowel cancer, quite why the hospital gastro-enterology department doing all the tests couldn't communicate this is an unknown, but our GP was finally able to unearth the information with a bit of computer hackery. It would appear she has some kind of pancreatic deficiency which is easily dealt with, and the sky-high (4x danger level) test marker for nasty illness has......become totally normal. They cannot explain why. Having done all the other things they could think of, they are now happy to say she's OK. Relief does not cover it. Fish and (a small portion) of chips each for dinner to celebrate!

Thanks all, appreciate the input. I’m away with work now until Friday - at the weekend more dismantling will commence!

From my limited experience, card fees for international transactions are less than transaction fees for getting cash and quite a bit less than extracting cash from a hole in the wall using your card.

The new backscene certainly makes a considerable difference. With the backscene the layout looks larger and seems to take up more space.

OK, I think I have my answer. The Dapol signal manual that said to use 15VAC was found on line and could be obsolete. Here is something from Dapol: https://www.Dapol.co.uk/products/7l-001-001-o-gauge-semaphore-signal-gwr-home-square-post This definitely says to use 12VDC for both the servo and lights. Although, confusingly, 14VAC is still mentioned. Gaugemaster article: https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/rightlines-article/Dapol-semaphore-signals.html So, the power management board: https://tinyurl.com/yc36nky8 Will output 12VDC, so, it seems to me that I put the lever momentary switch in the circuit and it should work. The lights can be connected to the constant 12VDC output from the board. Am I missing something? John