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6’ long by 15” wide.

This “better 2021” you are looking forward to, is someone bringing one out to match the Lee Marsh/Masterpiece 850?

Yep thats the size. In practice Pacific that equates to a loco, 20 wagons and a brake. I run 4 bogie and 2 npc passenger trains comfortably. I could probably work with 6 bogie coaches when I get round to making them.......

I’ve been saving it up all year!

Just one picture, but it shows rather nicely what we have in store. Can't wait!

That's a nice tip with the choc-lock connectors, thanks for that!

Actually, your building looks really good, and has been done really well. The building in your picture is more like the condition I saw buildings in, but that was 100 years later. Are they wearing the mid Victorian equivalent of a hard hat? You have to watch these computers. They always give me trouble when I show them I am in control.

Thanks Chris. I don’t know how old the building is but by the time this picture was taken c.1865 it looked pretty knackered! I haven’t copied it exactly but used it for inspiration. My version is a bit cleaner being 20 years younger. I’m also slightly spooked. The second image is of people working in a Tannery, only I didn’t upload it. It uploaded itself....!

Chris, Does look brilliant. Especially like the door and the man, and the barrels look just the right amount of dirty. I will need to check to see how long and how widespread the white lids were. How old is the building? I know Bermondsey, was quite new in the 1850s, relatively but my recollection of London, pre clean air act was that it was filthy. The tunnels into Liverpool Street are about the only places that I have seen recently that have to same level of grey/black that I remember. The rain has washed the dirt off would you believe. Never went sarf of the River mind. Norf Lundon boy, funny people other side of the River.

Many thanks for the kind comments. i haven't done any new modelling for a while but I happened to have assembled some of my stock on top of the box that houses my layout so, with a little help from Photoshop, I turned it into a shed scene! It was all a bit of armchair fun while sitting wondering what to try next