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In the early 90s I sometime went to and from Europe from North Shields on a DFDS ferry to Esbjerg in Denmark. Sometimes I stayed a night there and always made sure I photographed a few Danish trains. Sometimes ex UK coaches appeared. These photos date from 1992 and 1993. Esbjerg Class MY 1132 25th July 92 C17021 Taken at the loco depot. Esbjerg DSB dmus on right 4044 Frederica to Esbjerg 4282 on left 25th July 92 C17028 Esbjerg DSB sleeping cars 25th July 92 C17005 Esbjerg DSB IC3dmu 5207 and 5251 25th July 92 C17013 Esbjerg DSB dmu 4007 17th Aug 93 C19062 David

A cart, a roller and part of a farmyard. Nothing much happening here.....

Firstly, Rafferty. Sorely missed but we remember the good times. He never actually ever tried to leave the back garden, so we always knew he was safe. Absolute trust both ways, we could do anything with him, a true friend indeed. Rusty is the newbie. Found in the grounds of the local school, taken to the vet where a friend of my daughter worked. She called us and said do you want him (we weren't looking), Within a couple of hours he was 'home'. He was immediately attracted to us when we met, we couldn't say no. Apparently a couple has taken him but took him back to the vet because he wouldn't cuddle. Now he never leaves my side, yes he now trusts me, but I've never known a cat that continually plays like he does. We called him Rusty because his voice is like a rusty gate hinge! He has grown fast but is still a kitten though.

I took a few more pictures of Ian Wilson's HO layout yesterday............ It's really rather good.

Good morning all, Grey start to the day here with some heavy showers, possibly thundery, forecast. It should clear this afternoon with the chance of some late sunshine. 9°C rising to a maximum of 17°C. Nothing much to report.* My iced bun got eaten with no ill effects. However I did have a minor mishap as when I went to answer the front door (mate Tim from over the road visiting for a natter) I caught my arm on the latch of the lounge door and ripped some skin off and drew blood. Bobby has done a GDB for the first time in ages! My mate next door Russ is somewhat hacked off. A couple of weeks ago he got a large chip in the windscreen of his Kuga which was too big to be repaired so new screen required. Fitter no 1 turned up last Friday, got set up to do the job and got screen out of van but had the wrong one so away he went. On Tuesday fitters 2 & 3 turned up in 2 vans but it then transpired that neither of them had the screen on board! Yesterday 2 fitters turned up in 1 van and fitted the screen. However they also managed to scratch the paintwork on both sides of the top edge of the bonnet. Russ is not happy and I believe multiple Snottocalls made and Snottograms are being sent. I too am not happy, new Sim card still not arrived although the first direct debit has now been taken (for too bloody match). A(nother) lengthy phone call has been made and BT/EE are again aware that they have a very unhappy customer. Apologies have been given and I've been assured that a credit has already been raised after my last phone call but I just want the issue sorted. Is that too much to ask? * Hmm, a bit more to report than I thought, how good is that, nothing beats a bit of a rant. Timetogettamoveon, (The Boss is calling me) Have a good one, Bob.

Another black and white from one of Dad's whole 8"x6" prints of an A1 on the down Flying Scotsman at Garntham North in May 1950. David

A bit late, but better than never. Here's my video from the weekends event. Cracking show as ever, welldone to all involved. 28th April 2024 saw the RMweb South West Area Group (SWAG) host their annual members day held at Staplegrove Village Hall, Taunton, Somerset. The show featured no less than 10 visiting layouts and dioramas in a variety of gauges and scales, as well as the famous 'bring & buy' stand, plus a good selection of other traders and demonstration stands . Layouts as featured; OLD PARROCK - 4mm CROPPER STREET SIDINGS - OO PAYNESTOWN - N ST.OSWALDS - 0-16.5 KYLE OF LOCHALSH - 2mm Finescale RUYTON ROAD - P4 MIDDLETON TOP - 4mm OSNEY TOWN - 7mm UPBECH ST. MARY - 4mm LYDBROOK DEAN - 4mm Hope you enjoy!

The next batch of photos are of trains on the Blyth and Tyne. Marchey's House is the junction where the line splits to Bedlington or Winning heading south from Ashington. West Sleekburn Junction is where the line splits for Ashington and Winning when heading north from Bedlington. North Blyth is on the north side of the River Blyth. Marcheys House 37132 North Blyth to Alcan Lynemouth 10th April 85 C6791 Marcheys House 37132 l e and brake Lynemouth to Cambois 10th April 85 C6796 North Blyth Alcan 37048 l e Dec 80 C5252 North Blyth Class 37 shunting Alcan wagons and MV Donnington 25th July 85 C7089 Taken from Blyth Quayside near West Sleekburn junction Class 37 to Alcan April 83 C6006 David

My employer is dropping subtle hints that I should retire.

Good morning John, My 'generalisation' about a kit-built loco being able to pull more than an RTR equivalent was with reference to steam-outline. You mentioned the Accurascale Deltic. Not only is that far superior in appearance to any kit- or scratch-built equivalent I've ever seen, when I tried to count how many carriages it could pull on Little Bytham, I couldn't - loaded into the mid-30s, the front of the rake collapsed on the end curves due to the train's weight, though the Deltic was still pulling it with ease prior to that! Is there a 4mm kit which could equal this, no matter who built it? And, after expert weathering by Geoff Haynes.................. Has anyone seen a more-realistic kit- or scratch-built equivalent Deltic? I never have. It's not the Accurascale Deltic, either........... This is the Bachmann/NRM prototype Deltic (weathered by Geoff Haynes). Though I made a model of this decades ago (Kitmaster/modified Lima), it was rubbish in comparison. OO RTR diesel-/electric-outline has no equal in my experience. Regards, Tony.

Shortly, Jill is off to hell a garden centre with a pal. I’m excused because my “poor old back” can’t take the slow strolling around and standing for hours on end so after my daily walk I’ll be heading for the shed. What a shame! Dave PS - it’s just been announced that we are then going to have a chippy tea. Oh, frabjous day!

Ey up! Long day yesterday not helped by the M1 and M5 with its new speed limit..50mph.. and NO WORK BEING DONE...Time for liquidated damages to be screwed into contracts for the repai companies. PAH! Got to the Hall ok. Unloaded vsn set up layoutsnd fettled a couple of things which had decided not to work properly. Back to Hotel, couple of beers and a strange schnitzel.. shaped like a Kiev so not flat..but nice. Show opens at 12:30 so.. time to go... @polybear her indoors sorted, priced and placed 396 items of clothing yesterday at her volunteering emporium (Sue Rider). She also filled two large bins of clothes for sale to a local material recycling company.. baz

Bear here…… A brief mission accomplished earlier, followed by cr@p paperwork then bvggerin’ about with a new printer cartridge that refuses to be recognised - even after trying the usual tricks. As I bought it in mid 2022 as a part of a full colour set the seller (Stinkyinks) won’t send a replacement as it’s more than 12 months. T0ssers 🤬. A new one is on it’s way to Bear Towers - from a different company….. The bit that really p1sses me off is I want a B & W print - and it’s a colour cartridge…… 🤬 Post din dins and Bear goes for a Hilly Walk - despite the rain. What happens? Some complete T0sser drives thru’ a puddle at speed as Bear was walking past…… 🤬🤬🤬 And they were in a Fiat 500 with no oncoming traffic. Rumour has it that A Certain Bear might just have called them a naughty word that rhymes with at least part of Sqn. Ldr Hunt….. Now it’s pitstop time, followed by Killer Hill No. 2 then the long uphill back to Bear Towers, whereupon I’ll have a coat & strides to wash….🤬🤬 Did I mention the word T0sser by any chance? BG

I've highlighted a few points here. Over the last few years I've seen quite a few locos built from kits. Some of these have been 'professionally built". Some have been outstanding, some have been excellent, others very good but a significant proprtion of all have been diabolical runners with poorly assembled chassis etc, despite them utilising high quality components. Simply put, the contracted professional builder has contrived to produce a sow's ear out of a silk purse but still charged a premium for their highly priced low standards. RTR these days is now arguably surpassing the abilities of all but the "best " of these professionals at considerably less cost than that which they charge to produce an ultimately poorly running model. So what's the point ? Yes, there will still be prototypes for which there are no RTR models and if it's a must have model then, if you lack the ability to do it yourself ( as I do ) then you have no alternative but trust these individuals. But it's not without risk. I'm happy with my lot and derive my modelling satisfaction from building a background to suit, using careful weathering etc to personalise rtr stock and rtp buildings to produce what I want to see. None of this means I don't appreciate a model of whatever built from a kit or that I think my way is the be all and end all. It's simply me taking advantage of what is now available and using it to the best of my abilities to allow me to model my chosen prototype. Rob

Morning All, Today marks the celebration of the start of my 73nd circuit of the sun - one which I nearly didn't get due to my illness - still I made it and I now hope for many more. Celebration takes the form af a few single malts from my somewhat depleted collection this afternoon, but 30747 suggested an afternoon tea at the Feathers - one of the oldest and poshest hotels in the town - at just under £25 a head it should be good. Meantime, I am home alone as 30747 has had to go into town to shop for a few esentials - she didn't want to spoil our tea by carting a load of shopping in as well. Yesterday, we went to Church Stretton by bus x2, had a mooch round the charity shops, and got lunch of a pasty each from Mr Bun the baker, who makes lovely bread, cakes, pies and the like. I just thank the Lord that I don't live there, as I'd never be out of his shop. Must go - items on eBay finishing soon, and need to get the invoices away, and items wrapped and addressed. Regards to All Stewart

Pah. Old farts ride agreed - so it's started raining. There's only one patch on the rainfall radar anywhere near the island, and it is right on us! ION 12c and a slight breeze, and yesterday one of the OF's decided to cheer Puppers up and came around to NHN Towers on his Matchbox Matchless G9.

Ben the meteorologist Collie asked to go out, I said give me ten minutes.. he was right of course.. someone began hosing down the house... Just as I was typing the above statement it reduced to mere heavy rain, a quick look at the radar says they will get the fire hose out again shortly. So I went out with Ben, he set off at a brisk trot visiting only his favourite places looking back every so often saying hurry up.. so get got round in record time.. I'm about to build up the fire for the day, good job I got a new lot of coal in last night.. Had breakfast hadn't realised the time was marching on.. Must get ready for the museum.. Time to finish a muggacoffee

Pictures from an exhibition: Jonathan happy in his work (possibly) Stock starts to amass. Steve being reminded why he doesn't use 3-links on his own layout. I don't usually put the buildings out. Wonder where this one goes? A few more hours this morning to figure it all out until the great British public are admitted.

Afternoon All Back from afternoon tea - Dave, the memory was possibly better than my actuality today - the hotel is badly in need of a facelift - the room was quite dull, and for £25 the tea was good but really only worth about £17. There was no choice of tea - just English breakfast from a tea bag - not even leaf tea. Sandwiches were nice but oh so tiny - scone was not bad, but jam was just a little jar of Tiptree raspberry and the sweet treats were - sweet - good job I took some extra insulin with me. There is another tea shop in Ludlow which we will try the next time - which will be for 30747's birthday which was in February, but which we missed as I was just out of hospital. Forgot to say, 30747 managed to drop her mobile down a loo the other day - it worked OK for a day or so, but has died for all time this morning so we have had to order a new one - she only has a cheap PAYG so not a lot lost there and I should be able to do a sim change when the new one comes. I will now settle down with a couple of single malts.

Yes, I forgot Dad’s Army -as you suggest a good’un. I once, just before and immediately after it finished, flew with an F4 back seater whose name was Pike. “Stupid boy,” was commonly heard around the Squadron when addressing him and if some official asked for his name someone was almost invariably heard to say,”Don’t tell him Pike.” Dave

Autumn chilliness has finally arrived, it barely reached 17 today. Half time at the Friday Night Footy, Collingwood and Carlton - one of the great rivalries in sport, another sea sawing thriller in front of 88,362 at the MCG, the largest crowd ever in a home and away game between these two teams. Do people in Melbourne have nothing better to do on a Friday night?! (2023 FA cup final crowd - 83,000, 2023 Superbowl, 72,000. ........Inventing a winter sport that is played on a massive cricket ground and thus has seating capacity to match - 5 stars!) This turned up today - a rechargeable battery compressor that'll run an airbrush. I'd never known about them until 2 days ago, does anyone have one, and if so why did you not tell me there were such magical things these days? I can replace my industrial sized noisy compressor with this handheld rechargeable battery version. There's a few different ones out there, this is mid-range price based on thinking "you get what you pay for.." It comes with 2 batteries so they can be swapped out for charging and a pretty decent pen, though I'll be using my Tamiya trigger one on it since it screws into the top no worries. They reckon it'll do 32PSI though it seems more like 20 but thats enough for what I'll use it for, just laying down colour on 3D prints. IT also comes with a metre worth of hose if you don't want the airbrush attached directly to the unit. Sure is a long way from my original airbrush back in the day - a red plastic Humbrol branded one with a syphon jar hanging underneath that ran on an aerosol tin of compressed air that would ice up after about 10 minutes!

“It’s 106 miles to Chicago , we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a cake, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.” From the Blues Grey and White Brothers. Dave

A colleague recently asked if I would like to try some ( home made) tiffin It did make me smile, for reasons other than free cake Andy

Have a good celebration Stewart. It’s a few years since we had afternoon tea at The Feathers but it was very good. IIRC we were staying at The Bear at the time. Dave

Morning all. I am off to have some blood taken later this morning. Just routine. One of my medications requires a blood test every three months before the GP can renew the prescription. It has been ok since 1985. Then this afternoon off to the dentist for a filling. Otherwise not much happening. It is raining and supposed to carry on raining. Tony

Back then they didn’t get paid anything like they should have. But things have changed. We used to work with the juice on up until fairly recently. Had a tingle or two from the con rail over the years. On one memorable occasion I tripped over whilst doing switch and crossing inspection and fell across the live juice. Luckily it was a hot dry summer and my new boots and just issued new batch of hi viz overalls saved me from cooking out. I remember just laying there thinking (a) wow I’m not dead….and (b) how the fudge do I get up without earthing out. But my clothing was new and dry so I just rolled off into the Cess. Got a belt from a neg return bond terminal once, outside a substation, that chuffing hurt, although luckily there was only one 4 car on the section at the time. And I’ve had numerous belts off of the 150v AC high voltage track circuits in the wet. But those are low amps. Nowadays work is all done in possessions or line blocks, so apart from the actual engineering trains or other rail mounted plant and machines within those, no one is allowed to work (supposed to) with trains running and the juice on. Not like back in the day when I was at Clapham Junction, Red Zone working, changing juice pots on live juice, kango packing joints and changing sleepers, all on live juice, where your position of safety was another road open to traffic at line speed. Now that was fun, such an adrenaline rush…..so much so that it made most other places seem very boring.

But it takes real skill to achieve this (even on a model!) ...

On election nights I usually stay up and watch the results come in on the TV. But last night, as I knew there wouldn't be many results until today or tomorrow, I went to bed, put in my earphones and listened to the radio. Some interesting conversations; one even got a bit heated. The programme broke off for the shipping forecast just before 1am. Can't remember if I've ever listened to it all the way through. In a way it's quite melodic; I tried to visualise travelling clockwise around the coast, starting in the far north, as it was read out. When you think it's finished, then come the inshore water reports and then the forecast. I must have fallen asleep, then awoke at 3am still with the radio on and my earphones in... Called it a day after that.

The fireman has just had to walk back to pick up the lamp which has fallen off the back of the rear coach, and that gave our man the chance to get this shot. 61204 meanwhile runs in and stops at Platform 6.

Last of the Summer Wine was based of course in Holmfirth, where I was Sgt for 3 months in 1994. A great place to work and filming provided a good income for the PC's. The writer had been a police officer in the area in the 60's. He also wrote a brilliant series about a rookie constable in the mini g districts of south/West Yorkshire, that was The Growing Pains of PC Penrose. It was required viewing and could easily have been based on my first station at Rothwell. It later moved to Scarborough as Rosie, but wasn't quite the same. Jamie

Good evening everyone Well I had partial success setup the new digibox recorder thingy, it works and I was able to set up recordings and play them back. What I’ve not been able to do is set up the Chromecast element of it. After about 30 minutes of trying to set it up, I gave up and made myself a muggertea, I’ll try again in the next day or so. Once my tea was made, I carried on making the buildings for my micro layout. After dinner Charlie came round and he and I then spent the afternoon in the workshop. He brought a new kit with him to make, whilst I continued working on the industrial loco for my micro layout. Today I completed the brake rigging and I was able to fit and remove the brake shoes as a complete unit. I then fitted the coupling rods and connector rods and found that they foul up when rotated. So, after a bit of head scratching, I decided to dismantle one of joints where the connecting rod meets the cross head. I then gradually reduced the size of the both parts of the joint and then re soldering it up again. It took a couple of try’s, but I eventually got one side done and working, I just need to do the other side now.

Subscription copy through the letterbox yesterday morning. Edited by Jerry Clifford 1) Letters 2) Drws-y-Nant by Nigel Ashton 3) Accurascale Manor to EM by Gerry Beale 4) 'Project PGA' by Guy Molyneux 5) Drifting Away from Eye by Barry Norman 6) Wheels and Axles by Adrian Garner 7) EB1 Locomotive Build by Alex Duckworth 8) Mike Doherty Obituary 9) The First Great Project Part 2 by Jerry Clifford

Oh the irony.

I guess you haven't tried these then that I spotted in the local Woolies when looking for chocolate Paddle Pops. . Nor have I! https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/821035/potong-coconut-milk-durian-pops Edge of the seat stuff in the 3rd quarter, the crowd is going nuts! Gary The Parrot goes off whenever the cheers go up, he loves raucous. As do all parrots, which is why if you want to discipline one you can't raise your voice because they love that and redo the bad thing in order to get you to shout at them again. Hopefully he's not supporting Collingwood but.

I got home this afternoon and Mrs JJB had been eating durian today, uurrghh....a stern rebuke is needed me thinks.

Back in the 60s and 70s it was often the case that it wasn’t just “the best actor for the job”, but that X was “the only actor for [that sort of] job”. You want an oily-looking, smarmy-sounding gent of vaguely Levantine appearance? You need Steve Plytas! You want an Eastern European, rather sinister looking, Putin before Putin type? You want Vladek Sheybal! A cynical, coldly calculating Nazi? Anton Diffring is your man! A look at the cast lists of many of the series dramas of the day will see these guys appearing time after time.

The second item is a psychopath in training. The most chilling thing said to me gleefully by a child was I have found a hole the cat can't get out of. He went on to shoot his Dad in the back and I lost track of him after that.

I stand corrected on Bachmann blue and grey coaches with the SO's due this summer. Nevertheless I am greatly relieved that I bought the majority of my fleet at under £20 a coach and don't need any more. Inflation aside, the rise in price over the last 10 years of the Chinese manufactured products is staggering. Personally my days of analysing company accounts is consigned to history but it would be an interesting exercise to chart the last 15 years or so at Bachmann and their suppliers. Somewhere, someone will be showing a rather large increase in revenues and, presumably, profit. It is the Bristol Model Show this weekend and I shall be off for a visit this afternoon. Apart from some Railmatch paints, I do'nt have a shopping list but it is always interesting to while away an hour or two at the show. 37112 and 6S46 continue their journey to Fort William seen departing Crianlarich and crossing the Glenbruar viaduct.

Good moaning from the Charente. Lots of clouds visible so it may well rain. The boss has a doctors appointment this morning g the a quick visit to make. Ttfn. Jamie

Well that applies to most of the stuff that’s ever been transmitted over the airwaves. Last of The Summer Wine was indeed variable, but at its best quietly enjoyable and a positive depiction of older men. For me the best episodes were those featuring the programme’s second ensemble trio of Bill Owen as Compo, Peter Sallis as Cleggy and Brian Wilde as "Foggy" Dewhurst. Part of this appeal being that, at that time in the early 80s (I was back in the UK by then), I was one of a trio of tight-knit chums and one of us was definitely a Compo, one was definitely a Cleggy and one was definitely a Foggy (me, if I’m being candid). And to add richness to the mix, “our” Compo even had his very own “Nora Batty”. But it is damn near impossible to continuously write great scripts for each and every episode of a long running series*: people run out of ideas, scriptwriters change, it gets harder and harder to come up with fresh takes on things and so on. John Cleese did exactly the right thing with Fawlty Towers limiting it to just 12 utterly perfect episodes. * as someone who has dabbled in (semi-) professional acting a popular long running series is a great gig to get - a steady income from continuous filming (plus residuals) and the reassurance of forthcoming work - not to be sneezed at in the highly precarious world of TV, stage and screen.

Something quite revealing about Asian TV and movies is what it reveals about attitudes to Japan. If you watch Korean, Chinese and SE Asian content you soon pick up a lot of very negative tropes about Japan, and a lot of the historic dramas set in the 1930's and 40's present an almost cartoonish image of the villainous Japanese. When picked up in the Western media it's generally presented as Chinese grudge bearing and not letting the past die, but I find that if anything Korean attitudes to Japan are more negative and run deeper than those in Japan (probably because of the longer history of enmity between the two) and you don't have to poke very far in SE Asia to find a lingering suspicion and fear of Japan. In SE Asia they don't miss their European colonial masters but I do think they moved on after decolonialization, with Japan things are different (it might be partly because the Europeans cleared off and left whereas Japan is a regional power in Asia so has a more enduring influence). I find in Indonesia that if the Dutch are mentioned the comments are negative but they're rarely mentioned and I think the Dutch era is largley forgotten or ignored, however the subject of Japan can very quickly uncover some pretty powerful emotions.

Thanks for the warning. Jill is out today and hasn't used her iPad yet but when she does I can expect something like, "This damned thing has done it again and I can't find what I want. Here, see if you can fix it." Bu**er. Dave

Whenever my Windows 11 updates it switches my temperature display on the home screen to @#)*%$^& farenheit.

Good morning afternoon everyone We got up a little bit later than planned, so it was a bit of a rush first thing. Then when I opened the iPad, there had been another bl00dy update! Warning rant coming. Whenever there is an update, for some reason all the apps etc I’ve got on my home page move about or get deleted, even ones I use regularly and they constantly add apps that I don’t want, so I then have to delete them. If I wanted them added, moved or re-arranged, I can do it myself, I don’t need bl00dy Apple to do it for me. So this took up about 20 minutes to sort out, pah. Anyway, once done, I headed off to the butchers and got the weekly meat rations and a pork pie for my dinner. After that, I headed off to the Trafford Centre for a few more bits and pieces. Now sat at the table in the dining room with a well earned muggertea. Back later. Brian

The problem is when they insert modern sensibilities into historical events. Apart from being anachronistic and jarring, it is also highly selective. Take, for example, slavery. In Roman times a grateful slave owner could have selected slaves manumitted - many of whom after becoming free men would go on to acquire their own slaves. Those with a bee in their bonnet about historical slavery rarely acknowledge that. And as for referring to the huge role many African kingdoms and the Arabic world played in the slave trade of the 1700s - nary a mention in the popular depictions being pushed as "the" narrative about slavery. I would argue that acknowledging the entire historical picture, instead of ideologically chosen parts, gives us a better understanding of what really happened and what are the modern parallels we should recognize and take action on. As someone who has appeared in a number of "reinvented" Shakespearean plays, I have been lucky inasmuch as the directors I worked with had the same attitude to innovation as I. Namely, always asking two fundamental questions: does it bring anything to the play? is it something that the audience can relate to (aka "does it work"?). I saw a production of Julius Caesar with an all black cast and it worked extreme;y well - nothing was incongruous, nothing stood out like a sore thumb shouting "look at us, aren't we clever" and it was great reminder of the universality of Shakespeare's plays.

I can't imagine Blazing Saddles being made today.....

Does Mrs. Baz want a job? We have Donuts - or cake....... (There is one young "superstar"** at this place that spent the day steaming clothing.....how many did they manage? Four.....in a day.....🤬) **It shouldn't be too hard for them as they've been to Uni.....

A mix of sun and cloud this morning, according to the Met Office it might reach 11°C by lunchtime, then it will cloud over and be a bit less warm. I shall be pleased when the wind moves away from the north to north east where it has been for some time. Breakfast has been eaten, e mails and photos done so shortly I will decided what to do for the rest of the day. I may go out somewhere for a short walk this morning, the aches of the last few days have just about gone. I did a bit too much lifting and moving things and gardening earlier in the week. I will probably go a woodland country park to see the bluebells after that it will depend on how much energy I have. The plants in the greenhouse seem happy, in a day or two the sweet peas will start to spend some time outdoors to harden them off before they are planted out, looking at the size of them they need planting out sooner rather than later. David

Speaking as the token white diversity hire in our office I fully support D&I quotas💪🤪

Kit vs rtr. no one will mistake this for the accurascale new class 89. It is a silver fox one. it was though less than half the price and with a bit of fiddling it make into a presentable model. one of my very limited forays into modeling post steam. in my defense it is ECML and would be seen at little Bytham. Just not in 1959. richard