Nick C

Not only the track, but also the stock, including the wheels! It's well worth watching his other videos, he's really inventive - the sleepers are all cut on his home-made mill for example...

...in 12" to the foot scale!

That's pretty quick by my standards...

According to the page linked to above, yes: https://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=class&id=3&type=D&page=alloc D2127 to D2132, D2182, D2183 all spent time at some combination of Newton Abbot, Laira, Exeter & St Blazey. Of the Drewrys, 11227-9 all started life at Plymouth Friary.

Looking at photos of Blue Anchor and Highley boxes as preserved, brass with black lettering.

This one?

That's a good question - one for @5BarVT perhaps? I've found a document with some good diagrams of point rodding: https://dickthesignals.co.uk/onewebmedia/C1-C355 training pamphlets.pdf (page 12), along with loads of other interesting S&T stuff... edit - another doc on the same site has several diagrams of frames, all showing the cranks arranged to push the rod when the lever is reversed: https://dickthesignals.co.uk/onewebmedia/22 mechanical interlocking.pdf

Tell me about it - I've got about half a dozen layouts in my head. Most of which I don't have space for!

Wizard models sell them, or if you want wider strips, try an electronics retailer such as RS.

Are there any dimensions listed for that plan? (I can't find anywhere with the book in stock...) I've got a 5' by 18" baseboard kicking around that's just crying out for a cameo layout...

The first test section with the WWS glues and fibres: I'm quite pleased with that. Just two layers there, 2mm and 4mm 'autumn', but it gave me a good feel for how it all works, which was the idea. Ignore the crap ballasting though, I tried to rescue the bit where the old coarse ballast had stuck, and it didn't work - plus the ballast magic glue didn't like the step at the edge of the cork underlay - next time I'll use something with a tapered edge along the cess, or a different glue (I've also got some of the WWS ballast glue to try ). But then that's the whole point of this little project, to learn these things...

Here's a freshly restored one, on the MHR.

My wife once live in Rhyl for a year or so. She agrees with that statement.

You were lucky. We had Lord of the Flies...

I suspect the chances of Mr McEldroon actually reading the local paper are somewhat slim, and the rest of the village probably already know it was him complaining anyway... The tone of the previous sentance suggests that the writer has no sympathy for him, rightly so IMHO...

Except you've admitted to it on the public internet!

The 'standard' Inglenook puzzle has 8 wagons, of which 5 are formed into the 'outgoing' train - that gives, if my maths is right, 6,720 possible combinations. going up to 7 out of 10, you'd get over 600k... Loop and two (or three) sidings is certainly pretty common - it's quite interesting (at least if you're me...) to flick though some of the diagrams on the SRS site to see just how many variations on that theme there are, with all sorts of odd combinations, presumably dictated by local geography and traffic patterns.

They've got the proportions of their inglenook layout wrong, it's supposed to be 3-3-5...

Of course one of the biggest drivers of the initial spread of the motor car in the last years of the 19th century, was to reduce the number of horses on urban streets due to the quantity of their emissions overwhelming the cities' abilities to clear it...

Happy Birthday Tom!

There's a couple of good ones on YouTube like that - one I seem to remember told the scammer that he'd been decapitated by a sheet of glass, and managed to string them on for a while before they realised... Then there's James Veitch's TED talk on the Nigerian Scammer:

But only on a small scale, at least until recently - if someone had got together with RM, or one of the big delivery firms 10 years ago, there would already be much greater market penetration - and that'd have made a much bigger difference to urban air quality. I've still only seen one or two in the mid-size suburban town I live in.

Benji is settling in nicely...

I remain firmly of the opinion that this is where modern EV development should have started - Not only are urban deliveries ideal for electric traction (short journeys, lots of stop-start so plenty of use of regen), they're also in the environment where it's most needed, due to the denisty of particulate emissions in cities. Worrying about the range for long-distance passenger cars should have come later as a natural progression.

Yep, they're the ones I was thinking of. As you say though, not cheap!