Tim Hale

Dave, You can make the water-colour permenant by adding a drop or two of PVA glue. Tim

The missing word is Touch. Tim

Getting back to the OP; the track plan is faintly reminiscent of Hayes (Kent) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_railway_station Although rural suburban rather than inner-city, it was the place where the CEP and C -class were well known - possible uses for Bachmann's finest? The Art-Deco station approach is very modellable. Tim

Ray, iPod - how on earth? Can you provide more detail, please. I was under the impression that only the iPhone* could be used to control but I have both 16G iPod and iPad, this is very interesting. Tim

Dave, Foamboard is dumped by signwriters. The material for my extension was donated by a local company who were so glad to see me remove their industrial waste (they pay for it to be collected) that they gave me some adhesive. It is excellent stuff, weatherproof - it is used for house sale signs - and light. Tim

A bit more effort and I will extend the scenery along the inside edge of the layout, including the out-of-shot tunnel mouths except I have run out of foam sheet.............bum. This is the inspiration for the actual site of the station had it been built:- It is a bit overgrown but the land on the right hand side of the track is owned by the railway - rumour has it that it was supposed to be the site of Beaminster Road but as Crewkerne is just 2 miles to the east and Chard Junction a similar distance to the west, what was the impetus for purchasing this parcel of land? The nearest hamlets are Wayford (this is Wayford Hill) and Clapton but neither offers more than 100 inhabitants between them. Unless there really was to be a branch to Beaminster but there is no mention in Hansard or Lucking moreover the hills between the rumoured junction and Beaminster are formidable. Tim

Too many Southern K's? Tim

If you are talking about a LBSC K-Class, it was produced in 4mm by K's, Blacksmith/Mallard, Jidenco/Falcon and now by Ace. Tim

The layout needs a station building that is appropriate to the location and Bill has kindly modified the Tite building that he had built, see above. This necessitated raising the approach road to the level of the platform and creating a shallow road down to the goods yard, see below. And yes, that is the base for the station master's house in the background. The location is similar to Breamore see below: Hopefully, the scenery on the 'inside' edge of the layout should be completed (grassed etc.) by the end of September, the remaining scenery by end of December and the layout will be ready for exhibiting in late 2013 Tim

Hi, Is there any timescale for the introduction of signals for the Southern in 4mm? Tim

Branch line to Beaminster from Clapton? Sound rather familiar. Tim

This blog is of interest to enthusiasts of the Petite Ceinture: http://petiteceinture.blogspot.co.uk/ Tim

I am just about to embark on the same journey - Gordon's book is on its way from Simon and I have a couple of armatures awaiting instructions. Like you, the GG trees will 'front' the display on Beaminster Road whilst the interior of the wood will be reworked 'bog-brush' trees which act as view-blockers. Tim

Many thanks Tim

Mike, It appears to be impossible to turn the eccentric over, the plastic pipe is too rigid. What concerns me is the extreme angle of offset in views b & c. Should the piece stuck to the loco body be angled so close to the wheel? Does anyone have a similar loco and can check this? Thanks Tim

a. b. c. d. Not everything goes to plan. The speedo drive on Wilton just broke and this is the new speedo drive, unfortunately despite copying the original fixing, the eccentric crank fouls the speedo cable. This can be seen in Views a & b. but I just do not know what I did wrong. Tim