Ian Morgan

Plattling is also the junction for the picturesque line up to Bayerisch-Eisenstein, the station with the border passing through the booking hall, and the small railway museum. Well worth a visit.

So you haven't bitten the ends off a chocolate finger and used it as a straw then?

When you compare the price of Chinese cars in Europe with the price in China where most of them are being sold, I don't see much sign of a government subsidy. Also, BYD have just opened up a manufacturing plant in North America (ahead of schedule) ready to beat import tariffs.

M&S chocolate coated custard creams - OMG

The gas holder is progressing well. The Walthers kit, if built as intended, would probably be strong enough mounted on a layout to withstand the rigours of exhibition life. However, I wanted to model the self supporting type of gas holder, plus I need to make the top 2/3 removable for transport and I need it to overhang the backscene boards as I do not have the room to model it in full. I cut out some discs of foamboard that were araldited inside the holder at various positions, and that strengthened it enough to perform the required surgery with a fresh new razor saw. I am quite pleased with the result. Evergreen and Plastruct strips, hand rails and stairs have been added to detail the walkways and the helictical rails. I just need to complete the support structures for the stairs and add some fine brass handrails that I found on Ali-Express and it will be ready for some Tamiya fine grey primer spray, as applied to the base section already. The base section will be permanently fixed to the layout once I have rusted and weathered everything.

For those who are worried about battery fires:

Found any UXBs from the Zeppelin raids? 🪖

Plus, another consideration is the effect of home/workplace chargers. I probably only use a public charger once every 2 or 3 months when I might make longer journeys to an exhibition. My normal daily commute used to mean a visit to a petrol station at least once per week before I went electric, but now is taken care of at work or at home.

There are currently fewer than 8,500 petrol stations in the UK, and declining. So, being generous and assuming an average of 12 pumps each, that is 102,000 outlets. So, not much longer to wait before the number of public chargers overtakes this. Also, these figures do not include home or workplace chargers. How many people can safely take on petrol or diesel at home or at work?

Took my other half up there in 2002. The view at the top was: It was only later, as the mist/fog/cloud cleared that she had kittens. We had been up the steps to the top and back by then. The trains then:

The gas works is slowly progressing:

I heard that the Germans were looking for higher frequency signals than the British equipment was able to produce, as they considered the lower frequencies would not work well enough to be of any use.

It's the same as when you try to hire a car or use a courtesy car at a garage nowadays: https://www.viewdrivingrecord.service.gov.uk/driving-record/licence-number From the Everything Electric website FAQ:

If you want to do a test drive of anything there, remember to get the DVLA licence verification code from the DVLA a few days before the show. (test driving the Ioniq N around Farnborough could get a bit hairy 😮 )

Neat idea. Hopefully, because the two 'ends' of mine curve back into the backscene you would not see that the rest of the circle is not there.