Phatbob

LNER = Late and Never Early Railway LMS = Late Monday to Sunday GWR = Great Way Round LB&SCR = Long, Boring and Seldom Comfortable Railway For a modern nickname, First Trenitalia = Worst Gentitalia. ;-)

I have a short private owner coal train livered thus; Huw, Pugh & Co, Marney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble & Grub. ;-)

All life on Earth is one eternal struggle with the law of sod. I'll never make a judgement about any layout for the first hour or so after the show opening, it's just not fair. ;-) Personally, I have a strong preference to set up on the Friday evening and get everything tested before we leave for home or hotel & pub. Setting up Saturday morning can mean a lot less time on the road and such like, but for me it's asking for trouble compared with setting up on Friday night, even with the slings and arrows of Friday afternoon and evening traffic. :-( Even so, one year at the Leyland show everything was working perfectly when we left on the Friday evening and on Saturday morning the whole layout was electrically dead. The common return had unsoldered iteself overnight! Those gremlins have a lot to answer for!

Also, the figure has been stuct on the wrong way round for somebody who's ascending or decending a ladder. Schoolboy error by the modeller there. ;-)

The battleship Binsmark? ;-)

The Bachmann items are only cheaper if comparing retailer's discounted Bachmann prices with full list price for the Accurascale wagon. In fairness to Accurascale, at list price their wagons are cheaper. (source: https://www.Bachmann.co.uk/category/model-railway/branchline/wagons?page=1&sortby=3&numper=50)

I see that the punters are already queueing up outside to get in ASAP tomorrow.

If I had named tham after angels they would have been two of Destiny, Rhapsody, Harmony, Melody or Symphony. Or mabe two of Kelly, Sabrina or Jill. ;-)

Nice to see that there is, of course, a bus on the bridge. 😄

Sun lit uplands...

Or a simple cardbard wrapper holding the three boxes together. As indeed thay had previously done for some Maunsel three coach sets. Either way, it was one mighty c0ck-up IMHO.

As I've already stated in another thread, so apologies to those who've read this before, the reason for the surplus of Bulleid brake coaches is down to a failure or Hornby to properly market or package them, or both. Unitil the mid sixties (1965 IIRC) these coaches always ran in a fixed rake of three, BSK-CK-BSK with their own unique set number. The techie folk at Hornby obviously recognised this and they were produced at a ratio of 2 BSKs to every CK with the correct numbers to make up authentic sets. However, the marketing folk didn't sell them in packs of three and sold them loose. To make things worse, they made no effort to educate their customers and retailers as to nature of their use solely in sets of three. Consequently, many a punter, unaware of their use in sets of three, seeing them for sale as lose coaches, purchased them as such. Net result, the BSKs didn't sell in the ratio of 2:1 against the CKs as punters made up long rakes of CKs and Hornby are stuffed with a warehouse full of unsold BSKs. This could have so easilly have been avoided, but it wasn't!

Typical slow moving inland waterway would be something close to olive green IMHO. The colour mostly coming from algae (green) and muddy coloured suspended solids. HTH

The location of this train, parked up between platforms 2 and 3 suggests to me that it's the empty "Kenny Belle" awaiting its next turn of duty.

Get a powered coach chassis from Replica Railways (http://www.replicarailways.co.uk/menusep4/menuchass) and make up a powered coach to run behind the loco. I have a powered BG and it'll drag anything!

Mr Portaloo has been very good at rewriting his own history. It would be equally accurate to say that he was the man who permitted BR to close the Woodhead route, Tunbridge Wells - Eridge and all the other early 1980s closures.

I'd suggest that you change the thread title to "layout plaques" rather than "exhibition badges". Two very different things.

My answer to those two questions in an interview would be that if I told them I would have to kill them, as both have been used by me as security questions for online identification. 😉

These trains always ran with a brake van at the rear. Unfitted trains always did. Remember that the only brakes on unfitted wagons were the handbrake. So, should a coupling fail there would be no way of stopping the rear portion of the train, behind the point at which the coupling had failed. The raison d'être of a brakevan is its ability to stop the rear half of a broken train of unfitted wagons. Hopefully, God willing, with a bit of luck. ;-) Before decsending a steep gradient an unfitted train would be stopped while the crew applied the handbake on the wagons before starting off down the hill! The handbrakes would be released again at the bottom. The raison d'être of brake tenders was to give the tran driver more brakeforce to use in controlling all thos troublesome trucks. ;-)

IIRC a couple of brake tenders on a train of house coal hoppers was the norm. Usually both behind the loco, although I do recal once seeing an ED (TOPS class 73) hualing a train of hoppers through Clapham Jungle with one brake tender in front and one behind. I was very young at the time and it was a memorable "WTF?" moment having not seen the like before. There are several kits of brake tenders on the market, including and ABS whitemetal cast one that doubles as a track cleaner using cigarette filters moistened with your favourite track cleaning fluid. So you could save some £o££€¥ and add some variety over using the RTR ones by building a coule of kits?

Pobty ping. With a 'b'. A bit off topic, but as a small child I could not fathom why Carshalton Beeches wasn't on the coast. ;-)

Some useful roof images here (https://www.bloodandcustard.com/BR-3R-Tadpole.html) along with a lot of info on 6B units.