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The Ffestiniog locks you in to their compartment carriages before departure. I have a vague memory that some of the other Welsh NG railways do this as well - there are a lot of limited clearances from cutting sides etc.

I wondered what had happened to that show. It was always a pretty decent day out. Exactly. The gauge 1 live steam layout is probably the biggest one you'll see on the exhibition circuit, so i don;t know how people can complain about the lack of 'large layouts'.

It often seems to be the layouts with the most control equipment (half a ton of laptops and electronic gear) that seem to have the least movement.

Disappointed by Warley. Didn't get barged once or a hit by a rucksack in the face, and only encountered one mildly smelly person. In fact the whole experience was quite pleasant (not counting the bits involving Cross Country Trains, who are as useless as ever).

There are free car parks in the Peak District, but they tend to be in the nice remote places rather than the bits that every man and his dog (with cycle perched on the roof) wants to go to for their 40 minutè walk or cycle ride.

Amateur. These days you need a wheelie suitcase full of locos to run people's feet over.

Surely the ownership is easy to prove - you just look at the plate screwed to the vehicle solebar saying who owns it and what the asset number is......

Not for Belgium. A lot of Belpaire's locos (and railmotors) had square chimneys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_State_Railways_Type_25

Next you'll be asking for them to model the air brake and ETH equipment on more recent Mk1s. And ends with no steps..... Phoenix definitely do some etched ones as part of the range they inherited from NNK. No idea if they are accurate or designed to fit MTK coaches (which almost certainly aren't accurate) https://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/products/4mm-products/multiple-unit-spare-parts/multiple-unit-detail-etches/4-40162 The best approach I've seen is with some of the etched Southern Pride sides, which come with pre-cut vinyl frames to overlay on the brass. You can make these yourself using a Silhouette craft cutter - I've done these myself for the 4-BUF I'm slowly scratchbuilding.

There are some genuine 'preserved' railways like the Snailbeach or the Cromford and High Peak, where significant amounts of the infrastructure have been kept in (or restored to) their final working condition. But they aren't operating railways.

They are more like Goering than Hitler - Goering was the incompetent and morbidly obese Nazi who liked to play with his train set...... And like a lot of one star reviews, it's an incoherent stream of consciousness with dodgy use of apostrophes and incorrect use of similar sounding words.

I built an NBL 0-4-0 with these beams. If you don't get on with them, just fit High Level hornblocks in the rear axle, along with the central pivot from the kit, and compensate in the usual way. The beams let you compensate without hornblocks.

You tend to bite people's hands off if they show an interest in volunteering. Because you have to. And this is one of the challenges with managing volunteers - there aren't enough applicants for you to be picky.

In my experience, the problem with older volunteers can be that policies on things like health and safety and safeguarding are continually tightened over time, so ways of working have to change. And this manifests itself as 'management are stupid because that's not how you do task X' from the volunteers. Especially if people aren't talking to each other properly to begin with.

Probably when Red Star Parcels folded in the early 200s and parcels stopped being sent by passenger train.

Quite possibly, so long as you can get it out of the plaster mould afterwards. I'm also tempted to give it a go for some coach roofs that I'll need for a scratchbuilt project next year.

Doesn't this happen every few years with Derby Works?

I remember this article. It was apparently a common method of producing scratchbuilt 1/72 aircraft. The class 47 looked pretty good (in the grainy black and white photos). Carve a wooden master, grease, make a 2 part plaster mould. Grease the moulds, apply papier mache on the inside, leave to dry and then remove.

Might be worth redoing the destination blinds. The frames look way too thick. Craftsman?

What I have seen is s 'rough' strip up the middle of the road to give the horse better grip on hills. Italian example here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@45.7648637,10.8083415,3a,75y,132.7h,80.87t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxjphKdITtn-fhmZE2AiOkw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DxjphKdITtn-fhmZE2AiOkw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D314.6482%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu (I'm assuming this is probably driven by economics, and the rough stone had to be shipped in and was more expensive, otherwise they'd have built the entire roadway out of it) War chariots were something that was associated with Barbarians.

Winker (misprint) ?

These people were always there before Sat Navs, they just used to get completely lost and ask you for directions to a village 30 miles away and act all annoyed when you didn't know where it was.

I've seen this exact encounter many times between the guard and people getting on at unstaffed stations. With the added complication of the guard not always knowing where they've started from.

They look really good. I do wonder what percentage of the first twenty odd years of my life was spend travelling on Nationals.

Not steam locos, but I was at Crich last week, and what started out as a lovely day turned to rain and greasy rails. It was fun watching the trams making a start from the Terminus, with much wheelslip, grinding to walking pace, and application of sand. One of the crews commented that you'd expect the Sheffield 'Roberts' to cope better with hills, being from Sheffield. So go to Crich on a rainy day and you can see this close up