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Not forgetting Kathy Millatt and Jenny Kirk! (although I accept that they aren't mum's!)

You're right, I hadn't noticed the lack of www! My apologies

Since I updated the address, it's been faultless, I did it when the layout was separated from the coaches

Try again, but use https, as http is the old address

Great use of an oxymoron there!

Some of us don't like it at all!

Also, there appears to be a glitch in the way some events are posted, sometimes the posting date causes everything to be inaccessible until before that date, eg. I don't think the problem is my end

But they haven't acquired them, they are only handling the last batch that was already started. Rails have stated that they aren't going to be manufacturers, so haven't bought the moulds.

Corrected it for you! 😄

And then there's golf! Which can be put in the same category as fishing, which is no more a sport than playing poker!

I think Skoda made quite a few of them! 😄

I think Hroth meant the character in the black hat, wearing a backpack!

If the board/layout is 3' long, why don't you just call it Barry's Lip Yard?

Check out Bill Bailey, Stand Up on Footballers

and trying to kick it into a string bag!

I used the original motors, which had cardean shafts to power the bogies, but it now has 1 motor per bogie.

Back in the late '70s, a mate of mine wasn't as keen on cars as the rest of us, so he got HomeTune to service his Vitesse regularly. He used the same guy and got to know him quite well, his favourite tale was about servicing a Jenson Interceptor, it was actually quicker to drop the engine to change 4 of the spark plugs than do them in-situ, because the V8 was installed on an angle!

But you could have officers from at least 5 different forces attend an incident in London! The Met, City of London, BTP, River Police and the Parks Police, I'm sure there are a couple more, but I can't recall them at the moment.

I can't give you the mathematical reason, I just know that with the mechanism in the hinge it doesn't just pivot. If you look at the 'brick' abutments at each end of the viaduct, you will see that they are cut away at an angle, that was all that was needed for clearance.

Look for flat (or flush) mounted cupboard door hinges

They are definitely strong enough, I built a pair of bridges for our main club layout, 7mm, 4 track roundy-roundy, both approx 2' 9" long, with a locking stay (to safely keep them from falling on members!) they worked flawlessly for a number of years.

I had a couple of non-working Atlas F9 units, 7mm, but I don't model North American 'railroads' We (as a club) have been rebuilding the club layout and needed a large item to check for gauge and clearance, etc. So I got creative, and I considered the possibility of GM tendering a loco for the initial British Railway trials. So I just cut off the corridor connectors and stuck 2 bodies back-to-back But once in primer, it did look too long So I cut it down a little I've sprayed it black and silver, like a lot of the prototype diesels, also I thought it worked better as a Bo-Bo-Bo! I'ts not quite finished yet, because the club layout rebuild is still ongoing.

I've realised that I should have posted this on the Pugbashing thread, as it's a model of a real loco! But I do have 'wild kitbash', that I'll post up, once I've found the pictures

Inspired by the above loco conversion, as I had a number of them (and I've acquired a few more since!) I've started to 'bash' one into a Dean Goods, it's an interesting process, as the plastic is at least 55 years old and rather brittle now!