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    G. J. Churchwood and C. B. Collett, two of the finest locomotive designers in railway history in my opinion, you can never overrate their designs, and I'd be first in the queue with pitchfork at the ready if it were the case (slightly Off Topic but for a quick giggle, N-Gauge City of Truro please!) Now if you'll pardon the pun, I'll let this get "back on track" ( ) with the matter to hand.
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    You are indeed correct, and I feel I must apologise that I neglected to mention that the club does indeed include enthusiasts for LMS, LNER, several Narrow Gauge enthusiasts, and not to mention the Modern Image enthusiasts would be most unforgivable, I even have a feeling there might be one or two members who are interested in overseas modelling (European prototypes as it were) . I should clarify that a reasonable majority of the club are Southern Enthusiasts, though it does indeed cater for other companies and interests. I also know for definite that there are of course at least 4 other members who have GWR locomotives as part of their own collections, one of these members guided me towards my interest in GWR, and taught me alot of things I never even knew before. For example, I now know that Frederick William Hawksworth's birthday is the 10 February (1884).
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    It may not involve a lynching, but being a GWR enthusiast in a club full of Southern Railway enthusiasts certainly does make life a whole lot more interesting.
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    Oh ruddy 'ell!
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    Personally I think a copper chimney cap looks quite dashing upon a locomotive, finishes off the design beautifully!
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    Sorry... but no... just no! Lego is a toy, an argument I've heard people put forward about railway modelling, which in truth, to me in my honest opinion is a whole lot more and a whole world of difference than just being a toy.
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    Had a very enjoyable day at the London Transport Museum's Acton Town depot, Saw a couple of very nice London Transport layouts whilst there, and of course some of the heritage stock that is not part of the main museum in Covent Garden.

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    Had a very enjoyable day at the London Transport Museum's Acton Town depot, Saw a couple of very nice London Transport layouts whilst there, and of course some of the heritage stock that is not part of the main museum in Covent Garden.

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    Now that is the type of exhibition I would happily visit without any real problem, I'm not against modern image, it's just that I prefer steam heritage based layouts.
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    As a GWR enthusiast, I like this idea, however, being also an enthusiast of Stanier locomotives of the LMS, I somehow find myself at odd with the idea, it's just too much to contemplate, I don't think it would be worth a "Lynching" though, but it would demonstrate just how much Stanier was inspired by the GWR whilst employed at the Swindon works, if Collett hadn't been chosen to succeed Churchwood, Stanier might have taken the GWR into a whole new direction.
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    Currently reading the Middleton Press books that I own, am reading Didcot to Swindon at the moment, will move on from that to the book entitled Swindon to Bristol. If you have never had opportunity to view a Middleton Press publication, I recommend them, they are excellent source material for the planning stages of a layout.

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      gwrrob

      I agree as I have the ones from Newton Abbot to Penzance in the series.

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    Currently reading the Middleton Press books that I own, am reading Didcot to Swindon at the moment, will move on from that to the book entitled Swindon to Bristol. If you have never had opportunity to view a Middleton Press publication, I recommend them, they are excellent source material for the planning stages of a layout.

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    Hi there! GWR-Fanatic here, I think ColinW introduced me on Saturday at the Tonbridge show. Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed seeing your layout at the exhibition, I know that I'm personally a GWR enthusiast, but to see a layout like Treneglos where so much care has been taken to create something that really catches the eye really makes all the difference. Also it's the display that makes it come to life, all the additional information shown below the layout added to is. I'm still working on my own display features, the articles I had around my own layout at the exhibition will probably change in the future, though I did take a few notes. Hope you enjoyed the exhibition as much as I did.
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    I highly recommend a very good book recently brought out, entitled "Fowlers Fury" it's a most interesting book about a somewhat enigmatic experimental locomotive of the LMS.

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    I am really hoping that one day there will be an N gauge version of City of Truro.

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