JeffP

Around fifteen years ago a computer repair place warned me against Norton, saying it is "memory hungry". My computer was taking an age to shut down in the evening. I uninstalled it and went with their recommendation, AVC, free off the internet. No problems since.

The Hachette one is a metal casting, similar to a DJH A4, not the Piercy one. It's in two parts, the nose being separate. Its quite nice once the thick grey paint they applied is removed. An idea if the brass origami doesn't please.

Looks to be a decently detailed kit, for it's time. Is this the one with the streamlined bodywork that has to be bent up and soldered in sections? If so, would it be easier to get hold of a cast Hachette A4 body, strip the paint off, and use that?

That really is beautiful.

What era? Books might be more use.

51212 was the subject of the Kitmaster, later Airfix, and now Dapol kit. It was a Bristol Barrow Road loco. Often seen lurking behind the repair sheds in photos of the shed there. Nice to see it here.

Excellent. Fell in love with the idea of Horwich works as a ten year old in 1962 when I received the "Observer's Book of British Steam Locomotives" for Christmas. Wren, and the description of it having had siblings, captured my heart. I always wanted to visit, but never did.

I once lit our small woodburner in the dining room, to find it wouldn't draw at all. Turned out hornets had nested on the top of the flue. We aren't allowed garden fires in Haute Vienne. They used to be permitted if they were contained, ie: in an incinerator, but now are banned entirely. Farmers, however, are allowed to light a fire and leave it to burn. Go figure.

Aye...but that decision was political, I'm not getting into that.

You missed my post above then? 😉

I hadn't thought of cost of electricity. Apparently it's almost twice as dear as Germany, and more than twice as dear as France.

Lugging 7T logs? Is it just you and Mr. le Maire? Because I stowed 3 steres in my barn in one day and was shattered. It worked out at over 10,000 steps.

The French seem to move a lot of their (remaining) rail borne freight under the wires with a diesel, not necessarily a type 5/6, second in the consist, apparently for the final mile, ( kilometre). How come we've never thought of this? Probably same reason they have dual voltage locos, 1500V DC and 25kV AC, instead of closing 1500 V lines, scrapping 1500V locos and/or replacing 1500V ohl with 25kV. We just chuck money away.

I'm aware that tenders were swapped between members of the A4 class, members of the A3 class and even A4-A3 and vice-versa. But what of the Peppercorn A1's and A2's? Did the Doncaster built locos with snap head rivets, and the Darlington built locos with flush rivets, keep their respective tenders? Or, in later years, was it possible to see a Doncaster built loco with a flush rivetted tender? Period photos tend to concentrate on the loco.

The second photo above doesn't match the caption. It's 37558 on a clean looking passenger working.