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One small point, have you ever stood in a printers and watched magazines being bagged ? I have. Are you certain they are as pristine as you think ? In my experance probably not !

I browse mags in shops, if I find an article I must have, even a short one then I buy the mag. If I can't get into the mag as it's in a bag as so many of them are these days I don't bother and just move on, their loss. If someone running a shop expects me to buy before examining then I won't bother buying mags from their shop again, their loss. At the end of the day I can usually buy/ read a mag at the next model show/swap meet or on a market stall near me that sell all kinds of mags a few months old for a quid. We are probably going to lose one or two mags in the next few years sad but inevitable I suppose, 50 years ago we just had 3 magazines how many do we have now ?

Do you have any photos of her in this time ? The Mid Suffolk are eager for anyone with photos later than the Burneside ones already shown on here to get in touch. Her arrival is finally going to push me on the 3 hour drive to visit this delightful looking small railway at one of the galas this year.

Has this been noticed before ? The Burneside Ruston is now on the Mid Suffolk and is another reason to visit this delightful little line. https://www.facebook.com/groups/163976490369879/permalink/1307285422705641/?comment_id=1307298999370950&reply_comment_id=1307805302653653&notif_id=1517134192270394&notif_t=group_comment_reply&ref=notif

My annoyance is looking as say locos in 0 gauge and having to wade through pages and pages of anything but 0, likewise tinplate gets put in 0 rather than having its own pages. I have tried the minus lark but it seems to not work terribly well.

Sorry, don't have any more info than on the fb page. A question to LLC ought to get a response or I guess the man himself will be along shortly to fill us in.

Don't think I'm giving anything away if I quote from the fb post that Steve reckons it will be less than £500 for non sound and another hundred for sound. Bogies are to absolute scale so quite simple to drop in S7 wheels. Delivery sometime in the Autumn. Reckon it will fly out or that price for that quality, going to be no 1 loco release of 2018 !

You've unmasked the beast ! Fair takes the breath away that does. It's a no brainier for someone to do a China clay wagon to go with it.

A lot of interesting info as well !

Indeed, the photo of D5132 inside the roofless Kyle loco Shed is worth the £ 20 alone.

Got it at Warley, a wonderful book indeed. Over a hundred pages of quality photos, mostly the work of John Malcom Boyes, all parts of the country with an emphasis on the early and the small, shunters, Claytons, 21s. 20s, 24/26/27 etc. I think there is not one I've seen before. Advise to anyone with an interest either history or model is to buy it !

I've wanted to have a go at modelling a preserved line for years, now I'm slowly getting the idea and the space to put it in together. Going to be 7mm not because I've got the space ( will be lucky if it's 8ft in total ) but because of the rather lovely small locos now available in the scale. Why a preserved line ? Well, they can be very small ( or large, your choice), you can mix and match your prototypes and still be truthful to the idea, but mostly I think because you can go out and actually see them in their daily lives. Lots of photos, lots of studying. The easy bit is the locos, going to be easier is the stock, most lines use Mk1s and there are various representions of these available or coming soon. Some use old DMU centre cars and the forthcoming Heljan 117 fits perfectly, all I have to do is get an expensive model and then paint it in ( as my local line has done ) maroon ! ( no going back from that one ). I will be able though to put as much detail in as I want to safe in the knowledge I can just go and have a look at anything I'm not sure of. Freight stock is also getting easier, dodgy liveries on a wooden bodied coal wagon ? No problem ! No the hard part as I see it is the need to have some derelict stock, locos, coaches or wagons, most lines seem to squeeze something into every corner and some of it is in a appalling state. How do you model a derelict Wooden body ? A loco in a pile of parts ? Tricky I fear. I'm also going to have to put a couple of modern cars ( glossy horrible looking things ) in somewhere to give visitors a timeframe. It's going to be ' intresting ' I might start a thread so people can see how it goes. John.

Today's modeller of the Bo'ness railway can have 88005 covered in snow quite legitimately!

Have you looked at the Looe branch ? http://www.photofilecornwall.co.uk/cornwall-seinland/looevalleyline/looe-valley-line-liskeard-to-causeland.htm This study of the line comes in 3 parts, Looe itself must be the shortest terminus on the ex W R ?

As others have said, simple, light weight locos used in pairs on MGRs 2000hp spread over a pair with 8 traction motors able to put down power on dodgy track. A low speed Lugger, just what railfreight wanted. 25s ? Too many differences between a nominally single class, they were /0 /1/2 for a reason, not all worked together well. All 20s were the same, to use an Americanism KISS, Keep It Simple Stu*id ! BR clas 56, 58, 60 all got more and more complicated to be replaced by the simple 66.

Nice picture, but I'm on about the PAAs, these are the whisky 'Blues' BRTs I believe,

Looking at my 'modern po wagons on BR ' I see what I'm in about is indeed PAAs 14152-14156 used for grain traffic with top covers. I've seen a photo somewhere probably taken by someone climbing up one of them in the yard at York taking a photo of the J72 worked passenger train in which the PAAs are seen in the corner. Never seen a decent photo of them at say Dunnington being shunted by 'Churchill ' . Would be nice to see. Ta to Dava for livery details, :-)

Ta for that, I've seen it before but it helps. I believe it was N ER green, any confirmation ? Not what they started off in though I think, that's the one I'm trying to pin down. Now those PGA s ? Behind, I would love lots of photos about those ! Small batch I believe just for the DVR to use, a model of those would be something !

I was wondering if anyone has the details of the liveries worn by the 2 04s whilst working at the DVR ? Started off as Gray ? Went green ? Are there any more details out there or can someone point me in the right direction please.

Their is a small discussion going on on a FB page about the use of 0-4-0s on passenger trains. The post has a photo of Y7 68089 at Seahouses on the North Sunderland Railway wondering if it wasn't legal at the time to use it, the loco seems to be fitted with a vacuum brake but the use of these locos was thought to be frowned upon by the BoT. Mention is made of the Easingwold ordering a 0-4-0t when it was being built but being told they couldn't use it so bought a 0-6-0 instead. So my question is why was a rule banning them in force and if it was when did it cease as preserved lines these days do use 0-4-0s on trains. I'm sure others with more knowledge than me know the answers ! John.

Dave, good to see you and this latest opus today at Warley. I was saying I'm building a 7mm micro, well that's had builders block for the last 6 months and your effort was just what I needed to see to push me onward again. Am now having a serious think about reorienting it into a NCL/ parcels depot...Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery ! Bought a green 08 to go with it ! Is it Stafford next year ? Cheers John.

Shuuussshhh, don't tell everyone, locals little secret.....

So that it revealed then, the type 2 is a cross between a 91 and a 1000.....:-)

Sounds like Jordan was only copying real life then !!! Hmmmm, " Carden shafts " now what uses them ???