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That's what comes of being quick off the mark! Reload my message and try again.

This one happened a month ago in Germany. The barriers came down to let an ICE train pass, but after the train had gone they stayed down. A waiting car driver pushed up the barrier himself and then ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOrva9rkog

I received all my SECR coaches recently, but, because I'm a "poor" pensioner, I couldn't really justify ordering all the coaches I would like. So I'm hoping Hattons will do a rerun of some of the most popular liveries, and I hope SECR is in that category, and I would like them to do 4-packs of the all-thirds, and I'd like a variation of the paint colour to imitate what the coaches would look like after a few years of early twentieth-century commuter service. I don't know if anyone agrees with me, or if I shall have to resort to the bay of e to obtain whatever coaches come up on there for sale.

I spoke to Hatton's a couple of days ago, and they told me that the SECR coaches are due December/January time.

I would like to see this in OO as well. I could well see myself going bankrupt also, because I'm currently considering modelling a station that looks a bit like Beckenham Junction, so I'd need at least five of them (4 southeastern, 1 southern) along with quite a few Networkers (which nobody has chosen to build yet). The future has suddenly become interesting.

The last person I heard of who jumped onto some track to retrieve her mobile phone (at Wimbledon station) got hit at line speed by a non-stopping train. It was obviously worth too much to her.

As I understand it a lot of interurbans were bought up by oil companies, who promptly shut them down. Corporate greed at its worst.

Shouldn't the occupied houses have curtains in the windows?

My experience of wiring-up live frog single slips switching the frog by the other-end's point motor: if you set two straight roads through the slip, you end up with a short circuit. Of course if you use frog juicers the frog polarities are controlled by the train, but that only works for DCC.

That explains why milk from the "cwop" in Aberdare when I visited my grandparents tasted so much better than milk in London.

I suppose you could spell it differently: "The Flying Scotchman" springs to mind.

Crumbs! It's still younger than me, though. Are those two locos on the rear running by radio control from the loco on the front?

Yes, the facing crossover is out of shot with just a little bit showing in the bottom right-hand corner. Don't forget that that station runs 10 trains per hour, so it has to use both platforms 1 and 2 for arrivals.

Someone ought to tell Transport for London (or LUL) then, because Epping station is the bottom version.

Crumbs. It's changed a bit since that map was made.

I see nobody has mentioned Hayes (Kent) which is not too far from Bromley North, and that also ended in a turntable.

Do what the North Americans do with their diesels. Paint a capital F on the frame of the locomotive, and by definition that is the front.

I assume from that comment you haven't seen the sort of things they are doing for their North American models. I am sure a variety of chimneys will not be a problem for Rapido.

... and Canada is in North America. So all Canadians are Americans.

Electric multiple units are important to me. As is buying early, so I have a reasonable time to enjoy them before the end.

Isn't it time our manufacturers considered bring back production to the UK?

I wonder what sort of response you might get if you tell them that you are considering the British Finescale equivalents when they become available.

All right, I give up. Where have you hidden it?

We can but hope.

Penmaenmawr = Large head of stone, how appropriate.