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Here's an interesting photo of Swindon in the broad-gauge era. I love that mixed-gauge outside single slip in the left foreground, especially that frog where all three directions pass through it.

Aaaargh! You're right. Sorry. I've corrected my original post, but obviously I can't correct those that resulted from it (and I wouldn't want to, anyway).

There's some on the Croydon Tramlink at Reeves Corner. Apparently it can be spelt Gantlet or Gauntlet, but it's always pronounced Gantlet. Edited to correct my brainstorm from DLR to Croydon Tramlink.

I've just come across this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Uck I don't see why East Sussex council doesn't rename the river 'F*ck' and have done with it.

They do have some decent cheese in America. It's all imported from Europe, however.

Actually, Tim, it's the bl00dy Americans. There's nothing wrong with the French cheeses that the Americans ban. For an example, look up Mimolette. This cheese contains a lot of cheese mites, which are harmless to humans, but the American authorities don't like them, hence the ban.

Does this mean that American chocolate is banned from import into the UK? If not, why not?

How can I tell if I have paid for my order in full? My banking details have changed since I ordered my models.

Because they have to get the errors out of them first, and it's better to sell the erroneous models in smaller quantities.

H 0-4-4T, beautiful in full SECR livery as on the Bluebell. P 0-6-0T, beautiful in full SECR livery as on the Bluebell, and beautiful in blue as on the Bluebell.

If you want to model the passenger trains that ran up the Taff Vale main line from Cardiff to Merthyr and Treherbert up to when they were replaced by class 116s, you can't. And if you want to model them after they were replaced by class 116s, you can't. But I'm not going to put these GWR non-gangwayed coaches onto this wish list, as they are already on the annual wish list, and that's good enough for me.

I got 404 not found when following that link.

That would make a nice model.

This thread seems to me to be very similar to wish-lists that people have suggested for other manufacturers, in that the things wished for seem to be the same in all wish-lists. Maybe the time has come for the people who run this community resource to ban wish-lists altogether, to stop the continuous procession of people's lists which ignore the fact that the wished-for item is already available from some other manufacturer or would result in a tremendous loss resulting in the manufacturer going out of business. If you don't like the model produced by a particular manufacturer, why don't you buy one and modify it to your exacting standards yourself. After all, you are a railway modeller, aren't you, and modelling does involve making changes to rtr items, doesn't it? If you aren't a modeller, but just a collector, then you won't care what models are produced, and you won't be making wish-lists to post here.

Did you get a picture?

I think some non-gangwayed non-B-set GWR coaches would be nice.

Isn't that because the tilting trains were intended to run on existing lines with curves that are too sharp for the speed they'll be running at, whereas HS2 is going to be a new line designed to run trains at those speeds without the need to tilt? I assume that non-tilting trains are cheaper than tilting trains, all other things considered equal.

I ordered a pair of these, and they arrived just in time for me to give to my partner as a present for our wedding anniversary tomorrow. It may seem a strange present, but given that she regularly travelled on No.21 to school about fifty years ago, it isn't so strange. She has threatened to tell me where the heaters were in this car; something that's very important in freezing Manx winters. This gives me an idea; perhaps I can find a figure of a girl in her school uniform, use that to represent her, and sit her in the appropriate seat.

People have been banging on about more prototypical OO track for some time. I think Peco could have released their Code 75 flat-bottomed track with wider sleeper spacing in the past; why does more prototypical have to mean bull-head?

Have you told Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman?

I think the Peckett would look better if it drove on the third axle rather than the second.

Oh good. That is my local show, and I can go and see the layout again without making too much effort. I'm looking forward to it.

Interesting to see the bankers drop off just as they reach the level crossing, at the end.

The DLR uses swing-nose crossings where the tracks split for the platforms at Canary Wharf station (and most likely in lots of other places, too). I wouldn't call the DLR high-speed!

The BBC are making a documentary about Liverpool St Station and they are finishing filming by interviewing all the staff. They are about to pack up and go home when someone says, "Wait! We didn't talk to old Bert. He's the oldest employee here; he's been caretaker for the men's toilets for 60 years! We should talk to him." So they find Bert in his little office in the men's loos. "So, Bert, how old are you?" "Well, mate, I'm 79 yars old, yers mate, 79 I am." "And you've worked here all your life?" "Yers mate, since I were a boy." "And you've always worked in the toilets?" "Well, mate, yer takes wot yer can get. I'm lucky to have bin in work at all, all me life, yers mate." "And I bet you've seen some changes here over the years. What would you say has changed, working here?" "Ooh, mate, don't get me started, don't get me started! It's not like it woz; y'see these days, after the pubs chuck aht, I get the druggies, I get the drunks, throwin' up everywhere, I get the prostitutes, I get the pissed up kids, fighting, I get guns and the like, I get the dregs of bleeding' society comin' down these stairs and causing no end of grief, I can't tell you 'ow much it's changed! I get all kinds of dreadful blokes dealing' and shouting' and fightin'. I tell you if someone comes in for a sh1t it's like a breath of fresh air!"