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It'll be interesting to see the import tariff's impact (i.e. free trade agreement tbc) on final price.

Thanks to everyone who stopped off at the BRM stand for a chat - especially those who said nice things about Didsbury Green.

 

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One (layout related) highlight of the show was discovering that The Really Useful Box Company, who make the plastic boxes I build layouts in, as a local firm. I met the man who delivers plastic to them. I'd assumed these things were made in China, but no, they are a product of Doncaster.

Factory shop is just off the M62 at Normanton Phil. Worth a visit - the range is huge, way beyond what's normally stocked by the likes of Staples and B&Q etc.

We’ll once again be on the top floor at the York show with our full range of static grasses on display, pop up for a chat.

Ben Fogle. Just. Ben Fffffffffogle. At the other end and radio rather than telly, the late Humph.

Oooh. I might get beaten to it!

If anybody is interested it took a ###### equipped JCB to break out the concrete ballast (just managed it). Contained therein? 43 three link couplings and four instantas. All told around three tonne of scrap iron infill.

I can't believe the word ###### is redacted 

Stand 42, with the better half.

Is this Gilberdyke Mick?

See I'm now at the 'pre-tooling' stage....

A super shredder, a burning set, a new wood machine[i worked with Wadkins stuff in a previous life] and, and, and....a lady who can drive a 360 machine!!!

 

I couldn't sleep at night for the excitement!

 

Courage, Mon Brave.

 

Doug

 

[shelagh will ask when I show her, what is the pup called?]

Sorry Doug,

Did the ol' thought I'd replied but in reality hadn't trick. Pup's called 'Tarka' - irony very deliberate.

I promise not to hit the gronk! Infill well underway now.

Bet I get this one released first!

Don't think countries of the size of the U.K., need much of a navy these days. Small highly trained specialist forces trained for asymmetric warfare , anti-Terrorism duties etc. Sea based assets would be limited to material deployment duties and a few missile carriers , etc. The question of an aircraft carrier is a balance as its really not an naval asset in reality, rather a mobile airfield, That happens to be on a boat.

 

Money best spent elsewhere rather then nostalgic power projection

That puts my eight years' service in the hydrographic flotilla into a whole new perspective; Port Stanley residents may also disagree. Still, changing times. I could just be reverting to analogue now I'm approaching the big five 'oh?

Well despite the weather seeming to conspire against us, infill of the old fishing lake is well underway. Approximately a third of the required infill is in. The NYMR is scheduled to bring spoil in from Grosmont next month which hopefully will get us somewhere near the quantity required such that we can start landscaping and stoning in preparation for surfacing.

On the van restoration front my workshop out of town is taking shape with the commissioning last week of a nice Felder combination woodworking machine. The first van (BR standard 20 ton brake van) is in shop and I'm currently stripping back to underframe and removing fittings for patterning. I've had to completely replace the oxygen/acetylene gas axe set as the one I inherited was a death trap. Its replacement dutifully does the hot knife thro' butter routine. A further six brakes/Sharks/boxes sit outside in the queue.

On the modelling front I'm well on now with 2 JLTRT 08's which will see much action on my proposed O gauge layout 'Pickering' (as preserved) - the first two baseboards of which will be the first candidates for the aforementioned Felder machine. I'm starting with the LNERCA's Atkins building and the C&W workshops as a standalone proposition prior to the station / railhead / town element and High Mill crossing to the north.

It helps when your better half is, well, a fairly handy type. All the bucket swinging (20 tonner) on site is her fantastic handywork. The crowd control barriers at right is where 37264 (I guess) will be hauling spoil to from Grosmont for tipping. The puppy was her Christmas present after her last GSD departed age 17 years (SWMBO major credits).

Not so..... that's the gauge..... there are at least three very commonly used scales used for 10.25 locos, hence the question - particularly if you're trying to shoehorn a 6 cylinder diesel in!

 

 

My old archived site from which the 10.25 Society originally sprang is here

 

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Hat, coat, exit stage right at the rush. Hat doffed.

This was really rather good, I took this at Gilling, North Yorkshire a couple of seasons back:

Which scale are you working this to Howard?

First sentence, first post Giles! Late night sir?

Water softeners, Hessle, 1947

Credit: Angus Young, Hull Daily Mail

As long as we all remember the sole purpose of the RN is to get the RM to their objective, and be there ready to take the RM back to Blighty..............

Yes, whatever concert or jamboree they've been booked for Pusser will get them there.....

I thought it was grandiose self-indulgence, and rightly so. I enjoyed it immensely, yes it was slightly bloated but I'm sure Andy Wilman will sort that out. I think the studio piece was a bit ropey when it got to the yank/brit thing but I couldn't help being distracted by the lady immediately behind Clarkson when talking to camera with the extreme white teeth - they were almost luminous. Amazon will be on to a winner here me thinks. Oh, and Carol Vorderman doesn't half get around doesn't she?

I can see it now: Gingham Brewery Wharf.....on a frosty morning......

Must be brewery related after the distillery theme....

Anlaby Road level crossing, Hull 1958. Looking west or towards St George's Road, Selby Street to the left.

 

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Now that, is a pearler Mick!

Steve,

Looking good!

Polak is a Czech company; the company name is an abbreviation of the owners' surname Polakova

Cheers Alex

It was a big box!

Environment Agency; a deadpan delivery too. Anyway, cheered myself up with big railway therapy. Bought a diag 1919 LMS Brake Van, yum.