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Audrey Hepburn was more Dutch than Belgian, her parents just happened to be living in Belgium when she was born. But she also went to school in England and her parents were married in what is now Indonesia. A very well-travelled lady, but not someone imo who should be a thread of plug uglies. However Borsig's offerings were a different matter. Though the earlier version with smaller driving wheels was less of an offence on the eye This class lasted well, and one is preserved in the Utrecht museum. The tender cab extension was a result of their use on goods services on minor lines in their last years

When you danced with me --- ABBA

Little Brown Jug ---- Glenn Miller

Bleecker Street --- Simon and Garfunckel

It's the local club, not the 3mm Society. The loco has tender drive, a modified Helliwell motor bogie. I made my own gear plate to let the motor sit lower. On the loco itself the front axle is rigid but the rear two axles are in a subframe that is pivoted at the back so the drivers can rise up and down. It is lightly sprung to make it bear some weight. The rear axle is also balanced on another axle which is at right angles so that it rather than the drivers reacts to lateral unevenness in the track

When a felon's not engaged in his employment - - - - Gilbert and Sullivan, the Pirates of Penzance

Those were the days. - - - Mary Hopkin

Days. - Kirsty Maccoll

A quick snap of the freelance single. I was working towards a photo to enter in the club's annual photo comp, but the meeting is now a Covid-19 victim so I have a bit more time. The backscene is from this month's Modeller.

Can I call for a steward's inquiry?

The End of the World -- Skeeter Davies

Away Away! My Heart's on Fire --- from Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan

If you want an unbalanced 2-4-0, how about these Beyer-Peacocks supplied to the Dutch State Railways Though they don't look too bad in three quarter view But the next offering from Beyer-Peacock was slightly bigger and had a front bogie Overall though I think these BP locos supplied to the Netherlands should be in the thread of most handsome locomotives rather than this one. The same can't be said of their Holland Railway competitor, their Borsig locomotives definitely belong here

The Only Living Boy in New York -- Paul Simon

Tell me on a Sunday -- Marti Webb

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We in 3mm scale look forward to receiving ours.

Stranger in Paradise -- credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest but the music is actually by Borodin

Yes, now that is hideous

What multiple units are you proposing to use?

If You Want To Know Who We Are -- Gilbert and Sullivan - The Mikado

Watching the Wheat (Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn) -- traditional Welsh folksong

Whispering Grass -- Don Estelle (though the song was first recorded in 1940)

Right said Fred --- Bernard Cribbins

Was it just the drivers? On the South Eastern the CME, Cudworth, didn't put cabs on his engines, arguing that it was better for drivers to be out in the open and that a stout macintosh was better than a cab roof. And yet over the years the weatherboard became a wrap-around affair, and tender weatherboards became the norm on engines expected to do a lot of tender-first working so the view ahead did become compromised. The last Cudworth engines built did get cabs but they were completed during the time of Richard Mansell who was temporary CME while the board argued over Cudworth's sacking and his replacement.