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Stop it. You'll make someone cross.

I'm with Colin - I'd suspect something has been removed. My 10 year old son got the Swiss flag joke (but then he does have a thing for flags).

I think you may find Mr Duck is quite unreconstructed.....

I heard it had a tendency to overwork at high speed and could suddenly leak uncontrollably...... Now look what you've done, Phil. Gilbert, cuff this thread about the head and bring it back on topic before we all get Moderated!

I'll take the loco off your hands for a tenner, Clive....?

It woudl be possible, but unless they were dimensionally challenged in the same way as the Dapol examples used to create and model the transfers, they would need fiddling to fit in a sensible manner.

This is better:

I did a little bit of photography today while we were winding down. I expect there'll be more along shortly. I found myself opposite the MPD looking at a pair of J39s: And at almost the two extremes of LNER motive power of the time: This one was taken because I thought I couldn't work out the control panel and was incapable of getting the train to move, so it kept me occupied while Robert came back to explain what I'd done wrong. Turned out the loco had failed (it had an intermittent fault all weekend). We ran Mr King's ironstone hoppers and they were very much deserving of close attention: They stand up to the cruelty of the closeup very well indeed.

Oh, yes, we like new photographs. To pick up where Clive left off, I like the ex-LMS 3 plank rear left with the two A type containers in it. The conlflat on the end of that cut is also interesting - either a very short conflat or one of the larger (AFP?) 'Birds Eye' type insulated containers. Would that put this in the early 1960s?

Not MJT, so either Comet or Bill Bedford?

There is. There used to be a picture on fotopic of a V3 hauling a triplet set. Nothing else. Does anyone know if that picture is back online anywhere? I was told at the time it was a special to Tyne Commission Quay for VIPs and that might have been the whole consist, or the triplet had been detached for turning.

Er.... yes. In 1956. You have been away for a long year or two, haven't you?

I know it's the worst kind of pedantry, Tony, and I'll be elected Pope before we see an RTR one, but don't forget the SFO when talking about ECML dining combinations. People of the day said they were treated like gold dust and two coaches had to be rostered to replace one. Surely the type can't have been unique to the ECML? The RSP (RTP in my era) had a small hotplate or something for warming food as well as providing extra storage for the adjacent kitchen.

When the workshop hasn't been too hot, I've managed to complete the trussing on the second Restaurant Car and remake that on the first as it was too low. Bit of tidying up and the last of the brake gear (when Dart Castings oblige) and construction is all but complete. I also cut the rest of the roofs this evening. It's starting to look something like now. Yes, that nearest battery box is hanging off.

No, we need many more small grubby 0-6-0s and tatty opens which were what made money for the company.

The version I heard, he had.

That was what I thought the black patch was for and my eyesight wasn't up to picking out the cleats. I've been educated as well this morning.

How can you tell? That black patch on the end?

Quick thread hijack, if I may - is the BRCW archive available/accessible anywhere?

You're not wrong... I know of at least one other Peter's Spares have sold....

Some more progress this evening. The trussing on the two dining cars was altered in 1927 from the former turnbuckle type to a more angular structure which was a forebear of the 1934 welded trussing. This is not catered for in the kit (I did know this) and so will have to be scratchbuilt with lengths of brass 1mm angle and section ordered from and supplied with great alacrity by Eileen's. The outer trussing is in place after tonight's session leaving just the internal bracing to add at the weekend and then the whole to be tidied up. I examined the Doncaster drawing for this at the NRM. It was dated 1923 even though the modifications weren't applied until 1927. One wonders if the revised design was a reaction to a problem with the cars or they were selected for experimentation for some reason despite being as far from bog standard coaches as you can get.

I think the BMW colour is 'Zinnobar Red', not 'Cinnabar'. This is it, if it's any indication.

I know - I get asked to operate a lot of layouts because they can't find anyone better....

I don't know - that bottom edge where it meets the white is a bit tatty. Did she press the masking tape down firmly enough before she started painting?