Joseph_Pestell

Not a type that I have come across and so I don't know whose chassis. But we can clearly see that the bodywork is VanHool.

Fog in the Irish Sea. Great Britain cut off. Apart from the price, I reckon that Liverpool - Douglas is just about the roughest sea crossing I have ever done (July 1972).

That would make a nice model project.

Cracking stuff! The 4-COR is one big omission from the r-t-r market. Are your designs available via Shapeways?

Seems strange for an Italian pilgrimage train to Lourdes to travel via Bordeaux. Presumably a diversion.

It is handy that, in common with quite a few Spanish railways, it is 3ft gauge. That also gives the possibility of HOn3 on 10.5mm track (Shinohara). I'm not too sure though where one might get suitable running gear. Edit to add: Just googled 10.5mm gauge and find that Peco are now doing HOn3. They can do points for that but have struggled to get out some British OO!

I am perfectly capable in French, most would consider me bilingual. I know what they are trying to say and I still think its c**p. What is unheard of or extraordinary about a service which has been around for 36 years?

Consignia seems positively sensible by comparison. I wonder how much they paid some marketing consultant for this c**p.

That does look a terrific event.

Even as a rugby man myself, I acknowledge that soccer is much more a participant sport. That's true even in Southern France. Rugby is followed by most but more play football. Scotland is the home Union with the fewest players - even fewer than in Ireland where Rugby is, to many, a foreign sport. I think that there may even be more registered players in Italy than in Scotland. Sorry that I did not mention any non-league clubs from the Romford direction. Not my part of London. I only mentioned Harrow & Wealdstone for a bit of balance. But I could also have mentioned Sutton, Carshalton & Wallington, Bromley......

Much easier solution. Move to Gauge 3.

Sensational. You get the same effect when repointing a 1:1 scale brick wall. It completely changes the look of the bricks.

Haven't you got a sofa to hide behind?

ISTR that they were going to put the section between Worgret and Wareham as two single lines. But the fact that West Coast are operating this service suggests that this has not been done yet. Google Maps has recent satellite photo that only shows a trailing crossover at Wareham. So presumably timings are to connect with a down SWT train with the train to Swanage arriving/departing from the up platform.

Thanks for that info. I will definitely get down there for one of these trips. I walked the line shortly after closure and met one of the campaigners who were campaigning for this reopening. It's taken 45 years of hard work.

On that basis, I think that you could still find some equivalence. It is only for the benefit of the Pools companies that we get to hear about teams in the third tier of Scottish football, some of whose matches are attended by fewer than 200 souls. If BBC and others were to report on the likes of Tooting and Mitcham, Kingstonian, Dulwich Hamlet, Welling, Harrow and Wealdstone.......... all of whom have much higher attendance figures, you would see that there are an equivalent number of professional/semi-professional clubs in Greater London.

That looks like an interesting bit of kit. That looks positively anaemic rather than pale.

That LCut bridge kit looks very impressive and a real bargain at that price.

If you have looked at all those pitches on Hackney Marshes and elsewhere, I think it is entirely likely that London has more football teams than Scotland.

Wish you well with this. Both the railway and tramway are lovely. Should make for great modelling. I will have a look through my photos but I doubt if I have any which would help.

Simon, Apart from the Corpet, what do you have in mind by way of rolling stock? With my long association in the Aude, I could fancy a small layout to this gauge standard. As David points out, the Jouef Villeneuve station would be very suitable.

If the wargaming stuff is for 15mm figures, that suggests a scale somewhat less than 1:100 as the men would all be less than 5ft tall. But not quite 1:120 either as then they would all be nearly 6' tall.

As I have previously said, some planning officers are their own worst enemy by making inconsistent decisions. That inevitably leads to a suspicion of corruption.

That warehouse looks just what I need for a project I have in mind. Are the window openings cut to suit a suitable window product? Or are the windows included in the kit? Edit: Just found his website. It really is modular! Very clever.

To give it its full title, D78 stock. There is a clue there as to why some people are not that keen.