Joseph_Pestell

Why has anyone rated this as "funny"? Thankfully, I think that you will find any such systems will be isolated from other computers.

When I was considering doing this (20+ years ago), I was going to make the brickwork masters in etched brass or nickel. That way one can make a master quite quickly (although not so cheaply) by simple step-and-repeat on a 2D CAD.

I think that could certainly be a problem with 20thou sheet. And anything thinner might not be strong enough. Hence my comment about incorporating the ballast. Old railway sleepers do have quite rounded edges though.

Be interested to see how this goes. Always been surprising to me that we don't make more use of vacforming in the model railway world, but it had never occurred to me to use it for trackwork. Why not have moulded ballast Roco-Line/Profi-Gleis style?

Nice pictures from Doncaster. Do they still have that awful bus station? I remember pulling in there in 1980 on the overnight coach from Scotland.

Bit of a bargain at €40. Love the caveat about quality of the pieces and the motor. A lot of us felt that way about Ks.

Another thread recently mentioned the film "La Bete Humaine" based on the novel by Zola and filmed in the 1940s(?) with Jean Gabin driving a Pacific. The film really should have been set in the proper period using this loco. Perhaps with modern CGI techniques a remake is on the cards. A great novel that was somewhat underplayed in the film. It's quite raunchy stuff and was probably difficult to get past the film censors 70 years ago.

Looks nice. I like quirky layouts. Definitely better with the loco shed simplified, perhaps even a bit more. And I think I would have the depot only accessed from the main line, not the goods yard headshunt. It might be even better to have the shed on the other side of the line, allowing a longer headshunt.

I take it that you don't take many train journeys these days then. Most EMUs and DMUs have the traction behind at least part of the passenger accommodation.

Main European manufacturer is Cobus. Try googling that.

From an idea floated in the "for those interested in old cars" thread. It seems that there are plenty of us on RMWeb who are interested in old buses (even if we were not bus spotters as such). Quite a few of us, such as Coachmann, even had a career in buses. Several own or have owned vintage buses. Others have an interest in buses, even if only to make sure that we have the right model crossing the bridge on our layout. For myself, I have always been much more a trains and trams man. But for many years, I was a member of the Norbury & South London Transport Club where there was a strong bus following and I used to regularly go to see the May Brighton run and other local rallies such as Cobham Museum Open Day. In my childhood, I explored much of London and surrounding areas on Red and Green Rover tickets. So I still have great affection for some of the rarer LT vehicles of the 60s and 70s: FRM 1, RFs, RLHs,.....

Is he doing dog agility?

Amazing. I was thinking only this morning (after looking at the Rapido bus scan thread) that we should have a thread for old buses on RMWeb.

Why stop at steel wings? I agree that replacing steel with GRP is bound to affect resale value. But a friend of mine had an Alfetta GTV (he may still have it) which had a complete replacement GRP body. Simply magnificent and valuable in its own right as a rarity.

BMW who visited us last weekend did not impress me very much. Got his car completely bogged down in our newly laid gravel driveway and even managed to remove some of the scalpings layer below the gravel. Had to pull him out with my 15-year-old Maverick.

My cousin had a 305 Estate when he was running a taxi business. Amazing car which just went on and on.......

Interesting, certainly. But what a terrible bodge up!

Another layout worth looking at on here for its track plan is West Kirby. Quite similar to what you are trying to achieve.

As regards height, I am working on the idea of legs that work like those on an ironing board to be able to adjust height. If I am feeling really clever, I might try to do it with triangular legs (one of the triangles inverted) which should give maximum stability on uneven floors. The potential difficulty, of course, is that as the layout gets higher it could be unstable especially if narrow. Iain's idea of booster legs to put on a standard exhibition table gets around this neatly.

Apart from an obvious demand for 4mm and 2mm scale, a Lionheart/Dapol version of this would go so well with their B sets.

Not sure what you are planning for the fiddleyard end, but you could simplify the station by having the freight side more separate from the passenger with the goods trains leaving on a separate single line.

Still two first class compartments there, one with a door to the platform and the corridor, one with just a door to the corridor. I totally agree that there is no need for a model one to work - even if now quite doable with DCC. These Hawksworth coaches would only have been used as Slips for slightly more than two years, so more time just as a strengthener on other services, mostly branches. But I can see that it is perhaps not mainstream enough for Hornby. Could be an ideal special commission. I'm not suggesting that any preservation line should use slips regularly - just a one-off occasion (60th anniversary?).

Regional boundaries changed a bit over the years. So, for instance, Panniers and other Western Region locos became commonplace at Exeter Central after the Western Region took over the ex-LSW lines west of Salisbury. But nothing quite so weird as a 14xx/48xx with LSW gate stock.

That's ambitious! I am struggling to come up with an interesting enough design just for standard gauge in 7mm.

I rather like Mokes. But I wouldn't want one that colour.