Joseph_Pestell

I have a similar "block" with electronics. Amos is better than any sleeping medication. Fortunately, I can usually find an electric solution using old-fashioned kit (switches and relays). Jeremy is right that the best solution will depend on what the layout is portraying. So a slightly more detailed plan, showing platforms, buildings, etc. would help.

I had considered them. They would be included in the BSO, rather like in a 442.

Bench-marking against other recent builds is one way to go. But is a MkV sleeper really a valid comparison? There must be someone out there in the railway community who can work out the cost of building a new coach to a suitable specification with a batch size of 150 (3 types - FO, SO, BSO)

Seems like you have just about sorted the legs for the modules that are over the cellar doors. So I have probably come to this too late. But my answer would be legs attached to the wall and hinged - like a gate-leg dining table.

We had a similar thread to this a while back when some of the preservation railways were having problems with their Mk1 coaches e.g. lavatories with no floor. I was a bit of a lone wolf then suggesting some purpose-built new coaches with others saying that they would be unaffordable. Given the overall scale of these operations (main line running and preservation lines), I find that unlikely. Certainly worth more study to establish the number of coaches needed and how much they would cost.

Was that the same colour as used on Minis (circa 1965). In the Mini catalogue, it was called "Fiesta Yellow". My mum called it "sickly green". They had ordered "Almond Green" or "Old English White" but there were ridiculous delivery days.

In my student days, a girlfriend used mint-flavoured lip gel. So my answer is definitely b.

Can you identify the breed of sheep that has been modelled? The colour of sheep varies greatly depending on the breed as does the amount of the head that is dark in colour. Near Lambourn a few years ago there was a big flock of black sheep with just one white one.

I think that you may be right that 3-D printed chassis might be problematic. Best solution would be the traditional etched brass chassis/W-irons with three-point suspension behind cosmetic 3-D printed axlebox/solebar.

I think that this is one of the most informative and fascinating threads that I have seen in ten years viewing on RMWeb. It certainly makes me regret that I did not take more interest in these lines in my teenage years (early 70s).

Not the one that I was thinking of but a great example. The one that I was thinking of was set in South Wales.

One of the problems with modular layouts is a lack of distance on the main line between the modelled locations. But a series of small colliery shunting layouts gets round that problem and makes modular more attractive. The steep gradients of these lines caused the trains to be short which is another plus for modelling.

Can't remember the name now, but there was a layout (featured on RMW?) which managed this with tracks on two levels.

Others have commented on the possible monotony of operation on Minories. I think that even CJF recognised that. But you can only do so much in a very limited space. Parcels, newspapers and specialist goods e.g. fish were all handled during quieter hours at compact city termini and allow some variation on the main diet of suburban passenger trains.

As you say, the issue is always transhipment costs. But it should not be impossible to build distribution depots alongside rail lines as there are many disused goods yards with a central hub in the Midlands (DPD have one at Bescot). But what would the rolling stock look like? An average depot would probably need 3 HGVs a day when I worked in the industry, so probably a 4-car DMU (or, better, two 2-car DMUs coupled together. But that was 15 years ago. So trains would be longer now.

In 1976, my first full time job was with a large firm of chartered accountants with offices across the UK. They used Red Star to transfer urgent documents around the country. I visited various Red Star offices around London. As I recall, it worked very well.AA

This could get expensive! I know several people to buy one of those for for whom I should buy one of those.

Anyone know who sells these? Perfect present for someone that I know.

Having to use a grinder to remove the mortar suggests to me that it is in good condition and does not need redoing. But, yes, the owner probably did not know how much mess it would cause. I found out the hard way when demolishing the front wall of a house. Even though we did it brick-by-brick, bricks were to be reused for rebuild) there was dust on the pavements 400 yards away.

These closures are premature. Maybe possible once the various ticketing processes have been made to work properly. The various websites frequently provide routings that are not the best or cheapest routes. On a recent trip into Manchester from Greenfield, I had to use the machine because it was afternoon after the booking office closes for the day. It would only sell me a First Class ticket. At Stockport on Saturday, I missed my train to Buxton because the machine was so slow to use (and also because of the rather unobvious route to Platform 0).

My father had the same issue with rabbit (for the same reason). He did eat it on a few occasions though. My mother and I just let him believe it was chicken.

Other people have thought the same and even used the Peco as a substitute. But it is really quite different. On the Peco website you can download templetes for their entire range.

Quite so! I am a very average 5'9. I had great difficulty using an Avanti West Coast ticket machine at Stockport yesterday. The touch screen on the machine is placed so low down that it gives a completely false view of the letters on the screen. The Northern Screen seemed to be similar. Good to have a machine accessible to wheelchair users but all three machines?

You have my sympathies. Exhibited once at a show in Paris (actually just up from the site of the old Auteuil station) in semi-permanent marquee on a roasting hot June day. In a garden centre, they should have had access to some hoses to spray the outside of the greenhouses.

Don't confuse the two. Your little chestnut on a string will get clattered by a horse chestnut. More importantly, don't eat horse chestnuts. They are poisonous.