Joseph_Pestell

I don't understand the legal basis behind the Govt imposing its "sanctions" on Chelsea. Even if someone owns all of a company's shares, the company has separate legal identity. The Board of Directors has a duty to the company (and the wider world) to work in the company's best interest. Not for Govt to interfere with day-to-day running of the company.

Probably telling you how to suck eggs, but did you make sure the engine temperature was right before it did the emissions test?

Long time between abandonment by the Met Rly and it becoming a pub. I think that it was a furniture store. Watford (Met) would be a great layout project as a compact terminus. Good availability of Met electric units these days as 3D prints.

The Friar Penketh is iirc the nearer of the two 'Spoon's to the station in a modern shopping centre unit. I think the other one 200 yards further is a bit better for food and they seem to keep more ales available. The Patten would make a good hotel for JDW.

I do envy you guys with supportive partners. Mine did come to Railwells once but disappeared to the cafe after about 20 minutes. Should have abandoned then rather than wait for total catastrophe,

Tell me about it! At prep school we played "home" matches on a full-sized pitch at Battersea Park. Did not make for a skills based match,

I stayed a couple of nights recently at a hotel directly opposite Warrington BQ station, the Petters Arms (?). Fairly awful but could be really good in the right hands,

We don't seem to have mentioned bars on preserved railways, but perhaps that is out of scope. I have always enjoyed my visits to the King & Castle at Kidderminster (SVR). In the mid/late 70s, a group of us from NSLTC did regular Merrymaker trips, London St P to London Euston via Carnforth. It was supposed to be to travel on the KWVR but we usally ended up in a Tim Taylors pub overlooking the railway about half a mile from Keighley station. Think it was called The Angel. The particular draw was that it was one of two TT pubs to sell the whole range of beers. Will have to look it up to see if it is still there.

An ambitious project!

Not Garsdale, the track is curving the wrong way and a lack of pointwork. Quarries in the background? Perhaps Peak District rather than S&C.

Hello Simon. I feel suitably reproached! The OP had not really given us much detail to go on. But in most cases, we can't be totally accurate in our rendition of signalling for layouts, mainly due to the inevitable compression of distances. So I tend not to go into full details when answering such requests. Covering all of the options would make for very long posts. The main one, which we can't see from the drawing is whether the signal (whether feather or indicator) is on scene at all. It's probably the other side of a view-blocker road bridge with a bus on it.

Main issue is how busy this line is supposed to be. Very busy (approx 10 trains per hour or more), 4 aspect colourlight - and perhaps extra signals to the left of the platforms (some way round the curve shown on photo). Less busy, 2 or 3 aspect, depending when they were installed. Access to bay controlled by a "feather". Wire via an extra contact on the point motor.

I think that you start from a false premise: that would-be purchasers will only be "serious" modellers whose layout reflects a specific location and era on the railway network. My experience is that such modellers are very much a minority. Most modellers will run just about anything on their layouts but they do like a good match between the loco and the carriages being hauled. We have seen some very "niche" products in recent years - more niche than these - but they seem to sell.

Visited the pub about 40 years ago. I don't think they did bottles back then. The draught beer came with about 10mm layer of yeast in the bottom of the glass.

France probably a good tip. They usually start 6 Nations a bit slowly, so it's a real plus to start against Italy.

RTOV is an oxymoron as it is coupled to the train.

There are many such norms. As Harlequin says, the difficulty is in creating good interfaces. Less of a problem for North American prototype where there is a lot of flat land. Here in the UK, not so easy. The FFMF norms tend to produce rather toy-like set ups with a lack of gentle curves. But it can be a good option for a shunting layout at home which can be joined to a mainline set up with other members of a club/group.

Hope the finished model gets the colours right. The image on Engine Shed has a weird butterscotch yellow stripe.

Must belong to the Duke of York.

Perhaps not the best choice of username.

Not my side politically, but Johnny Mercer one of the best MPs in Parliament.

Sorry to learn that you have had to break up the layout for a house move.

iirc Hemyock was built as a light railway and so, legally, would not have required traps. They were presumably retro-fitted when the GW took over.

It was certainly cold in Cheshire this morning as both canal and marina were frozen across again. But much less ground frost than on Tuesday when it was at least 11.00 until it disappeared from the boats' roofs. Mine was just the same so I must be better insulated than I thought.

I don't think that pruning will ever be done by machine. A high level of AI would be required. I agree with you about the quality of some local independent suppliers. When we visited my friend Dave (just after coffee with you), he served an excellent cognac from the neighbouring vineyard.