Donington Road

don't you just love detective work original gate post positions?

Here are views from google

That photo is so lifelike. On Sundays in the late fifties my dad used to take me to Pickworth Road at Essendine where we would spend all afternoon sitting inside the fence on the wide flat embankment just above track level, along with many other families picnicing at this prime spot. We would leave for home about six o'clock and go via LB and Swinstead back to Bourne to pick up the road for home. Trundling up to LB in the old Morris Minor, we would stop off at the station gate for half an hour more before grudgingly having to leave, school the next day. Coming from the Fens, those hills around LB seemed like mountains to a Fen boy. Memories,oh what memories

I don't think it is that wide at the point where the gate posts are. Looking on google street view at the present entrance you get an idea of where the gate would have been.

Give Andy a chance Ray, he still getting over the shock of the Potting Shed being turned into a burger and sausage parlour. Good job the Bitton Council declined the use as inapropriate for the area.

The gate post that you can see is leaning towards the road. The post that is hidden with the gate attached my also have leaned. That is not to say they are, it may be photgraphic distortion. From past experience of farm gates I would think that the gate actually swings outwards towards the road. It is open in the photo and could well be hidden by the tree at the left. The gate would generally sit level and vertical otherwise it would open or close with a mind of its own. edit: I am pretty certain the gate opened outwards, that is why the gate posts are set back away from the main road.

You can always open another tab in your browser with Bitton on the first page and the second tab on the current page Update to the index looking good

Poor Jeff, he'll be crying in his coffee over your lack of 4x2 every which way and that.

Andy, the index list looks good, thanks for the mention but I was not seeking any praise. If I was you I would add the index file as an attachment as well, that way people can download and print it off for reference rather than having to keep returning to the first page for reference.

sorry, didn't see your edited post before replying to your problem of posting as a list

Don't use the icons to paste the text, use the control key plus c to copy and the control key plus v to paste. Otherwise you get security issues between Word and here. This method works ok as I have just tried it on my own post. Open the Bitton Index.doc file in Word. Highlight all the text in the word document and press ctrl+c to copy Go to your first post on Bitton. Choose Edit at the bottom of the post. Put your cursor where you want the text to go and press crtl+v to paste

As you have not got the flip flop sorted here is the Bitton Index in txt format for anyone else to view. Bitton Index.txt

I thought trainspotters were an extinct species

We could help.......now what about.................

If you go around blowing up sheds I'm not surprised you've got curved track

You have been lucky with the decent weather this Autumn. Trying to do all that brickwork in a normal year and you would still be going well into next Spring, so we are fortunate that KL2 will be starting much sooner than would have been the norm.

Yes, I have noted they are missing. Never mind, pop down to Little Bytham as it seems they are sprouting there at a rapid rate, you may find some going spare.

That because your playing with new balls

I see the land behind your fence has been levelled. Are they about to start more building? If they are you might want to consider a removable panel in your fence for after hours operations

Nice job with the pointwork Andy for a first timer. Did you try the Office code I emailed you Friday?

I've sent you a PM

We make our own rock faces http://www.ukfossils.co.uk/lincolnshire.htm

They will have be in an appendix

I endorse that comment Jason. My fault for starting it all off but not all will be lost. I have been through the whole thread in the past few days and compiled an index for Andy to all the relevent articles so far. No, your are not a miserable git, just a git with common sense. The fun has been had so it is now time to return to serious modelling of what will be an exceptional layout.

Wasteful of good whisky, a better alternative is to drink the whisky and then breathe on everyone.