Donington Road

There's going to be a lot more of that

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I blame that Physicsman, all bravado getting Andy's post count up, then bu**ers off laying more bricks and planting daffodils

Only one

Something for you to practise on first then

Some real ingenuity there Peter. If only you could produce a real working model

There you go, fat fingers

You will soon know what grass is all about if you don't get back outtha in that garden of yours and do a bit of weeding I hope being internet free for a week isn't going to blow a fuse in Andy's flip-flop when he gets it back

The joys of html or a dickey keyboard :-)

What seems to happen on some layouts depicting the steam era is that modellers are applying what they can see today as regarding lineside vegetation. I do have a bit of sympathy though with those who use the placement of trees to hide entrances to fiddle yards etc.

Most embankments and cuttings back in 50 and 60's were well kept, dare I say manicured to some extent. There was pride back then in keeping things neat and tidy within the railway boundary. A lot of grass was burnt off by passing steam locos and that which wasn't was often diliberately burnt by lineside gangs resulting in lush fresh growth the following year. Today it is more likely to be overgrown shrubs and trees invading the lineside than areas of neat grass.

I am a engineer by trade, so have been around all sorts of dangerous machinery, in factories, construction, farming, railway etc., been to many seminars and meeetings on H&S and still I have the odd lapse in safety occasionally though not intentionally. I am far more concious of safety now but what others do sometimes frightens me to death. Silly little things sometimes, like my wife put three boxes against the inside of the front door, she didn't understand when I complained that we could not get out quick if there was a fire, response was "I put them there so I wouldn't forget to put them in the car tomorrow"

At lot of railway at Old Fletton was brick yard orientated http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=13&lat=52.54703&lon=-0.25228&layers=39

In addition to the images of Holme on http://www.peterboroughimages.co.uk/blog/?cat=15 there are some more here http://sawtry.ccan.co.uk/content/category/categories/transport/rail

I'll tell you a story that makes me cringe everytime I think about it. I was firing on Britannia once and I needed to drag the coal from the back of the tender to the front. I got in the tender half way up the coal heap and pushed a load forward then just as I was coming back through the tender doors an over bridge flashed by, lucky or stupid, I just plain forgot about the bridge, never, ever did that again.

Sort of. It all came about because I love sausage and mash. I have been doing a bit of research on the potato railways of Lincolnshire, especially the Nocton Estate, then I remembered going there to compete in a pig judging competition many moons ago. Thats when I started dreaming of days gone by, then the light bulb moment. SAUSAGES, why not build a railway around sausages.

Time to go back to the Lunester Lounge for a bit of sanity I think

Yes it was quite interesting the amount of diffent livestock that was transported. The Elephants looked as though they were going to have a tight squeeze getting into their compartments. And not a Giraffe in sight

and half the 292 pages of "Diesels in the Duchy" - AKA St Blazey - DCC EM must be about pies, curries and beer http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/12234-diesels-in-the-duchy-aka-st-blazey-dcc-em/page-292

I've got a small surprise for Andy when he returns from holiday so hopefully we can return the Bitton thread back to normality with some serious modelling.

I would think the shunters were working the Ramsey branch much like they did on the M&GN out of Spalding. There was no passenger services then (M&GN) and life was at a leisurely pace.

Shouldn't that be a string of sausage vans

Pork dressed as mutton

Is that a pork pie with hard boiled egg in the middle?