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Well done. All this brings back memories of when I worked at the Rootes Group Main Dealer in Leeds. One of the mechanics had acquired an old Sunbeam Talbot and later wanted to sell it on. However at least one of the wheel spats had rusted right through and made a hole as big as your fist, He took it up to the paintshop and, there with newspapere and filler rubbed smooth and a lovely coat of paint and it was made to look like new.

This post brings back memories of when I was a youth. I used to visit relatives in Pontefract where I was "evacuated" during the period 1941-1943 (my mother sent me there) and caught the train (an old looking railcar) and loaded my bike at Crossgates to go to Castleford,  via Garforth and Allerton Bywater (where in fact my father was born), from where I then biked to Pontefract.

I think you should go for the two drivers since you will be creating employment

I used to say I was 40 years awaiting retirement. Now I have been 20 years into it. Enjoy it as best you can!

Thanks for this information and photo. Placing it on the end of a platform could complicate my layout, so I think I will place where it is in the photograph.

Hi again:

I have been back once and have seen the changes. I have also sent material for the Control Tower Museum, but have not been able to visit it.

I live in Catalunya, on the border between the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona.

I am building an 8x4 ft model which, more by chance than design, is UK oriented (1938-1950 period more or less) and I have purchased a good amount of trackside material, cars, commercial vehicles,  buses, etc related with the Leeds area, i.e. with old Leeds or West Riding registration numbers.

Hi! Welcome.

I also live in Spain (been here for 57 years) but before emigrating from the U.K. I lived in Leeds. However, what attracted my attention was the reference to Ipswich station. I did my National Service at R.A.F. Martlesham Heath and used Ipswich Station often to get the Ipswich-Ely-Peterborough line to connect with the northbound lines, The return trip from Peterborough to Ipswich on a Sundaay afternoon was a real bind - 5 hours.

Part of my rolling stock is a Derby lightweight DMU with Ipswich-Felixstowe destination boards.

I wish you success.

I have been at for ten years now and not finished yet. I doubt that many have made so many mistakes as I have. But you can find tons of helpful advice here so, rather than shoot first and ask questions afterwards, it is better to work the other way round. Good luck.

I think the idea is good, but I also think that the system would better inside one of your model vehicles. They look much more authentic and, of course, would be more Leeds-like.

That was the first thing I tried, but I couldn't do it properly and discarded the idea. I tried both sanding it away and cutting it away, but it didn't work, and I ended up by trimming all the cork away to the edge of the sleepers.

As Leeds born, this layout interests me a lot and I would very much like to see it live. However, I have no idea when we will be able to make a trip to the U.K. One thing I would like to see, albeit in photograph on the web, is a tram with 18 on the destination board. Would it be too much to have a bus, a back loader with half cab (JUB 727 for example) with destination 40?

I don't know whether it will be any consolation for you but on the Pyrennees foothills above the bay of Roses (Catalonia) there are some ruins and ceramic plaques and on one of these there is a poem which I can't remember all, but it has a line reading more or less as "There are so many greens that you cannot count them..." and if you look out over the plain lying below, this is true, so you shouldn't worry about your varying shades of green.

I have a mixed lot of OO and H0 stock. I only have four OO BR coaches which will be associated with my City class steam locomotive. I have two Renfe sets, one push-pull with its double deck cars and the other an Arco with its corresponding coaches. I then have several old Lima passenger coaches which are appropriate for being hauled by a SNCF CC40101 electric locomotive and half a dozen goods vehicles for which I have my Swiss 6/6 electric locomotive. This leaves me with two tank engines, one in BR black livery and the other in red LMS livery for which, for the time being, I have no stock to pull. In addition, I have two 2-car DMUs. For tht time being I cannot contemplate purchasing any more passenger or goods vehicles.

My layout became unintentionally dated with the scenic material chosen: Metcalfe semis and terrace houses. As there is a street and a private road involved, vehicles are a must. I have purchased a lot, all for sentimental reasons and I have got all I could with Leeds reg. numbers comprised within the approximate year span (1937-1960). However I have a few without reg. n

My idea from the start was that it was natural for the curves on my layout to have superelevation to avoid the risk of derailment at speed. I started the layout using foam underlay, although there has been some replacement with cork. The problem was that since I do not glue the underlay or the track down but hold it with screws, it wasn't easy to get the inner rail to stay at a lower level than the outer rail. However, whatever the way of achieving it, I believe that the curves should have a camber.

There was no real earthquake. This was the name I gave in earlier posts to the accident that occurred to my layout when, instead of going up to the ceiling, it fell with a crash to the floor and some of the effects were like a real earthquake.

Not really to do with modelling, but I had a funny experience in one of these during my N.S. days. While awaiting take-off, I was sitting alone in the back beside one of the port side windows and when looking out it was obvious that the plane was tilted and the ground was level. However, when looking across to the other side, the impression was quite different, i.e. the plane seemed to be level and the ground tilted. It made me a bit airsick for a few seconds, something that has never happened to me when the plane is in the air.

Originally from Leeds. For the last 50-odd years, from Spain.

Unfortunately around where I live there are no clubs. I have heard of a few people who have more or less sophisticated layouts but don't know anyone personally.

Hi!

I tried rinsing the ballast with water before laying and it worked, with the advantage of not being subsequently moved.

Nice trip, but how do the drivers stand the noise? I gather that this was a cross-frontier trip from Switzerland into Germany.

I can't really say which is my main concern. It is perhaps to have all the infrastructure settled, no material derailing at certain places for certain individual items as happens now. Trackwise the layout is finished, there is not much space left for scenic development. I just want to get to the point where I can place things on the tracks and they run without too much problem because except for small four wheel wagons, with my fingers as they are now, I cannot rerail items and there is only one place where I can use my rerailer device, so I have to start from scratch so to speak every time something needs rerailing.

If my memory does not fail me, I saw these trams still during the war period, since after the war they put buses up our way (40 Stanks) and I stopped taking the tram into town.

Those trams bring back memories. However, have you ever thought of doing a balcony tram? My only recollection of seeing them at Crossgates is in mid-winter, with frost on the raailings and silly me sitting out on the balcony (with other silly kids).

Hi all!

For what it is worth, I will explain my experience with capacitors.

I have 15 Hornby points on my layout (none being 3-way)and, after having physical problems with the Hornby passing lever switches (my fingers are thicker than the space between the levers) and using some inappropriate pushbutton switches, I found a diagram on one of the forums for using capacitors and simple toggle switches. I fitted a capacitor to each point motor and individual switches and they work well. They are powered with a 12Vdc power supply.