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He attended our clubs show a few years ago, several members use his boards, they are very well made kits, easy to assemble and great quality .

On 30/10/2023 at 20:51, KeithMacdonald said:

 

The Trustees of the HLRC have graciously granted me special permission to make this the first publication of a plan for the additional branch from Broadford to KyleAkin. The station at Broadford will be extended to provide a bay platform for the branch, and to permit through running of excursion trains from Kyleakin direct to Portree.

 

 

Keen observers will note that the route of the railway into Kyleakin is also in alignment with the planned Railway Bridge across to Kyle of Lochalsh. Which is expected to commence construction as soon as Government funding has been approved. We are assured by the promoters of the Railway Bridge that this will be within a few short years of this year (1898). They also  assure us that all discerning and sensible people of good breeding will always prefer railways as a mode of transportation. Likewise, we should treat with scorn all suggestions that the new-fangled and dangerous horseless-carriages with internal combustion engines will ever provide a suitable or couth alternative. It is most likely a passing fad that will only appeal to a reckless and foppish class of Sassenach people. With which no good Scottish folk would wish to be associated.

A slight confusion in terms here, to a true Highlander or Islander Gael , the Scottish folk are Sassanachs.

Good site for the railway station in Kiltaraglen ( Portree), the school bus used to pick up near the hotel in Somerled Square.

A branch from Broadford to KyleAkin would have been most logical, it would have made my way across Skye to school in Inverness much more interesting.

I would note there were very serious plans for an extension from the MSWJR, near Collingbourne, to the village of Everley , known today as Everleigh, had this been built would this change any proposals?

I've always thought a link from Bulford to Tidworth was obvious, but I believe the army didn't want to cut a bit of training ground in half.

The conical 17 gallon churns in that photo were going out of use in the 1930s  ( starting in the 1920s) by the time the unpleasantness restarted on 3rd Sep , the majority of churns would have been the more modern parallel sided 10 gallon churns.

It's an interesting proposal, me having travelled on the MSWJR line,  I'll ask my mother what she thinks of it as she is at school in Marlborough at this time, some time in the future (around 1970) one of her daughters will also venture there.

Perhaps trains from Ludgershall and Tidworth,  my own area of interest and my school's , would travel that route occasionally.

My Dear boy what is this thing called R.A.D.A.R? the term wasn't invented till 1940 by the US Navy. We are British and the highly secret equipment here is called R.D.F. Radio Direction Finding, and will be known as such for some time after this little unpleasantness called WW2.

You'll be calling it train stations next, such poor English..

Meanwhile your requests for a full English breakfast are denied due to rationing, you are informed you are entitled to one boiled egg, a single piece of bread and marge, with a mug of tea. Oh we've run out of marge you have to make do with dripping...

Ps I'm a guide one day a week here.. https://www.radarmuseum.co.uk/

Such a large amount of space, you know you can get more tools in there ,

And those barrels need to be brewing something.

Yep I'm intending to use permanently fixed rakes of wagons, on my N layout with maybe just the last wagon or two able to be picked off at a wayside station. I'm still looking for a good 2mm coupler , I prefer Dingham in 4mm but they don't make them for N..

I think the signal man will report train parted... No guards van.. Come to that no instanter or vacuum  brake hoses either, as they are XPress rated.  

Good modelling, what couplers are you intending to use?

Wells- Next-The Sea... Ah you went to visit all the rich Londoners, which explains why no facemasks, locals to Norfolk can't afford to live at Chelsea on sea anymore..

Providing your layouts curves are not too tight,  fitting close couplings is not too difficult, then  the bellows connectors.  It's not often,  you split and shunt carriages.  Normally they're left as a fixed rake. 

Can we have a closer look at the pan scrubber foliage please? so I can decide if it's time to raid the kitchen.

Must go, time to drive home via Sprowston 

Great work,, Peter Drummond will be proud of you. 

You've got further than i have and I've got 300yards of EM track waiting to be laid.. 

Well done.. 

A drop down painted  back scene board for each bridge arch would be a solution.  Or as some one said paint it black and.... 

Black mamba rubber gloves 

In the Hebridies when I first lived there in the 1970's a local parent was prosecuted (child cruelty I think it came under) for sending his children to school with out shoes. His defence was he went to school with out shoes and it did him no harm..

The JA number plate is of course Stockport. the JJA series was issued according to this http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/ja.htm

between July 1955 and May 1956.

The Chassis extension from 107 inches to 109 was mid 1956.. So unless it was one of the early prototypes sold off, it's highly likely it's a 107..

Land Rover nerds of the world unite!!

Wonderful modelling,  of what would have been a 107...

6 hours ago, Mikkel said:

 

Thanks Simon. It seems an awful lot of trouble to go to, with the horses and all. But then people didn't exactly travel light in those days!

 

Chris, if you are reading this you need a carriage truck for a certain family 

Well the wealthy did,  the majority just walked with what they could carry all the way to London if required. It's one of the reasons working for a Lord and lady was a prized job. Food and lodgings supplied company transport if required and half a day off a week..

Many of the travellodges were built alongside Little Chefs, when they went bust / got sold off, Some ended up in places with no catering at all. The rest it's very hit and miss what you get. The last one I stayed in only had a Greggs,  The one that I see most (but I'm only stopping for fuel) has a  Burger king and Kentucky.. But they don't open till 10:00.. so you're stuffed  (or should that be unstuffed?) for breakfast..

Grenfell tower was insulated with something like celotex,  but they put it on with an air gap creating a 220ft chimney fed by the gas fire escaping from a flat near the bottom. Under those circumstances almost anything will burn. 

In the circumstances of a model railway with polystyrene sandwiched between it's baseboard and polyfilla.  You'd have to stand there with a blowtorch to get the model built with polystyrene  to catch fire. There are a great many higher risks in your home.. 

If you have plastered your layout with polyfilla as a surface, and  your layout has caught fire. Then  you have a lot more to worry about than the layout, your house has already burnt down.. Celotex IIRC is 300C to catch fire.

 Most sheet polystyrenes now contain a fire retardent, it still will melt and fume but needs a much greater heat to catch fire.

Pollyfilla is for the most part the same as plasterboard used for it's fire resistance.

The plastic coating of wiring does degrade in contact with polystyrene, however at 12V  thats not going to be a problem although if you remove the wire on rebuild it will be a bit sticky.  I've experienced this myself unpacking equipment that spent 10 years in a air temperature (50C+) hanger in Saudi, the polystyrene bubbles had melted and fused to the mains cables. A sticky mess that took ages to clean up..

The stuff with tin foil both sides is generally Celotex which is extruded Polyisocyanurate insulation, which when cut gives a fine hard dust, definately wear a mask when cutting it.

Don't take the tin foil off just one side, it turns into a banana, if you take the tin foil off both sides , it's a lot less ridged so when using it for a base board  I keep the tin foil on (use non solvent "glues like nails" type adhesive)

Extruded Polystryrene  is available in pink or blue or yellow (manufacturers colours), no tin foil, various thicknesses, used for under floor insulation, is the best for baseboard, again you need a dust mask to cut it.

jewsons, insulation express  and SIg,  Sell it.  You may need to buy 4 or more 4 ft by 2ft sheets at  a time or more.  (You can get BIG sheets)

Expanded polystyrene, white, sometime grey,  forms bubbles when cut, they get everywhere, but it is the most commonly available, and usefull for non structural hills..

Off the motorways Travellodge have a serious problem in that they were paired with the lost little chefs.  At one on the A17 there is now a Kentucky or Burger King,  neither opening till 10:00 so what do you do for breakfast? 

My favourite services on the M6 was Tebay but it's some years since I spent a lot of time going up and down the M1, M6, M74.