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Just received the 2800 and schools class when I got back from the NORWICH show. Both appeared to be intact, I notice the schools tender has not got southern on the side I'm not sure if it should but the photos in the magazine say it should. The Q

Smallbrook do a model of the LSWR 10 ton goods brake van, which with the addition of a central pillar on the veranda becomes the mswjr G B van. private owner wagaons have been available, from the mswjr line, Days, Rawlings, both coal merchants, an Andover furniture remover. I presume the etched kits are the mousa models kits. You'd need to have access to the mswjr volume 3, carriages and wagons by Mike Barnsley from wild swan to compare the drawings with the kits. There have been articles in magazines with drawings of wagons, a Google search will bring up mickssrsource with an index. You could submit a question on the Swindon's other railway site, guestbook, Mike Barnsley is often available to answer, if Neil Lover the site owner can't help. The Q

You're working very quickly, you'll have the branch done before I make a real start on the main line At Ludgershall, Well done !! The Q

Apologies, it appears when I edit a post on this tablet, it comes up as a quote!

I've just bought an extra ( which is the least damaged by transport yet), which will be improved (and GWR'd) to sit quietly on some corner of the layout. The subscription set is to decorate the railway shed. I probably will buy some other extras from the up coming locosthat would be relevant to my railway.

Remember the subscription copies are being sent in pairs!!

Having watched the wonderful work by the orange army, I get the feeling when the council come to to the road above, first a man with a white spray can will mark a few white angles on the road, then a month or two later a couple of men will turn up with a wheelbarrow of instant tarmac, throw that in the hole flatten it with a shovel and then wander off!! And then come back to dig it up to put the pipes in!

Interesting about the hats, in the oil industry its green for a newby. Until cleared for a white. You'd of thought there would be an all industry standard. the amount of spray from the impact of waves on a comparitvely calm day would definately put me off those houses I live almost half a mile inland And a good north easterly gives us some sea spray and sand off the dunes on the windows. Wouldn't buy a second car from there either!! The signalling and metal work will need serious protection from salt or regular replacement. The Q

My wife says I can sleep through anything, but the buncefield refinery explosion woke me up. About 135 miles away!!

Of course it is possible that the maker of these molds, could be working from the original but under the same or even more pressures as the mold makers for Hornby or Bachmann, cost! So there will be similar compromises. The Q

I received just the Southern DVD with Issues 2 and 3, The Coronation had a small glue run fron the left hand handrail at the smokebox end, and the loco was derailed. The Scotsman right hand Walschaert gear was not glued to the body and the tender was derailed, also the previously mentioned name plate is not good. All minor and fixable but annoying I predict a run on Scotsman plates, it will be interesting to see if they mold or print the GWR Number plates. It's strange that after the three premier Known loco classes of LMS and LNER, thet they the choose the 28XX as the next Loco for GWR and not the King which is not on the known list of production so Far, even the Castle is well down the list. The Q

I've just been wandering around the National library of Scotland link that some one else has put up elsewhere, and it has some fantastic mapping. I know you are doing a modified possible layout of Tidworth as it could have been now, but this link takes you to (I hope) a very accurate map of Tidworth 1926, which may help.. http://maps.nls.uk/view/101580052 the Q

Just how do you go on a diversionary route to a dead end road? since its a dead end road you would only need to go down there for Access!!

This may make it more apparent

But when I add This

This arrived on a road around here yesterday, which you may not find unusual

I've not yet started a thread on my layout, this is definitely the layout of a lifetime, and progress at the moment is slow. Hopefully later this year I'll have something to post. The 60 ft ish shed I've built for it is not yet complete but should be soon. I have a fair amount of research done, which will be the basis of my first posts. the Q

I like your choice of Station, I know the area Well and am modelling Ludgershall, I assume you've seen the web site Swindons Other Railway, which will give you some historical pictures, maps and information about the Line, from that site you get the information that Tidworth Station is on a 1 in 264 and imediately on leaving the station a 1 in 90 are you going to model that? (One of my great Uncles (fathers side) was a navvie on the Tidworth Branch extension and my grandfather (mothers side) a ganger at Ludgershall) . Tidworth had a military railway running off of the line and down to the barracks, are you going to find an excuse to keep that as well?. Note that Tidworths station had 835 ft platforms (40 ft wide) or roughly 1M 67cm in N Gauge so you may need some compression. The extra rail link northwards from the Tidworth branch at Ludgershall would have been an interesting construction as it would have needed a cutting to the north of the Medical supplies Depot through Windmill hill, or needed to chop off the northern end of the military part of Ludgershall station although the 1990s extention of the line to that depot could have been part of that. Being without that link on my model of Ludgershall will mean a more interesting operation time for trains going North from Tidworth. The Q

Look at my avatar, we had no problem with their behavior, but the fur got everywhere. They are all gone now, but a new one is due soon. The Q

They (issue 1) arrived here on the coast of Norfolk today there was a big stack in the local newsagents, mind you with that stupid sized card backing it doesn't take many to make a big stack!! I am considering getting more / maybe the series, again SWMBO hasn't said NO and I've told her the full price!! The Q

Oh there are, just not in construction!, Heres a thought if you or I were to do this amount of work, even for repair, we would have council employees crawling all over us for planning permissions demanding we STOP (what ever the danger to property). until building regs and planning had wound there intermidable way through the council. I take it this will be a case of do it now and get retrospective after!! The Q.

With the damage being extended, Once the current repairs are complete, I wonder if have will have to look at to replacing the sea wall entirely along from Dawlish Warren to the tunnel as the wall may have further damage elsewhere But has not collapsed. or just be getting too old. The Q

Whilst I wish this project well, I wonder what impact the outbreak of permanent exhibitions (Ashford, Hoveton, Birmingham) will have on local exhibitions which clubs often depend on. The Q

I would say no the listing states it is for Vacuum use, that is is resistant to collapse, it does NOT state it is resistant to expansion it probably can take the temperature, as silicon tubing is used for cooking trays, and reinforced silicon tubing is used on Turbo Chargers. The Q

I am doing a uncompressed model of Ludgershall station down one side of the shed which comes out at nearly 34ft long, the station plan is http://www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk/ds24.jpg, on the other side of the shed will be Collingbourne station http://www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk/ds23.jpg. The double track loop outside, as well as giving me something to look at in the garden, will give me an almost scale distance between the two although that is a coincidence. The layout will be comparatively simple for it's size but I want to get the correct impression of the station, which those here who are Ex- army of the 1950s will remember was large and windswept and not highly densely populated by buildings, that many are forced to model (as I was in the past) due to lack of space. There have been many delays to the build, so at the moment I'm still building baseboards and the odd model, that's when I'm not rebuilding the kitchen / motorboat / Landrover 110. Once I have something to look at I will create a thread. The Q