TheQ

Here's a Thought!, Could you mount a small electric motor in / on the head unit and spin one the engraving / mini router tools you would use with a Dremel type tool and therefore be able to engrave or route, light materials with it? you would probably have to leave the lid off but I don't think that would be a problem. The Q

Thanks to Mike Wiltshire for the MSWJR/GWR Information as that's what I'm modelling, now how do I swing buying another 3 past SWMBO?

Ordered my dukedog at around 11am on the 17th From Hattons while i was in Sheffield, it arrived at 10 am on the 18th at my home on the coast of Norfolk.that's good service.!!!!!!!! It's a green GWR model it arrived in perfect condition, I'm impressed with the detail on it, once I have chosen the exact loco to model for the old mswjr line I'll shirtbutton it and modify it to EM gauge. The Q Edit Thanks to the link posted on here about shed allocations, I now know it will be 9023, time to order some plates. further Edit for my time period 3223 are the plates I need!!

When you finish your layout, Remember to park military vehicles so they can be driven straight out not nose to a wall, as a general rule, this is the normal military instructions (or so my bent ears told me after being shouted at years ago!) The Q

As a degree holding electronics technician of 35 years experience, by my standards that make you rich!! The Q

AaaaRRGh No..... I'll have even less chance of improving my modelling to Rons' impossibly high standards!!!

This goes with having dynotape on the floor saying bin and other such stupid Ideas

You'd need Yodel to bother to turn up, but even then they'd sign "nobody home". The Q

If refering to a layout or Locomotive, I prefer " modelled as from 19XX to 19XX" actually I would like manufacturers to put that on all their rolling stock as the era system is very vague. With that I intend to retire to the "NEW INN" it's a couple of hundred years old. The Q Though if you were to model Newport Pagnell, the name is first mentioned as Neuport in the Domesday book, so this sort of thing has only been going on a short while....

Wanting to buy something from the Hanseatic traders were you? The Q

And on Dhahran air base we had large official notice that mentioned Shose (Shoes) And on the way to Abqaiq there was a Road sign for Abqaiq spelt Baqaiq (backache) The Q and the official fire training taught us there all the UK fire extinguisher colours red, Blue, green, cream, black.... trouble was, all the fire extinguishers were American Silver

Loco's were Not painted "for the war", Painting was carried out when required, if a loco had just been shopped just before the restrictions came in then it may well have survived the war without repainting. So to get the correct colours for any particular loco you need a photo of it at the time you are interested in. The Q

The film Cockleshell heros, has very little to do with reality, About the only thing in common with the real event was paddleing up river to attack shipping, However from the railway point of view it was a wartime film complete with a tank engine in BR black with the ferret and dartboard on the side. The Q

Thank you Miss Prism for the updated Info, looks like I'll need two Shirt button variety for Ludgershall 1940 . The Q

Not mine but probably her indoors! The Q

Had GWR been able to build the electrified lines would we have had over head electric flying bananas for the local traffic? or if they hadn't gone back to steam when the bananas were too popular would we have DMUs in a large scale many years earlier? The Q

Whats this? double heading, at Weymouth in LNER colours too The Q

Alnwick, Northumberland, which, Despite being several miles inland, the idiot weather girl on the TV this morning said was a coastal resort. Also has a good book shop in the remains of the old station, Has a Castle still lived in by the Percy's, which pops up in all sorts of films. Harry Potter meets Robin Hood etc, Has a pub called the Cross Keys, which is better known as the Dirty Bottles (which has nothing to do with the beer.) And it's just off the current A1 and East coast main line. The Q

Ingham, there are several Inghams, the one I have in mind is between Stalham on the old Midland and Great Northern railway and the sea at Sea Palling, It had a fair in victorian times which was closed down for being too riotous, it stll has a pub which has good beer even if it's trying to sell you food most of the time. Just mind the zig zag bend or you'll end up in the pub. The Q

I agree I should have said all light not white ( meaning not alternate light stone dark stone), and since GWR used light stone that would be it, I must admit I hadn't notice the top plank being a darker colour, I'll have to remember that when the station building is ready for painting just the basic shell done so far. The Q

Going slightly off topic as the MSWJR only became GWR after 1923, and not on the line the originator was discussing, The photo that comes up first from the Burbage site is pre 1923, so try this one of Ludgershall about 1930 from the swindonsotherrailway site contributed by Mike Barnsley http://www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk/mike188.jpg I've got copies from the Burbage site and Swindons Other Railway Site and any other I can find, on my computer at home, as I am researching to build Ludgershall 1940, but want to be able to back date it to 1923 ish Thanks Q

I've just come across this thread, and I would observe that the photo on post 45, Has what appears to be the later parallel sided milk churns on the platform, unlike the older conical ones shown in post 75 which would help dating the picture in post 45.. My only other note is that the MSWJR also used something like light stone dark stone on valences, but when taken over by GWR, certainly by photographic evidence I've seen, by the 30's they had gone all White. The Q

Ah, Dover where many of those returning from Dunkirk arrived, from there they went to : Redhill

All I have is an offical photo of my grandfather receiving an award for the quality of his track work (he was a ganger at Ludgershall on the old MSWJR line), His GWR pass, a Southern Railway rules book which must have been issued to him when BR (SR) took over the line in 1958, there should be also his railway scrap book but after dozens of moves at the moment I can't find that. the Q

Nowhere .... it's in Norfolk Near Acle on the Norwich to GT Yarmouth line http://www.tourofuk.com/england/Norfolk/Nowhere