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Here is a link to the financials. https://www.kader.com.hk/investor_relations/pdf/press_240327_2e.pdf It interesting to note that the model division made an operating profit last year, it in fact the company as a whole made an operating profit, it is the interest on loans, depreciation and reevaluations of properties that is dragging it down.

Something along the lines of American lady "Why can't we sit in the Harry Potter coaches" to which they reply "Well the government tell us we cannot let you as it is dangerous" and then "What business does your federal government have in telling you how to run a train" "Exactly" says the WCRC spokesperson. They want to actually have people complain by locking carriages out of use - it's quite specific isn't it to go Mk1, Mk2, Mk1, Mk2 - if it was operational i.e. brakes they could have put the Mk1s all together.

Depends when they let them go and how they accounted for any severance costs. But depending on what those persons were earning it probably won't solve all the losses problem and still require more revenue and more profit per item sold.

Couldn't see a loco on the back of for ETH etc and why is there a mk1 between each mk2. Are they trying to prove something here or finding a way to get around the regulations and avoid fitting CDL to the Mk1s. It certainly arrived with a 47 on the tail as the ECS from Carnforth.

Plus the messages that pop up on the dashboard warning you to do something like "Brake" - the car bleeps, the message flashes and then disappears before you've had chance to locate it and read it, all the more worrying is that it takes your eyes off the road exactly when it thinks you should be paying extra attention to the road! Yesterday it flashed up some orange symbol as I was entering a motorway on a slip road, no cars in front, none behind, between the lines and no speed restrictions. Absolutely no idea what it was worried about and as usual it was a split second warning and then gone.

I'm a little more east tha NHN in Manchester - Very wet, very windy and I am staying in doors.

News from California https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/california-renewable-energy-100-percent-grid/

Rather puts into perspective the challenge that Bachmann has whilst somehow still delivering very high quality models and expanding ranges such as 009 and NG7 now. It's easy to sit at home demanding more models, quicker and with extra features without understanding there is a business trying to stay afloat and actually keep up with the likes of Accurascale.

Cameron Bridge would make an interesting model, a little larger than a cameo though.

Talking of 7mm - Bachmann as I sure you're now aware have made a rather neat little announcement that might make you rethink your Narrow Gauge ambitions.

I'd be looking pleased with myself too. This is a great announcement - 7mm NG is a sort of accessible 7mm for the space starved or those who want a plank. The sort of thing @NHY 581 might consider and right up the street of a @James Hilton small layout.

ORR to WCRC "This is all we asked you to do!"

Pretty standard for Greater Manchester Waste, nice tidy facilities but not necessarily all weather like that. But gone are the days of picking up nails in your tyres whilst you dump everything into one big hole. Very good options for charitable donations of toys, furniture etc as well for resale.

£72 notes for one £20 note https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256471040441?itmmeta=01HV9F6ACBJ59QZDGNQ0TNHP2N&hash=item3bb6dd81b9:g:4QQAAOSwvqhmEXDh Madness

Maybe they are renting LSL's stuff that is up there 🤣

But it would suggest they are using some coaches that are compliant, so a grudging compliance with the ORR whilst still refusing to do anything with their other stock. And no Harry Potter coach, so despite this not being a Harry Potter train it does contain a Harry Potter coach, I wonder how Warner Bros feel about that? Edit: 15th April is a key date in the Jacobite rebellion, so a deliberate choice of day by WCRC perhaps. Says pathed as a diesel loco at 45mph Perhaps running to protect their paths from LSL taking them, maybe a 37 attached for power for the CDL and ETH

A 156 😄

They could literally refuel mid flight without landing!

Looking at old maps, I can match a siding to the platform end as per the picture and two buildings at the right angle for one of them to potentially be a water tower nearby.

Would the water tower be that close for March? Been through two volumes of GE sheds and nothing similar.

I found two GE engine shed books from my father, certainly not Cambridge nor Kings Lynn,

Interesting, reading that the 2-8-0 boiler design was not popular with the LNER who asked for changes but whilst Stanier agreed it was too late to change. I wonder if the changes were adopted then on the 2-10-0 which is why it looks like a Gresley boiler. https://www.lner.info/locos/O/o7.php

I do find John Betjeman's voice comforting, Alan Watts is another person I can just listen to.

Woke up knackered this morning - I blame YouTiube who has seen fit to introduce a gaming option to it's page. So like those time wasting games that you find in the app stores for your mobile devices except on YT. And they make them too easy so you keep on playing - I did 50 levels of a stupid bubbleshooter type game last night, couldn't stop could I. It's like crack cocaine, you just keep playing, must resist. However the day has been spent web application meddling and it's been quite fun this week actually doing some bona fide dev work rather than tinkering. Time to set up a demo I think for the client.

They were shown the (unlocked) door.... ba dum Tish, thank you, I am availble for booking, see my agent. 😀