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I actually want to run mine but the current layout is a passenger terminus so not much call for coal trains. But things may change.

Stop it, you’re making me feel guilty for all those mineral wagons and windcutters I have in my unused stock box

Still at it and I caught the new signal on green

Bit of action on Seaward Way

As long as not before

the 319 is unique so far to N, they are doing the 69 in both scales.

It's this: HO Walthers MAINT-OF-WAY Hart Gondola MW #206 Work Train Kit Word of warning, that may not be the correctest description, but it brings up the item on google.

Found this, which looks like your car, but they don't know it's provenance either: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ho-scale-vintage-true-scale-509442910

You may have to curtail the cycling a bit soon, 4:30 in the winter sounds more risky - especially if we get clear nights with ice.

Why does it look like they are building a lair for an arch villain, it looks like they are fitting underfloor heating in those images?

And the beauty of what they are doing is that even on DC you can have sound as it responds in DC mode to if you buy a sound locomotive which I think is really opening the market.

I would guess it's because as 00 gets more whistles and bells around simplicity of installing chips and sound, it makes it harder to encourage sales of N gauge. By making it easier to install sound it makes the gauge an attractive viable alternative to the space starved and still have the same DCC and Sound options of the larger scale. It made a difference to me, I swapped back to N last December and the sound option makes a difference. It also means any other entrant needs to consider DCC & sound options rather than doing the Dapol M7 thing and in 2021 showing an EP without even DCC compatibility out of the box.

Anyway, back on topic, any chance that Covid has disappeared from my locality look to be gone. In the few short hours my other half was out and about this morning she was shocked at the state of people: person at the bloods clinic told to leave and get a PCR test another person at same clinic removing her mask to cough!! person at Boots asking for something from the pharmacist to help their friend with covid multiple coughing people at Costa (could be colds, but lets face it the odds of someone having more than a cold look good) I am isolating to my railway room for the next three days and watching her closely.

When you've stared at the fist of someone four times your size winding up and aimed at your face, come back and make jokes about what might lead one person to want to harm another.

I'm not so sure it is on the decline, just taken different tangents with the rise of social media and the internet. It's not a topic we should get into here.

Maybe, it was simply, no-one took massive care of them - BR didn't have to, it didn't own them so just needed enough to service the diagrammed trained, EE couldn't see a life for them beyond 1974 when the electrics would replace them. BR bought them as the price was right, if not it may simply have put more ETH 47s onto the Western and added more ETH to 45s or even dual braked and added ETH to the 46s to allow withdrawal of the Westerns. BR wasn't short of motive power especially with the HST well into development by the time the 50s were on the Western, it got them cheap and then spent 7 years trying to make them reliable.

Perspex screen around the outside to protect it from prodding and other sticky out bits colliding with trains? Even makes you Covid secure - a proper consideration these days

Lets not make light of abuse please, it's not a funny subject nor one to be light hearted about.

First few examples would be the oldest, highest mileage, closest to needing a general overhaul.

In fact, they are different, you can see the join and the difference at roof level

Also the more liberal houses lack the boot scrapers - the liberal houses may be a later addition to the terrace perhaps and being not so old are not subject to the same restrictions??

Apart from Keith Richards, but that is another thread entirely.

Looking at this chart am I seeing that more males are born than female, but females live longer than males and it starts when males enter their mid thirties. At the very top end of age I can understand - males were once more likely to be employed in very much more manually intensive industries which came with health penalties in later life and war will still account for some of the variance. However, given the wholesale change in types of jobs available, lack of large scale war and a focus on fitness, it would be interesting to know if the surplus of males is now heading upwards or if the surplus wasn't always there and it is a recent trait.

Wasn't that a similar story to when the Royal Scots were sent over to the Great Central. No shed was ever going to part with their best locos unless they had something even better to replace them with.

But at least with these extensions the paying public get something in return.