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Hmmm: OO 1930s GW/SR - this is because I like the liveries. N gauge BR steam early transition period GW/SR/LM - My dad had a lot of steam on his layout and I've grown up liking steam BR blue in the Northwest (though I have some 26/27s in a box too). - Modelling how I remember it.

The Seaward Cross cam is back now that the crossing has been formally handed back.

With the handover of Seaward Way crossing back to the railway, the cam is back. Note the extra shunt signal now which will allow shunt moves without having to cross the road.

You've no headshunt that doesn't foul the passenger arrivals to any of platforms 1-5 during shunt moves.

So should we expect Porlock Bay Oysters and lots of cider.

@Stubby47 - correct the title - date's wrong

Church Fenton and Woodlesford would both be achievable from HS3 avoiding the eastern leg south of Sheffield.

There's a whole thread on it here, in answer to your question about transport - it requires several HGV Thought I had posted this earlier, it's still in my draft - doh. Maybe people missed it on RMWeb because was in the Scenery, Structures and Transport sub forum as it started life on the making of the buildings by the late great Allan Downes

I would actually view it more as further sealing his title hopes - I think Merc will struggle in Mexico and they are running out of races to overhaul him

She may be smuggling pasties elsewhere.

Yes and perhaps another reason why some railways may pull back from offering some services because they are no longer in competition but all part of a greater whole. I find it interesting how the services like Grand Central and LUMO fit into all these, they don't take any Government subsidy but are competing now against a state owned entity in the form of LNER.

And for once it wasn't an obvious finish, I did see a comment somewhere of someone all chuffed and thought maybe Hamilton had won, but watching it whilst it looked like Verstappen had it under control there was nothing in it at the end, perhaps even just the single back marker giving Verstappen one straight of DRS was enough. Collisions man for the race was actually Alonso of all people - he was having a right old ding with both Alfa Romeo cars.

You know who might really want Toton to be a HS2 hub - Deutsche Bahn AG. Are they responsible for all that land rather than Network Rail? Then there is the cost of abandoning Toton TMD - something that would likely need to happen if HS2 went that way (no sign of it in illustrations), the redundancy costs for the displaced staff plus the cost of setting up at a new smaller location elsewhere. All that would be covered off in a HS2 route through the site of the yard - without that it remains a big ghost yard under their responsibility and a costly exit which at some point they are going to have to swallow.

London-Birmingham - HS2 makes sense, a non-stop railway between the two locations between Old Oak and Birmingham Airport. Birmingham - Manchester starts getting windy to go to places like Crewe because it needed political support, doesn't go to Liverpool though even though it is a big city like Manchester. Birmingham - Leeds goes through the heart of the Midlands with an interchange at Toton because it needed political support but the target was Leeds. 'The North' asks for a HS3 from Liverpool to Leeds - suddenly Toton looks very weak because a HS3 not only connects Liverpool into the high speed network it also allows HS2 an alternative route to it's target in Leeds and may or may not also give Sheffield a better HS2 service. Sacrifice Toton and the midland line to save a bucketload of money to give to the mayors of the North to build HS3 - all makes sense. What they need to be doing very quickly if they do choose this option, is to electrify the midland to Nottingham and Derby to allow acceleration of the MML services

It's three track at best now, though the trackbed does still exist to be four track, quite a bit is just two tracks now - so putting in two tracks dedicated to HS2 trains alongside the existing route may be possible but lower speed than true HS2 dedicated routes. It is true four track around chesterfield, but more because of the diverging routes and simplification of Clay Cross Junction. Then is is two track to Sheffield without a new line being built to a dedicated Sheffield HS2 station. Totton was never intended to be part of HS2 - unless Southampton is planned on a bizarre spur.

To me swapping career unforced is a big risk on its own without throwing in your personal challenges. If you can find something in the same area you find the only challenge is a technical one, but which a switch to long distance driving you’ve got not only the technical skills switch but also whether physically it is suited to you and whether you will feel comfortable with the types of people you’ll have to deal with who may not be as agreeable as other IT types. I’m having to look at refreshing my web developer skills and it is pushing buttons and I’m also about to be reintroduced to robotics which isn’t as hard as you might think, it may be you could find a company that will recognise your current IT skills and train you in the robotics programming - it’s not all code, a lot of drag and drop with some limited vb/c# style script. Wherever you go you are going to find an element of constant do it more, do it better, it’s how most companies work

Going back to your current employment, have you done any Power BI development, it would be a natural lead on from MS Access and currently in demand

I've been wanting to take the wife to see Ladybower from the a57 but it always looks too busy at the Glossop end, but Mottram / Hollingworth is always bad, I am sure it's to justify the diversionary route proposals

Coming to the show this morning it was M62/M621/A61, but going home I used the ring road east to get to the M1 and thought at first that the issue was within the bit on the M1 and the M62 so was because I had gone a different route back. My car directed me over to the A58 to keep me away from the motorway issues but just turfed me onto the road with all the other divertees whose sat navs had also redirected them. When I got to the M1 I did think, just drive to Sheffield and do Woodhead, but I did think it a rather long way round and there are always queues around Glossop and Dinting. In the end it's no biggie, enjoyed the show which was the main thing.

But imagine how impressive a layout this size but using N scale track and stock, it would cover half of West Yorkshire.

Might run like a Swiss watch - but where are the buffers? Quite important on UK models.

Depends on the time of the year, high summer and you've daylight from 4:30am and it goes dark late as well, do it in winter and you'll see nowt but your own reflection in the window.

Went along this morning, spent a good couple of hours wandering about, picked up some glue which I needed. Very good selection of layouts and nice to be train watching again. I wish my school had looked like this one, I would never have left. Pity about the M62 going back west, a rather slow diversion via the a58 to avoid whatever the trouble is on there added over an hour to my return home.

And on his weekend off too

Vaseline?