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Someone care to explain the 7mm Titfield....

Not fair, all the best small shows are in the wrong half of the country!

The fact it has been running two weeks would suggest WCRC have found a loophole and intend to use it to force the ORR into an exemption. The Mk1s provide a retention toilet and the Mk2s the door controls - such a pity they could not be contained in one coach, but I expect they will push to be allowed to have passengers back in the Mk1s from some new risk mitigation regime they cobble from this lash up.

Mercedes seem to be stuck - they went the wrong way, spent one and a half seasons trying to make it work before going the Red Bull way just as Newey began to go the Mercedes way. The car is still slow comparitive to the McLaren and Ferraris, RB is still leagues ahead and I don't see Hamilton thinking he made the wrong choice in heading to pastures new. I get the awful feeling they are now really targetting 2026 to get back up front when the regulations change again and they'll just tweak away at the current car to get on a par with McLaren and Ferrari, RB might implode I guess but they've a long way to fall before the stop winning races. Sainz should have stuck with McLaren, but that door is firmly shut now. Mercedes is the only viable option unless he does indeed spend a couple of seasons waiting for Audi to get a chance to put their real car onto the track. Who'd be a racing driver without a seat, it's going to be a hard life lol. Wonder where Danni Ric will end up though when he's dumped unless he suddenly finds his form again.

I think it's a little more complicated than the Welsh Government simply wanting to abolish coal, I think if it simply was an opencast mine working with it's neighbours in a sustainable way it might have survived a bit longer. The last site was operating without a licence and there was a concern the land it occupied was not going to be fixed and made good for future use. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67564413

Not to mention the orange one.

Also way to go when trying to make a show about general modelling not be focussed on trains when the centrepiece and the centrepiece model are both railway. How about a boat or even a fighter plane as a centre piece - something different and a statement that it's not just model railways. But perhaps the main draw is model railways and Key just needed the 'model world' bit so as not to tred on Warley's toes as as model railway show, this show was certainly being spoken of before Warley cancelled their slot.

Apparently DB has started scrapping the dumped 90s at Crewe.

What is the pre-occupation with shows at the NEC needing a centre piece - what purpose does it serve? You can't buy it, you can't watch it run and it must cost one of the sponsors a fair wad to transport it there and back. That could be prime selling space, another model or a cost reduction somewhere to make the show cheaper to operate. I know it was a Warley thing, but I sometimes wondered when things are tight, why?

But it's the closest we've seen to the OP's brief a 47 with unfitted wagons and the one at Wakefield has unfitted minerals and dominoes. So I guess we've found the enough evidence for the OP to be able to confidently run an unfitted coal train behind a domino class 47.

Daisy the cow wanders the lanes of the local village.....it's self service.

I don't think he is chasing the money, he will be well rewarded wherever he ends up next and at Aston you still have internal politics as that's the only way Lance is still driving for them. But if he is drawn by the challenge perhaps a return to Williams might be his swansong before retirement, how else to prove it's 'me' not the team that delivers success.

@Roy L S I think they did the Crewe Cut first as they've been promised for years and potentially would have been overshadowed by Blue and Green versions.

I never stopped going to the shops even during lockdown. I also shopped for the in laws who were forced to isolate so could not go out, which meant I did two shops in one go each visit - two trolleys I was known as. I would shop on trolley using the phone app and the other on the conveyor belt so that I took up no more time than I had to at the till. I like to look at the fruit, veg and meat I am buying and that's not going to change, we mainly buy fresh product but I can see the attraction of delivery if everything was pre-prepared or canned etc.

And to give a real life example of what can go wrong, my father died as a result of pain killers dispensed by a GP for gout. The dose/type destroyed his kidneys and he was given 2 years to live, he managed four years (without dialysis treatment) and then succumbed. It wasn't the only medicine he was on, he had all sorts due to TIAs, so probably the painkiller was the one extra thing his body did not want.

I can't get no blue grey mk twos I can't get no blue grey mk twos 'Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try I can't get no, I can't get no 😄

@Roy L S may have been referring to N gauge 47s like I was. Some Next18 ones in Br blue or TT green to follow the Crewe cuts.

Correct I did!

Aren’t the LSL ones still ‘traditional’

But he’s leaving a team at the pinnacle thanks to him so I don’t think he really has any unfinished business or regrets.

For the 47 I would guess the 56 had a big impact on MGRs as that's where the 56s first went. HSTs on Cross Country and Midland routes displaced Peaks and steam heat stock leading to 46s and 45/0 with not a lot to do, even the 45/1 was then onto just Trans Pennine. At the same time the 47s were actually stretched when it came to ETH services so BR began converting 47/0 to 47/4 and then they began range extending too with the later 47/7 & 47/8 derivatives. So rather than finding themselves with less for the 47 to do, it rather focussed them on long distance ETH passenger services with all the older Type 4s going to scrap. The 47 even pushed 50s out in some respects with lots of Network rail 47s working out of Paddington and even on the services out of Waterloo at the end before the 159s were introduced. The 47 really was and is a useful engine.

A nice couple of days financially has seen me able to purchase the remaining three John Hodge Welsh Valley Lines series of books I needed. £40 for talking to a tech company, £20 from Avanti and then £5 from Amazon for simply adding another credit card - so the bill was £4.99. Hold on, I buy lots of books about the Welsh Valleys and then I model the North West of England, something wrong there isn't there.

Thanks @Revolution Mike B I guess I am rather impatient - I've become the @The Johnster with his 94xx. There aint a lot I buy these days, it's not a money thing it's a simple I have enough on my layout and it has to be the right model for me to want to purchase. I've not even ordered a Rapido 44 yet and how long have they been available to pre-order but I did bite on 10001 with the small yellow ends.

Tesla CyberTruck export model

Brilliant - this is not a spoof