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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. 😀

I've never looked so closely at a WD before, when I look at that kit I see a Stanier cab, smokebox, wheels and valve gear with a Gresley Boiler. Who designed the WD 2-8-0/2-10-0 locomotives, was it a cross company design team?

'Runs Well' if you mean as in a 1970s vintage GF 0-6-0 chassis, yes; it has stop and go. Even with the sound off I could hear the motor from my memory of the old 94xx N gauge models.

But you've nowhere to put your feet now 😄

Aye. It's hard enough to make people happy when you carefully wrap a boxed item and they complain about the number of layers of bubblewrap you've used, but an unboxed item means either purchasing boxes (a cost) or spending time cutting up cardboard to fashion one. If most of your items are loose like that it would be hell. Like I said, the video is of interest, the chap does not appear to be a gouger and whilst his mark up is nearly 50% on many items I get the impression some stuff has gone at a loss and his 50% mark up is not megabucks but like £20-£30 selling price which given the effort he likely expends is probably not a lot of profit. Mind, the tax people will be interested given the new rules Ebay has to follow, so his actual return may soon be even less for the effort put in.