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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.

Some might say an 'outbreak'

Was it the Dartmouth or South Devon where they had the MK1 coach toilets with no floors in them? Somewhat bigger risk that opening doors.

If you did lay a 36 road set of carriage sidings, then you have your fiddleyard sorted if you operate the Hertford loop as a sort of return line for the ECML north element of the circuit. Then another return loop at the southern end to represent Kings X. All you need then is a few sidings to represent a fiddleyard for any freight trains.

Added complexity of the Palace Heights line but a rather nice place to plonk lots of coaches and the carriage shed is a tad smaller perhaps.

1977 was electric, for suburban and outer suburban services This is Bounds Green when new

If I was looking at this model for the period of 1955-1970 I would be considering N gauge I think but your stock will look something like this perhaps listing N gauge manufacturer first then OO. But with your expanded period from 1955, there would be more available from the OO ranges in terms of variety as some key items are missing in N i.e. the 105 DMU, a class 23 and Gresley suburbans. You're going to need some tank engines for the suburban services too for the steam period but I'm not too up on what was used out of KX on suburbans. Once thing for sure, Bounds Green would not exist with a big shed, this might actually make life easier as you can focus more on running trains and less on shunting a shed designed for HSTs, but if you want Bounds Green as it is now you will be purely in the HST period and that also means OHLE with 312 and 313 emus, no dmus and no suburbans, motive power and loco hauled stock would be streamlined too compared to your chosen period J50 - Sonic / Hornby B1 Farish / Dapol / Bachmann A1 Farish / Bachmann A3 Dapol / Hornby A4 Dapol / Hornby Class 23 na / Heljan Class 24 Farish / Bachmann Class 26 Dapol / Heljan Class 30/31 Farish / Hornby / Accurascale Class 40 Farish / Bachmann Class 47 Farish / Bachmann Class 55 Farish / Bachmann / Accurascale DMU Class 105 na / Bachmann Thompson coaches Farish / Bachmann Gresley coaches Dapol / Hornby Gresley suburban na / Hornby Mk1 Farish / Bachmann / Hornby Mk2 Farish / Bachmann Mk1 Suburban Farish / Bachmann

At a recent show in Yorkshire I didn't approach the 2mm FS society and they didn't approach me, but in Glasgow I approached them and several of them all joined in to show me different elements relating to 2mm FS - the approach to track building, drop in wheelsets for diesels and some of the tools and tricks they use to help them model. At York I didn't approach them and they did not approach me. At Warley there was a chap showing models created by himself and his MR club, when I showed interest he reciprocated. I guess that in order to make these demonstrations operate one has to approach them first and then they come to life and are quite interactive. I don't think having people waving arms and beckoning people to their stands is going to work, I think most people are quite shy and don't want to be bothered un-necessarily at a show.

I am not Mr Crispin, but I thought people might be interested in following this chap, it's going to be a slow burn he's been building this for 14 years although to be fair he was at school when he started and then spent some time as a Rolls Royce apprentice.

This popped up on my feed this morning, gives some idea of the mark up for someone who buys and sells for profit over someone who is selling off items they no longer need. If you ask me it's a lot of work when it lots of individual items in constant dribs and drabs.

Wet and windy in Manchester, decided not to go to the gym today, seems to getting too easy to avoid the gym. Spent the week so far reaquainting myself with web development, got to add some new functionality to a web application I developed 12 months ago. Everything going to plan so far but I've yet to get to a point where an actual user has to test it and come up with 1000 other things it could do. I am being fuelled though by a rather nice home done salt n pepper chicken fried rice (the rice comes from Aldi in a useful pack I just fry it after doing all the other ingredients). Tis rather yum - onions, chilli, chicken, an egg, Aldi fried rice and soy sauce plus salt and pepper of course.

@GraemeWatson Are they not different trains though, the Mk3s being used for their Management exec train whereas the Mk2s are for the charter services?