Andy Hayter

I can't see them either - so please, if you can, repost them. Thanks

About as well as Smokey Joe I would imagine.

Was that before or after my little pony? Both I think did little harm to Hornby profits IIRC.

Focalplane I asked my neighbour​ what the French called a weekend before "le weekend" became the standard. He replied, "dimanche" - Sunday. Vis a vis the video - put me down for one. Chassis building has been my bête noire for 30 years - many attempts, few successes. I have signed up for poppysworks jig so that may help.

Many thanks Tony, that link now gets m to the drawings. Like you I profess minimal understanding of these electronic abacuses and I was getting access denied messages whatever I tried to do.

If only I could access them

40 wagons might be a bit OTT for a layout 17ft long including the fiddle yard. Will a small rake of Dinnington do instead?

Well 18 months on. I must give my thanks to everyone who helped, both here and elsewhere where i was asking about GC transfers. Thanks to peter for his scan but in the end I invested in the Taplow book. I cannot claim this as a true representation but I hope it will pass as a train in motion. this is the first 00 scratch building in 25 years and certain parts of the body are not quite as adept as they seemed to be all those years ago. There are things I am pleased with. There are things I would do differently - where was my brain, when I fixed the roof on before putting in the glazing. Doh!!! Now that was a challenge to put right. Attached a view of the van on a nascent Haltemprice Quay layout. Once again thanks to all. I hope you enjoy. And the good news for other GC modellers - Bill Bedford's model of the same diagram should be out any day now, knowing my luck.

Still in the drawing office phase, so John is probably being optimitic with at least 1 year away.

Welcome back.

WW you make some good points, but I think you too are looking at this from the wrong part of the stick. Yes the boys with the big layouts want/need catering vehicles. No the guys like me do not really have room to accept an extra coach in the consist. But - what about the collectors - who will be happy to add something new to their range of coaches. And - what about the trainsetter - who is not interested so much about authenticity as about having a range of coaches - which I suspect is why the Gresley sleeper found a market. For them a brake thrid, composite, restaurant (provided it is clearly indicated as being something different in the exterior labeling) plus maybe a sleeper is a perfectly acceptable representation to have on their layout. Between these two groups I think they represent a market much bigger than our "narrow" interests.

Yes The Loverly but Not Early Railway.

Yes. It seems Richard has been tempted across to the dark side.

and of course as a Bavarian Railway engine would not have been used on the other side of the country on the Rheingold. As for DRG days I am not sure.

ADMiles The doors are glass doors, not dust seals. So in a dusty envirnmoent dust will get in. The smaller ones with wood surround to the glass will provide a better dust seal.

Mine are attached to plasterboard (with studding but the fixings are in the plasterboard and not the studding). Absolutely no problem - as said provided you use appropriate fixings.

The thought of buying 2 large ones brings tears to the eyes*. They are very heavy (33kg each IIRC) and you will need an assisant to get one into the trolley and several passing shoppers to get it out and into the car!! * as a result of the hernia. They are good though and at the price.........................

This issue is not as good as the previous two - it is much better - and the first two were great. Well done Eric and your team.

And of course it does not need to be the owner, who has presumably signed some sort of secrecy agreement. It only need the shed volunteer sweeper to mention, "Oh we 'ad that lot round from 'ornby looking at this a few months ago."

Rob As LNWRmodeller suggests your only option is kit built stock and I know this then limits you unless you can commission a builder. 51L produce a range of LYR coaches (there may be other suppliers as well) but as kits that require separate sourcing of bogies and other bits and bobs. So as LNWRmodeller suggests, pre-grouping is not easy.

In theory that obvious failing could be corrected with a stepped hook - like Kadees do for some of their couplings - but frankly I cannot see why you would do that rather than put the coupling where it should be.

Regarding weighting the Flatrol, how about drilling out the wooden support bars at each end, fill with liquid lead and put a wood plug back in the end. This would put the weight over the bogies which is probably where it is most needed - albeit perhas a little high up.

Good luck with the ferry crossing Focalplane - looks like it could still be a bit lumpy tomorrow night and of course there are likely to be near endless security checks.

Mine arrived at lunchtime today after phoning through my order on Wednesday afternoon. That is a service that can hardly be bettered.

So, if the Patent for the luffing crane was applied for in 1912, what was around before then? Is there still a model life for the Airfix/Dapol dockside crane on Pre WW1 layouts?