john new

Agree, underwhelming end, expected more than a video.

The 9F, a demonstration load out of Merehead IIRC and there is some (poor quality) video of it on YouTube.

Hopefully as well as Sky not as a sole live vision broadcaster.

Are you going with the current straight slats on the ends or the older wooden one’s it still had in the fifties? I only ask as your box picture is the modern set. I can’t remember the year they got swapped over but it was fairly recent. The last of the old style were (are?) over the roof end linking the station buildings to the hotel where the short stay car park is now by the Scarborough side bays.

Bloomfield Terrace complete with footbridge access over the lines.

Modern Weymouth drops from the double track main approach, including points off the UP line for the Jubilee Sidings. The final section including the junction for the Harbour stub is a short bi-directional single track approach section over the last 100-200 yards or so. Then it re splits and feeds into three platforms. Loco release crossover no longer used. link to my image -

It has already occurred for me, not a blanket no but as the budget available for hobbies is finite definitely a reduction in numbers of items bought which are new, possibly more for second hand when shows restart and undoubtedly retention of my older items rather than an upgrade to a new item.

If the LNWR era is not the one you specifically model, but you want one of these, you could always buy Hardwicke and run it with four BR blue grey mark1s. It may well look odd but would be correct (number of coaches is from memory but won’t be far out).

Either depending on my mood, I will even tackle basic brass and tinplate work but could not envisage tackling anything with complex valve gear and the mass of fiddly bits that come with most etched kits. There is a barrier to get through, I am not yet ready to try and overcome partly due to cost. I think where card kits have got their bad reputation from is because they are a beginners medium and beginners, being kind, often haven't the right eye for blending the right kits to make a scene convincing. Getting the 'look' right is not down to the medium the model is made from but to paraphrase someone's strap line on here 'right bricks, right design style, right location'. Pendon is the ultimate got it right. How often do we see layouts with, as an example, the Walthers factory, and it just screams American if you have an eye that notices that sort of thing.

Although cross channel ferry traffic is not directly comparable one of the main financial losses to Weymouth's local economy when Condor pulled out was the considerable overnight stays with people arriving the night before ready for the early morning (stupid o-clock) boat. As for facilities aimed at serving departure passengers it still is, perfectly logically, the case. As examples both Bournemouth and Poole have the remaining buffet facilities on the up side, where far more people wait for a train going east/north than do so prior to boarding in Bournemouth for the onward leg to Weymouth. On the down side the predominant pax flow is definitely off the train and out of the station whether that is from terminating X country services or from the SW main line. Conversely, from memory as I've not changed trains there for a while, at Southampton the flows each way are far more balanced and there are buffet facilities for both the main up & the down platforms.

Definitely both the K1 and 44767 in the early 1980s. My wife and I worked together on NELPG specials as stewards and that has to be between 1981 (the year we got together) and 1986 when we moved out of the N East. For the same reason I can confirm Leander ran in that same time period. Not listed was the 9F that ran on the Southern Region (Black Prince?), late 80's the M7 was also at the Salisbury 150 Gala events. Was the green Black 5 one of those listed above, that was running about then too. When was the S15 Greene King running mainline?

The more of these Nellie tweaking jobs I see the more I like it as a loco and wish Hornby would bring it back into the range.

The report includes the following for route - "The ONE Apus is deployed on THE Alliance’s FP2 North Europe-Asia-North America service...." Therefore the next leg after the USA would logically have been back to Northern Europe to complete the circular round trip of N Europe - Asia - Panama Canal - USA - Europe. Having Chinese goods bound for Europe is therefore not an illogical inference, especially if the fireworks were stock intended for New Year's Eve.

Does this have the traditional swivelling pony truck that Tri-ang and the later T-H now Hornby Brits have always had or is it one that in a recent retool Hornby have fitted the rigid frame un-flanged wheels to? if the latter I will be looking for an older 2nd hand one when I eventually get around to buying a Brit.

Guessing you mean this one, I had missed it on the news. https://theloadstar.com/one-apus-stack-collapse-losses-expected-to-top-200m/ A definite oops tilt moment!

Having had a weird hit in a Hornby website search earlier saying it was in stock (my flawed search term perhaps) I contacted Hattons as I was puzzled I hadn't heard anything about my pre-order. They checked for me and are not now expecting the Jim DVLR version to be with them before August 2021. Been said umpteen times before but the release announcements for these products is a total farce, only a few weeks ago when the model, had it actually been coming, would have already been on the ship the delivery was still being quoted on Hornby's website as November/ December this year which Hornby either must have known was wrong or they aren't adequately kept up to date - do we assume (a) they just can't be a***d to keep customers reliably informed or (b) the Chinese production end has so much of an upper hand they are telling the UK end porkies?

I am guessing you know this already, so apologies if it is an egg-sucking note, but at least two of the decorative mouldings around the roof support pillars were not replaced in the post-war rebuild. They were/are located close to the buffers of the south end bay platform (east side).

And the subway is still there. Not walked through it for a while but it certainly was available for public use a year or two back when I Iast tried to do so.

Agree regarding issues of home set up. My small layout is currently in a bedroom on my wife’s folding sewing table. That is only possible longish term because she can now use her other sewing machine on the desk downstairs. Models and gear also laid out on sheet boards on the bunk beds in the 3rd bedroom. (Normally stored in the garage although that is not ideal) All practical to do longish term because, sadly, COVID means no family visits. Long term the answer would be getting the garage turned into a properly insulated hobbies room for both of us, but we’ve been here 34 years and have never had the significant capital funds available. We were part of the way there this year but had to have the main house roof replaced, so back to square one! As others have said as you get older putting up/taking down becomes a more daunting prospect.

I think some people are just time wasters, even if not maliciously, they can’t face saying I no longer want the items. Although I don’t do e-bay sales I do sell the SLS books mail order for the Society. Several overseas requests have required trips to the Post Office to get the postal quotes, you email the price back, they say there will be a cheque in the post/pay pal payment made and you never hear from them again.

And having watched some of the F2 this season on Sky's coverage some merging of the standards would make F1 less boring than at times it has become, so yes please.

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Luckily I spotted the error in the outline drawing of the prototype wagon I was using before I started the bodywork build. I should have spotted the that the ends were not correct as the centre line of the buffers was out by around a millimetre and not set at the same centre line as on the side elevation! Work progressing on rectifying the error ready for a bit more work on it after the sidetrack work re-transferring and weathering the grain wagon.

A chapter covering the Panama canal mule locos is in our Eclectic Electrics book. See https://www.stephensonloco.org.uk/SLS book detail vol two.htm

Or the problem of bargains on the calendar gone by 9am, on another retailer’s advent offer process.