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This image https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18185835.york-railway-station-engineering-becomes-art/#gallery4 on the York Press website confirms one of my memory locations for the roller blind departure boards. The one face on to the camera with Departures as the box header was the roller type, on the right are cabinets with IIRC the full timetables.

The cabinet with the blurred figure in front of it (and the cartoon person in the advert) may well have been a departures cabinet with roller blind on the platform face. I am not certain but it matches my memory of what they looked like before the electronic versions replaced them.

Have just flicked through one of the books on York railways in my library. It is in copyright so I won't post the photo here but this book (See p24) has a photo showing the newsagent, signal box, original location of the footbridge stairs and one of the roller indicator cabinets circa 1930. Sadly I think the book is long out of print. It did of course change by the 1950s but the photo may help. The book is - Hoole, K., 1976. Railways of York, Clapham (Via Lancaster): Dalesman.

I recall the departures listings were on big roller displays, possibly 7-8ft tall, glass fronted with dark wood cabinet style surrounds. I am about 90% certain there was a set on the left (south side) as you went onto the platform and where the Burger King concession is now/was the last time I was on the station. I vaguely recall some others out on the platforms but I am hazy in memory as to where they were.

Very definitely a yes for the metal coupler, and with the old style of riveted through an L flange fixing for the hook. The flimsy clip in hook design is utterly useless for layouts that have to be erected/dismantled even for home use due to double purpose layout/spare bedrooms. Up between family visits but dismantled so the bed can be used when the family come to stay!

We were already hovering on cancelling our Xmas trip home (300 miles each way) as it seemed a big and avoidable risk but the three households rule finally knocked it on the head for definite. If we went we would be staying with my mother and then have a four household group unless one or other married daughter & family were to be dropped off the list. Obviously unacceptable as how can you choose which child and set of grandchildren to shun - and even if the limit had been four my wife would then not have been able to see her sister. The anomaly is I could see mine as she is part of mother’s existing domestic support bubble, this defined as one household. Of my two brothers in law one is from a huge family, he can’t even meet all his siblings within the rules; and if he meets with his own two children/partners/grandchild he can’t see any of his brothers and sisters. With the other B-i-l if he meets with both his brother and his sister he can’t see either of his children and their families. I doubt there will be the anticipated compliance in many instances but perhaps the government allowed for that by making it a five day break and excluding N Year. I hope people know how to draw their Christmas Venn diagrams!

Provided the pews are properly spaced with appropriate safety gaps collective worship in T1 & T2 would be ok provided the individual households don’t mingle outside the three allowed Xmas groups. Whether some small churches have enough pew capacity to manage the gapped congregation and crowd flows in/out without such mingling is a different matter.

Mixed progress on the PECO wagon updates; the headstock(?) changed over OK and the old couplings removed. Some modifications made to the moulding to allow new tension locks to be fitted, but further work needed and I need to buy some very small self tapping screws. Unfortunately, something went wrong with my attempted weathering job on the VAT69 wagon (recoverable I think) using a technique I haven’t used for ages. and also on a 16T mineral. The latter I am going to scrub right back to basic and start again as my experimenting piece. I did take some photos but will add them later, when the wagon is finished and I have established what went wrong in the weathering job. I have also realised the BRT transfers are missing from the VAT69 wagon, this time though I won’t use the blue Sharpie on the edges as it spread too far into the paper.

Fully concur, it appears to just be legalising what is going to happen anyway with regard to an easily predictable ignoring of lockdown by many. The relaxation for Christmas also seems a bit racist as there was no equivalent option made for members of other faiths to celebrate their recent, big, Eid and Duvali festivals. In the case of Eid I think the door slamming was at extremely short notice. This is the sort of inconsistency people don’t understand, as the media are not getting a steer from government to answer the why (or are ignoring it for editorial/circulation/sales reasons).

For the first time since about the time of my 2011 post I tried this technique again today and the watercolour didn’t take as I expected on the first wagon and failed totally when I tried it on a second. I may have diluted it too much, time for a wash it off and retry with a stronger mix.

The full planning app docs and plans are on the Dorset County website and should be there as it is legislative requirement for them to be accessible. You might have to go onto the site and open & save them individually if the link to the PDF didn't work. The application was WP/15/00368/FUL and search for it via Brandy Lane. However, the DCC website seems a bit volatile, papers and plans that were there yesterday not there today. As an aside the latest glitch is that the developers apparently managed to hit a deep level storm sewer with the piling rig and then filled it with concrete, result some flooding in recent heavy rain and a big repair upcoming! The location on the Esplanade I took the photo from is currently closed to walkers as a knock on result.

It has been steadily deteriorating over the 34 years we have lived here. It still had the Perfume Factory notice up when we moved here and has been a crab facility also since then. I think the roof just became less and less safe and eventually fell in! Very contentious site in planning terms over the last five(?) years as the land at the back of it was granted permission for houses on appeal and the resultant designs are not what the locals would have wished for this site in both roof height and design styles. This was the developers view of the site and its history is on the Dorset County web site (Link to planning app search page) and the application is WP/15/00368/FUL on Brandy Lane*. This a local historian's web page with old pictures of the other end of the site. Some of the roof was still on in July 2011, I'm afraid my photo archive is not yet metadata coded and this is the best I can find from the date order folder header names. If I come across further shots I will add them. Edit 18 Nov 2022 - this is the same building but may not be exactly the same image as originally posted.

Work out what you want to do as @Dungrange has said. You have a space available but unless you already have rolling stock the choice of N or 00 is open. Why do I mention that - a double track main line in N would have the same radius curves but look better that a 00 equivalent. As an industrial site with 0-4-0 and 4 wheel wagons you might even squeeze in O. However, if you went for the latter, but then find you really wanted a main line you would be disappointed. Do you want out and back with a continuous run option available; by that I mean a U shape with stations on opposite sides of the room and some form of Denny style line for running in? If yes you start with an L and get one part running before expanding. Do you want a scenic one side with the other an open plain track fiddle yard? Edit - as I have now seen your reply above that came in whilst I was typing try a contemporary preserved setting. I can't stress enough decide what conceptually you want out of a finished layout before commencement of planning and stock purchase. If the key is keeping the children involved work around that. No connection to them other than as a reader but the three track plan books by Paul Lunn are good as they show examples from the basic upwards and all can stimulate ideas for a personal approach. Also wise with a shed to think about adding insulation and for any layout make the sections splittable; you may not want to move it but at some point, perhaps for wall treatment you might have to.

Although it hit the buffers on one of the central platforms do any of the news images of Columbo's crash (1958) include the opposite side of the station? These on the York Press website don't but they might have some more.

A few shots of Portland stone buildings from Chiswell from my files; the two-storey store shed with a first floor loading door above the bigger cart doors seems to be a local style, some having the door centralised some with it off-set. Several are still surviving near me in Underhill. The ornate brick/stone facade is in the former station approach road in Easton, an interesting challenge to model. Hope these help or are at least of interest. EDIT 18 Nov 2022 - these may not be the exact same one's as originally posted but fit the context of the original post.

RE - it didn't look right. The small door and tall door to me are out of proportion in relation to each other. The big door looks about 2.25 times the height of the small and to look "right" would probably need to be much wider. (Or conversely the other door is too small) Also many buildings with that big sliding type of door have it mounted outside the wall (allows things to be put against the inner wall) whereas that one is an inside slider. Stone tone looks good. A black line up the centre would make it pair of opening doors.

Why not make your own, possibly out of scrap pallet slats if money is an issue? I did these with plywood about 30 years ago and they are still going strong; being home made they have the advantage that as I used splittable hinges* they can be side or top hung therefore dual purpose - bog-standard A frames (Pin the top set) or with the side hinges pinned becoming L shaped desk leg style as here. I used a rope tie across to a screw on the other cross-beam when in A mode and they therefore have options for height adjustment/sloping floors and the like. I did use them for several years as A frames under a former layout and they are currently mostly used to form display tables with the SLS promo stand (This was trial set up of the stand layout pre-LFORM in 2018). *a later retro-fit to the original A frame idea.

More news on the Oxford vaccine - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55040635 Good that it is cheaper and easier to distribute than alternatives but conversely appears to have only a 70:30 win ratio compared to the 95:5 of others.

Hornby began with O Gauge (Now 100 years old) and with H-Dublo in 1938, therefore, both anniversaries were/are correct.

If it was me I would try to edit the PDF in a graphics package before printing but I am not sure how editable the sheets are as supplied as I haven't tried.

I have a DVLR 'Jim" on pre-order via Hattons, do we have any updates yet as to whether delivery is likely to be roughly on-time (i.e.about now as announced) or delayed, posibly considerably, like two of my other current pre-orders? I don't mind if it is, although disappointing, but it helps gauge cash-flow to know when something like this is actually due.

One of the reasons I like it is that my skill set is not even, in some areas I am a beginner despite years dabbling in the hobby and the tips for that are useful, in other areas a reminder is helpful and even with things you do regulalrly a suggestion about a new innovation or alternative may help.

The criticism on the look of tension locks is valid, does anyone know why with modern improved plastics they are not supplied in clear? Is it too brittle or too costly versus black?

The nub of this debate over the coaches seems to be about an individual's inaccuracy tolerance i.e., the level of divergence from absolute accuracy that an individual can live with. Even those who have posted above, and can't envisage they will ever run them on their own layout, appear to be in agreement when they look at one of these Kirk or Hornby coaches (and the even worse Tri-ang/ Hornby Thompsons) that however bad they know them to be they still remind them of what they are supposed to be. From there the options cover the very wide spectrum from at one end:- It is a Gresley/Thompson I will have one (perhaps not even noticing the faults, even the most glaring one's) Ok it has got things wrong which I do notice but I can live with these as it still reminds me enough of what it is supposed to be. (and I can have it now) -do - and one of these days I will do what I can to remove some of the errors or think about replacement if I have the funds (My current personal position on it) onwards to the final level of I will never have one as the wrong things are just too noticeable. then it may be that like some on here they can then make and run a better one or decide that what I can have are so bad I will model something else. And that is before the OO - EM - P4 debate commences.

Real water doesn't scale apart from any other issue it might create.