john new

Similar problem. Am sorting the stock boxes so that I have one solely for - could run into my shunting plank prototypically - and then the rest. My Class 29, 40, 45 and 50 diesels, and umpteen steam locos will appear if/when it is a fun day and I'm ignoring things like weight limits or era accuracy. Similar issue for stock to scenery match. It will be scenically 1975-1985 but stock from other eras will be run but not mismatched loco era to stock era. I'm sure, with its triangle, Sheffield Exchange is as big a magnet for special trains as Salisbury is.

The option for content I posted in is including several threads in which I haven't and ignoring several where I have. For now assuming this is due to the ongoing background indexing but mentioned in case others have also noticed it.

We will all get used to it like any change but I can't see that a longer winded way to get to your existing content threads is progress. Neither do I like the porthole icons that chop the corners off logos and images but that seems to be what software designers think we all want these days. Initial impressions, retrograde user interface and a disappointing change as the old one did everything I needed. The option to view the standard web version on a mobile phone also seems to have gone. Not yet sure whether that will matter as the new version may be the same on any device. The old one was always easier to use in standard mode. Being positive viewed on my i-pad the menu page does have a cleaner look.

The fresh timber (as in post above) now coated in black to seal it. However, despite two coats now applied to the underside prior to wiring, I've noticed there are still a couple of bare wood patches in the corners where I've missed a bit!

Hopefully not too far off topic, for very small traders, and individuals with relatively small volumes of income, the new £1000 exemption is a big help with filling in the tax return, although obviously you need to keep the records to prove your gross income was below £1k. Not everything HMRC does is unhelpful, other changes too also made this year's return easier to fill in.

That puts these, I think, into the 49-51 era batch as the wording underneath says Graham Farish not Formo.

Mileage. At 1:76 how does 76 times that distance China - U.K. - Aus/NZ equate in scale miles to service miles of the real one? And I guess the container boats carrying it go the long way round the Cape rather than through Suez too.

Insulators / insulfrog (as stated above) needs to be qualified by if the points do what it says on the tin! The recent one's that I bought have needed a lot of fettling to guarantee through connectivity and have become de-facto livefrog style as a consequence. (True live frog is impossible as the frogs are plastic) but the wiring needs became identical in all other respects.

Emails get harvested and used in scams. I bet if someone paid the amount the receiving destination of the payment wouldn't be your email address.

Rowntrees Halt, York (Foss Islands Branch). Limited daily, but unadvertised, workers trains. Lasted into DMU days in the early 1980s.

I think it is symptomatic of the current scene but is not anything new with regard to modelling, and reflects the modern desire across the board for vivid colour in illustrations and photographs. Exhibition layouts, for example, do need to be lit as so many halls are on the dark side with their background lighting, but most layouts are lit these days to overly bright levels. However, as I say, this is nothing new. I quote this from E F Carter's 1950 book (Model Railway Encyclopaedia, p207) "...Pristine newness is very exceptional in real railway practice, but seems to be very prevalent in models,...." Much of the specifics of what is in volumes like this one from the past is now obsolete, things have moved on/proprietary suppliers are completely different, but many of the general principles are as valid today as they were then; modern modellers would still do well to read these books for the bits that are timeless, and in particular pages 203-7 covering scenery.

Forgot to add into it is a b*****r to get up and down the stairs - why, the double L shaped corner half way up and the 90 deg swing needed in the narrow hall to get from the hall onto the stairs in the first place.

Secundus is at Corfe Castle safely under cover in the goods shed. Appropriate as it worked in Purbeck.

Isn't that the snub nosed one that looks like it rammed the shed wall, frequently, and at both ends!

Thank you. Will use marked up as DVR on the under construction shunting plank, setting not yet 100% finalised but most likely to be (very) loosely based on a spur off the Derwent Valley Light Railway. That changed over time to DVR, from the original DVLR, perhaps to avoid clashing with the Swansea car tax place's initials when that opened.

Going through my bits box I came across two old metal Graham Farish 00 box van bodies, grey with vented ends (2 vents). I'd forgotten I'd still got these which I think my late father must have bought back in the late 1950s (possibly early 60s) as I vaguely recall them on our first layout decades ago. For sentimental reasons rather than just use them as grounded bodies I am looking at possible options to fit a roof and new chassis/under-frame to them, the originals are lost or too damaged to repair. Place of manufacture Bromley, Kent. Point of post - were they a freelance van design by Farish or based on anything prototypical? What's left of the original paintwork is a pale grey/possibly very pale green livery, suggesting ex-GWR, but there is no trace of any lettering or a BR ID number panel ever having been present. The variable widths to the end planking suggests that they are a based on something rather than a totally freelance design. Unfortunately I don't know enough about vans to recognise the type.

And also if you ever want to take it somewhere in the long-term the size of the smallest vehicle you are likely to own, now or in the future. A 7ft board wouldn't fit many cars. Also think storage. Having just downsized my car the experimental 3 x cardboard fruit boxes base won't go in and it is a b*****r to get up and down the stairs. Built for garage storage and use downstairs damp has meant if it is to be used it will have to be upstairs in a spare bedroom.

Improved - Moorthope, W Yorks thanks to community engagement, now it even has decent toilets and a nice cafe.

Concur, need to go to Sparkford tomorrow, the direct train from Weymouth still goes through the village and passes within 50 yards of where I am driving to. Unfortunately Sparkford station was closed in the 60s. A bus shelterised station would have sufficed.

The other tip I offer is don't promise it to a show before it is finished. I got totally burnt out as regards my modelling mojo due to that. Layout concerned still exists in storage but untouched for years and only partially complete. It will be finished one day but isn't a current project now my mojo has returned.

Also had a mod notice of post deletion (assumed to be of an accidental duplicate as nothing I'd intentionally written appeared to be missing) but it may have even been a triplicate as there was still a duplicate there until I actually changed the heading text to please delete and reported it. Perhaps, also, some Mod deletions haven't happened.

Will the cover mount be the DVD (Shop editions) or a ? (Now reposted in correct thread - duh!)

Without seeing the layout difficult to advise. Perhaps keep most of it black to save repainting, but add a white area with a lipped framing edge to it for the black text to sit on. You then have the equivalent of a signal box name panel. If not white for the background to the name panel perhaps an alternative company or BR regional colour depending on your time frame.

It was dry today so I used the day to work outside modifying the baseboard to make it suitable for wiring in the necessary isolating sections with everything underneath: a full update is on my website which is now back working again even if not 100% restored. The relevant post is here - https://island-publishing.co.uk/wordpress/2019/01/23/phoenix-yard-progress/ There is a little bit more to do, and the new sections need painting black, but it is one step nearer starting the scenics. I have added side rails and cross braces, 11mm ply with a 65mm depth. I have also offered up the layout to the ironing board intended to be its' sub-structure. The track plan is also having an additional L/H point added into the fiddle-yard. It won't go anywhere for now but is to facilitate addition of an extra L section to add more off-scene storage/stock interchange and to vary the basic eight wagons being shunted. As I am also having to add isolating/switched sections due to the insulfrog points proving unreliable I have also decided to swap the wire-in-tube for point motors. I know both of my brothers-in-law would have produced much, much, better outcomes to this woodwork job but as they are over 300 miles away I had to do it myself! The layout is also to sit on an ironing-board, a bit like Peter Leadley's Briding Noora as I wanted a quick and easy sub-structure. Whether the experiment works or not is something only time will tell. If it doesn't I do have spare trestle legs (from Screwfix) already available and a fold up picnic table but they are both a bit too low. I think the L side extension will aid stability and reduce wobble/topple risk. I would also like to add a bit of height to the back scene, what looked OK when I added them now looks to be too low. I have the hardboard, just a case(!) of adding it on.

Depends on the size you want to model, Birmingham New Street is the worst I can think of. Other than that just about any of the modern conversions to bus shelters and the like. Close to where I live Upwey, Dorchester South, Moreton & Wool fit that bill although Dorchester West, Maiden Newton, and Wareham amongst others still have some of their old character left. I guess therefore pick your location and see what survives/has been wrecked.