john new

Over-r Over-running engineering woks in the Rainhill area?

Which also includes availability of smaller venues, such as schools and village halls, around their other standing, weekly, bookings etc.

Cup semi-final workings.

Good idea.

And we are a stop on the Bakerloo - B34.

My guess would be it is intended to be one of the L&B engines (Off the top of my head can't remember which) which went out to S America and disappeared.

I took the plunge and the basic track is down as of tonight. Should be ready for going on the van on Thursday, as hoping to have a couple of days GMRC style on basic scenery and it will be on Stand B34 at Warley if all goes according to plan. More on my web-blog at https://www.island-publishing.co.uk/2018/11/18/model-railway-update/

My model collection has 2 brown Brake Vans ( LNER style) and two GWR Style Toads, one grey/one brown. Unfortunately with the brown one I didn't spot it was designated as Tavistock RU. Just have to assume it went a wandering like the Worcester one's mentioned in this thread. From reading this thread - The bauxite are theoretically vacuum fitted, the grey unfitted. Therefore, presumably for a Brake Van special they can be mixed up, for example running the two GWR style coupled together, as the guard would still have an operable brake, but used in multiple the bauxite should be marshalled adjacent the engine as you would do for any vac fitted wagons in a part-fitted freight?

Update - Having now got everything I own in 00 out of storage to check what have got I can add: E3001 - R753, Knurled wheels, double arrow logo, single pan, roof slider switch. (Something the new Hornby OH one's don't have due to plastic pans -backwards step) The coaches = 3 in total. One brake end, 2 composites. They are a variant not given above - Pale blue/grey sides with off-white/v pale grey roof. Running numbers have no region prefix letter. I am assuming original condition but as I was given them I can't say that for certain.

Inspired by a mix of things, including GMRC, I have been dabbling with an Inglenook+ idea today (private sidings plus BR exchange spur line). Can be a quick start one as I have a spare base available from a "paused" project and a lot of spare Settrack and recycled Streamline that otherwise would not get used. The head-shunt partly running off into the stage left wings to also give a small fiddle yard area makes sense to me. I've got all I need to start - Umm - three day build for a bare boards/public interaction shunting plank on the stand at Warley?????

That button is still visible here. (Using Chrome browser on a Mac if it is relevant).

Is there a show twitter hashtag we can all use to be consistent? Perhaps #Warley2018

A very authentic looking email received today advising me that Royal Mail will be delivering me a parcel tomorrow. The catch, it is from a firm I haven't ordered from on-line based in a City I haven't visited since about 1970. Obviously they expect people to contact them to say that and therefore obtain your personal details as part of "resolving the error". Reason for posting - I am expecting a parcel tomorrow, a more casual/cursory read could have caught me out. Email now deleted, if it was genuine and an unexpected parcel does turn up by RM then I will just take it to the local PO for them to sort out.

M5 - Junc 25 (Taunton) to/from M42 exit I do regularly and is, IIRC from what the sat-nav voice tells me, is 110 miles. Start of M5 in Exeter area to M6 will therefore be a fair bit longer. Rarely do it in full without a PNB though as I've already done a fair run from Portland by the joining point. As a follow up - What's the longest you can do in UK with out meeting a roundabout? (As a guess somewhere around Glasgow onto the M6 and then down the M1 to London area.) My longest regular run is Taunton (J25) to the Hopgrove on the A64 York By-pass! (All slip-roads) although clearly you wouldn't ever be likely to do it, in full, non-stop. Theoretically though on a night-run you could stick the car on cruise control at Taunton and pootle on up the whole way without a gear change.

As was also the 16th layout, the Basingstoke built layout for Radio Times. To be honest I took that as spoiler for the winning team but no to be.

Just seen where the Brown ref comes from - see https://www.dettol.co.uk/products/

Dettol is a paint strip method I've only recently seen mentioned, and have not yet tried, so a couple of newbie type questions - 1) What is the difference to look for when buying to ensure it is the old formulae Dettol please. (A photo of the correct bottle would help). 2) If I can't find any of the right type of Dettol what else is good for stripping plastic models? I ask as this is a method that does NOT eat plastics. It is a couple of plastic loco' bodies that I now need to strip back/respray and previously I've only ever stripped die-casts (cars/H Dublo) and with Polystripper or Nitromores which obviously you don't put anywhere near plastics. Thank you in advance for any answers posted.

From my own recollections as seen - End of steam Winchester - Eastleigh area (I left in 1972) Regular turns with a Peak type (45 or 46) Regular Hymeks on trains from WR (Also regulars on the Pompey-Salisbury & onwards services. (Also on Foot-ex etc., trains) Lots of 47s SRs own Cromptons. WR Cross Country DMUs. Hampshire type 2&3 car Thumpers Plus shunters. West Country - Salisbury - Waterloo services Warships (& On my return to Dorset post 1986) 50s. Post 1986 Weymouth/Bournemouth area (Ignoring excursions) 37s Bristol - Weymouth 31s (Fragonset) Bristol - Weymouth (Remembered and added after original post made) 33s 47s 66s Engineering trains 66s The Wool sand trains (Ran round at Dorchester South) At least one Western at Weymouth I recall seeing when I first moved there (Can't remember now if on a special or a service train - type seen since on excursions) HSTs Voyagers In modern times - many different DMU types. Subsequently on excursions also:- The Hastings Thumper, Western, 50, 55 & 56. Edit - added the Warships entry

Ok a bit later than I intended when I made the above post. Update to URLs We have made what should be the final improvement tweak today by removing the /wordpress/ part of the page URLs for the revised pages. However, this may mean if you have bookmarked the URL of one of our new pages with that element included that will need to be edited out. Testing indicates everything on the live site is working whether in old or new format; however, as usual if you find a bug (or hidden feature) we have missed please tell us so we can track it down and fix it. Further pages will be swapped over when my time permits and they will be available as www.yorkshow.org.uk/ then relevant page reference. Any that will not be converted will stay linked from https://yorkshow.org.uk/legacylinks.htm Traders - The traders page will be the next new version page to be fully checked (Currently live but not fully formatted) therefore if you have a new/revised website address since the 2018 Show can you PM the details please.

Be pro-active with Knickerbocker Glory. Example contact the Model Railways on a Budget YouTube channel people and try to put a team in. if accepted stick to your own £? low budget irrespective of what the upper budget is.

At show all weekend on the Society stand (B34), Will anyone, trader or demonstrator, by either taking items in for repair/post back or be able to do a fix over the show period if we order and bring the correct replacement part? My need - the small drive gear replacing on a Hornby Scotsman tender ringfield drive. See thread - Posts #6 to end. I know what needs fixing, happy to pay for a fix, just no confidence to do it myself!

I suggest that the posters on here who are unimpressed with the production style of GMRC watch at least one round of the latest Lego challenge prog' on Ch 4 to see how lucky we have been. I watched it today on catch-up. A poor show in comparison with things imported from other shows, such as the cringing long pause "Strictly" style to announce the winner/loser. The nearest comparison to GMRC, it also had a theme to the round to encourage creativity with a build of a flat floor level for a tower block. The designs were hardly orthodox flats. I quite like doing Lego with the grandkids, and thought it might give me some ideas for next time they are here with the Lego box out: sadly this programme didn't inspire and I won't bother to watch the rest of the series. My point is that if this deters someone already having a passing interest in Lego it may not (won't?) grip others. The GMRC appears to have kept its viewers in comparison, well done Knickerbocker Glory.

Thank you. Search Thank you, I was probably searching with the wrong words.

I know how the idea of an Inglenook shunting puzzle works and am considering the possibility of a quick build so there is a shunting puzzle layout on the SLS stand to try and draw in the punters. (I do have a suitable base pending currently built for an on-hold project and enough track, locos/wagons etc. in stock). Drawing from a shuffled set of cards and/or disc counters seems to be the established sorting method for home use but is liable to be problematic at a show (Wear on the cards, dropping losing counters etc.). Do any of those already running Inglenooks know if there is an app or similar that does it on a laptop or i-pad? I've posted the question as even if we don't progress the idea now knowing the answer to this, especially if such a beast exists, will be useful for the future and may help other modellers too.

Agreed and it is not a problem to check if if there is a known dimension somewhere on the drawing you are starting with. These printy building kits have no stated dimension other than the text for the series states they are HO. It is also why if I am photographing something for scaling I include a ruler/extendable tape as a check device.