DavidBird

Picked up mine this morning.

Neither should their immediate neighbours.

I remember seeing these on the Bradford drags with the 31s. They were hauled in both directions by the 31. Strangely, I don't remember 47 in use, but that's possibly because that was what was expected, while the use of 31s was unusual, so has stuck in my memory better. But why not just use the 43? Apparently the 91 only had enough battery power to raise the pantograph, so running it at the front, with the 43 propelling, would have flattened the battery and lost the control. So when the loco was used one way, it still had to be returned, so it saved a LE movement to use the same loco to haul the train both ways.

Like this? Ok, so the scenery needs a bit of work....

How about a road going across a level crossing AND under a bridge at the same time... https://flic.kr/p/5VE3HC https://flic.kr/p/5VzUXB

Would that be Ocean Grey or Military Grey? Or is it the other way round? Thanks for the tips about the gradients. I still need to do a gradient test to see just what a Quarry Hunslet with 3 tipper wagons will do. I've got a set of 6 V-tippers from Nigel Brooks, my 1st experience of 3D printing. https://brooks3dmodels.com/#HDVT1 I'm pretty sure that it will manage something quite steep, but I'd not considered if it would look too steep for the setting. A cardboard mock up is needed before cutting any polystyrene.

Yes, they do... and on at least one occassion they involved "The Jacobite" An early morning encounter with the "MV Boreal" and it's foghorn got me out of bed to see through the fog the ECS Jacobite private charter arrival and departure full of cruise passengers https://mallaig-harbour.com/harbour-news-june-2018/ I did even post a photo of the train, but it was lost in the forum crash...

There is an obvious candidate for that, with a local connection too... Does WCRC own the paths on the line? Could they prevent another operator from running trains in the paths? It was apparent from the publicly available data on RTT that they were activating trains on TRUST that they were prohibited from running, during the period that ScotRail were running an additional service.

Progress has, unfortunately been "glacial", if not "geological". The kitchen table work area has been unavailable due important things like eating, and its been far too cold for the attic. Yesterday i made another mistake. The baseboard box suffered both from soot from the lasercutting and slight staining to the surface of the ply. I was planning on varnishing the outside to preserve a nice timber effect, but a coat of varnish would have sealed in the stains. A bit of hand sanding didn't seem to have any effect so after Christmas I borrowed an electric belt sander. This initially didn't have any effect, so I used a bit more pressure. It was at this stage I realised I was actually removing the outer layer of good quality ply, and what i thought was slight surface staining was really dark blemishes on the second layer of lower quality ply. The finish is now worse than it was before, so painting it will be. Any suggestions on colours? Plain black, dark green, Madder Red or even Primrose Yellow?

It's not like that now. They close in November and don't open again until March. Still, the Pub does F&C carry-outs - and does them very well, too!

Strange how your memory plays tricks on you. From seeing that in the early 80s, I was sure it was a metal-bodied BR std 16t mineral wagon...

No, still the best fish and chips!

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Thanks very much. I'm not too well up on pre-TOPS wagon designations, and I only just remember steel 16T wgons in real life...