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Thank you The Johnster for the advice. I am looking at upgrading this Lesney Matchbox Wolseley 1500 I found in a junk box and I wanted to glaze the windows on it. Cheers Alisdair

Hi Andrew S Many thanks for the quick reply. Have just Googled it and that's it. Cheers Alisdair

I seem to recall that there is a glazing system for model road vehicles etc which comes out of a tube. It comes out opaque and dries clear. I think Model Rail had an article about it around five, or so, years ago. I would welcome any ideas on what it is. With thanks (AM)

I can understand the desire to achieve accuracy in the products from the model railway manufacturers, and certainly in the past there have been bloopers. Designers will often take the decision of what the final product looks like, rather than what is correct. Away back in 1953 Lesney - of Matchbox cars fame - produced a Coronation Coach with eight horsemen as a souvenir for the Coronation of HM The Queen. When the coach arrived in the shops the eight horses should have had a total of 8 x 4 legs = 32 legs. However, it was produced with 16 legs, the inner legs on all the horses being omitted. Yet it looked correct. The designers at the time took the decision that with 32 legs it looked wrong. And I bet very few even noticed the legless horses. (AM)

Which is what I was trying to say in my first posting on the Golf Club press release. (Alisdair)

I was not suggesting a name change, but just as Cornelius L has set out - promoting the benefits and not the speed. (Alisdair)

I think it is a pity that, with all the recent anti-HS2 rants, that the introduction to the Aylesbury Golf Club press release still refers to "HS2 The new high speed railway in Britain". I would have thought by now the HS2 information press releases should be playing down the high speed aspect of the story, and instead they should be promoting the easing of congestion and the improved communications the line will bring. (AM)

And in the open air with at least two metre distancing! Ideal covid layout (AM)

It has been interesting to read about the various thoughts on where we will be with future exhibitions. As a regular exhibitor, with cancellations having been received over the summer and into the autumn, I await with interest if the other shows in the diary this side of Christmas will actually go ahead. It would be an interesting feedback for us all if we knew how the modeller oldies, and the younger modellers, feel about attending exhibitions. Leaving aside for a moment those who have been instructed to stay isolated, or those who are in the vulnerable group, do the oldies hold the view that we have had our three score years and ten and we just want to get on with attending, or do they have some reticence? How do the younger modellers, who are in the lower risk group as I understand it, feel about attending? Personally as someone in his mid seventies I would be quite happy to attend exhibitions if the government were to allow large groups to assemble such as in football stadia, pubs and restaurants. (AM)

Think Google Sketch up lets you do this. (AM)

Maybe the postman has been hijacked by Del Boy? (AM)

Can I nominate Peter's Spares of Middlesborough as Retailer of the day. Order made of bits and pieces by email yesterday at 12.35 and delivered to Chester today at 11.00am. Alisdair

Agreed, and Harry is a modeller as well, which is all reflected in the modelling products he and Andrea sell, and what us modellers are looking for. Certainly they are not a box shifters! All power to their elbow! (AM)

Hi Alex - apologies for my senior moment - Yes you are correct - I have photograph here on file of a Jumbo on the Killin Branch. Not sure which book the picture is from, so I cannot verify the copyright for the image. (AM)

Killin Branch in Perthshire only had a single Caledonian 0-4-4T for many years, and latterly it was operated by BR 2-6-4T 80,000 series tank locomotive. Whithorn Branch had a Caley Jumbo 57375 as the sole operator when it was a goods only branch in the 1950's, and that was only supplemented by BR 78016 when the Jumbo was in the works. Both lines were built to light railway standards. (AM)

Our layout was attending a show in Yorkshire on the weekend 18 / 19 September, and with the recent comments here on RMweb I decided to check the organising society's website a few minutes ago. The website tells me the show is cancelled. No notification has been received by me, and until today I was presuming the organisers were waiting to see how the whole health situation would pan out over the next month or so before making a decision. Can I therefore suggest traders and exhibitors check individual club websites for the latest position. (AM)

Talking about great - maybe the Caledonian should get the top honours. They simply used an unaltered version of the traditional coat of arms of Scotland for their logo - and the Lord Lyon King of Arms who dealt with heraldry - didn't challenge the Caley directors in its use. (AM)

You are right pH - Pictures of the WD 2-10-0's are scarce, and like you, the only picture I have seen of one of them was in that same book by WAC Smith and Anderson. And to think I could have photographed them, but didn't. Hindsight is a great gift. (AM)

When I lived on the east side of Glasgow overlooking the Rutherglen - Coatbridge line (and the Clyde Iron Works) I saw the General Terminus iron ore trains on a regular basis with their fully fitted 28 wagons and a brake at each end. (As an aside it surprised me that the John Summers iron ore wagons from Bidston to Shotton steelworks were unfitted at that time). Back on topic ... The Ravenscraig iron ore trains (as PH rightly states) were hauled by double headed WD 2-8-0s. But I can recall a WD 2-8-0 and a WD 2-10-0 as a regular pairing. The only LMS 8F's I ever saw on these trains were 48773 / 48774 and 48775 which, like the WD's, were all 66A Polmadie engines. (Cannot find my IA Locoshed allocation - but I seem to recall that these were the only Scottish LMS 2-8-0s) Later on double headed Class 20's were used - nose to nose - and I think they were later replaced by a pair of 37's but that was after I left Glasgow. On their return trips these iron ore trains ran on the West Coast main line down through Uddingston and Cambuslang, the double headers running tender first. They made quite a ground shaking rumble as they raced passed my school. (AM)

No one else has said it, so I will.......Working from Gnome. (AM)

Anyone been bumped by the first rucksack of the morning yet? (AM)

Don't the container fixing chains make all the difference! (AM)

The But I only have two feet - the last time I had when I looked down. Do I have to find two friends to make up the 6 feet? And what about Long John Silver? (AM)

Thank you for that most useful information in these most difficult times. 6 feet clearance is mentioned - is that 24mm clearance in 4mm gauge and 42mm in 0 gauge? (AM)