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I remember reading the first issue of Model Rail and my first sight of Tetleys Mills and thinking 'wow'. Dave was a modelling great. Condolences to his family and friends.

Two 60024 Kingfisher In BR Express Blue 60007Sir Nigel Gresley In BR Express Blue

If you look at the MRE photos to the left of the smoke deflectors look at the missing pipe work and other detail compared to the facebook photos. Also look at the cabs in the MRE version the fine detail printing such as the works plates and cab lining are missing.

MREMag has photos of the RailRoad version: http://www.mremag.com/news/article/lner-2-8-2-cock-o-the-north-colour-sample/16399

Looks fabulous! A return to separately fitted buffers to by the look of it as well. Design clever - cleverly designed! (Edited for typo)

Just had the same email, hopefully this just means Hornby can't get anymore production slots for this model in 2013 and we'll get another chance of a Southern liveried 2BIL early in 2014.

Whitby - home of Captain cook who discovered Australia!

Sleights- on the Esk Valley line, former Platform 2 building now Ticket Office at Grosmont

Yarm - station opened in 1996

We have one of those phones you walk around with, land line not a mobile, the other day I was outside repairing some guttering that had been brought down and decided to have some fun while sat on the roof having a tea break and answered one of these nuisance calls waste as much of their time as possible! They were offering me a deal on the electric so i decided to play along 'oh right yes, yesm yes' then decided to ask what was so special about there electricity? The operator couldn't answer except the price, 'so is it nuclear? coal? hydro?' er er no sir its just cheaper 'who produces it?' 'well it comes from er..' you get the idea, its sad i know but it made me laugh, one rang a while ago asking about my gas bill that was interesting as the nearest gas main is about ten miles away! I asked that one if they could send me a sample they put the phone down! Oh another good one one tell double glazing companies you have a wind turbine and solar panels they never know what to say. Matt

Many thanks Olddudders, that would make a very interesting model. Matt

Sorry I know this isn't relevant but what on earth is the building on the bridge? and is it being rebuilt?

It finished t £49 plus £3 postage, last week you could a Petroleum sector Bachmann Class 37 for £50!

It would be so funny! Promise you the Bachmann 108 is and excellent shunter!

According to 'Railways Around Whitby: Volume Two' Tom Roberston, the Whitby Station Master, was doing this throughout the 70's until the closure of the goods yard at Whitby in 1983! On DCC the Bachmann Class 108, with the 36-553 decoder, is a very good shunter I have tried it! Matt

If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't of believed it LMS coaches coming to Whitby! http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/7808420168/ Suitable motive power: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kerryp28/6751089525/ Final day, final hours once this leaves just a couple of departures to go, aren't those Fish boxes stacked up in the bottom right?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5881195942/in/set-72157626944174295 The York bound DMU looks to be taking some sort of van: http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5881202054/in/photostream/lightbox/ In Martin Bairstow's 'Railways Around Whitby Volume Two' he states that the coast line from Whitby to Scarborough closed to freight on the 4 August 1964 six months before passenger services were abandoned. Bairstow also mentions the plight of a man at Hawsker building a house who suddenly found he had to go to Whitby for his bricks! At least today 2013 the NYMR and Network Rail are going to rebuild Platfrom 2 and restore the centre road so the station is more than just a single track siding! Matt

Decided to 'waste' a few hours on flickr and thought these might be helpful: The daily Whitby Malton pick up goods. Is that a fish van 7th from the loco?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/7830244760/ DMU passing goods train outside of Whitby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/2407924893/ So sad: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22370569@N02/4999236983/in/photostream/ Bog Hall Whitby two month after closure of lines to Malton and Scarborough: http://www.flickr.com/photos/71871795@N03/7393833532/in/photostream Vans at Whitby: http://www.davidheyscollection.com/userimages/00000-k-taylor-whitby-50G.jpg Don't how the viaduct went off level! http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/373568/Return-to-the-land-that-Beeching-forgot I don't know if this helps anyone but I have a scaled plan of Robin Hoods Bay station, Fyling Hall and Staintondale (possibly) I could scan if of any use plus one or two other odds and ends on the coast line. Matt

Don't know if this helps anyone? http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5880637093/in/photostream/ Matt

Metcalfe card shop fronts anyone? £41.77 when I looked! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-SKALEDALE-LOW-RELIEF-00-GAUGE-ROW-OF-SHOPS-X-2-/130848634683?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1e772fb73b Especially when the same person is selling this for £31.00 last time I checked in: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-NICE-OAK-VINTAGE-COURT-CABINET-SIDEBOARD-/130848637068?pt=UK_Home_Garden_LivingRoomFurniture_EH&hash=item1e772fc08c

Sorry if I've mislead anyone definitely was not my intention! I appear to of put two and two together and made 5

According to Wiki and Google it's made by passing steam over white hot coke to create a mixture of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen which can be used for the production of Ammonia, Methanol or if Water Gas is mixed with more steam it is possible to make Hydrogen which before 1940 was how most of the world's Hydrogen was produced. Given that Bruner Mond, one of the founders of ICI, were developing an Ammonia Nitrate plant at Billingham from 1920 putting two and two together I'd hazard that this was the destination of the Water Gas, although having read about Water Gas this evening it sounds highly unpleasant stuff and given Whitby Gas Works was about a mile from the nearest housing, excluding the managers house, I'm just speculating this could be why Water Gas was being made in Whitby. Matt

I don't know if this helps put matters in context but between Whitby and Ruswarp the Whitby Gas works was situated almost under Larpool viaduct, pictures are in the 'Scarborough and Whitby Railway' and also both volumes of Martin Bairstow's 'Railways Around Whitby' its dilapidated remains are still there today the pools for the Gas Holders lie derelict while the whole site has a sinister air as some sort of home for abandoned boats lying at all angles although passing by on Tuesday the gates that accessed the railway from the private sidings are still there behind about 15ft of Gorse bushes and the major buildings still survive. The Gas Works would I imagine of been the only source in Whitby for 'Gas Water' as it was the only gas type plant in Whitby. This link shows the plant in its prime http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/whitby-the-viaduct/Memory/b01fa9b7-22d7-4c38-8c81-a02900c13046 Regarding the Flour and Bran to the best of my knowledge there were two large mills in Whitby and Ruswarp, I've never seen any reference to a goods yard at Ruswarp so assume traffic must of originated via Whitby, the mills at Ruswarp is still standing although is now flats having burned down twice while in use as a mill, I have it on good authority it was still milling in the early 1950's although the building dates from Georgian times. The other mill in Whitby was Union Mill situated adjacent to Pannett Park at the top of Chubb Hill, the building was pulled down after the war and made way for an Austin car dealership which lasted until the collapse of MG Rover the site has now been redeveloped and is again known as Union Mill the architects making the top look the dome of a Windmill while the bottom story has a pastiche pf the post war styling employed on the car dealership. Ale and Empties is partly accounted of by Whitby having once been home to the 'Whitby and Scarborough Brewery' long since forgotten it worked out of the building on the harbour side that now serves as the 'Shafiq' clothes shop. 'Livestock' again I'm assuming Whitby was responsible for goods operations at Ruswarp as Ruswarp is home still to the local livestock market and even today what was once the livestock 'platform' at the back of the mart is still used for cattle pens separated from the railway by corrugated sheeting, as a farmer who uses the mart I can assure you very little else remains of the rail served facilities at the mart although if you pass by on the train the platform and siding space is still clearly visible. Sorry if I've ramble on, hope this helps Matt