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Sorry Jack I've only just seen this, and that by accident! The mods done are: Bogies compensated with MJT frames, Airfix / Dapol frames stuck on, wheels 18.83 3'6" disk Door handles and grab handles carved off and replaced by filed down dress making pins (for handles) and wire (grab rails) Under frame detail added - regulator box fattened, cross bracing added to frame struts, checked for right way round-ness as above numbers and class markings added, HMRS press-fix Flush glazed with SE fine cast parts Cards duckets windows carved out and PVA glazed Buffers sprung Outer couplings of set replaced with Dingham, loop both ends (so I can run them either way, something I've not explained at all yet in my blog, like 'Why?') I'd like to do 'First' and no smoking labels if I can (!) Still need to fix roofs and do the internal coupling Regards, Peter

Are these still available? If so please email pk@kloss.me.uk (If that doesn't break the rules, but I'm not sure how often I look here or would find a response) kind regards, Peter Kloss

I wish ... I'm still working on the room finishing off its insulated lining. Bits of board lying around and bits of wood to make the remaining baseboards. The workbench has a Mk1 composite under construction ... I will post something when I have something to show! Thanks for asking. BTW I love what you have done.

Progress at last (for me): I have stuck on the top of each of the Hornby sides a strip of 40 thou (1mm) black plasticard to imitate the slotted strip that is on the top of the Hachette SK sides into which the roof clips. And indeed it does and the coach holds itself together, like the original -amazing! Needs a little bit of trimming to make sure everything lines up and sits tight. Now I need to cut holes in the Hornby interior to give clearance to the bogie pivots and the close coupler cams before screwing that down. Then its filling, painting, lining, glazing ..... A 4mm wide strip of 40 though black plasticard with slots cut to match the Hachette roof, (note not symmetrical and handed). This was welded to the top of the Hornby sides This cruel blow up shows one attached to the compartment side in place. I stuck a strip (10 thou) on top of the Hornby side as it seemed fractionally too low This shows the roof 'pugged in' to the side and proves the concept works ( for me at least this time!) The assembled coach, externally not too different to the head picture of the previous blog entry on the build, but now it is all clipped together and holds just ... This is the corridor side of the clipped together coach. Much work left to do. The hollowed out under frame is just visible ...

By way of completion of an old blog entry: Before my house move I started constructing an interior from scratch for a Bachmann maroon BSK that I'd bought at Expo EM as a 'spare' without an interior (well, not quite true, it had a TSO interior!!). I described how I'd built the interior but I didn't post photos of the completed job. so here are some external views of the almost complete coach, re-wheeled in existing bogies to P4 (to see how that runs). The complete coach from the corridor side, with a hint of the transparency that putting mesh into the brake end corridor partition gives Shown a bit better in this close up of the brake end This is the compartment side, showing the effect of the less white toilet window (more realistic for earlier Mk1 builds) and the damaged lining which I've still to repair, and to give it an LM region number too .... The brake end showing daylight through the brake compartment and the effect of less white on the guard's compartment window allowing the back of the guard's desk to be seen (prominent in most BSK photos) Thats it for now on the BSK until it appears in a complete rake, (and I've another to do with original Bachmann interior!!)

Some photos of the sides being worked on, showing the micro stripped and filled windows. The filler I'm using doesn't like sticking though ... plus the re-drilled roof then needs rubbing down and the door hinges reconstructed before painting

Thank you Ravenser, I've checked and what I didn't say is that my intention is to only use Hachettes coupled to Bachmann Mk1s, which also appear to have the pockets at the wrong height - photo to show with my Hachette bare chassis coupled to the Bachmann BSK I've been working on ... (the Bachmann one droops a little, will be interesting to see how this works in a long rake)

thanks for the warning, I've yet to do a trial couple up, better try really soon!

Well I ran out of cash for all those juicy Bachmann Mk.1s I need for my 1961 period express / through services, and so turned to that cheaper knock-off the Hachette Mk1 SK which has some resemblance to the Bachmann Mk1 .... to see if with a little work (which cost me nothing but time which being retired I should have lots of. but somehow don't really) I could make something approaching the quality of a Bachmann Mk.1 BTW - why use the Hachette rather than Hornby? because I want the close coupling mechanism, which has been kept in the Hachette Since every layout in the BR mk1 period needs loads of SKs, a Hachette coach is a reasonable substitute if you can cope with the chunky prism effect of the windows, the solid under frame detail, the moulded roof detail and handrails and the plastic axles in the bogies. Some of these things are not to hard to deal with - for instance, the solid under frame can be cut about to give daylight. The wheels can be replaced. The roof detail can be detailed with replacement vents and wire pipes. What if you want to turn it into a different coach altogether - like me, finding that I've run out of money for the CKs I need for my maroon Pines Express rake (not finding a Bachmann CK on eBay for less than £25, i need two, and one needs to have Commonwealth bogies etc)? Well, i thought I'd give it a go having got quite a few Hachettes to play with. So for my first CK, I had bought very cheaply an early Triang CK, happened to be in green 'completely knocked down' and I'm having a go at putting the sides and the interior into a Hachette SK, and transferring the Hachette's windows once I've painted and lined the sides. It isn't that hard, a bit slow, but will save me at least £20 which for me is worthwhile. However, you discover those minute differences between Mk.1s by different manufacturers, like the window sizes, (Triang / Hornby almost 0.5mm bigger all round), side length (Hachette at least 1mm longer) and side height (Triang / Hornby slightly lower) and possibly the side profile (Triang / Hornby could be flatter) ..... So what I've done is, so far: Hacked the under frame so daylight shows - reasonably successfully Removed the windows from the Hachette sides I want to use in the CK sides Removed the window bars from the Triang CK sides Removed the lining guidelines from the CK sides Thinned the ledge at the bottom of the sides to fit into the Hachette chassis slots for the sides Added microstrip to the inside of the CK window openings as they are slightly bigger than the Hachette windows Cut off the SK positioned vents in the roof and drilled holes in the CK positions to take new white metal vents Carved off the SK style water pipe detail and rain strips Also had to add microstrip to the ends of the CK sides as they are fractionally shorter than the Hachette sides Still to do: Make and stick on a wide strip with slots pointing in at the top of each side to mimic the strip on the Hachette sides that the roof locks into Rub down sides Restore some lost hinge detail on sides Paint and line (Maroon), add numbers Glaze with Hachette windows plus some kit master windows for the corridor side narrow (2ft) ones Add grab handles and door handles Fix roof vents Add rain strips in correct location for CK Add toilet tank fillers Detail interior (more about that later) Assemble Make and fix tank filler pipework Do something about those wheels which don't run that well in the cheapo plastic bogies (I've crudely cut and filed them to take P4 wheels) See if it will run (!) Some photos of the sides sitting in the chassis before I attached all that microstrip with original roof ... Corridor side, some blurry Hachette originals in the background Compartment side We'll see if its worth while in a bit

At least you have something to show and it looks good ... mines still at the talk stage :-)

Oh dear - truss rods!! Shame none of the originals have survived into preservation. And yes that broadside picture of the E145 looks like there could be four. I've now cut the extra ones off!!!!

I've updated the text file following Miss Prism's comments!

Miss Prism you are absolutely right about the buffers and I have a set of sprung square shank buffers awaiting a swap with the rigid ones currently fitted. And yes if I hadn't mentioned those awful curved buffer beams on the old Airfix chassis I certainly should have done! (I haven't checked that text file for a long, long time!!) I am so glad that gwr.org.uk rescued Tim Venton's notes, they are such a useful guide as there seems little else about B-Sets out there!! Now all I've got to do is pull them out of the box and finish them off (It was the bogies that I was going to do a bit more to, I wasn't happy with the mods I had done so far to those somewhat skinny (underweight might be more like it) Airfix mouldings and the replacement tie bars need to be higher up ....

this blog entry just might be incorrectly shown as new .... I've been adding header photos to my old entries and accidentally ticked the 'publish now' box. it dates from march 2016! ... i'll try not to do that again. Still getting to grips with the new system!

sorry guys i'm psyching myself up for running a few real models once I'm back home and done some more to the layout ....

Just came across an old photo (well from 2016) of a posed shot on my yet to be dismantled (before house move) partly complete weston super mare S&D of a very GWR scene with my rather lovely Bachmann City 'City of Bath' renamed and numbered as 3440 City of Truro just before I disposed of it as being surplus to my requirements on Ebay (sob sob) ... well it will get resurrected as a monstrous hybrid of Airfix kit with a Bachmann mogul Swindon No.4 boiler on to make amends for the rather undersize thing the Airfix kit has and a P4 chassis built of very ancient Perservence bits kept for many years in the odd bits drawer ... thats a back burner project all right. Just FYI City of Truro is about to work an excursion from WSM, surrounded by some junior GWR colleagues .... (incidentally City of Truro worked several excursions around Bristol and even spent time at WSM Locking Road at the head of the Westward TV publicity train during its first restoration to service by WR between 1957 and 61). .... looking forward to seeing this kind of scene soon!

The last in this glut of blog entries for my historic projects, but one i hope to continue working on soon! This has been a long running 'improvement' saga. Take one pair of Airfix B-Set coaches. Attempt to turn into a representation of the real thing. The body is correctly dimensioned but so many details are wrong. So far I've: - blocked off the incorrect extra guard's window on the left hand side - carved off the end detail and replaced the emergency brake gear on the outer ends only - carved off the old grab rails and door handles, dug out the pockets and put in wire replacements - re-done the under frame, relocating the battery boxes and correcting the brake cylinder pull rods and V-hangers for a hand braked vehicle, replacing the headstocks with straight ones, carving the buffers at inner end to be a representation of short buffers, replacing the outer end ones with long square shank buffer castings Still to do: detail the bogies spring the outer end buffers (i.e. replace them) add the guards steps to the under frame paint the under frame flush glaze add number / guard / luggage / max weight decals, numbered for a Bristol area set make a 'fixed' close coupling and join the pair to make a B-Set Many thanks to Tim Venton of Clutton fame for the information required to do this detailing exercise (not the first to be shown on RMWeb) more photos to follow as I complete this - can't wait to see them run in service! (and then I want to do another conversion to as built condition in 1930 ... all those grab handle pockets :-( ) PS - an interesting feature of the door handle pockets is they run into the body side from the door - I didn't realise this until seeing a shot in the famous branchline trip shot by John Betjeman where he is seen stepping out of a B-set coach - the door handle pocket is clearly seen to run off the door edge. side view, brake to right. Battery boxes on this side , guards window side view, brake to left. Battery regulator, dynamo and 'stepped out' V-hanger, no guards window under frame view with added truss angles (there were four). Just wait now for Hornby to issue an upgraded model for £50 a piece!! I wrote a little article to tell all I knew about the B-Sets and upgrading the model with much reference to Tim Venton: (converted it to a .pdf so the system would accept it!) BsetE140.pdf

Reality Warning - this locational is fictional and so is almost every thing that follows, but it interests me! I've mentioned early on in the blog the chosen 'real' location for my layout, that is an imagined Somerset & Dorset Railway terminus at Weston Super Mare (henceforth abbreviated as WSM). To me it has several attractions, as firstly, historically it was something that really did almost happen, and secondly a very attractive variety of services both local and long distance could be legitimately run through it. The historical context: Soon after the creation of the S&D, it was looking for a northern outlet. Before the Bath extension was planned its preferred option was to build north from Wells, (to which it had already built a branch), to Yatton. The Bristol and Exeter Railway, which had operated the Somerset Central, (the northern half of the S&D) at first countered with a Wells - Bleadon line proposal (Bleadon being just south of WSM) and offered the Somerset Central / S&D (before the joint MR / LSWR takeover) running powers to Bristol. (In reality, the B&E took over the Wells- Yatton proposal and the S&D never did get running powers). How if the B&E offer was accepted by the S&D, the line got built to Bleadon instead of Yatton and the SC / S&D did build their own terminus at WSM to get an operational toe-hold nearer Bristol just before the take over. The scenario could be like the Settle and Carlisle ... The B&E offer running powers, the S&D accept, the GWR over-rule and make the running powers unusable (just like the LNWR treated the Midland when it tried to access Scotland via the 'little North Western'). Then the S&D says 'What the .... we will build to Bath anyway, and get taken over .... with WSM and running powers intact. Then, the MR years later exert some muscle in court and win practical rights to run some services Wells - WSM - Bristol, in revenge for the GWR getting running rights from Gloucester to Bristol. the advantage for the S&D would be much easier gradients for the services running this way, and a time saving that would more than compensate for the extra distance. Then, I would conjecture that in return the GWR would demand, and get running powers from the S&D from Wells to Evercreech and really put in that junction with the Wilts and Dorset, but facing south towards Castle Cary, giving a shorter and quicker Bristol to Weymouth route. (Remember that the B&E / GWR had already got running powers, never used, from Highbridge to Evercreech and that curve and junction never built near Bruton on the original S&D). Plus the East Somerset could be used to run Bristol - Westbury via WSM. A few curves built later at the junctions facing the wrong way and you have some really useful routes and services that could be run on them, e.g.: (MR / LMS / LMR) - Bristol - WSM - Wells - (new curve North to South to avoid reversing) - Glastonbury (new curve North to East to avoid reversing) - Evercreech - Bournemouth (GWR / WR) - Bristol - WSM - Wells - Shepton Mallet (new curve West to south) - Evercreech - (new curve North to West at Bruton) - Castle Cary - Weymouth Plus services that terminate or need a loco change at WSM would run via the S&D terminus, examples in the 60's would be the Merchant Venturer (terminating), the Cornishman and the Devonian, and a a pinch a diverted Pines and other S&D long distance trains, to save pressure at an overloaded Bristol Temple Meads. Gloucester locals could be started back from WSM to connect with S&D locals. The Bristol to Bournemouth semi-fasts could be run much faster via WSM and so on. Local services would be WR Bristol - WSM - Wells - Shepton Mallet - Frome; S&D WSM - Wells - Glastonbury (reverse) - Evercreech I think I made my own case!!

Reality Warning: My location is fictional and much license has been taken. There are categorical statements about train formations of services that could have run in my chosen (imaginary) location. I have researched in detail what might have run, correlating with photographs where possible - reader beware and please don't take offence! It is also written while I'm away from home and away from the modelling bench .... This is a draft of my thoughts that have been being in my head for a long time about the coaching sets I'll need and / or like for modelling the period 1960-62 BR S&D and WR in my fictional Weston super Mare S&D area, by extension of services and formations that appear to have run in this period in the area bounded by Bristol, Bath, Taunton, Westbury, Castle Cary and Templecombe. This entry is about the long distance trains, I'll write another about the locals. (In writing this, i realise this is cart before the horse, as I've not written about the services that I will invent to run through my chosen fictional location!) I've been inspired to write by only just discovering in the last couple of days Great Northern's blog about his magnificent Peterborough North layout, in particular his efforts to run representative coaching rakes. I've also taken note of the lengths he has gone to in layout planning to be able to assemble his varied rakes from sub-rakes load from cassettes, and I'll have to do something similar as I can't afford the money or space to have each rake uniquely created! Something that really interests me is that the S&D in the early 60's not only had a bewildering variety of locomotives working on it but they hauled an amazing variety of coaching stock. So I hope to reproduce some of these as well as some WR rakes to increase the visual interest, as my 'Weston-super-Mare' location had several named WR expresses passing through during that period. So I'm hoping that not only will I have a fictional timetable to run that will be interesting to operate, but that the effect will be visually appealing as well. One day I'll be able to put in photos like Great Northern has done of the rakes I'm writing about As many others have, I've been using the Yahoo coaching stock group resources to obtain the formations of the services I plan to run. I've also been pouring over all the S&D photo albums I possess and that are in my local library to cross reference the formations. So here are some rakes that I hope to run: (To distinguish the rakes I plan removable name boards so it will be possible to tell which train is which when running!) A 9 coach 'Pines Express' mainly Mk1s with LMS catering vehicles .... chosen period spring 1961 as this would include one of the first batch of commonwealth bogied dual heat CKs built for services running on the newly electrified Manchester - Crewe section. (It also had also had unpainted aluminium window bars and external window framing, and a single row of ventilators). In 1961 only one of these coaches ran in the 7 coach 'core section' of the Pines. also, in this period the catering was still an ex LMS 12 wheel 68' stanier restaurant second (ex third) and LMS 57' open composite pair. The 'ends' refer to the direction of the rake on the S&D (south end) BCK / Dual heat C/W bogied CK / LMS CO / LMS 12 whl RS / SK / SK / BSK + CK (BR1 bogied) / BSK (north end) By swapping out the BCK / Dual heat C/W bodied CK and restaurant vehicles at the south end for the extra CK / BSK at the north end and inserting a maroon RMB and additional CK or SK or maroon ER RU and SK in the middle I can run a fairly typical NE / SW (e.g. Bristol - Newcastle started back from WSM) or a non named WR express, 7 or 8 coach lengths. e.g.: BSK / CK / SO / RMB / SK / SK / BSK or BSK / CK / CK / SO / RU / SK / SK / BSK An alternative 7 coach Pines rake will be made of ex LMS Stanier coaches (mostly), with the same designations: BCK / CK / SO / Period II 12-wheel RC / SK / SK / BSK The Period II 12-wheel RC would be the Hornby ex Airfix / mainline which I actually have .... An 8 coach Chocolate and Cream rake for named WR expresses which will have some maroon stock added or inserted to represent: A. The Merchant Venturer, Paddington to WSM - all Chocolate and Cream: BSK / CK / FK / SO / RU / SK / SK / BSK B. The Cornishman, Wolverhampton to Penzance which called at WSM most days, same formation, all Chocolate and Cream C. The Devonian, (I was gutted to find this was C&C from 1959 to 1962 as I'd purposed the maroon Mk1 rake to double up!), but with the maroon RU and SO mentioned above to make the mixed livery rake that ran for part of the early 60's swapped for the C&C ones in one direction (ref a BRM article on the C&C era) BSK / CK / FK / SO* / RU* / SK / SK / BSK (* alternately C&C and Maroon) D. The Bristolian rake which ran to WSM on Saturdays with additional maroon stock, (and was still steam hauled after 1959): BCK / CK / FK / ex GW buffet / SK /SK / BCK + Maroon CK / BSK This set will have the challenge of me building the GW Buffet car as well, this ran in the Bristolian until a C&C liveried Mk1 RB replaced it in late '61 I also want to be able to run some green trains for added interest, and there is prototype license for this! Firstly , Cardiff - Bristol - Salisbury - Southampton - Portsmouth was run 50:50 with WR and SR stock. I'll divert some via the Cheddar Valley and WSM with the loco change taking place at Westbury, (advantage of no Bristol reversal and loco change, and the SR loco coming on at Westbury instead of Salisbury). So for this I'll have an SR Mk1 four coach set with a maroon RMB inserted, as even the SR RMBs were delivered in maroon and weren't painted green until '62 apparently. This 4 coach set could be adapted even further to run with another really interesting rake to be the early season 8 coach Exmouth to Cleethorpes train which ran 1960 - 62, diverted via WSM (!). This train in one direction was green SR stock made from two unusual looking 4 hybrid coach sets: The first was set (I believe to be 242) made of a Maunsell high windowed 6 compartment BSK, A Bulleid 63' CK, A Mk.1 SK or SO (both were used) and then another Maunsell high windowed 6 compartment BSK, (the set's original Maunsell CK had been replaced by 1961 and the set according to the SEMG's data on SR coach sets was a three set BSK/CK/BSK, but loose SOs and / or SKs were added on Saturdays to increase seats for when the sets were used in holiday trains The second, set 555, was Mk.1 BSK / Maunsell SO with large windows / Mk.1 CK / Mk.1 BSK. The Mk.1s were brand new with light coloured roofs contrasting to the black roof on the Mansell coach. Again, the Maunsell SO was a Saturday add-in, (in theory, as both sets were dedicated to this service and spent the week in the carriage sidings at either Exmouth Junction or Cleethorpes!) Finally, I have a small number of ER coaches, Gresley and Thompson to mix with Mk.1 s for possibly the other direction Exmouth to Cleethorpes train, or a NE - SW service, or one of the other S&D long distance workings where ER stock did appear if Sheffield or Bradford were the northern terminus. There are even photos of 'the Pines' with a Gresley BCK at the head of a rake of Stanier ex LMS coaches .... Of these aspirational sets, I do have a collection of Bachmann Mk1s in Chocolate and Cream, and a mix of Bachmann Mk1s and cheapo Hachette SKs in maroon to make the Mk1 sets, I still need to get / make the LMS Catering vehicles and adapt the Hachettes, (see a future blog item). I've also got most of the coaches to make the Stanier, SR and ER sets too, but not enough P4 coach wheels yet .... My first aim is to make the 9 coach Pines rake to act as a test set for running through the layout as it is built to test clearances , train lengths etc, as 9 coaches will be the maximum I will be able to run easily in the space I have. [to be edited in the future!]

oh I do actually enjoy analogue drawing!

A trial of the new look RMWeb - my first new entry since the update so see goes So I've been silent a long long time while other jobs on our newish house take precedent. And there has been the agonising over how much of the old layout construction I can recycle into its new environment - a space much longer (at 7.1 metres / 23 feet and a bit) but a little narrower at 3.05 metres / 10 feet) the its old home. The bit narrower is a bit of problem as modelling in P4 a complete double track circuit will have near 'minimum radius' bends, close to 1.06m / 3'6" in one part ... So to help, not being a fan of computer based drawing tools, here is my analogue version of layout planning with a 1:10 scale drawing on a horizontally mounted drawing board, the drawing being made of cut-out sections approximating the boards that I'll use (or some being recycled intact) laid together to see how things fit. On the right, the fiddle yard, of more anon (2.44m / 8ft to take 9 Mk1s without a loco ...) not very clear as in pencil as a bit tentative still ... the fiddle yard is 'tucked in' against the wall to show the innermost track lined up with the outermost track of the double track circuit, which in turn dictates the radius of that loop. The circuit half at the 'top' is quite a bit smaller as I need to make room for some terminal platforms to the side and allow them to have that magic 9 Mk1 length - maybe a rod to my own back? Still I think it will work, time will tell. Its all modular so can be changed about if something doesn't work (not without some effort though!). This kind of planning means looking at alternative scenarios is quite simple and just costs some paper and pencil lead some I'm happy with that

4mm P4 - ply and rivet pointwork, various plastic sleeper based 'RTR' flexi track - SMP Scale way in the station area, 'Fast track' gauge widened for the bendy bits ...

After 2 1/2 years in store, my 'Weston Super Mare S&D' baseboards were unpacked yesterday. Looking a bit sorry for their time in storage, with some damage from the house move, but very re-usable in their new location. So some photos for you of my 'scrap yard challenge' baseboard support frame - two single bed frames, 6'6" (2m) by 2'6" (76cm) supported about 3' (90cm) above the floor. Being made of 6" / 150mm deep timber edge boards they only need supporting at the ends, giving very handy clear space underneath and they are light enough for one to lift. Just when I was scratching my head about how to build a support for the boards, the bed frames became available, and always keen on recycling a new use was immediately found! The slat-top frames will provide excellent support for working on the damaged boards, and are just the right size for the envisaged expanded station area that my new railway room (2/3 of a triple length brick garage, insulated and lined) affords. When I've finish working on the boards I'll remove some of the slats to give underside access. Very happy! Much work awaits on the baseboards to make them operational and to construct a new intermediate piece to extend the platforms to take a 9 coach rake of Mk1s ... (the existing will take 6 plus a loco at each end). Firstly those bed frames laid end to end ... The unpacked boards laid end to end in their original positions A view from the side of the boards .... waiting for screwdriver and soldering iron! The station throat from the side ... debating whether it is in good enough condition to use as-is with some repairs At the very least I need to try to repair the boards

Well not much has happened on the modelling front since my last entry on the Dapol LMS lavatory non corridors, with good reason. My new house came with a massive garage which is in the midst of conversion into a workshop and a new model railway room, with a partition in between. The result will be a railway room approximately 8m by 3m (25 ft by almost 10 ft). The garage is substantial, being brick with a pitched tiled roof, but as such was very cold and damp inside. So it is being upgraded with an insulated inner wall, 2nd hand double glazed Windows and doors, and an insulated ceiling. All this takes time, and takes priority over the modelling so as to minimise the time my valuable models and materials are exposed to the cold and damp.. Another delaying factor to resumption of service is the realisation that as well as being able to expand my originally planned layout, which was limited to six or seven 63' coaches and loco and now should be able to accommodate nine coach rakes, (Pines express 1961weekday formation in mind) it would be better if the whole plan was flipped so the 'inside' now becomes the 'outside'. The downside is that the controls have to be moved to the other side of each board, and I have completed three of the four or five required .. Oh well, but it will look so much better.... So watch ''this space' and I'll update when the boards appear unpacked. (Ohh, another plus is that I will be able to have a continuous run, whereas the original was restricted to a U shaped terminus to fiddle yard. Useful for testing and will also convert my terminus into a through station with terminal platforms, for which l have concocted a fictional historical excuse!! So my new 'plan' is to have my fictional Weston super Mare S&D station on the side of the GWR Weston loop, just south of the present general station, and the bend on the layout will go in the right direction!)

Obvious mistake with a shifted roof - they're not fixed yet! However almost ready to work a local from Weston super Mare (S&D) to Glastonbury...