ColinK

There is a pub by the canal in Carnforth called the 'Canal Turn'. However, someone has rubbed out the 'C'.

Was that from the sticky toffee pudding mine?

Trains to my broken biscuit repair factory were hauled by a narrow gauge EWS class 68, scratchbuilt long before DRS thought of ordering some. Yes, I'm a serious railway modeller.

Broken biscuit repair factory. My previous narrow gauge layout had one!

I was looking at the book 'Diesels in the Highlands' by Andrew Vine last night. It includes two photos of an inspection saloon in the consist of railtours. On page 12 it is the first coach behind 27034 on a Glasgow - Glenfinnan special, while on page 56 it is behind 26041 on a Wick - Inverness special. The photos are dated 25th April 1981 and 24th April 1981.

There is also a campsite at Burrs Country Park, right next to the East Lancs Railway. I stayed there last January for the steam gala, it was possible to watch the early morning run pasts while still in bed - but I was outside with my camera.

I'm hoping for a 40062 sometime; it was my last cl 40. One of my friends phoned my one night from Scotland, long after I'd gone to bed telling me it was on Haymarket depot - 300 miles from where I was.

I'm looking forward to seeing this develop - been to the real place many times.

Nice to see all these pictures. When I was at school I had many days in the summer holidays travelling up and down the WCML north of Preston behind class 50's, often double headed. Shame I don't have any photos of them. Suprisingly I've never seen any video of double headed 50's over Shap and Beattock - is there any?

More from the rail replacement service today - one of the coach drivers is wearing his 'I'd rather be on British Rail' t-shirt. Caused quite a few smiles, but one passenger was not amused. NB t-shirt was obtained from Rapido trains.

As you may know, the Preston - Chorley line is currently closed for engineering work, with buses replacing the trains. Here is an actual conversation between a passenger and bus driver at Preston yesterday. Passenger, 'is this the Leyland bus?' Bus driver, 'sorry no, it's a Volvo!'

Hi, The railway is quite close to where I live. I did have the open days in my diary, but was gutted that I missed them due to working those days. Are there any more open days this year?

I wish those pictures of the CMC 1015 had not been posted. It looks so nice, I've had to order one. Just as well there is plenty of overtime at work, as I'll need to fit it with DCC sound when it comes.

As well as having ordered the APT-E, I also ordered one of the 'I'd rather be on British Rail' T shirts. The T shirt has arrived, I wonder if I should wear it while driving a rail replacement coach?

Hi, yes the space is small and the decoder needs to be well insulated so it doesn't touch anything metal and go bang. I found it quite difficult to fit a decoder and managed to pull one of the wires out of the chassis. I suspect it was from the pick ups as the loco no longer worked. Then I could not find a way of repairing it. Oops. So you might want to consider getting one from a retailer who will fit the chip for you. I've now got a blue class 14 fitted with DCC sound by Olivia's Trains in Sheffield. They weathered it for me too. It looks good and sounds good.

Hi, I've ordered one. Thanks due to Sandra at Rapido for responding so quickly (via RM web) with my order number (197) which is really encouraging and great customer service.

Hi, Yes it was Mark's layout. Went down very well with the public.

Just found this topic. I'm just home from operating a friends layout at Lymm Transport Day. His layout is also of Chineese Railways and Lymm was its first exhibhition appearance. I was too busy to take any pictures. Suprisingly, there was a model of Japaneese Railways at the same event.

Certainly would.

Had to smile reading the thread on Northwich Oakleigh, post 20 mentions 'soda ash in POO' !

Do you mean like this? Olivia's Trains in Sheffield painted, weathered and put a sound chip in it for me.

Just a 'out of the box thinking' suggestion! Next to the Trafford Centre near Manchester there is a covered dry ski slope. You can see it clearly from Barton Bridge on the M60. That would make an unusual alternative to your sloping road bridge. Should be easy to make too, just corrugated sheet with a big sign 'APA Dry Ski Slope'.

How do you tell if your loco has v3.5 or v4?

Looks a great model, will there be one in BR Provincial Livery?

Thanks for posting this. I've now ordered two.