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  1. John B
    We'll be bringing Kettlewell down to Stafford this weekend, operating entirely in Midland mode for the weekend. It's a lovely layout to operate, superbly engineered (and fully interlocked!) by John Stocks and sceniced mainly by his wife, Linda.
  2. John B
    [sheared] 734 and 735 didn't last long on the Lamb Regis branch, but they did get rehooved by the LSWR and punted off to the Lee-on-the-Solent branch, an even more ramshackle affair. Where they were paired up with Gate Stock.... Looking forward to Stafford, a rare foray south of the border for me (thanks to tagging along with Kettlewell) and a chance to see Bleat in the wool...
  3. John B
    Looking forward to making the journey down from Scotland with John Stocks' lovely Kettlewell layout, which will be operating in Midland Railway mode for Stafford.
  4. John B
    My co-conspirator in the West of Scotland 4mm Group, our Chairman John Stocks, has modelled his take on the Kettlewell idea in P4, set firmly in Midland Railway days. The terminus, Kettlewell, will be on show at the Stafford show on 23rd / 24th September this year and at Model Rail Scotland next February. His next exhibition layout, currently taking shape, is Conistone, your next stop down the line to Bolton Abbey...
  5. John B
    Looking forward to bringing another slice of Galloway to Perth in the form of Garlieston - in a much more complete state than last year. We'll be a part of the Scalefour Enclave.. Attached photos snapped at the Glasgow show.
  6. John B
    This is a real gap filled. Question for Fran - will they be conversion-friendly for the wider gauges? Asking for a P4 modeller (ok, me...)
  7. John B
    We were exhibiting in Paisley in December next to a large (Scottish) layout with OHLE - this was set up mostly as suggested by Gordon, with fixed sections of knitting and removable sections across baseboard joints which were clipped in place after the whole lot was erected and aligned. Really enjoying the development of this, Al.
  8. John B
    Only one answer I couldn't respond to truthfully was the digital vs print consumption of magazines. My answer would have been "both" - as I take BRM and RM digitally and MRJ, which will probably never be digital...
  9. John B
    Thanks for the pointer to this supplier, Rob. Some of the "highland" and "Swamp" tufts look most useful for our current club project, duly ordered!
  10. John B
    Thanks Jamie! Hopefully by the next outing (Glasgow SECC at the end of February) we'll have most of the scenery complete and the gremlins banished... All in all a really good show for us, lots of interest in the layout and our group, we even had 9-10 kids around the layout at one stage thanks to the appearance of a certain celebrity blue tank engine and his carriages - a first in P4?
  11. John B
    Garlieston (P4 work in progress) all set up and ready for tomorrow! Come down and see us on the lower level - looks like a great show!
  12. John B
    Well these are most welcome! Order duly placed...
  13. John B
    It's also a star (cover and inside) of Santona Publications "Model Railway Planning and Design Handbook" - still available for 18.95 at The Titfield Thunderbolt Bookshop (and no doubt elsewhere).
  14. John B
    Having missed out on 55018 I'd certainly be up for a second run of that, or any Finsbury Park liveried racehorses...
  15. John B
    This is something I've been hoping for, yet scarcely thought possible in RTR until recently. And the same chassis will enable Rapido to bring out a HR Castle Class once this is the success it deserves to be. Can we have the GNoSR "Sojer" next please?
  16. John B
    Not exactly "in the road", and no photographic evidence as I was driving, but the rails on the former Highland Railway Burghead branch are still extant, if distinctly overgrown, past Roseisle Maltings & Distillery towards Burghead (as of 30th December 2021). Is there still grain traffic to Roseisle and beyond?
  17. John B
    I'd jump at that. Although my hope for a follow-up to the Cauldrons was more along the lines of some suitably 19th-century motive power. Locomotion No.1? Derwent? S&D / NER Long Boiler?
  18. John B
    Urinals only. No cubicles..... "le pissoir"....
  19. John B
    More from Caledonia Works..
  20. John B
    Took a walk around to the erstwhile Andrew Barclay Caledonia Works this morning. The mixed gauge lines still run across the road into the old works, now luxury flats, and a wee Barclay pug is in the foyer. One of the works hoists is still in the “yard” too.
  21. John B

    On Cats

    John B replied to didcot's topic in Wheeltappers

    I would also beg to differ. Chili is a prime example of Tortitude, can go from angel to demon in the blink of an eye, and tried to kill the first vet she saw in California. It took one grown vet and three leather-gauntlet clad assistants to subdue the (then) 6lb furry feral fury....
  22. John B

    On Cats

    John B replied to didcot's topic in Wheeltappers

    After a year incarceration at my Mum’s house in Yorkshire, and three months after I brought Bourbon to our new home in Ayrshire, we finally got the girls home. Crash, the tabby, is a much more sedentary beastie, content with occasional forays outside but mostly preferring a belly rub. Chili, the Tortie wild child, has already scaled the apex of the roof of our 3 storey Victorian pile….
  23. John B
    From Scotland, the following: Maidens & Dunure Light Railway, serving the Ayrshire coast. Later operated by the G&SWR, LMS and (in very truncated form, to serve Butlins Heads of Ayr) BR; Wick & Lybster Light Railway - operated by the Highland and absorbed into the LMS; Dornoch Light Railway - as above.
  24. John B

    On Cats

    John B replied to didcot's topic in Wheeltappers

    When the nice comfy cat bed gets too comfy, Bourbon just hangs out of the window..
  25. John B

    On Cats

    John B replied to didcot's topic in Wheeltappers

    What he lacked in stealth he made up for in agility. Nowadays he has little of either...
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