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Could any DMU really be described as solid? Seriously, the last loco-hauled stock was withdrawn in 1976

Looks like the DMUs have just been repainted to me - and are being moved back south to go back into service?

There was some truth in that - many lines were in a dreadful state by the end of WW2, so even some minor lines needed renewal - though sometimes with second-hand materials. On the other hand, busy main lines often needed renewing every 10-12 years, so parts of them might have been relaid a couple of times in FB rail by the rail blue era, with no risk of closure. The decision to switch to FB rail was made very early in BR days. Some of the big four experimented with it in the 1930s.

Yeah, it's surprising just how much FB was around on main and secondary lines even in the mid-1950s, never mind the 1960s. - Yet looking at most model railways, you would almost think that FB didn't appear until the rail blue era - or even later?!?!?

Has me worried too - it will mean completely re-planning what I want to do if fiNetrax is dead and buried Did find this though, which offers hope... http://finetrax.proboards.com/board/2/finetrax-beta-testers-comment-chat

I somehow imagined SInfin was some witty comment in Spanish or Latin. what a let down!

http://www.tramz.com/tb/p.html Halfway down the page. Apologies - the trolleys were built in Leiston

This site has more quirks and oddities than you could ever need......... http://www.tramz.com/ Including trolleybuses built in Ipswich and converted to trams in Peru, to name but one.

I am staggered that anyone who has been invited as a guest could be so impolite as to criticise your superb work, Brian. The best answer is - just don't invite them again! If we listened to that kind of opinion all the time, then every layout would end up looking pretty much the same - boring and unoriginal. Yours bucks the trend admirably. Long may it stay like that!

Colour is notoriously difficult to reproduce. Even if it looks right at home, the lighting in an exhibition can still noticeably change it. Here are a few photos of buildings I took on the line a couple of weeks ago. The difference in colour of the same stonework in shade and sunlight is amazing. This is the overbridge at Hassop in bright sunshine ...compared with the same stone at Hassop station in shade. Here is Bakewwll, showing both at the same time and a closer view of the end of the building There is probably no right answer!

that is for the track gang's trolley