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Add Romania to the list, please? Approximately 40km south of Brasov. Paul. My old home town is the shed code.

Quick weather report from out east in the Carpathians. Currently, -1 degrees C and snowing. Keeping warming, adding to trim to doorways. Paul

You have to admire @McC for the selfless promotion opportunity!!!!! Paul

Some interesting responses to my rendition of a Neverwazz Gresley Mountain. According to the diagram, the boiler is basically an A3 uprated, coupled to a P2 Firebox, which extends further back into the cab, (pity the crew on what’s left of the footplate). The smoke box on my model is 2mm longer than designed, due to the coupled wheelbase length as mentioned above. I agree it looks wrong with a single chimney, but the LNER would have to pay the Patent fee for another locomotive with a Kylchap double blast pipe and chimney. Paul

Your in luck NZ Red Baron, I managed to track down an image of my Mountain. Paul

Do you want to bodge together a full-size one or 4mm scale? If the latter, I built one out of 1 1/2 Hornby A3’s, back in 2014. Images may still be on the LNER Forum website. The coupled wheelbase ends up 3mm too long compared to the Doncaster drawing, but it looks the part. It’s currently in storage with all my other models and equipment! (Sigh) Paul

Been and had the Winter Tyres fitted at the local Tyre Emporium in Bran, not too far from the Castle. I was rather delighted to spot a Blue Ford Transit mini bus with number plates from Fraggle Rock!!!! Quite a journey to Romania. I instantly thought of New Haven Neil. Paul

Andy, By yourself a shelf and do what the Sheep Bloke does best, build a model railway on it!! Paul

Monty Python’s, The Meaning of Shed; or Life of Shed; “It’s all getting Silly!!!!” Paul

Fifty Sheds of Grey!!!!!! Paul

Philip, Not aware of any single track railways in Britain having Trap Points in the running line? As any train on the Single line would need a Token, Staff or Ticket for permission to be on the Single Line, if there was a run away, it would most likely pass through an empty road through the station. Search the Armagh disaster to see what happened with a run away on a Single Line worked to the Time Interval system. Catch points were provided on double track and multiple track lines on the running lines heading up a gradient. If a runaway occurred, the errant vehicles would be derailed by the catch points as they travelled wrong direction down the hill. They were provided to prevent the runaway striking a following train. Paul

Mike, The sliding door would have to built further out to clear any external framing, so the framing was provided internally. Now why all the framing isn’t internal is unusual, but probably related to vehicle capacity. Look at this way, we’ve ended up with a nice quirky van! Paul

Is that contagious? Paul

Andy, My wife did this once, travelling back from Kings Cross to our old home in Grantham. I got the 10 minute warning, drove to the station, but I had a nagging doubt about the train times. You see working as I did at Grantham and Newark, I knew most of the trains stopping at both stations from London and realised one wasn’t due, but it was safer not to question, “The Mem!” I stood on the platform chatting to the staff, when phone rings, “I’ve arrived.” I replied, “No you haven’t, no train is due for another 15 minutes, where are you?” Much mumbling and grumbling, as she thought I was being a Joker, but then, ”Oh B****r, I’m in Cambridge!!!!!, but I got on a Purple train!” I pointed out she needed a Blue train with a Red line on the side and GNER in gold letters to get to Grantham! My beloved got home eventually, by train of course. Of course Mrs SM42 will know exactly what she is doing. You just need to figure it out? Paul

Hello Mike, Speaking of the (SEC) F1, how do you retain the motor and gearbox, when you have rocking arms for the coupled wheelbase? Kind regards Paul

My Paternal Grandfather was a Medic in the Parachute Regiment at Arnhem! (He was blind in one eye.) I once asked him about jumping out of aircraft and whether he was scared. The reply was blunt, “If you’d seen the state of the plane, you would have jumped out of it as well!” Paul

Going back to trains, the LSWR T3 4-4-0, ex NRM has been launched at the Swanage Railway. It’s on the BBC website. For some reason I cannot post the link? Paul

I saw the image of the car on fire, that is alleged to be the catalyst of the Car Park fire. I suspect the rebuilt car park will have sprinklers as suggested by the Chief Fire Officer and no doubt insisted upon by Luton Airports Insurance Provider. Over here restrictions are appearing in multi-storey and underground car parks. Cars using LPG are being refused entry, though I’m not certain how they are being identified, other than the additional filler cap? Paul

HH probably needs to clarify the ex Squirrel is one of American Grey’s not a lovely Red, ‘Tufty.’ Got plenty of Reds and even Black squirrels around here in my part of Europe. Paul

Possibly a combination of water ingress, frost and thaw over years and vibration from trains and track maintenance techniques. Paul

I once had a colleague who discovered his car under 4 foot of water in the car park at Gatwick about 25 years ago. I can imagine the pain. Paul

Changing the subject, I feel for anyone who has a car stuck in the mess that is the Luton Airport multi storey car park! I foresee some new rules appearing to prevent such chaos and distress again. Paul

Well it is a Mazda! Paul

All this talk of Airfix kits, etc, reminds me of a few I’ve built when I was younger. Harrier Jump Jet, Railway Footbridge, 16ton mineral wagons. The most memorable was a kit for a Sea King helicopter. I had been made redundant and had applied for a Draughtsman’s position with a local packaging company. Model making was listed on my application. I was asked directly if a model of a Sea King existed. I suggested ringing the local model shop to check. The Manager returned from another office, immediately offered me the job and gave me the cash to buy the helicopter kit, with instructions to return straight back to the factory and get on with building it. The company had won a contract to prepare Sea Kings for transport by ship for eventual delivery to Pakistan. They needed a model to create a miniature of the packaging system, prior to a trip to Westlands to test the full size product. Paul

Phil, I understand your views, and Yes, “Innocent until proven Guilty”, but HMRI will be alert and ensuring all operators on all Heritage lines are following the correct procedures, prior to RAIB identifying the causes of this Rough Shunt, to prevent another incident to grab the attention of the Press. Comments by other members of this thread, hint at speed to high, distraction, no-one on the ground controlling the movement. Hence my comment. At this moment in time, this is very bad for the image of FS, the Strathspey Railway and Heritage railways in general. People have to be Professional and Alert when moving trains around. Paul