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When my wife says "oh, I shouldn't", when I, for example, suggest an ice cream at midnight, I point out that we are adults and we don't need permission. 1 Flake or 2? That's the advantage of living on the seafront...and being over 18! If it makes you feel good. Do it!

Personally, with that kind of space, I would go multi level coal mine. Loaded trucks disappearing behind a washer/sheds, internal loaded wagons discharging via a Triang ore bridge above and a narrow gauge line above that for pit props on a shuttle. All stock would have no more than four wheels and the track would be all but buried! Rusty, wriggly tin everywhere, coal dust and weeds.... You only got 8×2, but the skies the limit But that's just me! Or, "Dockers umbrella", or Welsh Slate galleries or Sittingbourne paper Mill style...

The "tail" lamp is white, the "sidelights" are black. (Red to the rear, white to the front). If put in loop, the sidelight red shade is removed to show white to rear, nearest to the running line. Guards who do not remember to do this can give you a bit of a start as you approach I can tell you!

Lattice work heaven.

I saw your loco and a light switched on in my head... Hellingly Hospital Railway!

Lovely bit of model archaeology awaits...

Wye, Crossways, Poyntings, Smallgains close, Pintpots Road, Faffing yard...

Love that shot, can feel and hear the wind whistling in the wires...

Parratt. (Beautiful plumage).

"I took it in for a servis. And that's not what i meant..."

Has the look of a "Flying Pig" as it stands!

Still proudly doing 'em now!

Buy a job lot of Triang coaches on ebay. If yours are the ones that break down into sides, roof, interior and chassis/ends, just replace the whole chassis from those. A lot cheaper than buying individual bogies! (Just bought a lot of 6 that worked out at £1.86 each.) That way you don't have to fiddle about with mounting the bogies with rivets/bolts etc.

I like Ramsgate harbour station. Natural scenic break, plenty of goods and passenger work, overall roof, cliffs, sea, tunnel and turntable. What more do you want? Thinking about it, you could use the whole Triang range to make a good, train-setty, yet prototypically worked, layout. Over to you!

Hiawatha tender?

Looks tailor made for a Tyco tender drive!

Allied Marine. No question.

One of my first conversions done many years ago in bedsit land! Why not change the cabside sheets for the Bullied versions and swap the smokebox doors over. Fill your solid princess wheels with filler and paint the recesses/stress holes on. Add the B.O.B. tender and deflectors from the 9F and your there...

Come to daddy....

Whatever, as long as Mr. Sunak and the rest leads us over the top....

Love it. You wouldn't trip over that in the dark! Drawing pins in the shanks would give large, industrial buffers.

Ron, from "Classic Model Trains", (Youtube) uses the bath with a degreaser then, a soak in vinegar to bring metals back to clean and bright. Check it out with his "American Flyer".

Ultrasonic cleaner bath. Seen them used for just such an application on YouTube.

"It's not a derailment, it's a short cut..." Again, great atmosphere, shades of Thornton fields...

What a dramatic image. you can smell the exhaust and the brake dust! Pure B.R., no frills, no fuss...