stewartingram

Having enlarged the page to 400%, I'm convinced it is not coal. Could be large rubble (ie concrete not bricks) or some form of quarry stone. I would have expected the train to oringinate from the Cambridge line too. Could it have been to feed building works at Milton Keynes? Stewart

Woodford, Central Line on the London Underground (ex GER line though). Stewart

Pidley, Cambridgeshire (Fen Road) 24-12-2013 Stewart

Nice choice in locos there, especially towards the top! Stewart

You are happy with just a box for Xmas......? Stewart

I'd take them back if they were cracking..... Stewart

Not trying to hijack the thread, but remember this? Stewart

I forsee some reader offers with the subscription copies next year.................... Stewart

Looking at what was there, it amazes disgusts me how much as a society we have thrown away with the abandonment of the railway infrastructure we had. No-one could have dreamt that within 10 years or so it would all be gone. Yet, I suppose we now have the same infrastructure in place for the road network. Who knows, maybe within the same timescale it too could be replaced with new in favour of the railways? Wishful thinking I know, but....? Stewart

Nothing beat the Gamages layout in my opinion. Strange that there is very little online about that shop though. Stewart

A few shots from 126 Instamatic days, when she was actually steamed at Bressingham. Stewart

I'm sure it is also against ebay rules to advertise items like this, and I believe they are pretty hot on stamping this out nowadays. Stewart

Having built a kit, with my own mods, some time back (Genisis), and a dia 558 from scratch, I was looking forward to this one. I had my suspicions when it was announced and held back from ordering, rather glad I did. Stewart

As far as I can remember (as I renumbered my original release) D5512 was the early one, which can be found with suspect chassis. The D5511 was a much later re-issue, which was often used by Hornby as a replacement for earlier D5512's sent in. Stewart

I don't recall mention of the J70 yet? My Toby was built around 1965, as my first ever kit. Totally vanilla K's, apart from some brass buffers fitted later when I lost 1 of the originals. An absolute dream runner, slow, smooth, no pick-up problems despite its short wheelbase (weight maybe a factor?). A tad noisy on my pwm feedback controller, but that adds to its charm, and tbh is ok at slow speeds. A little while back it was sitting on the shelf over the computor desk, and got knocked to the floor by the cat. Almost went back to component parts, and most bent at that! The pics I enclose show it as pretty quickly re-assembled, with a little work to redo. I'm loathe to repaint it though. The whitemetal cow-catchers have suffered, along with the loss of the Traing coupling at one end. However, a fellow RMWeb member has etched me some nice brass ones which I still have to fit, and I will be adding simple brass wire loops to work with Spratt & Winkle couplings. Toby lives on. Stewart

Does it work? Stewart

As I posted earlier, mine took about a week. Mind you I asked nicely for just a replacement block, and rebuilt it myself (as a basic build, no lights/pcb/working fan, don't need any of that rubbish!). Stewart

I can't imagine that sort of service from Yodel. Stewart

Oops my mistake, sorry! Stewart

Isn't 504 the normal Bachmann batch size? Stewart

How about comparing with this one? Stewart

EM2 = Heljan LMS twins = Heljan and Bachmann D600 (was) Dapol, now projectd by DJM. Agree that Heljan did EM2 & LMS twin, but otherwise different manufacturer, so no commonality!. And did Heljan reuse any parts? Stewart

You missed my Grandad's motor off there though! We used to park up where that blue/cream Ford is, just so I could do some trainspotting while Gran did the retail therapy. A green Austin 7 Ruby, CPW835 btw, available from Springside still I believe (I have one). Stewart ps t'other side of the road was the BTP office, in later years at least. I was working as a radio engineer for Cambs Police and sometimes had to call in during the 80s. I belive it suffered from arson later?

That is the optimistic approach, but try to find examples of it in the ranges today (ignoring old-style models of course). Stewart

That can't be a model! Any respectable modeller would have lots of 500W leds blazing away..... Stewart