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I'm not sure you can do that so readily for the company legally known as the Alcoy y Gandía Rail and Harbour Co Ltd, company office in London. British owned, financed and equipped, it just happened to be located overseas. Anyway, have we had the Bideford, Appledore and Westward Ho! Railway yet? - standard gauge and in the UK.

On second glance, yes it is. Apologies for raising blood pressures.

Well the bass coach is hideous. I think your plan is a good. At least the 4w coach in the post earlier is preserved and sympathetically restored. (To be fair, its covered over and looks cared for, which beats a huge amount of stock on preserved lines).

Loads of them if you're counting narrow gauge lines. Alcoy-Gandia, leek & manifold, puffing billy pre preservation.

Most furniture shops name their ranges. I'd say it was daft, but I have built several bagnalls which the manufacturer would recognise as Mercedes class, and there's a part finished hunslet waril class on my shelf...

I used to know a retired professor of literature who had published a few books on writing styles/fingerprints etc. Lovely man, but he'd buy any book he could find (charity shops, bookshops etc) and his wife continually tried to get him to weed out the shelves, but to no avail, each time this was attempted he'd identify more books that 'ought' to go with those already there, then purchase them (and a few more for luck). She used to smuggle books out the house in her bag and bin them elsewhere!

I think tillig is code 83. I have (successfully, after some filing!) Transitioned from code 100 multiple gauge track to code 80 for the O9 track on my layout where the internal works railway diverged from the test track. Essentially I made the point in code 100 for everything, then after an inch of code 100 a bit of code 80 with 20thou styrene under the sleeper, the two rails butt jointed with solder and a very fine file and 2000 grit to ensure the transition was smooth. Might it be possible to make a crossing by cutting and shutting a 00 diamond? If you didnt fancy making it from scratch. A word of warning, the fleischmann 7000 and ibertren cuckoo chassis (commonly used in 009) both have a wheelbase of 16.5mm, which isn't exactly ideal for crossing the standard gauge.

Plenty of other people in the country just followed the rules. If he stayed in London his brother and sister in law live there too should help be required, or any number of colleagues and friends tripping over themselves to destroy any credibility they mightve had in his defence- surely they might have dropped off a bag of shopping. Convenient that he could be at his mothers birthday though... It's difficult though - his position is completely untenable, but if he resigns, boris will be in charge of the country, and that's quite scary.

Indeed, I feel somewhat snubbed that my own residence is apparently one of the few addresses in Durham that the notorious, infectious hypocrite has not visited in recent weeks.

It's why the GNRI never went bigger than 440 or 060, couldnt fit them in dundalk works (they had to couple the tenders as it was).

I wouldnt worry about getting the track at right angles or the width of the bridge. There are alternative solutions....

Mention has been made of gwr not wishing to fork out for electrification. This is true. At the same time as they were investigating diesel electrics in the 30s they looked into main line electrification, but decided against both ideas, not least because of the cost involved.

I loved the original Macton - if I ever finish or make progress on my current layout (a small engineering/loco works, or in it's current state, some track on a board) you'd probably see the shameless copying inspiration that has taken place, along with the influence of the Talbot crewe book, beyer, peacock, horwich, woolwich arsenal and photos of fowler and bagnall's works. The mixed gauge currently gives 32, 21, 16.5, 14, 12, 9 and 6.5mm gauges, with the other track being 9mm. I'm tempted to put an extra rail on for irish broad gauge. Given I have no space and I end up building more locos than anything else, plus an interest in narrow/minimum gauges, it makes sense, but without seeing Macton I wouldnt have got there. Looking forward to seeing what you get up to in a very large scale.

Wonder if they're still driving those in the winter....

Hold on now, everything I've ever read on internet forums tells me that such things were not possible in the wondrous realm of Swindon. Blasphemy!

Connect an old transformer between the rails and the door handle. That way, whenever the layout is operational, there will be an automatic warning should someone attempt to enter.

There are side elevations and dimensions in the back of the RCTS/Lightmoor Brian Webb Armstrong Whitworth book for the following GWR proposals: 450hp bogie railcar power unit, 250hp 044 branch line loco, 80-95hp 040 to replace 1361 class, 160/195hp 040 to replace 1101 class and 350hp 060 to replace 57xx class. The railcar is a bogie design, the others all jackshaft drive. Diesel electric transmission for all. There is also a table of contemporary (30s) gwr diesel proposals from other manufacturers.

It'd make it easier to get underneath for wiring though. Garages these days aren't really for cars though, are they? In the days when only you and the other minor gentry had a horse less carriage and it was covered in polished brass bits I can understand building it a little house to live in, but now everyone has a couple of cars and they're somewhat more rust resistant it can live on the road.

I suspect the financial state of the railways plays a part. Raven had successful electrification decades earlier, but when the infrastructure needed replacement/repair in the 30s shildon-Newport was deelectrified and given back to pregrouping steam locos as the LNER couldnt afford to renew it. Armstrong was building far superior diesel locos than US builders in the early 30s, but coal and labour was cheap and water plentiful here, so the railways saw little need to change and couldnt afford the investment. The southern did electrify quite a bit of territory. Where did the armstrong diesel electric locos go? Colonies without native coal reserves, arid regions. The N&W persisted with steam in the US as coal/water were in rich supply, it was labour costs that pushed them to dieselise in the end. The swiss electrified because they had no native fuel but vast hydroelectric potential. The circumstances surrounding railways have a bigger influence than the ideas and practises of management: The Junin railway on the altiplano had double fairlies, not because they were innovative, but because the line was steeply graded and twisty. They dieselised in the 1930s not because they were forward thinking but because it ran through a desert and they had no water. English builders produced electric locos to export around the world and even to canada (EE and Beyer Peacock built box cabs for Montreal harbour) in the 20s and 30s. They didnt use them here because there was no pressing need or finances to do so - indeed the harbour board took the wires down as it was too expensive and sold the locos to CN, who ran them until the mid 90s. The technology and capabilities were here, but the finance wasnt, and there was a huge amount of existing infrastructure built up around steam and the existing operating arrangements - the NER tried 40t bogie hoppers and automatic couplers in the 1900s, but colliery and staith facilities were designed around existing 4w hoppers, so they fell out of use. Can you imagine the cost of trying to reequip the uk railway system with fully braked bogie wagons and knuckle couplers at any point between 1900 and 1950? It would only be possible if everyone did it, and there was little likelihood of the various lines agreeing to something that costly. We only began to move slowly away from Victorian wagon design after all the traffic it was built for disappeared and the wagons were withdrawn and not replaced in the 60s.

HMS Pansy of course becoming the USS Courageous. The subject of silly ship names came up some years ago with a friend of mine (think it was after seeing HMS Pickle at Hartlepool), I believe in the 17th century there was a HMS Happy Entrance...

They were full, had to make do with a passage on the colonic.

If I wanted to be obscure, I'd point out that the SLNCR never numbered any of its locos. When they bought a secondhand 060 off the GNRI they removed its number and called it glencar (with an A on the cab side as they'd already had a glencar).

Absolutely. The old liveries look a hundred times better than the horrible new ones. The old colour/cream liveries enhanced the look of the stock, looked nice in the landscape and were recognisably swiss. The new ones are pretty ugly. Likewise the old stock from the 50s on had a family resemblance on all railways, which is now sadly lost and replaced by boxy, ugly things.

Maude. And the other 24 named J36s

On my unimat SL I used a 12V speed controller from china with the scooter motor. Just be careful to find one rated for the required power. They only cost about a fiver.