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Interestingly, I didn't spot the Field & Mackay set as that wagon is local to me - you can see Clee Hill and its quarries from our house.

I was there at about 3.30pm this afternoon so they are probably still there - they are in a glass cabinet with some other 'O' gauge bits and bobs in the front of the pay desk at the back of the shop.

Just popped into Cheltenham Model Centre this afternoon and guess what they had for sale in the 'O' gauge cabinet ? Several sets of Domascelles PO wagon cards.

Loos - isn't that in France ? I thought it was supposed to be a Dutch (NS) engine !

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KIT-BUILT-NS-GREEN-4-6-4-DAMPFLOK-TANK-LOCOMOTIVE-6015-BOXED-nt/113878657835?hash=item1a83b26b2b:g:w00AAOSwbsddciZf Unless my eyes deceive me, this is a cut about Airfix prairie tank kit on an old Tri-ang Trans-continental 4-6-4 chassis. For £149.50.

Indeed - I'm being rather lazy as I'm just looking for a pair to thicken up the original set as they are rather flimsy.

I'm looking for a spare set of coupling rods from the old MPD L&YR Aspinall 0-6-0 kits - Thanks

Agreed - I was going to make the point on that thread that this was rather like going back to the days of Exley's generic coaches in a multiplicity of 'authentic' liveries but then decided, probably wisely, not to.

The original B&P were primarily furniture manufacturers ! They did a lot of sub-contracting for the larger aircraft firms, selling off their aircraft division in the 1930s. The B&P Overstrand was actually very advanced for its time featuring as it did the first fully enclosed and rotatable nose gun turret ( an old vacuum-formed 'kit' of the Overstrand from the 1970s is stashed away in CKPR's big box of non-railway modelling distractions).

The first, and until now the last, time I read about the Domascelles wagon sides was in Jem Harrison's ' Scratchbuilding for the hamfisted' series in MR in 1979

I've seen that photograph attributed to Sherriff Gate on the Rowrah & Kelton Fell light railway, rather than High Harrington [ http://www.cumbria-railways.co.uk/kelton_tom_jenkins_photos.html] and the engine as belonging to the Cleator & Workington Junction Rly. This would explain the link to High Harrington, which was on the C&WJR.

Very nice indeed - I don't model Irish prototypes but if I did, I would model the SL&NCR.

Mikes Models used to do white-metal kits for this type of mobile crane.

More evidence of the long-standing inclination of the good folk of Kingston-upon-Hull to do things their own way (telephone systems, the Hull Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company, etc).

Of course, this being Edwardian's thread, any anarchists ( 4 or 5 at most) are safely confined to the shabbier end of Whitechapel, where they are plotting an ineffectual attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Balfour.

Copyright issues aside (I do rather like the cheesy Radio 1 soundtrack !), the overall impression is of a modernised integrated rail system that vindicates the decision to accelerate the modernisation plans of the 1950s and scrap steam earlier than planned.

I can only agree - I bought that copy of RM when it first came out and it is still in the small pile of magazines under my bedside table.

That looks like an original 1970s Mike Models catalogue.

I've got one of these and it's a basic if reasonable tool for cutting of wood and plastic strip but there's a fair amount of slack in the rivet on the chopping arm - I've since upgraded to a NWSL 'chopper' but will be keeping it for roughing out and scenic work.

I recall an article by Cyril Freezer in the RM in 1977 on 'modern image' modelling in which he suggested the very same.

I've already had to de-solder much of it after I bought it S/H, so I might have to pass on that suggestion !

Very slow progress alas - I was sent a copy of the instructions and have made some progress on the 517 but I need to make a new bunker given my decision to go for an open cab & round top firebox version. As my workshop is still packed away, I haven't even started on this even though it's fairly straightforward. However, the news that Mrs CKPR-to-be has decided that we need a new dining table means that I might now get access to the old and rather battered pine kitchen table for a spot of sawing, filing and soldering of the old nickel silver sheet ! As for building the Mallard 517, I've found it to be quite straightforward with the only awkward step being the very thin overlays - they were a bit of a pig to solder on but do look very nice once in place. and after some post-soldering cleaning up with a fibreglass pencil.

For what it's worth, I recall catching a train from Durham to Newcastle one Saturday morning c.1982-83 that comprised a classic 'train set' consist of BSK,CO, RMB and BG - where it originated from I've no idea.

Why does this look so authentically mid-1960s in a way that so many finescale efforts can't match ? I write as a finescale EM gauger...