Chris116

A nice smokey loco will soon get that washing removed!

You may think Pandora is not allowed on the layout but you lost the vote 2 - 1 as Pandora being a cat has two votes and you as a mere human only have one vote!

While all these derailments keep the railfans entertained, I think there needs to be a proper investigation before someone get hurt as it is happening far too often at this junction.

I almost feel sorry for the dog but the dog is probably asleep on the cat blanket so not a problem.

The only hive of activity would be the one the bees live in!

In the early days of HSTs before they were re-engined I often heard them referred to as "Zings" due to the sound when they past you.

Or maybe just waiting until she gets the right opportunity to teach you a lesson!

You forgot the subject to cancellations and can you just! Have an enjoyable weekend.

All the black and white photos from yesterday show correctly for me on my cheap "oppo" phone. Never had any sign of red in any of your b&w photos thankfully.

The infamous TOTP performance and the one a week later are both easily found on YouTube. The second one is just magical.

Once again many thanks. I will have to look into that.

Thank you for that information but I don't have time or skills to produce a kit built loco that is also painted to my satisfaction. I will await our wonderful manufacturers doing their thing to empty my wallet.

Another plus is that one is preserved on the Bluebell Railway which I can get to easily by train so I can have a good look at the real thing and a manufacturer could measure it up!

Given that 58850 has a chimney and dome that are taller than the cab it is a good candidate when you add the possible nickname connection. Sadly the only model I know is the old GEM kit which I suspect is not anywhere near modern standards and if built and painted by me would be an embarrassment, remembering how the BEC and GEM kits I built in TT3 as a teenager turned out.

Any pizza with those ingredients would be given away very quickly by me.

I love Marmite but hate pineapple, beetroot and most seafood.

Divorce court looking a good idea! Reason for divorce is her unreasonable behaviour.

I don't think my mother's father knew much about railways from what my mother said and therefore doubt that he would have tried to explain about trip working. If I had ever met him I might have found out more but it never happened. I suppose the best that is possible now is to find a small tender loco which probably had a small boiler and could therefore have a longer chimney than most similar locos have. If such a loco was around the Stockport area just before WW2 then there is a good chance we have found the "Chip engine" and if there is a ready to run model then the preservation society that run services on my layout will have nameplates fitted saying "CHIP".

Start at page one and read a maximum of two pages a day. That should keep you going until @KNP returns.

I always use collect from my local Argos for eBay wins but they are normally single unboxed items which will fit is jacket pocket to get past SWTSMBO !

I currently have a four pack of GNR Genesis coaches that are due February 2023, a three pack of BR Crimson Genesis coaches due when they get here and two Rapido Wisbech and Upwell tramway coaches which will also arrive when they get here. All will go in my trunk with Hattons and will only be requested for delivery when my wife is away and will not see their arrival!

My mother lived in Stockport and Portpatrick before she married my father. Once I was known as a railway enthusiast she was always trying to get me to find out what steam locomotive her father had referred to as being a "Chip engine". At a question and answer session during a special weekend at the old Clapham Railway Museum I raised the subject but no one could give me an answer. I have twice in the past five years also asked at the NRM York but without success. The only details she could give me were that it was a small black locomotive, on questioning her she thought it was probably a tender locomotive, which to her young eyes had a tall chimney and a large done. I think it was a locomotive seen around the Stockport area but she died in 1995 and I did not think to ask her where she had seen them. My father who died in 2011 thought it was Stockport but was not sure. Has anyone else ever heard of a steam locomotive being given the "Chip engine" nickname or was it something her father made up. I never met him as he did not want his daughter marrying the son of a priest for some reason that my mother did not understand. The older I get the more my failure to find the answer to a question she asked me when I was a teenager annoys me. If a model of the locomotive is made RTR then it would be my next purchase and given that I run a preservation railway in model form it would be named "Kathy" in her memory. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Just buy three of each then you can have at least two colours on all your layouts! You know it makes sense.

Sadly the first time I went the clocks were all showing different times and none were correct!

Sadly Nottingham Victoria had been knocked down and a shopping centre built on the area before I ever knowingly went to Nottingham.