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I beg their pardon, it's parked across a walking route so it's been split to prevent it being blocked.

Threre are several threads going back a couple of years, most locked. That's the first one found by typing 'Modelmaster' into the search, its about 15th down the first page of the results. There are several others on the second page.

Ms Rowling, or Disney, or whoever holds the rights these days cannot trademark GWR Castles, Granges, LMS livery or generic maroon locomotives with quasi-LMS lining and totems which just happen to be the shape of a BR lion and wheel. She can trademark "Hogwarts", "Hogwarts Express", the specific combination of those names when used in conjunction with any or all of those things listed above, and, relevant to my earlier point, she can trademark the use of a specific shade of maroon with that specific combination. The OP asked for the specific colour. My guess is its Gryffindor Dark Red from my earlier link, but I have no idea whether LMS or BR maroon has a BS number or how you convert that to a hex value. Whether you can get a Rizzla paper between the BS/Hex/RGB/Pantone values for LMS Maroon and Gryffindor Dark Red for any practical purpose is another matter. And yes, if it was me, I'd just use LMS Maroon or Halfords Rover Damask Red as well. But that wasn't what was asked.

I'd be amazed if she hasn't trademarked it, try these - https://codepen.io/Jill-Lambert/pen/bwevpB Hornby and Bachmann have both done the loco.

Thank you. I suspect it was 999503, Newton Heath rings a bell. It definitely wasn't 999509, I'd remembered enough from Larkin "BR Departmental Rolling Stock" to identify the BR vehicles (2 end windows).

Apologies, what Cruachan said. The London Midland Region was I think the last region to go through Sectorisation. The Settle & Carlisle had been split between the LMR's Carlisle and Preston Divisions, later Areas, but was transferred to RRNE on 1/4/92 along with Settle Jcn - Carnforth, presumably because the only remaining regular services went to Leeds. The other local services from Carlisle around the Cumbrian Coast transferred to RRNW the same day, with the rest of former Area Manager Carlisle's organisation becoming part of Intercity.

On Sunday 28th June 1992 45596 Bahamas took a railtour from Keighley to Carlisle and back, and managed to set fire to most of the S&C in the process. It was a busy couple of days for me, I was two months into my new post as RRNE Operating Supervisor Appleby (at the age of 23!) and I spent that Sunday following the train in a van putting out some of the smaller lineside fires whilst the PWay and retained firefighters from most of the fire stations en route dealt with the rest. Bahamas came back south behind a deisel in disgrace ("making light chuffing noises" as Control put it); I was verbally abused at Appleby by a photographer because the deisel was spoiling his shot, I spent most of the Monday typing up fire reports after losing an argument with the Ops Clerk at Leeds as to whether I was to fill in 46 separate fire reports with the same engine number on them or one fire report with 46 different mileages listed, and I got a strip torn off me for not cancelling it the day before because it hadn't rained for three weeks. My explanation that I didn't know I could fell on deaf ears. https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/90s/920628wv.htm Anyway. A couple of weeks later an inspection saloon ran for the benefit of some gentlemen from BRT who wished to inspect the charred remains of their lineside telephone network, and the damage to the BT pole route which ran alongside the line near Horton in Ribblesdale. I was on the platform shamelessly gricing when it arrived at Appleby, and was somewhat alarmed and surprised when an LM District Inspector alighted, informed me I was relieving him, gave me literally a five minute lesson on how to be a guard and then jumped on a northbound Sprinter and went home. Apparently LM practice at the time was that Operating Department inspectors acted as guards on inspection saloons. Fortunately my bacon was saved by a Skipton guard who turned up with the relief driver at that point, RRNE (ex- ER) taking the far more sensible view that guards guarded and inspectors/supervisors inspected and supervised. I'd been invited onto the saloon for lunch by this point and it would have been rude to back out, so I and the lookout enjoyed our lunch, I left the saloon in the care of the guard and blagged a cab ride (for official route familiarisation purposes of course) with the driver as far as Hellifield. I didn't have a camera with me of course. Now I would have run my phone out of memory taking pics but back then, although there was always a camera in the 'On Call' bag in the van, I only usually carried it on me if I was wearing a coat with big pockets which that summer I mostly wasn't. So (at last) my question is this. Does anyone know which saloon and loco were involved please ? It would have been July 1992, the loco was a 31 in either Dutch or plain grey livery, and I think the LMS pattern saloon was either in Regional Railways or possibly Scotrail livery. I never did learn my lesson. Although I got plenty of shots of unusual workings over the next couple of years, I had no camera with me for two epic workings of scrap DMUs and 85s, no photos of the 156 which derailed at Culgaith or the Motherwell 75t crane which rerailed it (Kingmoor having carelessly broken theirs), very few photos of the embryonic desulpho-gypsum traffic to Kirby Thore and precious few photographs of the men I worked with, many of whom are no longer with us. If only...

It's entirely possible someone got fed up looking at it instituted a 'Safe Cess' style tidy up and there's only 4 weeks left to spend this year's budget. Which is allegedly how Appleby P Way ended up with half the LMR's annual output of concrete troughing one year.

Depends how widespread the UKPN failure was. The signalling power supplies (as opposed to the control circuits) don't run down the side of the track from Three Bridges to the whole of Sussex. This discussion (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/three-bridges-victoria-automatic-route-setting.261426/) a lot of which I freely admit is just alphabet spaghetti to me, would suggest that a reliable power supply is the least of its issues.

Ah, I noticed they'd gone on my way home, thanks. The 108 has been split too, I hope they've not been taking advice from the 503 mob...

There's a chair visible (I think) directly above that white staining on the pit wall in the last photo.

Foamboard is excellent stuff for large non-weight bearing* structures like large buildings. Provided you use a sharp (ie new) Stanley knife blade it cuts easier that card, a blunt blade will snag the polystyrene though. Clad it with whatever you like. I use hot glue to butt join the foamboard, which shouldn't work in theory but it does, and Pritt Stick, Evo Stick or double sided tape to glue cladding materials to the paper faces. If you work for any sort of largeish organisation go see your marketing and comms department as they seem incapable of presenting any kind of concept without sticking it all over large sheets of the stuff. If you dont take it off their hands afterwards it goes to landfill. Failing that, Hobbycraft as mentioned. * You can actually use it for baseboards and diorama bases, but not anything you need to lean on. Its weakness is any kind of mechanical joint, eg attaching legs or joining to another board, you have to reinforce those bits with ply.

Which type you presumably can't buy in Sainsburys.

Hexamine is the starting point for RDX, and from there Semtex and C4. Your local nail bomber is going to have to buy an awful lot of penny bangers to match the explosive power of a couple of ounces of that.

It depends who I'm talking to about it. If it's a fellow weirdo then it's a model railway, to anyone else it's a trainset because at any non-believer level the difference is pretentious. Unless it would be more fun to wind them up by calling it a Performance Art Installation.

Wibdenshaw had half a bus garage on the viewing side. Although that wasn't a real place !

They didn't say they didn't know, they actually did say they couldn't possibly comment. It's a 'House Of Cards' reference and I got it even if you didn't. As I couldn't give a monkey's whether the NRM has a functioning workshop or not I shall step away and leave you to it. (31A - it's actually almost worth the 7 quid to get in !).

Yes it was there when I went past last week too. My guess was asbestos removal or grit blasting something, the Explainer "couldn't possibly comment ;-) ".

In the meantime, the last time I was there they were doing something with the 31 in the Great Hall that involved parking it over the inspection pit completely sealed up with polythene sheets and gaffer tape. It seemed unnecessarily unkind to mention to the Explainer that it was a shame they didn't have some sort of workshop where this sort of thing could be done.

Struggling to see how someone with the nouse and motivation to build either a kit or something from scratch (which is the market Squires serves) can't work out how to use a non-phone payment method or doesn't have the patience to. And yes, it is excellent news. All power to Squires' elbow.

I confess to being well practised on the fillet idea as the result of being hopeless at accurate layout planning, and having to add bits as I go along ! The Google Maps idea is genius.

That, and a bit of the road to give them some protection from stray sleeves and elbows brushing past. It doesn't need to be the full ply construction, something lightweight cantilevered off the existing board will do. If that doesn't work/fit then I'd shorten the gardens as that to me would be the least unacceptable compromise. But then I've managed to get a 28 ft long formation into a 14 foot garage by bending it in half, so your mileage may vary !

Yay ! I cancelled my 2020 trip after the forecast windspeed on the ECML topped 60mph, the overheads not usually needing that much help to fall down. Then spent the day in the office watching both my outward and return trains on TRUST run right time almost to the minute. 🤨

Thats an excellent idea, you should suggest that to the DfT as a replacement for the current Schedule 8 arrangements. Do let us know how you get on.

There is a Bradford Barton paperback called "Signalman" by Michael Burke, detailing his career around Manchester in the 1960s. The Platting Tail Lamp was a local custom whereby the tail lamp of a particular trip working from Miles Platting could be anything except an actual tail lamp, hung on the drawhook of the last vehicle*. "For a period a particularly lacy bra was popular with the shunters". (* Which is why the handle of a BR standard tail lamp is such an odd shape.)