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I started building my 'practice piece' layout when I was 13. I'm 51 this year and it still isn't finished.

They were used for goods on the Ballater branch i believe. No idea where i saw that particular photo but its a start !

Looking at the 1878 map on oldmaps.co.uk, and with my one-time landscape archaeologists hat on, I'd say the original path linking two small settlements predates the railway. It may well therefore be a public right of way provided it already was in 1949. If it wasn't by then then it can't be now as the 1949 BTC act is the one which prohibits new RoW on railway land. If it is then it can be diverted, and you will struggle to show that diverting it 200 yds along paved roads is unreasonable.

Common usage (ie a path becomes a right of way if 20 years uninterrupted use can be shown) does not apply to railway land, it is specifically excluded in (I think) the 1957 Transport Act. Even if the bridge accommodated a pre-existing RoW that can be diverted if NR can demonstrate a need to do so. What they almost certainly won't do is replace it with a foot crossing. Edit - British Transport Commission Act 1949, S57.

A typical railway fatality involves a trespasser, so once the police are satisfied there are no suspicious circumstances then how long it takes to move the train is entirely within the railway's control. However, a workplace fatality is always going to involve the possibility of prosecuting someone so it remains a crime scene for much longer. Even with all the arrangements made - crew relieved, damage fixed etc, you still can't move until the police tell you you can.

In short: Period 1 (1923 - 1928ish) - raised pannelling, canvas roof with long rainstrips. Matchboard ends. No non-corridor RTR but Bachmann do/did a BTK and CK from old Mainline mouldings. Period 2 (1928-1933) - flush sided sometimes with slightly raised bollection mouldings around windows, roofs as P1. Flush ends. Airfix / Dapol did a lav composite and brake third but most of the real ones were non lav as already stated. No corridor types RTR unless you want a 12 wheel restaurant car (Hornby). Period 3 (1935 onwards)- Flush sided, slightly rounder corners to windows. No bollection mouldings. Flush ends. Steel roofs with transverse ribs. Available from Hornby although the brake 3rd is an early P3 type with one set of guard's van doors, most had 2 sets of double doors. Corridor types also available from Dapol, Hornby and Bachmann (Bachmann's being the later 'porthole' stock). The LMS was not fussy about running matching sets of all P1 or all P3 - the same basic types were built in all 3 eras with a few oddities - if it had the right number of seats it was in. If you never see P3 coaches on the SDJR then I suspect it's because none were allocated.

No vinyl on 142s apart from numbers, logos etc, they were brush painted at NH. They can continue to operate beyond 2019 coupled to a compatible unit (eg 150) or with the toilets locked out. At the moment there is no restriction on 2x142s working together.

Would it be easier to butt joint the tops of the verticals to the underside of the knobs at each end by soldering ? It should be strong enough.

The 25" series should be accurate for the date it was actually surveyed, but don't expect the cartographer to pick up on the difference between a diamond crossing and a slip for example. The publication date of the map is not the date of survey, especially for a later edition only revised for major changes. The smaller scale editions will have less detail and more compromises.

LBRJ is correct. The original requirement ( in one of the Regulation of Railways Acts) was that they be fenced against trespass onto the adjoining land. The requirement to fence to keep people off the railway didn't come until 1997.

If it's been stuck with epoxy then Nitromors works. Discovered by accident, I hadn't intended to rebuild it ...

In other words, they'd have to make up a number to create a non-prototypical set, which is what cravens said. For 1st gen ScR you need motor+ trailer, or mptor+trailer+motor, not motor + 2 trailers. Taking centre cars out to make power twins came later. They won't do it because it's wrong, they aren't Triang.

Or deleted by admin. Didn't he have a public falling out with someone senior when he was at Dapol ? Along the lines of "why are you asking him ? He's only the md. "

An ebay search for old picture postcards often throws up early 20th c village views. Francis frith published a lot of village views too. Much of what remains today to see on google street view has been almost sanitised over the years but then I wouldn't want to live in a fully authentic Edwardian cottage either.

Ok, in very very general terms: Building materials - up to the late 19th century local building materials would be dominant in rural areas but 'local' covers everything from Devon cob and granite to Cotswold limestone. The railways made cheap bricks more widely available starting with the rapidly expanding towns but spreading to the countryside by your era. So side by side is fine but less brick the more rural you get. Maybe a couple of brick local authority 'homes for heroes'. If the local stone was really poor then brick, cob or timber but more rustic looking brick than mass produced machine cut bricks. Privvies- yes, get scratchbuilding. Inside toilets would be uncommon before WW2 in all but the poshest houses. Cows and sheep - fine on adjacent fields, less common in the same field. (Do cows trample sheep ?). Sheep can cope on poorer land than cattle so better suited to upland areas than cows. Black and white Freisian and Holstein cows uncommon in the 20s. Crops - cereals, potatoes, carrots., turnips etc. Nothing fancy and certainly no bright yellow rape. Plenty of mixed arable and livestock, small fields, little machinery but plenty of horses. Roads - dirt/stone chippings in rural areas is fine, some very rural roads weren't metalled until well after the war. Few sidewalks (pavements) outside towns. Farm walls - same as local building stone but only if it was lying about anyway or easily quarried by digging a hole. Never imported or even carried very far as cost wasn't worth it. If no local stone then hedges. Railways tended to use certain quarries for ballast, local stone didn't necessarily make good aggregate and vice versa.

155s have indeed been PRMed. 153s will stay for the moment but cannot work as singles or coupled pairs after December. Current plan appears to be tò use them to strengthen 150s or 155s.

George O'Hara's Scottish diesels book has a photo of one in gsyp near Ayr which I think was 55000. It was in bsyp by the time WS Seller photographed it at (I think) Barassie a year or so later.

Do it properly or put it in the garage/shed. Apart from anything else it's much harder to fall out of a shed.

"Force Ten From Navarone", "Yanks" and "Hanover Street" all released in 1978/9 if anyone fancies trawling through looking for Black Fives pretending to be something else. There's a Standard 5 in "Yanks" ...

You're right if course, my delay attribution is a bit rusty. In that case the ban may happen a lot faster, as evidenced by the statement over the weekend.

Well there's the answer then. We'll just train every gricer (and ad hoc smart phone photographer who just fancies seeing FS) in track safety and then they can wander about where they like because they'll all be looking after themselves. Presumably they can all co-operate with each other to arrange lookouts etc. Unfortunately people are inherently stupid, especially enthusiastic people in large groups, and it doesn't work like that. Of course, if things carry on like this and the charter operators keep racking up delay penalties to the extent they were on Sunday, the problem will solve itself because the services will become financially unviable. Network Rail won't have to ban anything, FS will become a toxic brand from a commercial operator's point of view.

Agreed. There is a standing joke in Northern Engineering that no two 142s are ever in the same mod state. There are, for example, at least three different types of saloon heaters, only two of which can be turned on or off by the crew.

At that date, and in that livery, I suspect working back to Neville Hill via Heaton after refurbishment in Kilmarnock.

A 12t van is about the same size as a single garage, my suggestion to swap our garage for one was vetoed though. The SRPS have built a layout in a couple of coaches I think.

There are still a couple of 14x/15x diagrams, anything which needs to run as a 4 car for example, either for capacity or to ferry a set to be used later (17.41 off York for example is always a 14x, detached from another earlier in the day. ) There are more 170s in traffic but they have also been deployed on Leeds to Selby and Huddersfield, and they take over Sheffield - Hull - Brid from May.