2750Papyrus

Another for Bedfordshire

Let's hope we can all attend it safely.

Thanks very much for those pictures, which help in understanding the construction and operation of the layout.

I had hoped there might be separate votes for Footballers and famous houses! I took little interest in football till I lived in digs In Manchester. My fellow residents were nearly all footballers and fans and one night we went to a match at Maine Road. I was hooked! Good times; Charlton, Law and Best at Old Trafford and Lee, Bell and Summerbee at City, whom I supported as (initially) the underdogs. My parents were deeply involved in Scouting all their lives and therefore 2871 loses out on this occasion to 2846, Gilwell Park, which was for them and many others the spiritual home of the Scouting movement.

I also have some reservations about voting for diseasels. However, my Dad and I used to watch out for Deltics displaying new names in the FP depot sidings or crossing the Seven Sisters Road bridge. My first serious girlfriend lived in a house backing onto FP depot, so in time I saw most of them. I prefer the names in the racehorse tradition to the regimental names, my favourite being Pinza. ( I was in a group which used to play Searchers' numbers!)

Worth trying the "sliding" middle wheel solution. Wheels fitted to 2mm tube, free to move on 1mm rod as axle.

I think I remember seeing and cabbing Britannia at an exhibition when she was new in 1951. Marylebone or King's Cross? So she has to be my choice, although years later I enjoyed a footplate ride on a sister loco.

Mike, are the 5 wheeled coaches prototypical?

The illustration includes the definite article but the headline reads just Knight of Thistle.

Hornby, you'll get in trouble if you don't decide between Knight of the Thistle and Knight of Thistle!

I did!

Best - Tudor Minstrel. Worst 60500 - ET, for the alien operations he performed on defenceless locomotives.

First saw him in 1963. Last saw him in 2019. RIP Gerry. I wonder how many Liverpool fans have heard of Carousel?

Thanks for posting those photos, Tony. A pleasure to see them on a gloomy day.

Wolf of Badenoch is a wonderful name but I cannot support it as a favourite in rebuilt form. So my vote goes for Tudor Minstrel, a melodious sounding name.

Very nice! Any plans for further GN buildings?

Very useful if you are taken ill whilst away from home on business or holiday. Our surgery operates an an-line system for requesting consultations and repeat prescriptions and also provides viewing of ones medical record.

That's a smashing layout for young children. Lots of detail as well as action, well done. I am sure you and your (step) grandchildren will continue to get many hours of enjoyment from it.

Do I recall a tale that the use of initials instead of Christian names was dictated by the perceived limited space on the smoke deflectors? As I'm not a fan of the renaming of A4s after relatively unknown directors, I have no guilt in expressing similar sentiments regarding union officials/Railway Executive executives. So W P Allen is my nomination. Much better to have been J G Robinson!

I have always thought that Stamford shed had a great deal of character. I built the 4mm scale Prototype Models kit some 20 years ago. I retrieved it from a storage box last year and decided to refurbish it with regard to gutters and downpipes, and to scratch build the wooden extension, rarely modelled. The only snag was that, in my original build, I overlaid the printed roof with slate paper strips, using PVA adhesive. Whilst in storage, this had turned green, so the extension is roofed with different coloured slates from the original build. I have heard of ballast turning green due to the use of PVA but not previously building papers. Has anyone else encountered this?

I am finding this difficult, it seems like asking us to betray an old friend! Given that a policy of naming the class after winning racehorses had been established, my choice is for the politically expedient though loyal Prince of Wales. Much better saving it for the largest express locomotive class - the P2!

Pasty wouldn't have been a great name, either!

I think a Bamford Wuffler might prove popular.......