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A single double Fairlie?

Also happened with the QE carrier programme. Current projected cost (ie including inflation since start-up) including contingency and air group costs was compared to original programme cost excluding contingency allowance and air group - instant overspend.

Please do you or other readers have experience of this unit? There is no picture and little description contained in the link.

replacing the run-down?

Please has anyone good experience of these signals?

I'm impressed both with the model and the speed of assembly and decoration.

It would seem we are not the only country with signalmen not knowing where their trains are:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/38750698

According to Yeadon, 65023, 65016 (photo) and 65020 were unlined black in 1948. 65015 was the first J2 to be lined in Sptemeber 1949 with no lettering or emblem on tender (as above). 65019 (photo), 65016, 65018 and 65020 were fully lined with small emblem in 1950. 65022 (photo) was ex-works in plain black without lining in June 1951 and was followed by 65017, 65023 and 65015. There is some variation between locos regarding retention of piston tail rod platforms and location of handrails and vacuum pipe.

Life is too important to take it seriously.

Help, please, as I am confused re: the congestion issue. Are trains not running from Marylebone to Birmingham and, in the future, to Oxford and Milton Keynes? If capacity can be found for these new (to the GC) destinations why not the old ones?

Ms Honeycomb - in 1947?

Charming!

Sparrowhawk with prey (starling?) on the lawn outside our kitchen window this morning. We like seeing sparrowhawks flying but hate it when they kill "our" birds.

A precedent exists at least as far back as 1945 when whisly was traded for US drop tanks fitted "in, theatre" to Seafires operating with the British pacific fleet.

Hi Dave. Your post explains something I have seen both in Bedfordshire and Devon This involves development planning applications submitted by remote companies, who employ specialist subcontractors to prepare the various accompanying documents and, if necessary, specialist counsel to argue their case. If successful, the land - with its outline planning permission - is then sold on to another developer who will do the actual building. i had wondered about the economics of this process but the figures you quote for lannd values suggest there is indeed a profitable market for companies specialising solely in obtaining planning permission.

Does anyone know if one was ever painted in a yellow livery? Something like a Colman's PO wagon livery could look quite stunning.

Super model of a controversial - to say the least - prototype! You resisted the temptation to paint it GE blue?

Saw the sample at Warley and fell in love..... Didn't expect to be able to order one last Monday as I thought they would all have been spoken for but managed to order with Kernow. Not bought from them before but loco delivered today, so pleased. Change of subject: Hamblings used to market a broadly similar looking loco they called the Gnat. Does anyone know if this was based upon a specific prototype?

There are those who say we don't spend enough on defence and those who say we spend too much and are living in the past. But to say we are not "some kind" of military power is just not true.

I have no detailed knowledge of Harpoon but yes, most weapons have a finite service life, defined in their original specification. In my time the most common lifed items would be batteries and items from the explosives chain. Occasionally, "fleet leaders" could be withdrawn for strip-down and examination/testing, which could result in remaining items being given an extended life, or "lifed" items could be replaced if the requirement justified the cost.

A sign of the times?

Why from Loddiswell? Do the elves live in Sorley tunnel?

Oh no they don't!

Somewhere in the loft, though I know the pantograph is broken. Hang on, I did buy some spares for Electra........

Oh dear! Ordered both LNER version and the biscuit loco "by mistake" on Monday, expecting neither to be delivered until next month.........