Limpley Stoker

What a magnificent model- I can't wait to lean over the edge at the top to get a lungful of proper Welsh coal smoke (but in 1947 watch out for the oil-burners!)

The Ocean Mails service survived until 1949, the Hawksworth Bk was built around then . I don't know if there photographic evidence that they carried the Ocean Mails branding- but it is a remote possibility.

Perhaps someone should get the Flying Bedstead out again--- that used to be worth watching !

Speaking of which I hear Nigel Farage is replacing Chris Evans in Top Gear. That should push up Michael Portillo's ratings !

Have the Rockers hacked my account ?

Sorry, but I couldn't find the Rovex thread !

I think the firebox has the wrong profile- is it too late for the tools to be modified ?

Sorry! Must try harder . I must have said two teas please while dictating to Siri.....

I didn't know Newton Abbot had a scrapyard, or have I had a mis-acronymism...

How about a Sunday engineering closure on the main line so 6417 could handle a small engineers train?

Is that an overhead cable warning sign on the end - if so why? it's far too old to run near the Heathrow Express!,

I have chosen to live with mine by 'colouring in' the windowsills with a non permanent brown fine fibre tip pen (Staedtler lumocolor) - easy to wipe any mistakes with a moist finger. Incidentally I measured the sunshine window height of my original Mainline 3rds at 10.2 mm and to my surprise my early Bachmann Bk 3rd is also 10.2 mm, I thought Bachmann had modified the tooling along the Replica pattern where the windows are only 9.2 mm high! I remember the early Mainline models had a tendency to go banana shaped,and assumed the smallers windows made this less likely. I would have a go at flush glazing if I could work out how to round the corners of an accurately cut acetate window panel. Mike

Why do you keep asking me who is the prime minister?? Nobody knows......

That's a Southern lattice signal post so you could well be right......

I'm getting left behind with acronyms, is there an explanatory booklet to go with ANTB? ..... LS

Perhaps that's laughing stock.......

Certainly not- and that's the right West Country adjective for him.

Give Rob a chance- he's probably checking the footbridge CAD scans! Or chuckling at Mr Farage in the European Parliament

Hey Mr Warburton! Come over and look at my lupins : I'm entering them in the Ugborough show!

TIXERB spells reversal of BREXIT though....

It's pure escapism looking at your take on rural 1947, but watch out for the politicians planning the future of GWR !

Gold top behind a copper top. (Did the EU make us change the gold to blue?)

Not another unboxing video.....