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😄That'll teach you to go asking innocent questions on here!

Here's a link to the the old Wind cutter blog where he discusses his issues (with the van). There's a comparison shot between Parkside, Hornby and Wrenn end profiles on there. The Wrenn example holds up pretty well. https://windcutter.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/the-flying-kipper/ Not sure how glaring these are at normal viewing distant, but the Rapido ones are a not previously covered diagram which is very useful for a Scottish harbour layout that would benefit from DCC smell as much as sound! Now for someone (kit or rtr)to cover the INSIXFISH examples I've seen at Mallaig?

Does it matter??

Indeed. It's early enough to put forward a contender in the style of a radio show tenuous link however. The same collection has an image, again undated, of 37175 bringing clayhoods into Newton Abbot yard. https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Czs7qswwk/?igsh=MXRsOXlpdjc0MjB2Mw== A search on class37.co.uk has her being transferred from north o the border in full West Highland LL regalia to Laira in May 86. Displaced by the 37/4s and unsurprisingly a bit of a china clay beastie throughout much of 86/87 according to that site's sightings page. The photos show she lost her Eastleigh terrier somewhere between Sept 86 & April 87. The same sightings page list her as being a regular performer on the Barnstaple branch mid August 87 - mid September , returning North in October that year. No other photo's or submissable evidence unfortunately.

Stumbled across this on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/C3VZEHUsn-v/?igsh=eXN6YXVwMXpjMzY1 Caption is "142025 about to bounce through Lapford." What caught my eye is the loco and wagons in the loop, forming the left periphery of the shot. Something large logo or RF grey with PWAs? Any opinions on the loco class? What I mean to ask is, is that a 37 at Lapford, or am I going mad?

Did someone say this hobby was in decline?😇

Blimey, the SWAG members day's growing beyond recognition🤡🤪

Thought I might do a spot of modelling at the workbench, I have since been advised otherwise🙄 NOT posted from my PC!

Always be careful you don't throw anything important out with the Christmas wrapping rubbish!

Well, someone's found time to just send me an invoice 😎🥳

You obviously think like an 1870s rail promoter! Sorry the original document has disappeared, from the blurb in my archived Holcombe thread I wrote this "As an adjunct to the Bath extension, the Somerset and Dorset sought an act of parliament to build a branch from the vicinity of Binegar towards the Nettlebridge Valley, specifically to tap into the traffic from the West Mendip Colliery. This never came to fruition, until you look at the map through Rose Tinted TM glasses and see that the line indeed reached West Mendip Colliery and, later was planned to drive further into the Nettlebridge Valley, construction started but ultimately failed and the temporary terminus nr Holcombe and Edford became Permanent for the rest of the lines history." The first half was pretty much as the act was, the latter my fiction, the only other bit I can remember was the act actually stated to end in a field adjacent to the coal workings. If I find a copy on my old laptop I'll let you have it. Now to return to your creation 😁

Did you know of the act of of parliament in 1873? To build a line from the vicinity of Binegar into the Nettlebridge valley ending in a field adjacent the coal workings near Edford and Holcombe. I had a look but the link for the justice commission document looking to repeal all the unused railway acts is no longer valid. I used it as the inspiration for a small S&D branch a decade or so back.

Tablet catcher fitted 21 sample was in the display case this weekend at Warley.Chaps on the stand (if I understood correctly) said they had just signed off on the livery artwork so would expect delivery around middle of next year? I got the feeling there wasn't a strong breeze or their fingers damp enough to put much stock in the accuracy of that prediction, but to be fair it wasn't offered as such, but good to hear of progress compared to last year.

Not at all, if only it was as easy in real life😁

A heart wrenchingly short time has passed since our Smudge was killed on the road, microchipping and a wonderful person stopping and taking him to the local vet meant we found out immediately with no agonising search and wondering. A fabulous character that was a bit of a living landmark to all that walked past regularly.Lots of happy memories, the local bird population will not miss him as much😉 And then out of the blue, with us saying never again, the moons align and this little vandal crashes into our lives. Say hi to the folks on RMweb Dexter. Not had the best of starts in life but has just realised the new servants might not be all that bad.