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It would make one hell of an exclusive edition for either Accurascale or Cavalex.

Curses, that seems to show evidence of them on the extension as well, not good for me 😁.

@Lacathedrale forget what we said earlier, seems the line was riddled with em! 

1 hour ago, Covkid said:

Not seen a piccie of a class 24 on the WHL.......

I must admit this is only the second ever photo I have seen of one. Your comment made me doubt myself as I now can't find the photo I was referring to😁, so thanks.

IIRC the pic I have seen somewhere is of one crossing trains at some point on the moor, if that jogs anyone's memory?

Hello, I love you. - the Doors

Fighting Myself - Linkin Park

Class 08, shunter in the early years at Fort bill

Class 20 occasional visitor from 60s onwards and Fort bill shunter in the 80s appearing every so often on Mallaig passenger runs. (There's a video on YouTube shows a green 20 on an engineers train on the line in the 60s)

21/29 21 in the mid 60s till they mostly died, 29 during the late 60s in to very early 70s

24 very occasional, photographic evidence exists

25 occasional visitor, I have seen photos of green rats on the extension and of course during summer shortages in the blue period.

26 as above an occasional 

27 Ever present until early 80s

37s start to take over early 80s and then the 37/4s rule. 

Then it went horribly wrong😁

13 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Oh, hang on, didn't someone say they were fairly common in the Bristol area in the blue era?....

😄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?

1 hour ago, McC said:

 

...... We have tens of thousands of locos shipping in the next few months......

Did someone say this hobby was in decline?😇

8 hours ago, AY Mod said:

A little announcement up at Doncaster this weekend.

 

So that's the end of the end.

 

 

Further information in due course.

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

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.

1 minute ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 I hope you don't mind but I just had to put him the right way up . 

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

Tbh, the current ones took their time to appear, but yes I did expect more noise from our friends in Beer by now.

@grow45I suspect you found the answer, but for anyone else, for the LK-203 station kit, the drainpipes are also from wood, not plastic. Items 51&52 on sheet 2 I think.

Yes, advert in the back pages for the current items shows the 2 new product codes

Rannoch style station and signal box advertised in this month's modeller.. LK-215 & LK-216🥳