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In @MrWolf s bottom picture, I wonder which came first in the limited space between the shed and the cattle dock: The wagon on wheels or the wagon on stilts? Despite the prototype evidence , would it seem "wrong" if seen in isolation on a layout modelled that way?

Loadsasockets. For those of you who get excited about this sort of thing. . . . . . . . I would switch the lights on. But it would burn your screen out

Well, there have to be SOME standards . . . .

Probably why @KNP said it was waiting to start work. . . . . .

Which one are you nominating for Snot Green ?

Noted the previous edition of the map the siding finished at the turntable and there wasn't track beyond it (to the right in the photo) . There is a similar turntable shown on an odd siding on the Princetown Branch on the 1905 map at Yelverton https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/252099/67272/12/100604. Just a very wild guess as I know nothing about pre-Grouping GWR operations. . . .Could they have turned guards brakes on the branch? Would seem an odd practice though?

Would it be wrong to ask if this is a) a possible entry for the Railway Modeller articles on 'A Prototype For Anything' or b) a Stuka pilots eye view. Asking for a friend. . . . . .

Hiho. . . . May I suggest checking the 5mm lift would still let your tallest wagon get into the shed ? Don't want to solve one problem by creating another John

You'll be needing quite a few of those small humbrol paint pots then. . . . . . .. . . .

Very nice @KNP. I also REALLY like the texture and colour on the vertical timbers to the front of the loco. John

Not as long as moving your fiancee from her family home in Fort William to our new house in East Kent* in 1983. Sans Cat who miaowed as far as Glasgow. My mini clubman estate blew up on the M6 in Birmingham and back fired behind a police car all the way through the Dartford Tunnel . Very echo-y. That's when you realise what 'miles per hour' means as you crawl down a map of GB. ps Still very happily married. Mini went though. Part exchanged for a Talbot Avenger estate. . . . Are there many of those still around We had a suicide lane on the Thanet Way between the end of the M2 and Margate/ Ramsgate. Many accidents and many times astonished at the idiots in the central lane. Now dual carriageway. There must be an entry in The Darwin Awards somewhere https://darwinawards.com for driver behaviour on those roads. . . . * Kent Bus company, just to keep 'on topic'.

Hi Adrian @westerhamstation. I lived in North Kent for many years and never knew about this ! Maybe it was run down/ closed at the time ? The things you find out about on RMWeb. . . . Thanks for sharing. Will read with interest. John

Sad to read about that in early April. Are you still resisting? But noted a lot of the subsequent photos are entitled "from the archive". So does that mean work on the room has started and a new Dewchurch will rise?

Happy to help. I 've had lots of inspiration and positive contributions from so many people on RMWeb. So just a little bit of giving back / passing on info. Latest developments looking really good. John

Well, that suggestion seemed to work quite well . . . .

Very nice Chris @chuffinghell. Looking forward to the inevitable debate on which way round it needs to go next to a siding. . . . Tall side? Or open side? Discuss, show your working out and add your reasons. Rule1 may not be applicable. . . . .

Wouldn't this be a brilliant name for a new layout ????? On a more serious on-topic note, the shed is looking good. I agree it would be unlikely to be in Rly Co colours. John

Hi @Johndc120 This is looking really good. A positive contribution I would like to make is that I believe the trackside gates open towards the wagon. This is to avoid the cattle/ sheep escaping down the edge of the dock. Currently you have them drawn opening away from the wagon. Leastways, that is the way I modelled them on my Mk1 layout cattle dock which can be seen on the first post on Page 1 of the link below. FYI ~ I noticed after posting that picture that the gate nearest the camera had been hung with the hinge side on the opening end, Look forward to following progress

Agreed @Gedward. Hope I can get to your standard in due course Kevin @KNP

The trombone section of the brass band I played in helped out the local orchestra. After the usual several hundred bars rest the composer couldn't be bothered to fill in for brass, he then requested all three trombones to play double forte (Jolly loud for the uninitiated). Being upstanding citizens we duly obliged. Conductor stops orchestra and asks the trombones what we thought we were doing. Pointing out the obvious I just said 'playing double forte, as requested'. Conductor gestures across at the twenty or so violins and asks me what they are supposed to do when faced with three trombones playing double forte. My response of 'scrape harder? ' was (apparently) not the correct one. . . . . For those that requested some trombone playing, a little bit of Romeo & Juliet . . . . . . . Enjoy (ps we also do fried breakfasts whilst waiting for the bar to open):

Dive bombing buses on bridges being one . . . . . . ?

Mr Macron needs to have a word. . . . . . !

Really inspiring work.

Hi @Rich Papper Have read through your topic over the last week or so, drawn in by the Southern location of Catford. Really like the plan and the way you are developing it. Your experiences with 'Thing 1' and 'Thing 2' have made me laugh out loud on several occasions and share with my wife. I also shared the picture of your wife holding a tape measure over the block work at Bath. Strangely, my wife has had similar experiences *. I also have a slowly developing layout and recognise the timescales you have been working through, not assisted by a house move at the end of last year. The video rides showing the developing scene are also very informative. There are very prototypical arrangements emerging. I will be following with interest in the future John *Or should that be 'my wife has had similar strange experiences'?