HymekBoy

Trying to turn a blind eye to O Gauge here.... but that Terrier......perhaps just a display model? Hmmmm... weakening

Excellent storage, you could sell those! 

I like that a lot, quite a logical shape to run a tarpaulin over too. 

Nice track, though there's some truth in the old proverb 'Never drive a camper van into a Mk 1 coach'. 

As to gauge, had you considered the futuristic 7 feet 0¼ inches gauge? Atmospheric propulsion? 

Will be watching this one from Earth

I was going to say Blimey too

Agreed. I happened to be on the paddle steamer Waverley today (another of my old flames) and bought a few items at the gift shop. No electronics there, they took a carbon paper print of my bank card, old style. Not quite a brass rubbing, but the same high tech. Very charming but it did take about 5 minutes to pay

That's a lot more effective than my own method when a model takes a dive - dance up and down on the spot while reaching into the naughty corner of my vocabulary

Suspect the Black 5 tender may be derailed

Got to love a shunter, and that one looks fabulous

Barry Ten, what a fabulous choice of university! I did '78-'82.... still nearly all rail blue. I did Bath Spa - Bristol TM - change trains - Cheltenham, Worcester, Birmingham NS, Tamworth, Derby, Chesterfield, Sheffield Midland, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle - or variations on it. Quite a journey, but the 'Travellers Fare' was well patronised. Great cameras, those Trips.

I slept in the station buffet at Newcastle one night - woke up to the Animals on the jukebox at 4am with House of the Rising Sun.

Magazines - well that's a whole subject in its own right. I must have bought hundreds over the decades

Interesting how we boomerang back to it when the coast is clearer, never quite getting it out of the system

I do remember those old milk churns, they must have disappeared in the 1960s. Lifting and pouring one must have required some strength!

I think that King looks just the job. That particular blue is very attractive and highlights shape and detail very well. 

I always enjoy my visits to Didcot, especially on those deserted days when you can just wander at will. 

It was like crossing the threshold into another era. Some 10 years later the House was sold to Rod Hull (and presumably Emu) but sold again to pay off a tax bill... now it seems the current owner does guided tours, but I'll bet that surprising railway in the cellar no longer exists. 

Quality stuff.... if only I had the skills!

Nothing nicer than opening a big box of hard earned goodies!

CEPs on the Maidstone Line - there's posh! My days of travel were approx 1970-75 and I don't recall anything other than HAPs and EPBs... and the occasional locomotive, a 33 or 73. It's a lovely little railway line though. 

We have the same criteria... I too am attracted to grotty industrial landscapes... well I build ships, I tend to live in them. In another life I could have been an industrial archaeologist. I have a very high regard for the Class 76's

Nice work! 

Brilliant horticulture! You'll never have to dead head them either

It's all about the movement of goods and passengers, ie stuff, so we have to use whatever is available to us. 

I have never seen a crowded model DMU with standing room only. Guess some must exist, but coaches are often underpopulated. 

Likewise it goes slightly against the grain to put a false bottom in a wagon and sprinkle coal over the top, I'd rather fill it all up - and then sigh when I have to double head 4 wagons.

All of which reminds me, I had a self-unloading ore hopper wagon, a Tri-ang orange thing (R111) that ran up a set of inclined piers and the bottom door was then lever-activated over a bridge, causing it to dump its load of pellets on to whatever was below. Another instance of Tri-ang play value, until the pellets got hoovered. Haven't thought about that for years...but it was a good attempt to deliver the goods

Oh yes, I had (have) one of these. Very robust, and carried all sorts of vital machinery/Matchbox cars, lego, tanks etc in its day. But a decent body and worth an update

Hmm, I think I quite like 3rd down on the left.

Good question, and one I've never managed to answer. He moved away to Inverness to live in some sort of castle and that was the last I heard of Pong. Difficult to track having a fairly common name too. 

Ah yes, my hobby too. Began to know where to look after a while, often around the sleepers/ballast. Some Tri-Ang Hornby catalogues had Cuneo's on the front. 

It'll all be worth it for something a bit unique!