t8hants

IIRC the movie North West Frontier, or Flame over India to use its other title, was shot in Spain.

I don't know about sending Lego as landfill, but I bet nearly every garden in Europe will have some bricks buried in it, if children ever lived there in the last 50 years.

Not wishing to single out t8hants in any way but are the words 'lose' and 'losing' the most widely misspelt on this forum, often rendered as 'loose' and loosing'? I wonder why that should be? Thanks for pointing that out - I would have been far more miffed if my contribution had been ignored!

I am always astonished how often in so many types of business - manufacturing, retail, football and even in something like Further Education - that highly paid people who have not been successful in one organisation can get appointed very quickly to a new CEO post in another organisation and make a mess of that too. there is no point in having an old boy network if it doesn't bring some benefits. That's the joy of being a CEO, absolutely no responsibility, if the level of responsibility is measured in the level of sanction you suffer for failure. I guarantee you the office cleaner has more 'responsibility' resting on their shoulders than the clown whose office they clean - the office cleaner looses something worth a fiver, and all hell will descend upon them, the CEO may loose millions, but walk away with a large golden handshake, a pension settlement, perhaps following a period of 'Gardening Leave' to play golf, lifestyle more or less unruffled.

AHh I see it all now - Plain track is pointless!

The old road to Glyn Neath runs in the trees in front of the Rheola works, and ran parallel to the canal and river. I think the screens you remember were further up the valley towards Glyn, but I could be wrong. The Resolven screens nestled up against the west side of the valley, and you can just see the Neath to Merthyr line behind the furthest rank of 16 tonners

I wasn't sure if this photo would be up to standard, but it does show the lines of 16 ton wagons waiting at the Resolven screens and coal washery circa 1962 - 63 What I do like is the hut on stilts that must be straddling at least two tracks, presumably some sort of aerial site office. Anyway my contribution to a thread I enjoy.

Well I'm not going to buy it, but not because I have anything against it, it sounds very interesting and could be the cusp of a seed change in British railway modeling if I understand things correctly. I have just laid my new layout in code 100, because with a very limited budget I was advised at the time this would be the best for my largely second hand rolling stock. Being new to the game I cannot envisage how it would be possible to partially convert the layout to the new track, so a complete change would be required with several old friends of locos retired, to be replaced with new stock and even their second hand prices would make stock replacement a slow process. Again as I understand things, it is thought unlikely that it would ever appear in code 100, which would allow a slow but rolling conversion for a modeler like myself. However should it take off, I am sure that it will influence the market as a whole, which is something to look forward to.

I totally agree, but I don't have the confidence to remove the printed plates without scratching the tank sides, or to fix the etched plates and other gubbins nicely.

Being new to the modern world of model railways, could some kind soul explain why the model comes with both printed and etched nameplates? Not wanting to rugger up such an expensive (to me) item I am afraid to touch it, so the etched plates will stay in the box, along with all the other accessories I assume are to glued on if needed.

It used to be, but only if pulled by convicts, but the EU put a stop to that, as it wasn't green enough, so now we used diseasles.

Ordered Calbourne via Isle of Wight steam railway 2 years ago, picked it up last Sunday. It's lovely, but I still have worries that it cost more than my first four cars did combined.

The threat to all steam engines, would be that coal would become so limited in production that it is no longer viable to import or transport at a cost that small users could afford. So the individual traction engine owner might be forced out of use, the smaller revenue steam railway might find the economics are no longer viable. The alternative would be perhaps oil firing, which may be impracticable for exactly the same reasons of cost or practicality. As the owner of a couple of vintage lorries, I often ponder if I am only saving them for a future scrap-man, as they become harder to find parts for, as fuel becomes less suitable, and the motoring public less tolerant of a 70 year old relic on 'their' road. There are currently too many 'preserved' vehicles for them all to last in perpetuity in museums.

T'was only mild curiosity.

I saw her go by Sandown Bay yesterday, whilst waiting for the B o B flypast. How many model O2's are actually on board has it been stated?

"As the sun pulls away from the shore, and our ship sinks slowly in the west" to quote the great Spike Jones. Didn't know you could track ships like this does make it more fun.

Well I'm getting bored by the whole thing, I was quite excited when I first learned about the proposed Terriers, two years ago now I think, even more so when there appeared to be an IOW version included. I had recently purchased a lovely Adams O2 pre-made kit and wanted a stablemate for 'Sandown'. Time has dragged on, and it now appears there will not be an IOW version in this batch, and I don't have the skills to kit bash, or the inclination. An email to Dapol to clarify the point didn't receive a reply, and now it would seem that if there if such a version it will have increased substantially in price, and is so far in mercurial future as to be not worth considering. I am not going to waste anymore time on it, Sandown looks nice on my shelf, but the garden railway I was considering has also been shelved (pardon the pun). I am slightly in the same situation with the Kernow 02, but I can run something else on my now under construction indoor oo gauge. If Dapol wanted to increase the excitement and anticipation over the arrival of the Terriers they should be only to please to trumpet each movement stage to the UK and the retail outlets, even if that is to say they are stuck at Rotterdam. Whoever gets the model that might have been mine, I hope you enjoy it and treat it nicely/.

Has anybody noticed that the decline in insects and other common animals in the food chain apears to coincide with the adoption of unleaded petrol. Which I am given to understand is highly toxic, worse infact then unleaded ever was. The whole campaign to adopt it was brought about because that is what the petrol companies wanted as its much cheaper to make.

I'm still confused if there is ever going to be an I.O.W. version

You haven't specified which Christmas

And no-one will die in a ditch as a result of waiting. True, but one or two modellers may well as a result of the elapse of time!

Still no Isle of Wight version listed?

Can I get a back-story that would put an IOW O2 into County Durham? Purchased for preservation at the time of scrapping. Transferred north the national collection and loaned out. Sent for trials on a local line with a view that the class would be transferred north, when they were replaced here on IOW by the 2MT's. Gareth

Have they said when the Isle of wight version is coming out, or have I missed it in the list. Gareth