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The date might be the clue. A shortage of wagons resulting in modified coke wagons being used for coal or stone. Common sense applied to avoid overloading?

Pontefract. Had another enjoyable show before the impending doom dawned on us.

Perhaps because the great explosion of car ownership was among the generation born in the 1950s?

I had forgotten about the L&Y !

They don't corrode so are ideal for droppers. World Rally teams use gold plated pins in their electrical connectors. It's only money!!

This is a regional thing. The NE railway was ( I think) the only one to try and standardise on hopper ( bottom door) delivery to it's stations. Thus the elevated coal siding became a feature of most station layouts. The bigger the station, the greater number of cells. Other companies seem to have generally delivered coal in side door wagons . This resulted in the ground level bunker made from old sleepers or even large lumps of coal. Personally, I have always associated the term " staithes" with the river or dockside facilities for loading ships or barges. This is probably a question of localised use of language.

With windows. My wife and daughter have had seven or eight estates between them. All have achieved inter galactic mileage with few if any engine related repairs. One of the few cars that I would buy with 125K miles on the clock to be a 120 miles per day daily driver, fully expecting it to achieve another 60K before considering a replacement.

Not unless it was the 1.7 diesel

The Australians had a larger SUV called ( I think) the Outback. It could be had with a full fat 300 bhp motor from the WRX and an auto box. My few miles in one involved a well behaved, legal lap of Mt Panorama at Bathurst.

Try a Google image search for wholesale vegetables market. I quickly found one of Covent garden. Sadly, inevitably monochrome, but shows sacks and boxes well.

A very easy car to drive sensibly, a safe car to drive quickly, a shiny metal coffin if driven stupidly.

At the risk of stirring up a wet Wednesday, whilst most of us spend three days searching out and repurposing , top modellers take a clean sheet of paper and have the job done by tea time. Discuss.

I maybe wrong but think that the sacks were "sown" shut with a length of twine.

Having just had a play with what I think is a random Hachette axle it appears to be M 2.5. The three I replaced for St Frusquin went into a static Peckett in the first lock down.

If you go for a four wayTT it is important that the four exits are perfectly aligned so that each will match any entrance. Don't ask how I learned this. This is a feature best made on the bench and then inserted into the layout when fully tested.

My memory may be less reliable but, from teenage days working for a fruit and veg merchant, the common or garden spud came in much darker sacks. Specialist potatoes like the Jersey Mid came in lighter sacks with a red printed logo. Some came in small plywood barrels but either way they were packed in peat to stop them bruising. My time in this job(early 70s) saw the transition to paper sacks.

I'm afraid they may be Chinese bicycle thread. Or a bespoke artisan product unknown to the western world. I think if you have reached the point of deformation you have overtightened them in the quest to convince yourself that they are ok. I decided that the fit was ok for the non driving wheels and paid the £15 for three axles and screws. Making the Slater's axles fit takes some careful fettling but is definitely worth the effort.

A couple of shots I missed first time. Write your own conversation between dog, cat and old George.

By my reckoning the were 507 austerity tank engines. 393 wartime builds. 114 post war new builds (15 rebuilds with new HE numbers) How many different examples have we modelled? Any scale, any period. To kick off, here are mine: Let's start with one that ISN'T an austerity HE 2414 (1942) the 50550 class HE2879 (1943) Diana HE 3168 ,(1944) S134 aka Wheldale HE 3180 (1944) Antwerp RSH 7164 (1944) " Sgt Pepper"

Providing that it is used prototypically * there should not be an issue with wiring. If what you want is a tiny loco device, then you will need to arrange a split disc of copper clad paxolin beneath the structure and have wire pick ups from the rails. * The TT enables a 90degree turn for wagons only which are propelled by horse, tractor or capstan.

Epilogue. Fast forward four months, the card had been paid off and the experience written off to charity. It was the Easter holidays and due to an unseasonably warm spell the side door was open ( less security conscious back then). As we prepared lunch who should stroll straight into the kitchen than the aforementioned cat. Having demanded dinner and been fed, he walked into the dining room and settled down in an easy chair. I don't think he left the premises again in his remaining seven years. In his final year we took in another stray ( total now equals six) who soon brought forward three kittens. Sadly someone shot her and she was hit by a car trying to get home. Fortunately the kittens were almost weaned and two went to new homes. We kept one, Guinness, who is now heading for her 20,th birthday. Tom immediately adopted the orphan showing her the importance of washing and grooming. He failed to grasp the irony, for being a Tom cat, he strictly confined such activities to the square inch between his legs. We never worked out exactly how old he was but finally a heart attack ended his days.

Sounds like the saga of Tom. In the mid 90s a tabby Tom cat started appearing, regular as clockwork every three weeks or so. He let ihimself into the basement laundry and would wait patiently until our four cats had eaten and the would clean the bowls. They tolerated him bunking down in the corner where he would sleep for a couple of days before starting out on his rounds. Then, one new years Eve, children in the bath ready to go to grandma's, he staggered in covered in blood and dirt and kicking what was left of his eye which dangled on its nerve. We rushed him down to the vet who snipped off the eye and booked him in for neutering and a little cosmetic surgery. We were post Christmas skint and put the £70 on the credit card. A week later my wife took him to have the stitches out and was pursuaded to buy a nice clean cardboard pet carrier to replace the well used sherry box. When she returned to the car the locks had frozen and she put the box down to sort the lock. Cat bursts out of the box and is last seen heading for the railway lines.

What ever you choose avoid glueing it flat. Just a few mm at one end makes the world of difference.

Old school. Very fine fuse wire retains it's shape.

If you don't cry easily look for photos of locos being cut up. You might get lucky as I did when researching my 3MT. On that subject the ,82045 website has lots of progress photos including the cab interior.