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The show website states that there will be a shuttle bus running from Wood Green station. https://www.warners-shows.co.uk/indoor-shows/the-london-festival-of-railway-modelling/the-london-festival-of-railway-modelling-directions Also the W3 bus serves Finsbury Park, Wood Green and Alexandra Palace stations amongst others. So if it's just the walk up the hill that is an issue, there are alternatives available.

Neal, could you be thinking of the Monty Wells conversion featured in Model Railway Journal issues 5 & 6?

Thinking a little further about the colour of the plugs, over time the exposed metal would tarnish and take on a brown colour, I've found a couple of pictures of plugs take from in service engines which show this. This shows the washout plugs from GWR 28xx Class 2807 This shows a washout plug from SR U Class 31806 So probably a brown wash applied to the brass would help to create the effect although AK Interactive also do Old Bronze and Gun Metal in their True Metal range which both seem to be brown and might be closer to tarnished bronze.

The specified metals (BS1400 LG2 or LG4) are Leaded Gunmetal/Leaded Bronze which is copper based and has a colour similar to brass. Leaded Gunmetal for sale on the RS website

According to the the allocation list on BRdatabase the first allocations to Scottish depots were in 1966, although they may well have been trialled in Scotland when first introduced.

It must be remembered that with the MRJ the date stated is an indication of when the next edition might be available. It has a long, time honoured tradition of arriving after it's published due date and invariably rewards ones patience. The attitude I take is "it'll be out when it's out".

Would it have something to do with campanology?

Just had a look at the Lightmoor Press website and found the New Books page shows Gloucester Midland Lines Parts 2 and 3 as being due on November 14th. Gloucester Midland Lines Part 2 : South Eastgate to Stroud & Nailsworth Gloucester Midland Lines Part 3 : South Stonehouse to Westerleigh & Branches They're a bit like buses: you wait ages then 2 come along at once. If the first volume is anything to go by they'll be well worth that wait!

Looking at the turnout I see a nicely made piece of trackwork, it does lack some finer details but does look like a real turnout, but it is being viewed out of context as it is not installed on a layout. It's not how an individual component looks in isolation as many layouts on this forum use track that, out of the box, might be described as unimpressive, but once on the layout and with a little bit of work can be made to look very good. The turnout in question installed on a layout, ballasted, weathered, and given the scenic treatment as shown in Ernie's picture above, certainly has the potential to make a very impressive model.

The websites of C&L Finescale, Dart Castings, Eileen's Emporium, Modelu, Roxey Mouldings, and Wizard Models all show August 10th and 11th as the dates they will be attending.

The model in question, 41803, isn't fitted with vacuum train brake, it doesn't have a vacuum ejector which would be mounted on the right hand side of the boiler/smokebox. I understand that only the full cab 1F models are fitted the an ejector, so the absence of vac pipes would be correct for the half cab models although I'm not sure why steam pipes are included.

Lets not forget the numerous modellers taking the time to sharing their techniques in print and online, helping us lesser mortals improve our models, they are the real superstars of railway modelling!

Sorry if I struck a nerve, I was making light of the fact that there seems a degree of misinformation and myth which your previous post didn't help in making clear the purpose of the Gold Forum. In the original announcement thread of Gold Membership a question was asked on this very subject; and a reply clearly stating the scope of the Gold Forum was given; I can understand if you haven't seen the posts as they are on pages 7 and 8 of the thread but your post did not seek to clarify the situation and serves, however unintentionally, to perpetuate a myth/conspiracy theory/fake news/misinformation. There's no wish for any kind of conspiracy on my part but instead a desire to give an informed view by stating the facts.

If you're expecting the Gold Lounge to be some sort of special modelling forum, where all the good stuff is kept out of sight, you'll be very disappointed, it's about things relating to gold membership and all very mundane at that. I'm sure Andy and the mods would put a stop to any kind of exclusive forum developing that is outside of things relating to gold membership, it doesn't really benefit RMweb/BRM to start hiding the type of content that has made this forum so successful. But don't let what I have to say stop your enjoyment of conspiracy theories because, after all, to refute them just means that I'm part of the conspiracy, doesn't it?

The JustGiving donations have just gone over £50000, the hateful act of 4 has been eclipsed by the kindness of more than 3000.

It seems that DJM has fallen into the category of business that are very good at complaining about how hard is and that all their problems are someone else's fault. They seem to think that some crackpot idea will save them without having fully thought out how it would work in practice or how they are going to fund it, maybe thinking that state will foot the bill. Unfortunately when it comes to infringement of civil law the individual has to enforce it and run the risk of having to pay for the privileged. Instead of whining about how unfair things are maybe their time would have been better spent actually getting the promised products to market, the likes of Accurascale seem to be able to produce a steady steam to quality products without any fuss. I accept that problems do occur but the best course is to roll up your sleeves and get on and fix the actual problem at hand instead of relying on some harebrained scheme to save you. It's all very sad and as others have said it looks like we are witnessing the death throes of DJM.

As for camera batteries; I had a Energizer brand spare battery for my Nikon D60 DSLR camera, unfortunately it stopped charging after a couple of years. When I sold the camera, 6 years after I bought it, the original Nikon battery was still working. It might just have been a one off "bad" battery but since then I've stuck to the camera manufactures batteries and had no problems, well apart from me forgetting to charge them a couple of times! As for phones; My relatively inexpensive Motorola Moto G5 Plus takes decent snapshots. Just give your number to people you actually want to call you and even then you don't need to answer their calls, you're not legally required to have it next to you at all times

It's something of a tradition that MRJ is sometimes late, it's been a feature since the mid 1980's. The date is more a guide to when it should be out, it's ready when it's ready and rarely disappoints.

Unfortunately, for your problem, I've not had problems but was trying to see if it could be recreated by changing a few setting in Firefox. Sorry if I got your hopes up as I can't seem to break my browser!

No, it's a version of the Linux operating system. The word is from southern Africa so wouldn't look out of place on a Thompson B1, although it isn't the name of a antelope!

And now for a reply.

Testing Firefox 66.0.2 on Ubuntu. Edit; It works!

The book "The Mid-Hants Railway- From Construction to Closure" has some information on the motive power used pre 1937. It lists 6 up and 6 down services with a mix of locomotive classes; H15, D15, T14, and U being the usual motive power. But it does suggest that the services were used to get locos to and from Eastleigh works and for running in turns and has selected observation, of which from 1933 to 1937 the following were noted; 919, 1625, 927, 409, 1806, 120, 2327, 395, 851, 1413, 464, and 1617. There's also a picture of derailed T9 307 at Alresford dated 222nd April 1936 with an LSWR non-corridor coach set 137.

On the Evo-Stik website it shows "Impact Adhesive" as being available in 250ml and 500ml tins, "Timebond Adhesive" is still available in 65g tube along with 250ml, 500ml and 1 litre tins. It looks like tube Impact will no longer be available, although as already mentioned it's still being offered on Amazon, so it might be time to get some before it goes. Edit; As I was about to close the Evo-Stik website noticed that they are part of Bostik. Now they do a "Contact Adhesive" in a tube, it might be the same as the Evo-Stik Impact.

Wizard Models do an etched set of point levers; LS0014: Yard Point Levers