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  1. When's April Fool's Day this year?
  2. The first digit is the class of train 0 light engine 1 express passenger 2 ordinary passenger 3 empty coaching stock (later class 5) or parcels 4-9 goods trains, in decreasing order of priority 2nd character M to LM region O to Southern Region Z Special
  3. I don't know about Southampton docks, but quite a lot of places had what they called a target, for a particular duty that a loco might be allocated to.
  4. I remember when it was 4/6 in England, but the French issued petrol coupons to tourists arriving at Calais because it was 6/8 in France, or at least the equivelent thereof in French (old) francs.
  5. ... and finished when a majority became at least semi-illiterate, sometimes in the latter half of Elizabeth II's.
  6. Why is it necessary to formally close an account? What's wrong with just ceasing to use it if you no longer have any reason to do so? Are you incurring any real risk by leaving it open?
  7. Perhap the most telling point they make is that you can get the official version from HMRC https://www.gov.uk/check-additional-income-tax If you can honestly answer the questions that asks and that says you don't need to tell the Revenue about your sales, you'd be on pretty solid legal ground even if they do come asking questions because ebay decided they were required to report you. The taxman has never been that bothered about screwing the last halfpenny out of you - they've always been pragmatic and taken the line that any money they collect from individuals has to be worth the time and effort they have to put into collecting it, so as a general rule they're not interested in small beer.
  8. Chanced across this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld3pZdSM6MY
  9. Yes, used to be engineer's sidings there. Now a housing estate. HST unusually running slow road. The point in the foreground led to the siding where the Huntingdon DMU shittle lived - sidind not electrified and now also no longer there.
  10. Maybe that's true in Cornwall - not in the Home Counties, where rush hour trains should always have been classified as "Perishables" because nothing goes rancid quite as fast as a Surrey commuter whose next train home has been cancelled for the third time this week!
  11. The door hinges have probably rusted solid - wettest Febuary on record according to the Met Office. 😄 I haven't been into my shed yet this year either. I hadn't heard of this range, although as I do 4mm and only operate other peoples' 7mm layouts perhaps that's to be expected.
  12. Well I think it looks rather cute. OK, not £128 worth (including P&P) of cute, but still a nice paint job. Do you think an offer of 99p is worth a try?
  13. Agreed that the SEEP switch is cr*p, and that these motors are a complete pain to install - athough not as bad as trying to clip a Peco PL10 to the point from below! At least the PM2 version without the frog switch is cheaper than their PM1. Interesting approach to installation; sounds like something that would warrant a cheap kit if you have a lot of points to motorise, maybe something that could be knocked up using 3D printing? ...and especially loud if you use a CDU. For a while I had one with a large capacitance and a diode matrix that fired half a dozen points at once. But if there were only one or two points on the route sounded like a rifle shot! Bad idea - I quickly did away with that because I was afraid it would damage the point blades by applying excessive force.
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