Michael Hodgson

That must be an understatement. The sheer number of components must be considerable, and the need to keep track of stock will need a fair amount of resource. In any case I can't imagine you'll be able to hold every component of every product you've ever produced. Good luck with the project. I've noticed you're quoting weights against one or two of your products on the web site, something I find useful. However in most cases it's the package weight (which I guess is useful for costing postage) rather than the vehicle itself.

Some of the green ones didn't have yellow panels.

That's because the facilities in a traditional goods stations didn't run to a forklift. You'd have a couple of barrows and maybe a hand-worked crane

That's the bloke, but they're not called nutters in Norfolk. They're called Normal!

I seem to recall a broadly similar case in Norfolk where the farmer had called the police and they decided not to turn out - until after he'd defended himself. I can't remember the outcome but I dont think the emerged without some egg on their faces. Derbyshire farms call also be miles from the nearest cop shop.

Good job it did bounce off those buffers. If it hadn't, you would have had to post this on the level crossing madness thread instead, because the very busy Station Road is just beyond the stops.

So why don''t we send him back now and save the taxpayer the cost of so many years porridge? If the yanks send him to the electric chair, that'll save them the cost of the porridge too.

POWsides is by far the easiest. Always assuming it's one they do, rather than some specific requirement for a colliery etc they 've not done.

Will it smell the same as the real one?😬

If that's the case, non-members will be able to buy that livery on ebay at three times the price.

You're banging your head against a brick wall with this message Graham.

but it's OK to bonk them on the head! It should be obvious by now from this thread that common sense is not very common. A Lincolnshire signalman told us that he'd seen a pedestrian turn up and having to wait for the train to pass, hung the dog lead over the lamp on top of the barrier. So when the train had gone by, the signalman duly pressed Barriers Up - and the dog got hoisted !

I believe there used to be a sliding gate at Wolverton Works where the Royal Train was kept, because the road was at such a very sharp skew to the line.

An "improvement" in regulation that makes it less likely that animals will get such protecton. Or a jobs for the boys rule.

Ignorance of the subject is a qualification for the job. If they were competent in their field they would appear to be better qualified that the prime minister who appointed them, and therefore a threat to him.

In East Anglia they just stick NfN above their beds.

Yes there were. They pivoted on a post like old fashioned gates, but looked like a picket fence and were motorised with a wheel that followed an arc in the same way. I think they were confined to the North Eastern Region as was.

I've got a couple of kit-built Palvans, but I'm tempted as these outclass my efforts. I won't be going for the Whisky one on bile green though.

I thought they commented on the shade themselves in the announcemment.

Motorist would still be at fault if the wig wags were working correctly. If they weren't it's presumably either a wrong-side failure or a SPAD. This one must warranr investigation - it will be interesting to see the RAIB report which I assume will be produced in due course.

Unless you want a green one!

£76-45 at Rails. I've already pre-ordered.

I assume the bogie wheelbase is too short to substitute a SPUD to power it.

They're those things you use for support after the landlord calls "Time Gentlemen please" ! 😁 They look to me like hand-built using brass tube and grain-of-wheat bulbs. If they're too bright and smelling of heat, turn down the voltage. If they were LEDs on 12v without a resistor they would have gone bang by now.

That's because Joe Public still doesn't accept the decision by "democratically elected" politicians to do away with hanging. Time was when villains didn't go tooled up to jobs because shooting the rozzers still carried the death penalty even after it had been repealed for bumping off the village subpostmistress you were robbing. I remember one of my schoolteachers who was a JP telling us that it still applied to arson in HM Naval Dockyards! He also told us that hoped that if he ever needed to invoke the Riot Act he hoped the mob would give him long enough if he ever need to read it before they lynched him! “Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King!”