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The GWR ran a service from Chester to Manchester Exchange by way of Hooton, so it could have been a GWR saloon they used.

You’m just being a lump-sucking scrimshanker, now. (Practising for Sept.19th)

One thing that will have to be established is the crossing point with Mikkel’s “Farthing” line:

There’s a scene in the Onedin line where Mr. Baines says “Us don’t want no gollywobblers on this ship, ah-harr”. I remember it well.

There’s a very evocative line side shot of the sleeper passing through the tunnel bit that I really liked.

I haven’t seen this one, so can’t make any recommendations, but it seems to fit the bill: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&tn=Dampf in Italien&an=Rohrer

“This goat walks into a pub, see…. “

Not in line with the thread title, as it’s this side of Dover, although with the imminent move to reduced space habitation, I’m coming into thinking of using b), with a removable high platform, so a D299 wagon might occasionally appear in the siding.

What scale? 00 or H0?

HANDY GUIDE TO LAYOUT DESIGN: a) b) c) that’s all you need - KEEP IT SIMPLE !

Bot… schtoopid!!!

Tiens!! Un reseau diapason!

Kevin, the terminus was the Gare Denfert Rochereau, one of the names that comes up on the Paris Underground map, but previously for the Sceaux line, a small independent suburban line built early on. Noteworthy for being built on the Arnoux system, allowing very tight bends, so you didn’t need runrounds at the termini. It went broke, was absorbed into the P.O., who didn’t take to to complications of the system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_de_Sceaux

Thanks for the Monet, James, I gather he turned up at the station, and the management were posing trains for him. As for the Sceaux: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Système_Arnoux

The right shade of blue??

FERROCARRIL SANTANDER - ALAR DEL REY. Actually, the link Eric’s given is limping a bit, so, you can actually download a book on the line, which gives the full words and music, and if you want some gen on modelling a Spanish line… (or Dodds & Co, for that matter) https://centrodeestudiosmontaneses.com/wp-content/uploads/DOC_CEM/BIBLIOTECA/EDICION_OTROS/ferrocarril-alar-santander_2015.pdf That 0-4-0 is on page 299, with more photos and a drawing. The picture above gives an impression of some sleepy little branch line, but it turns out that it became a vital link in the mighty Norte system, through very mountainous terrain. Theres sufficient information there, Don, but it’s wide gauge, needing another line, and oh, I dunno… Oh, and here’s a link to the blog that Eric was using, now to settle down and examine it further. I’m a bit worried about the author, looks like he’s been eating too many crisps whilst watching the football. https://compartirconocimientos.com/juan-peris-torner/

Summat similar in the Ian Allen SR spotters thingy.

Looking at that little train with the eyes of a scratch builder for an 0 gauge microlayout, a shiny inside cylinder 0-4-0 with tender, plus two four wheel coaches, is the perfect solution for all that’s wrong with todays world. A reactionary view, I confess, just escapism. Thanks, Eric, not the Furness, certainly, the tracks look a bit too wide apart?

What I want to know, is what you’re thinking of going down dives like that when there’s Austerlitz and St. Lazare to be looking at?

something a bit bigger, a gruppo 293 ? Actually, taking the lead from that picture, the branch from Ortona might give some inspiration to a poor little lamb who has lost his way? https://www.ferrovieabbandonate.it/linea_dismessa.php?id=124

In France, it’s “Jaune Havane”, in Italy “Isabella”, both referring to the large cigars (rolled on a maidens thigh, if you believe the marketing men) I.e.tobacco colour, redolent of the luxury gentlemen’s clubs, as is the wargamers “antique leather”. Then there’s Stroudleys “I.E.G.”, and they’re all the same shade, quite popular on the PLM and the FS, besides the LBSC and the MGNR, go to an art shop, and ask for “ochre”. Yes, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, he was really C.E., but Hamilton was a family benefactor on whom he depended, so the name was given prominence in his name.

The key basis of your scheme goes right back with early layout plans, and should work well. Perhaps have the fiddle yard terminating in short cassettes, so you can do run rounds, turn locos, substitute locos, and store locos without any picking up and handling them? Hope the Wales trip is enjoyable.

Agree, it does need toning down a bit.

There were some done recently on the “wright writes” site.

That sounds a most interesting trip, right the way through. Hope your mum stood up to the rigours of West Cornwall. As to the avoiding line at Reading, the Southern inherited a station from the SER, which from all accounts degenerated into a right dive, before BR brought an extension up into the GWR station, and closed the old place. In living memory it had another platform stitched on, so with the station rebuild it’s now platforms 4,5, and 6, at the south eastern corner. The train services using it are off the ex LSWR to London Waterloo, South Western Trains third rail, and former ex SER services through Guildford and beyond in the Redhill direction, now to Gatwick airport, and these were gifted to the Western to run with d.m.u’s. Consequently, the SWR e.m.u’s are stabled from the London end, but the GW d.m.u s have to nest at the new depot, out west of the station on the north side. The goods fly under from the GWR relief lines on the north side to the SR line had been lifted with rundown of goods trains, but with the station rebuild it was reinstated, as good for getting the empty dmus from the depot to the southern platforms without having to snarl up all the GWR routes.