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Of course if he does go belly up, then the 40 pages of this thread will be to blame..................

Out of office? Oh how convenient, never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. You would expect, with the ordure hitting the fan at the rate it has done this last week, that the wise thing would be to do some firefighting and reassurance but no, ill stick my head under the blanket and hope it will all go away like a bad dream. Begs the question where is he then though.

Indeed it was. But only once you had taken the body off it and thrown the chassis, wheels and motion in the bin, built a new chassis, and put a High Level box and can motor in it. Then you really have a decent loco. As for getting someone in to run the business with him, would anyone with the acumen required want to even think about it once they have done some due diligence on the business? I think not.

Indeed and that applies to the manufacturers as well. Jones has made himself toxic within the industry, when he's gone, he's gone.

An expensive mistake. Very expensive by all accounts.

The J94s mechanism and chassis takes the biscuit for worst kettle design ever. Didn't the N Gauge Mark 3s arrive in the wrong livery, which I understand he authorised, shortly after which he left Dapol.

A few images from York show taken on the phone. Now with added backscene! Next out at Expo EM Spring in Bracknell

Now at York, as the Rochdale MRG has 3 layouts there, a lot of the same people you talked to at our show will be there, so that's some time saved then! Thank you to all our exhibitors and visitors, another successful show, we will be back 18 and 19 April next year (We have had to move as Easter has nicked our normal weekend)

I'm looking forward to this coming weekend - we hadn't realised the significance until discussing it at our own show last weekend, but the Rochdale Model Railway Group actually have three of our group layouts in the show, and all in EM gauge: My "North Ballachulish", Tony Bucknell's "Harkness" Harkness and Karl Crowther's "Hebble Vale Goods" https://rochdalemrg.wordpress.com/

The show is now up and running.

Unfortunately due to personal circumstances, Chris Nevard is unable to attend the show this year with Brew Street and has had to withdraw it from the show. He will be back next year though! He is replaced at the last moment by Amalgamated Wagon (7mm O Gauge) by Ben Lord. Our thanks to Ben.

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Culm by Dai Davies. One of the layouts appearing at the show.

Due to unforeseen circumstances both Redwood Lumber and Junction City have had to drop out of this years show. They are replaced by Nigel Hopwood's "Three Score Vale" Our thanks to Nigel for stepping in at short notice.

North Ballachulish set up and ready to go complete with the new backscenes

And a shed load of 14xx/48xx returns which were faulty. You can talk the hind legs off a donkey but it only works to the point where you let someone down. Dapol, Hattons, and Kernow all learned a hard lesson.

Component parts of North Ballachulish now in the garage ready for loading onto the van tomorrow. The large silver bags are the new backscene. The temporary sky blue backscene used for the first shows has now gone - after a lot of procrastination about them and whether to go for a photo backscene (which had problems) or paint one (not confident) I had an offer from Mike Raithby to paint them for me. Superb they are but I'll wait for the grand unveiling at Preston!

Probably closer than you think lol. If you need accompaniment I'll bring the Les Paul and the big Marshall

I read that with some dismay Andrew, but on looking at the floor plan we are at the other end of the pen from you and probably out of earshot, so feel free to carry on

The 55th Rochdale Model Railway Exhibition Sat 13th April 2019 – Sun 14th April 2019 The Coach House, Lodge Street, Littleborough, Lancashire OL15 9AE OPENING TIMES: SAT 10am-4.30pm, SUN 10am-4.30pm ADMISSION: Adults £4.00; Accompanied Under 16s FREE List of Layouts Attending : We have 8 layouts lined up covering the popular scales and gauges: Culm - Dai Davies: GWR, EM Amalgamated Wagon - Ben Lord, 7mm O gauge Crows Nest Wharf - Trevor Hughes: Snailbeach District Railways 7mm Three Score Vale - Nigel Hopwood, EM Grange Lane - Steve Saxby : Diesel era layout 7mm Bridge Street Goods - Rex Ashton: BR OO Upper Cwmtwych - Les Nehrlich: Modern, N gauge Cyril Street - John Taylor: Vintage Hornby 3 Rail.

Another episode in the comedy of errors that is DJM. It's quite clear from the replies here that people are bailing out of the crowdfunding, so even if he commissioned the project on break even, he is now well into loss. A recipe for insolvency.

I really think it's a good move, and I live North of Manchester. It might be further travelling by about 15 miles but the drive is less hassle and will take me not much longer. I suspect also the attendance will be better, as it always was at Holmesfield House and at Slewitt! The venue as I remember it is OK and far better than the - erm - house of ordure that Partington is. Well done to all concerned, I'd heard about the other contender in the Manchester area and thought if it went there that would really be the death of the show.

It wont be, that was the first EP which was still on show. I was told the tumblehome was on the work to do list - and as above painted sample in the next month, on sale mid year. Although at Ally Pally where I first saw the EP and was told it would be early 2019, so slippage is occuring.

After a busy weekend at Warley operating on Eskmuir its nose to the grindstone to prep North Ballachulish for the Manchester show. Luckily not much to do other than wheel cleaning, a bit of stock fettling. Photo by Chris Nevard / Model Rail

It's cracking news especially for those who have been toying with EM but put off by point building. It probably won't impact me much as I do enjoy building bespoke pointwork but would seriously consider it for fiddle yards or even if I needed a straight B6 on a scenic section. It may even encourage more to join whic is an added bonus