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Hi Clive, I agree with you on this. My brother and I stopped going to Peterborough several years ago because it was becoming more of a trade show than a model railway show. Last time we went it seemed like the layouts were an after-thought. Yes, I know about the economics about running a show, and venue, and other costs, have to be recouped, but is a model railway exhibition after all. We go to several shows through the year. Doncaster and York are the two largest we go to and they seem to have got the balance fairly right, as have most of the others. I don't know how much they are charged to use the facilities at Peterborough, but, dare I suggest it, msybe it's time to find another venue. Roja

Hi, it may have had a stop in Glasgow, but not necessarily Queeen Street (Upper). It could have run via Queen Street (Lower) or Central (Lower). Either route would mean it didn't have to make a reversal in Queen Street (Upper) or negotiate Cowlairs Bank. Personally I think running via Queen Street (Lower) the more likely option for a stopping service. I recently travelled this route to Edinburgh with my daughter after a holiday in Oban. Roja

Hi, Cowlairs is a triangular junction so this train could gain the Edinburgh route without having to reverse at Queen Street. Roja

Sorry to hear about your mum. My thoughts are with you, Roja

Haver a great time, Clive. My brother and I will be shortly heading to Hull to play trains with his layout! Roja

That would be the easier of the two options. A milk depot/creamery would need more work, and pipes. Imagine how long it would take to fill those tankers if they had to be and-filled from churns! Having said that, I think it would make a great model. A favourite station of mine is Oban, further up the coast in Argyll. The livestock pens were in the main freight depot which was well away from the passenger station and quayside. Livestock would be brought in from Mull and the outer isles and walked through part of the town to get to the pens. Even after the railway had ceased moving cattle, livestock was occasionally walked through the town to the mart when I lived there in the early 80's! Roja

Hi, it would one or the other, but not both. Think of hygiene and cattle doing what the do naturally! Roja

Hi Clive, it was good to bump into you again. Like you I was impressed with Heybridge Wharf and Sutton Town even though I model "north of the border"! Not in the slightest! My brother and I are the same. It just shows we are all different. One man's meat and all that! Roja

Hi, In my experience, adding a frog juicer to the points isfairly simple and can be done with the points in situ. Drill a small hole through your baseboard in the vee of point crossing, thread a wire through, solder to the inside of ythe vee then connect to your juicer. I've done this in N gauge with points already laid. It also helps to bond the stock rails to the swith rails, and this can also be done in situ. Just make sure to clean the spot where you want to solder thoroughly first. If you like operating points by hand then why go to the expense of adding point motors, more witing etc? On my curent N gauge project I've gone back to using wire-in-tube after trials and trribulations with point motors and servos. Simple, cheap, reliable and satisfying to use. Roja

Hi Clive, we both liked the American layouts. Eight Dollar Canyon impressed us by virtue of being circular so you could walk around to get various views and my brother is building an American layout very similar to K Street Yard. It's callerd "Miller's Lock" and I'm helping him operate it at the Hull Show in November. As fot the cardboards boys, good to see I'm not the only one who thinks it's an under-rated material! And cheap! When I dabbled in 7mm I made a start in building an E4 in card. I got as far as making my own drawings, and starting on the tender but a lack of space for somewhere to run it meant it got put away whilst doing projects I have the space for. I may get it out and try to complete it someday. Roja

I really should learn to type corexctkly!

Hi Clive, it was good to finally meet you on Saturday! Did you enjoy the show? My brother and I have seen several of the layouts there before, but it was good to see Holland Beck, a fine piece of modelling, and we were both impressed with the Aldgate. So much so I was almost tempted to drop N and EM and go 3mm! However, we were both disappointed with the lack of action on a couple of the layouts. Anyway, got home, and on Sunday fired up the soldering thingyamjig and spernt a frustrating afternoon trying to sort out a lack of power to a small N gauge terminus I'm building. I really must start a thread on that! Maybe week after next: taking my youngest to Oban for a few days. Keep inspiring people! Roja

Hi, it was really good to see Holland Beck in the flesh, so as to speak, and to meet you. It's a cracking wee model! Roja

Hi Clive making bogies isn't so difficult as long as you keep things nice and square. Not so different from coach sides or locomotives or whatever. It's the wee details that take the time, and you can add as much, or little, of them as you want. The card bogies for my 303s run nice and true, My criteria for detailing them is you can't see it when the coach is stood two feet away, or moving slowly then I don't add it. Same for all the under-gubbins on stock. I have the greatest respect for those that add every rod and bits to an underframe, but I can't see the point if you can only see it when the model is upside down. It's just a personal thing. Roja

Hi everyone, didn't realise it has been quite a while since I lasted posted anything. I have done a bit, honest, so will update progress soon. But maybe not for another day or two. this arrived today! I may have to revisit my Hornby 29 conversion, ot at least renumber it! Roja

Hi, how do you eat an elephant? One mouthful at a time! Roja

Apart from salt they contain trace elements such as iron, calcium, copper, manganese, zinc and iodine, as well as a few others. Roja

Salt, technically mineral, blocks have been used by by farmers for generations. They provide essential minerals essential for the animals health that they can't get from grazing the vegetation. Roja

Better a Pacer than no service and a closed line! Roja

Vegan leather? How does that work? Ah, I get it, they take vegans then tan them to make leather! Roja

Hi, I'd keep this thread going. Not everyone likes, or reads, blogs, and seeing how some-one overcomes trials and tribulations, or how to achieve a specific outcome, is one of the reasons for following threads such as yous. Roja

Hi, that method seems doubtful loading a trolley wagon. The ramps to the well are very short and steep so the jolt down would probably snap the front forks which, as didcot says, were fragile, and there doesn't look to be enough clearance for prevent damage to the machinery on the underside of the traction engine. Even with using wooden baulks to help loading there would still be significant jolts onto the deck, bearing in mind traction engines lacked springing. If it was loaded onto a trolley I would have thought it would have been craned into position and removed the same way. I don't what wagons the GWR had, but I assume they had implement and machinery wagons where loads could be driven onto them from an end-loading dock. Roja

You are correct, the axles would be used as anchor points to prevent damage to the body and machinery. Roja

Coat! Rain stops when it gets to the skin! Unless it's acid rain! Roja

What's an umbrella? Roja