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GRASinBothell

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  1. You could, of course, emulate the Pride of Sussex flour mill in Robertsbridge, who purchased a P class 0-6-0T to take their materials (presumably grain in and flour out) to the station at Robertsbridge. Traffic lasted into the early 1970s (so just in your timescale). That way, you could use that to bring in the traffic and then have a diesel shunter come down the branch to collect it, adding to the play value... Gordon
  2. If Cuckmere Haven is the terminus of the line, presumably it would have something a little more prepossessing in the way of station facilities than the huts at Southease or Normanton. Perhaps something in Art Nouveau style, like the Southern Railway built at Seaton when they decided that was going to be a resort... Gordon
  3. I guess that's a positive side of the railway builders' habit of siting stations well outside the town they purport to serve, that we don't have to model too many buildings beside our stations! Of course, if they'd built them nearer (or, heaven forfend, actually in) those towns, more of them might have stayed open! Gordon
  4. The other place we used to go (apart from the Bath Pram & Toy Shop and the Modellers Den) was Cyril Howes, by the Abbey. Their main business was cameras, but they had a sideline in model trains. Of course, we also had Woolworths for Airfix wagon kits too. Gordon
  5. Was the picture from the early 1960s? My first Hornby-Dublo loco came from the Bath Pram & Toy Shop (near Bath Spa station), and I recall a photo in the local paper shortly after I got it, showing swans looking in the window as they swam past. Gordon
  6. Glad to hear the books will be in shortly. We used to live in Batheaston, on London Rd, just a short walk from Bathford Halt and Bathampton station, both now alas long gone. Gordon
  7. Any updates on arrival of the reprints? I have one on order... Gordon
  8. Penallt Halt and Redbrook must be one of the very few pairs of stations that were actually closer together than the scale distance between stations on most model railways!. In 1958 (the last Summer of the line), we spent a couple of weeks in a cottage in Penallt. At the end of the holiday, my mother and sister went home (to Bath) by train, which they caught at Penallt Halt. I, unfortunately, went home with my father in the car. Can't have been too many people after that catching a train there! Gordon
  9. There's always the Oakwood publication on the Wye Valley line. Gordon
  10. And there was the Airfix Queen Mary lorry, so you could also put a 1/72 aircraft on the trailer. Besides being used by the RAF, Hawker-Siddeley Aviation used them to transfer Harriers, Hunters and Hawks between the Kingston factory (that had no runway) and Dunsfold aerodrome. Gordon
  11. That seems to be the large scale version, not the O scale version. Gordon
  12. I also have the Kinlet Hall. It came in a "Shakespeare Express" set with headboards both on the smokebox front and on the tender rear. I gather that the only noticeable dimensional error is that the tender was stretched to fit the electronics. I choose to ignore that! One day, I'll get around to applying black paint to some parts of the tender that need it. Mostly, it tuns on a short loop of O-36 (18" radius) track I added to the layout to run my AC locos on, and keep them separate from the DC. Gordon
  13. Is that a Dinky phone box? S and D Models do a nice market stall in the Phoenix Models range, plus a selection of fruit and vegetables in baskets or trays, should you wish to speed things up. Mind you, my market has also included the Woodland Scenics farmers market set.... Gordon
  14. I guess that's another difference between train shows on opposite sides of the pond. At least here in the US Pacific Northwest, the layouts all seem to be accessible to the public on all sides, so there's nowhere to hide! Gordon
  15. I rather wonder if you're going to want different arrangements for "home" and "away" operation. Having the fiddle yard on the outside makes sense at home when it's against the wall. But do you want it there at exhibitions, where the visitors get to see more of it than you do? Gordon
  16. Presumably showing all six fingers on the hand clutching the pipe... Oops! You beat me to it! Gordon
  17. I have several rakes of Darstaed coaches (bogie and 6-wheel), as well as one loco (the freelance 2-6-2T) and a small number of goods wagons (I only bought one bogie tanker as I had already OD'ed on the Ace4-wheelers!). With one exception they have all run flawlessly. That exception was a coach that after a year or two of operation developed a habit of derailing on a reverse curve. An e-mail to Andries Grabowsky produced lots of help and the problem was soon solved. Gordon
  18. Likewise, I have quite a few of the Tintin vehicles for my layout, and to go on the "French" modules I take to shows here in Washington State. I have my family programmed to look for those or other 1/43 diecast vehicles if they can't think of anything else for birthday or Christmas. There are a couple of very British vehicles in the range - a Triumph Herald with a caravan, and a fire engine, but those would probably need to be removed when the layout is in pre-nationalization mode. None of mine came with stand-alone figures. They are all in (or at least attached to) the vehicles. I'm surprised you say that painting station nameboards is fiddly. Mine get a coat of overall cream, with the name part being printed on my computer. Simplistic, maybe... Of course, you could always get them from Graham Lock. They would certainly have the vintage look. Gordon
  19. Intriguing figure with fez and shopping basket. Did he come with one of the Tintin vehicles? Gordon
  20. Well, I've ordered Beachy Head in BR lined black (to go with my King Arthur in pre-1956 BR green). When she was the last Brighton Atlantic, she was the chosen motive power for various enthusiasts specials. Perhaps an excuse for one turning up at Paltry Town... Gordon
  21. Thanks. They looked rather upmarket from my Darstaed ones. Not that there's anything wrong with those, but they are rather shorter (which is a plus on my layout!). Gordon
  22. Well, you were lucky there. My Ace M7 took a real dive to a concrete floor at a train show. I've managed to fix it, but if you look really closely there is a very slight curve to the footplate on one side that I couldn't completely eliminate. Gordon
  23. I see you also changed the business at your Purple Bob's Hobbies Funeral Directors. At my age, it's a bit too close to home... Gordon
  24. Or perhaps Birlstone Road. Then you wouldn't need any structures (other than railway ones) as it would be out in the sticks miles from civilization... Gordon
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