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I think you have two topics there: 1. how to operate layouts more realistically 2. how to signal them properly. I have spoken on 1. at the CMRA Modellers Day in 2017. Alan

That notice has been on their website since 21st October 2013.

True but I believe these are more likely to have been a Saturday during the summer timetable. There are 2 reasons for this, first there were more photographers about on summer Saturdays and the load was heaviest on summer Saturdays. Single Manors and Moguls could take 315 tons over the steepest sections between Moat Lane - Talerddig and Borth - Aberystwyth in the down direction. The limiting factor in the up direction was the section between Machynlleth -Talerddig where the limit was 288 tons thus the 7 coach formation mentioned earlier.

I have the same problem on a shunting plank. How do alter the chuff rate? Thanks Alan

The majority of photographs showing Gresley carriages on ex-Cambrian Railway lines are on through Saturdays only trains. I cannot think of a photograph of one on a local corridor set. The exception is one non-corridor ex LNER coach which worked Oswestry locals during LMR days.

As Mike Morley said the B sets worked the Llanfyllin branch in GW and BR days, see Great Western Railway Journal issues 61 and 71. I have not found any photographic evidence for B sets on the Tanat Valley Light Railway. The only bogie coaches I have seen on the Tanat Valley were an E40 and a Collett brake composite, both of these were from 1941 until closure to passengers in 1951.

Oswestry.

Same here, it told me I didn’t go to Ally Pally but I did... I also subscribe!

There is a photo of a Breeze Ltd wagon at Alveley Colliery’s coal screens on 9 February 1939 along with several Highley Mining Co. wagons. The Breeze wagon appears to be 5 plank and numbered 50. Original photo in NRM, published in Severn Valley Railway - a view from the past by Michael A Vans, Ian Allan, 1998. Outside Penlan’s timeframe.

Tesco’s is on the site of the old Smithfield Market which was moved to an out of town site at Buttington Cross. I believe the restoration of the cattle dock as well as the W&L bridge over the canal was part of the deal.

The autobuffet worked between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury always coupled next to the locomotive. The Up CCE arrived in Shrewsbury first at 12/41 (Winter 61/62 WTT), normally platform 4 with the loco at the Chester end of the station. The loco and autobuffet stayed coupled together, the remainder of the train departing for Wolverhampton. The loco and autobuffet then reversed out of the station and used the triangle to turn, it took on water in the station environs. The loco and autocoach were stabled in a siding next to Severn Bridge Junction Signalbox. When the down CCE arrived again normally platform 4, the loco and autobuffet reversed onto the train departing at 2/54 (Winter 61/62 WTT). At Machynlleth the Aberystwyth portion left at 5/02 and the Pwllheli one at 5/10. ​The autobuffet dispensed snack meals, cold drinks etc. and cigarettes and matches. there is an interior view in Talerddig in Great Western days by Gwyn Briwnant Jones, Gomer, 1999.

There is limestone and limestone! The quarries at Nantmawr contain both limestone (calcium carbonate) and dolomitised limestone (calcium magnesium carbonate). Whereas at Whitehaven, further east, the dolomitisation of the limestone is greater. Their use in iron and steel making is limestone is used as a slag former whereas dolomite is used as a slag former, slag modifier and as a refractory material. It could well be that the local South Wales limestone needed to be supplemented with dolomitic limestone and this is what Lilleshall were supplying. The dolomitic limestone from Whitehaven, Porth-y-waen Lime Co. later Steetley Lime and Basic (SLB), travelled to South Wales via the Mid Wales line. Would Lilleshall have used the same route as far as Talyllyn Junction?

This has now been published in ‘The Mines of the Shrewsbury Coalfields’ by Michael Shaw. The photographs to which Penlan refers are the copyright of H Davies and are in the book. Arscott Colliery had its own PO wagons which were loaded from a tramway which terminated at a wharf alongside the Shrewsbury to Welshpool line at Cruckmeole Junction. The Smallshaws ran the mine until it’s closure at Christmas 1919 on the expiry of the lease. The company continued by mining in east Shropshire and continued trading as J A Smallshaw Arscott Collieries into the 21st century.

There is also Breeze but do not know when they first started. Photos appear at S&M station. Just outside town there is Hanwood and Arscott, both pre WW1.

I found the page misleading as it gives the impression you can enter either the account number or Surname and Postcode. By entering my surname and Postcode I expected it to give me my account number. The link to that page gives that impression IMHO.

The 158 Sprinters were introduced around your time period and at 76 ft 2in per car are going to fill your platforms with nothing to spare and looks as though the shorter platform is not long enough. Suggest increasing platform lengths by 3 to 6 in.

Signing up not achieved as the ‘Find my account number’ gizmo would not work as it needed my account number!

Or is it because the coal was, in the main, delivered in colliery owned wagons?

Ordered class 66 Evening Star Thursday evening, it arrived Monday morning. I used the post free option. Brilliant service IMHO.

The essence of this question was one of the prime reasons the Historical Model Railway Society was established in 1950. It is also the reason why specific societies were established such as the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society and DEMU. I appreciate these approaches are a compromise and first hand experience is best but we do not all have first hand experience. There is no substitute for research; primary sources are best such as those memories and working documents but books, photographs, maps etc are next best. After all is it better to make mistakes than to do nothing?

Saturday is the 17th.

Shrewsbury LMS new yard off the Shrewsbury - Crewe line had both coal and oil facilities in the Speedlink era. Somewhere I have some photographs...

Will LLC be at Reading 0 Gauge Show this Saturday? I cannot see them on the list.

HMRS do white shaded black, it is in the drop down menu under colour. Click view details and the options for 'Type' and 'Colour' are visible. https://hmrs.org.uk/transfers/7mm-3-8mm-2-3mm-condensed-style-and-9-9mm-3-8mm-2-3mm-non-condensed-style.html