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Any time; credit where it is due. Thanks for your entertaining and inspiring layout posts, and all good wishes for the future.

@Pandora I have found this on the inter-web: https://www.facebook.com/ModelRailScotland/videos/392053014954564/ Hope of use (not watched it myself yet).

Sorry for the delay in replying. I am sorry, I took photos only of the 'goods/derelict' scenes. The coal yard/grain loader is on the left of the layout, the derelict 'shed'(?) on the right. There was a photo of the station in the exhibition programme. I have not had chance to check if other photos exist on the www. If you put a 'call out' on RMWeb, I expect someone will have more pics. There were enough people with cameras around to have something, I am sure. Good luck. No idea about a mag. article either. Sorry again.

Carry on Jack, but not Carry on up the Khyber, according to I.M.D.B.

You are quite correct. He spread much happiness to many, and was indeed remarkable. But I suffer from the 'English disease' of wistful melancholy, and for me such losses mark the passing of time a little more emphatically, which I still find difficult to tolerate even after decades alive. And this is why I escape to a 1970's B.R. model railway periodically...

Depressing news. He was, like many contributors' here I expect, part of my television childhood. I loved Roy Castle's annual B.B.C. Children's television Christmas 'All-Star Record Breakers', and Bernard Cribbens was always a major role in these. R.I.P.

May I add my two penn'orth to thank all for this exhibition. Your hard work was much appreciated, and I think the results excellent. Inspiring layouts - one cheekily running a 'steam special' occasionally and not hauled by a diesel, which made me smile - and so close to a railway station I joined D.E.M.U. now this is accessible to me. Perhaps this new venue will 'nudge' more people to catch a train at least part of the way next year. Sorry the caterer experienced problems. I popped into 'Poller's' on the High Street ('not open, but still serving') for some very good sandwiches, and only saw the pub on the way home. Several layouts of note with ideas to 'borrow', but, as expected, Clackmannan Goods was the one I wanted to take home with me. I will add a few skips to mine en homage, and make a Shocvan kit. Thanks again to you all. Hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as me, and you all got home safely.

A beautifully atmospheric shot; thanks for this. And if I may say, in response to "These premises are now beneath the offices of Zurich Finance", I know which company I would rather dominated our economy to-day. (I will not honour "Finance" with the appelation of 'industry', as if it did anything useful.)

Perhaps the maritime chain has dominated the available photographs owing to their outlandish (at times) size. I mentioned the industry as a ready example for an 'off-layout' traffic generator. However, if anyone can suggest uses for smaller sizes (but not so small as for locking gates, etc.), along with transport methods, I would be grateful. Many thanks for all the info. posted so far. Very impressed with some of the mathematics on display!

Doing a quick web-search, this is the best I could find (and too late, alas): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154958822566 Strangely, this is a green livery, and in a different box. Drop me a line if you want pics of the box/ lorry in more detail. Thanks for the kind words.

May I thank you all for taking the time to write your comments. It is much appreciated. I did not expect such interest, only hoping this scribbling of mine might be chanced upon over the years by those also looking for information about the kit, and stopping them making the same mistakes. I was surprised by the state of the first floor supplied - and disappointed as a 'swadeshi'(?) who tries to 'Buy British' - but, bar the floor and more detailed instructions, I think the mistakes on this kit were mine, used to the 'Airfix style' of one's childhood. The fine mouldings are a delight. I have learned one must do more research before building such kits, their demanding a little more thought and knowledge. Thankfully, this is readily available with the internet now, so I hope the "average modeller" can achieve good results. The two kits so far have not put me off Parkside, but perhaps their earlier releases outside my interest, as my father used to say (of K's?), "are more a set of parts". Watching him over the years wrestling with white metal, brass, and tools to get his wagons 'square and true' put me off for decades. But having achieved two out of two thus far that do not wobble, I am getting the 'wagonner's bug'...

Delighted to. Humbrol Acrylic 62 Matt, 'Leather' on the newer canister on the right: I photographed them in the sun just now to try and get a 'real colour', but actually they need a good mix, not having been used for a few months. As you can probably see from my previous photos, the colours vary according to light and camera, and the newer (right canister) batch is a slightly different tone to the older, as seen on my new viaduct bridge piers, compared to the first batch of brick arches. The arch 'rubbers' orange colour were mixed by hand. Returning to the original topic, I should plead for forbearance. My exasperation was simply owing to what I expected to be a quick and simple task - the 'base/primer' coat of a scenic area before adding details and shading - was not a morning's work as assumed but took at least a month with four different techiques, and now needing a fifth. But this is what the hobby is all about, and I thank you all for your kind words of advice and hope will show you progress soon. Best wishes as ever.

[Swoon!] North Woolwich?

Thank you also @Wheatley. Blending the 'track brown' into the tarmac was the next task, after what I expected to be a 'simple base grey', and then some sparse greenery. I like the idea of pot-holes filled with ballast chippings, and trying other textures as well. Watch out any exhibitor at the next show I attend with areas of hard-standing on her/his layout I like! Oil-stains were going to be another excuse for irregularity as well, and perhaps a spillage or two. Thanks again for your ideas.

Thanks @simon b ; had I known or thought of this before, I would have saved a month of irritation. No idea why the painting ends drying unevenly, but yet another thing to put down to experience!

As we recover from @KeithHC and @Michael Hodgson 's puns, I will just mention that the manufacturer listed in the Brighton Area 1972 Telephone Directory - which has turned into a bible of industries and wagon-loads for me - is not based in Sussex at all as I thought, but paid for an out-of-area Yellow Pages listing: Griff Chains, Ltd., of Dudley. I am very pleased to see they are still trading. Long may they continue.

Many thanks to you for all your answers. @Siberian Snooper 's mention of modern loading practices is good to learn that not everything is dumped on a pallet and smothered invisibly in plastic. I am not sure what else chains could be used for in industry as a 'consumable'. I remember small chains sold by the foot in my local ironmongers for locking gates, etc., on cardboard rolls, but for larger sizes, apart from supplying crane manufacturers and shipping I am short of ideas. Which is a shame, because I thought it would look good in an OBA or 'Tube'. 🙂 Thanks again and all good wishes.

If I may appeal to the RMWeb 'hive mind' again, has anyone modelled the transport of chain in wagons? Picking up a cheap necklace in a charity shop this morning, I wondered how chain was/is transported. This would scale to 7.5" links, so I was thinking of a load to go to a port for use on ships. Was it transported on drums like cables? The cable drums like cotton-reels, not the 'enclosed' sort. I assume it would not just be coiled onto a pallet, as then it could shift in transit. Any ideas gratefully received as always. Many thanks for any help you can offer.

After writing to the Brighton Belle Preservation Trust's committee, I found the reason my Direct Debit payments ceased in April was because they have changed their bank account. The officer kindly referred me to a letter of June 2020. I remember receiving something during the Covid confinement, but was unsure about it and did not understand it fully. There was no further explanation on their web-site either. May I just clarify with any other donors out there on RMWeb it is all 'pukka', and perhaps I missed more detailed explanations at the time. The new account's details are given, the branch being in Bishop Stortford. 'Communication' has not been the outstanding feature of this project; may I be reassured all is well, and I can set up a new Direct Debit without worry? Thanks for all advice, and best wishes to you all.

Please forgive me for sounding as if I am 'blowing my own trumpet' - and without the maps (to be restored) it is a little more difficult to imagine - but the kind contributions to my layout's location might be of interest: I wanted a 2-platform terminus on the High Weald, with the conceit of it being a meeting-place of rival railway companies, my 'Victoria' station being the late arrival to the town. Hope it is of interest.

Many thanks for posting your picture and thoughts, @deepfat. I must say your corners still look good to me, and I like the finishes on the white-painted pub and signal-box colours. I have ordered the Wills kits book from the library, and will have a read. I amended a Ratio line-side hut kit recently to try my brick skills, replacing the stone courses with brick and adding a chimney. Sadly, I still can not cut and file the brick sheets to a 45 deg. mitre, so again am filling in with modelling clay to 'sculpt'. I wish I could construct some sort of template or jig to ensure I am cutting and filing at 45 deg., but can not think how.

O dear; I was about to post an almost exact copy of this post, but my late father's collection is from nos. 0 to 284 inclusive. Again, if anyone can collect from Lewes, Sussex, they are welcome to them as a gift. They come with free box-files. Any donation to the Stroke Association in memoriam gratefully received. Telegraph me a Private Message herein if further details needed. All ideas appreciated. Thanks.

Many thanks, @SED Freightman , for this contribution, and especially for its 'S.R. bias' (of interest to me) and confirming Southampton Down Yard's status. Glad to learn just what an "Area Freight Centre" was as well. Please all do keep contributing if anyone can add new info./ additional clarification. Thanks again.

May I thank you all for your time and contributions; it is much appreciated, and the answers were most useful, I hope not just to me. I feared there would be no simple answer to satisfy my 'Librarian's desire for tidyness'. I do like the term "sorting sidings", and will use this the next time anyone is daft enough to engage me on the subject. Many thanks and best wishes again.

Just to add to your difficulties: there were black 'Grampus' wagons as well. I remember trains of them to Newhaven Harbour Tide Mills ballast waste sidings, filling in the lagoons for the port authority in the 1970's in my childhood. Had no idea a 'grampus' was a fish till years later.