GeoffAlan

And J72, now well into unicorn status IMHO.

That's one of the things I love about your business. That you're stock list is growing is great news. Keep up the good work.

I've ordered from them several times and always had excellent service. In N gauge the stock range is small but what they say they have in stock has always been posted and arrived in NE England very quickly. Not all stockists are good at keeping their online listings up to date, but Track Shack does.

I currently have three locos on pre-order. The HATTONS Garratt, and two N gauge society Hunslett shunters. In the first case, I suspect the N gauge Garrett will be sold out long before the first one turns it's wheels on a buyer's layout, and the N gauge society is only available as a pre-order with deposit.

I remember a test, conducted IIRC in the late 1970s where 2 suitable Ford Mustang had their tanks filled with, in one case petrol and the other a special tank with pressurised hydrogen. They were punctured by a rifle shot and the subsequent leak then fired into a fire, which in the case of the petrol saw flames engulf the vehicle and surrounding area. The hydrogen went up in a cloud a flame leaving the ground as soon as it lit off. The damage to the two vehicles was bad, but the petrol vehicle was charred beyond recognition, while the hydrogen car looked relatively survivable.

Yes they were forced by government act to see sense and adopt Standard gauge. Which,lets be honest, is too narrow anyway. While 7' 1/4" is maybe as eccentric a gauge as 4'8.5" it has to be admitted, by this LNER family man, Stephenson's choice was too narrow.

We have an Hybrid car. If the battery is more than 50% charged the car whines off the drive in electric mode, putting your foot down more than a little immediately starts the Petrol Engine. I suspect the buses are the same.

The original Spam-cans had an oil bath for the valve gear. They leaked, just like most motorcycles of the era. I suspect quite a lot of slipping was due to this.

I retired in 2006 but did a few Xmas days before that. As my kids were older, nearly adults really, when I started doing Xmas days I really didn't mind, some of my colleagues with younger kids were unable to see them open their presents and really hated those years our turn came up.

As already reported elsewhere by me, Windows10, Chrome says rmweb is not secure. Maybe one of your certificates is out of date?

I'm getting a Not Secure notice on the bar showing which site I'm on whenever I got to RMweb. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10, and don't get this with other fora I visit.

Given how long I've been waiting for the J72s, I'll be filing it in the fiction section.

A friend of mine sold some property of a deceased relative, including their home as he wound up the estate. For months afterwards he got 'fee to pay' mail from the Estate Agent Scum who sold the house for him. They were brochures for local properties and vastly under stamped. After the first he popped into their office and mentioned that they owed him the unpaid postage plus fee, they refused to pay. As he runs a business from home he couldn't afford to ignore under-paid items, and ended up with nearly 20 of these mails. A solicitor's letter, plus the threat to publicise the firms 'customer disservice' in the local papers got all his money back plus a fat 'distress caused' bribe, sorry compensation.

I see, so the fact that transport infrastructure in the South East gets £2500/head/yr compared to £5/head in North East England is our fault for not electing a mayor, or seeking devolution! Seeing how well Scottish and Welsh devolution is doing at keeping the United Kingdom united, how much help will it be for the South East corner of the UK to see themselves isolated as region by region leaves the UK? I take your point that the South West, and many other parts of the UK, are suffering from under investment, but to say that central government isn't responsible for the amount of money available to different regions is disingenuous.

The whole idea of a Northern Power House is dogged by the inability of those in control, predominantly based in the London area, who think that the first phase of HS2 is going to 'the North'. They then spend huge sums on Crossrail and are planning Crossrail 2 using money that, if spent on Northern communication lines, would return far more in jobs, productivity and income to the government as well as removing a burden on social security caused by the loss of heavy industry with little replacement in the North. When will they realise that firstly we don't all want to live and work in London, and secondly, even if we did, there isn't the capacity in water, roads or rail for 60+million people to live in a small corner of England.

I'm not very good at fi e detail work. I wasn't in 1974 when I started N and age and arthritis haven't helped. But as I type I have a G2 pulling nearly 30 wagons lapping the track in one direction and a J11 running the other way with 7 wagons on a pi up goods. Sitting in the station waiting for the board to come off is a D20 with a local passenger train with 5 coaches and a van. All this in half a modern small bedroom.

Educated in the mid 1950s, I had pencils and pens very firmly ripped out of my left hand and placed in my right. Strangely enough, until I left education at 21 I had constant complaints about my virtually illegible hand writing. Scroll on some 20 years and a shoulder injury meant I could hardly use my right arm so, having a series of presentations to do, on a large, vertical board I used my left hand to write. To start with it was painfully slow and the writing was equally as bad as my right hand would have managed. Move on 3 weeks and my left handed board writing was reasonably paced and way more legible than anything I could have done right handed. I never needed to do it again and my right arm returned to normal so I lazily went back to lousy right handed writing. These days it doesn't matter as I type everything, either on a computer, tablet or phone.

Sadly the world is, and always has been, full of nutters. The internet and social media has given them the opportunity to peddle their particular brand across the world. In days gone by they'd be the official, unpaid village idiot.

I totally agree, but failure of the teller to report any relevant transaction means they could face a fine and 6 months in jail. Something that crossed my mind when asked to transact £250k into a £275k flexi-mortgage taken out the day before. Flexi-mortgages on London properties were, and likely still are a favoured means of laundering ill-gotten gains.

12 years ago I worked for a bank. At that time any transaction of £10k or more was automatically queried. We had to ask when it came from, deposits, or where it was going, withdrawals. If you were not convinced of the honesty of the transaction you had to refer it for investigation by the money laundering department. These days vulnerable people are routinely targeted by dishonest traders who always want cash. So I expect that the limit is lower. As to carrying large sums of money. While my wife was caring for her frail parents I found out that once every 5 or 6 weeks she was going the post office to get their pensions. This would come to well over £1k plus whatever of our cash she had in her bag. With her in her 60s I didn't think this was a 'good idea'. They didn't have bank accounts, had savings in tins all over the house for various bills, which was their problem had anyone known, but I put a stop to this waiting over a month between collecting the pensions. Maybe, if the OP is 'of a certain age' the teller was concerned for their safety?

I've just had a PayPal request for a small payment to Rails of Sheffield. After a trawl through my orders to see why they may want the cash, I found a partly fulfilled order from November 2016. The item, you ask? Some traction tyres for Graham Farish Standard 5MT. I have three. Surely nobody has had to wait longer for a simple item? I exclude 'announced' items you've pre-ordered as I have an open order for a Farish J72 dating back to 2013 or 14.

Beat me to it, I was looking for the self same photo.

I'm still frustrated that my orders don't come up in date order, newest first. Please, as a buyer who often has outstanding items on orders, can you sort this one?

How do I sign up? I've looked on their site and found no mention. Of course I've probably missed it.

Back in 1975 I started scratch building a yard crane. I finished it in 2016.