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Clive Lack of connecting gangway connections, and a drunk painter in the carriage paintshop! Lloyd

I did not know a girl in Dalmeny. Am I the only one? I once caught the train to there for a day course. The course was not particularly interesting, but I was picking up a new (second hand) car from the area. It was a convenient way of getting the time and expenses for it! My son had purchased it for me, and delivered it to me after the course had finished. Then I just had to drive up the A9, regretting not being on a train. Lloyd

My choice has won two days running. Can we make it a hat trick with Bourne today. Home of Delaine Buses. I used to catch the Bourne bus as far as Market Deeping and change their to see friends between Uffington and Tallington. Later I cycled, and would often watch an A4 at full speed at Tallington level crossing - quite a sight at such close quarters. I was looking at a 1939 Midland CWN recently, and was surprised at how many long distance cross country trains appeared to start from a small place like Bourne. Lloyd

I quite like it on the grounds that it shows me an area that I did not get to see. Having very many times walked or cycled along Westwood Street on the other side of the railway buildings, I often wondered what was on the other side of that high wall. The houses behind would have been the other side of Westwood Street. Lloyd

Tenterden. Lloyd

I will go with Par, something I never got anywhere near on the rare occasions that I have played golf. Lloyd

I will suggest Penistone for this. Lloyd

I will suggest Bakewell for this one. Nice looking station. Reminds me of a story that my son told me. One car at a rally was being driven and co-driven by two lasses from Bakewell. The commentator announced then as '... of Bakewell, where the tarts come from'. Lloyd

I echo what Gilbert has said. What a difference! Everything seems a lot brighter as well. Keep up with the drops - it is not for long. I got a wee thing from Boots that clips onto the top of the dropper. It can rest on the surround to your eye and hold the dropper in the right place easily for you. Lloyd

Pronounced the same, but spelt Koma, is a people group in the north of Ghana, near the 'lovely' village of Yikpabongo (the Y is pronounced as a G). About 5,000 of them. I was there in about 1993. For those under two years old, I was the first white person they had seen! Only place where I have been sunburnt in the shade. Lloyd

Clive Is this a reference to the preponderance of B&B establishments in that part of the world? As an alternative to a longer ladder, try digging. Lloyd

I'll go for Huddersfield this time. I went there once. Nice station and nice cat. Lloyd

I can understand that. But surely it depends on how well it is done. I have never used Photoshop or any similar programs, but I would imagine that to get the steam/smoke effect must be quite difficult, and so to compare an amateurish attempt to a highly skilled attempt would be like comparing a model that I had built (had I built any recently) with one of Tony's. Lloyd

I thought it was a glue. Lloyd

I like both. With digital manipulation it is more realistic. Without digital manipulation it is easier to see how you have got round the problems on the model. Both have their place, and both are a delight to see. The same applies to added smoke. With it - more realistic. Without it - you see the actual model better. It is like the DC/DCC debate and many other debates. Both are right depending on the type of layout and the skills of the builder. Lloyd

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Just watched this. Excellent. Thank you both for making it available to us. One or two things occurred to me while watching this. My memory is not good for what happened yesterday, let alone sixty odd years ago, but my memory suggests that there was much more freight generally then, and though particular wagon types are not clear, one thing that always stood out to me when passing a freight train was the huge variety of heights of wagons. Most trains other than the obvious block trains appeared to consist of a complete jumble of vans, opens of a range of body heights, and other wagon types, giving a much greater range of 'ups and downs' when following the tops as the train passed. Is my memory mistaken, or do other geriatrics like me remember that? The other thing that jumped out at me was following the telegraph wires as the sagged between each pair of poles, rising at the poles, giving a slightly hypnotic effect as you followed them up and down from a passing train. They were quite prominent. I presume that to model that would make access to the track, etc for any running repairs too difficult. Thanks again for a wonderful video. Lloyd

I will go for Ffestiniog Railway, Blaenau Ffestiniog station. Local station for my great grandfather (who I never met), who worked in the slate quarries there, producing the main purpose of the line. Also, because the FR nearly caused me not to exist! My grandparents got married 104 years ago. Before they were married, they once went for a walk through the tunnel on the FR (now I understand bypassed) having checked the passenger timetable. A freight train came through while they were in the tunnel, and they just had room to squeeze in at the side to avoid being crushed. They both lived well into their 90's. Lloyd

I thought it might be. I could not think of anything else. Lloyd

Tony Lovely photo, but what was the white pole this side of the bracket signal? Lloyd

Thorpe-le-Soken for me. A long time ago I stayed in Clacton for a few months. Trains split at Thorpe for Clacton and Walton. Lloyd

Again, so much choice. Lots of lovely contenders already mentioned, to which I would add Connel Ferry, Spean Bridge and Muir of Ord. But if it classes as 'country', I will plump for Dingwall, having lived there at one time (as well as quite a few other places in the Moray Firth area). Always a problem if you were rushing for the train south from where we stayed on the north side of Dingwall - if the train was from Kyle, you had to get to the level crossing before it, and you had a choice of three level crossings, so that whichever way you went, one of them would be in the way. Lloyd

Tony A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I have just looked up the following chart https://www.zygology.com/cms/upload_area/pdf/Zyg-Anodic-Index.pdf and see that nickel silver and stainless steel are close together or adjacent to each other, indicating little risk of corrosion, hence my previous post was rubbish. My apologies for any unnecessary worry caused. Lloyd

I think the problem will be different metals and electrical current causing corrosion. Lloyd

Such a choice for this one. Riccarton Junction? Redesmouth Junction? But I will go for Carstairs Junction, for the Dolphinston branch, as well as the Edinburgh line. Apart from the psychiatric hospital, not a lot else there, so definitely bucolic, despite being on the WCML. Lloyd