FarrMan

Now that my wife is up and come round a bit, (She sleeps better when I am not in bed with her, so I go to bed and get up early, and she goes to bed and gets up late! It may be the CPAP that I use for sleep apnoea that disturbs her), the one she uses is Auction Sniper. Lloyd

My wife often uses this or something similar for non-model railway stuff, and has always found it good. It sets a maximum price so that you do not get carried away with bidding, but you only get charged just above the second highest bid, so don't spend more than you would anyway. I think that was how she got my last suit a few years ago - for £10. Lloyd

What a lovely looking cat. Our two, named Lion and Tiger, were good hunters. While they were still kittens, they caught and ate 4 fully grown rabbits in 24 hours - they had to be lifted onto the bed afterwards! First time they brought a dead rabbit into the utility room (they could not get into the rest of the house without being let in), my wife put it out, and then watched them bringing it back in through the cat flap. They both dragged it to the cat flap, put its head into the cat flap, then one went behind it and took a leap through the cat flap so that it could pull the rabbit while the other pushed! Lion lived until he was 23 years old. Lloyd

Just been watching Geoff Marshall's latest Youtube video -End of the line, Walthamstow. Included are a few shots of the model railway in the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum, and one of the volunteers there saying that more volunteers are needed to help build the model. It is based on the Liverpool St to Chingford line in the 1950's. I hope Tony will not mind me extending the plea for volunteers on here. As I am 570 miles away, and my modelling skills are minimal and directed to better companies than LNER (wait for the attack!), I will sit this one out. Lloyd

Tony Be thankful that they only nibble. When we lived in Applecross (on the mainland, opposite Skye), we had their red brothers regularly visiting. One year we had one cabbage left in the garden. They had got the other 52! Rabbits were also a problem, and seals could be seen from the house. The cats (they had wild cat blood in them) were fairly good with 'discouraging' the rabbits, not so good with the sheep, and no use at all with the stags! The stags would also dig up potatoes to eat. Lloyd

I used to live on the Isle of Skye (population at the time 7000, area app 1% of area of UK). I once received a letter addressed simply to 'Roberts, Isle of Skye'. When I opened it, it was for someone else who lived 30 odd miles away on Skye! What made it more interesting was that it was from the GPO! My only regret was that it was not stamped with the slogan 'please use full postal address'. Lloyd

Can we keep horror pictures off here please! Lloyd

If that is the size of egg in 1:76 scale, how big are the actual ones? I would not like to be the (chocolate) hen that laid them! Lloyd

Sounds like me! Lloyd

i used to live in Applecross and rent out a house on Portree. Only possible train use would be Strathcarron to Kyle, but that would involve three buses as well, and I would have to stay overnight. As the crow flies, distance is about 10 miles. By road, about 110 miles plus ferry at that time, and about 2 hours if the going was good. Portree is west of Applecross, but I would start off going East, the South, then West, then North! Lloyd

Try Inverness to Kyle, though the scenery on that is a wee bit better. Locals would normally use the bus, which is not much more than half that time. Lloyd

I once woke up in the middle of the night trying to remember if I had locked the garage door. While still half asleep, I woke up my wife to ask her, then remembered that we had not built the garage - it was still in pieces in the front garden! So when she asked what I was on about, I just told her to shut up and go back to sleep. Over 40 years later, we are still married! Lloyd

Who is Elsie? Lloyd

Interesting. I once caught the northbound train at Peterborough going to a Boys Brigade camp in Largs (coach from Glasgow). I think one or two coaches were prebooked for the whole party. It was probably about 1964. I did not get much sleep that night!

Reminds me of a long time ago when my son went to a dance along with most of the rest of his class, after they had received exam results. We had to go 20 or 30 miles away to collect him in the middle of the night, as he was drunk, and the lift that he had would not bring him back drunk. He was used to blended whiskeys, but not to malts. I suggested it was our fault for not giving him malts at home before! It was also a wet night, and the dead flies on my windscreen were getting quite bad, and with the rain, they washed off quite nicely. For a while after that, I would wind him up whenever the dead flies in the windscreen were getting bad, by suggesting that he had better go to another dance and get pissed! We knew that we didn't need to tell him off at all - the hangover was enough. Lloyd

Reminds me of driving in Zimbabwe. Plastic covered seats heated by the sun did not go well with shorts. Sometimes had to drive standing up! But some lovely B-Gs. Lloyd

Try Anusol! One who knows

I was not aware that they played cricket in doors, or even in Dores (nr Inverness). But I was aware that you could be in doors in Dores in Dores Inn! Lloyd

Even morebowing on 24.5" angle girders! Lloyd

Both of these nicely hide the end of Spittal Bridge. Lloyd

43092 at head of three coaches. First two coaches appear to be carmine and cream, third one I think is as well, but all in shadow so I could not be certain. First coach is a brake first/second/composite, and appears to be LNER type, but my knowledge of LNER coaches is non-existent. Others are too much in shadow to even say that much. Train is at Platform 4, photo taken from platform 5/6. Carmine and cream coach in background. Perhaps someone else who has the mag. can identify the coaches in more detail. Lloyd

Gilbert There is a platform level photo of a very similar subject in the same location dated May 1957 in March Backtrack, p. 145, from the Pendragon Collection. Have you seen it? Lloyd

When I take a photo of my model railway, I usually notice what is missing - It is only in my head! Lloyd

Lamps? Lloyd

Surely whichever direction the wheels are turning, the con rods will be pushing for half a turn, then pulling for the other half turn. When going forwards, it will be pushing going from from in line with wheel centers to the right, over the top of the centers until in line with the left, and pulling for the bottom half of the rotation, for both sides, and vice versa for reversing, or am I going completely gaga? Lloyd