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Email from Hattons today regarding pre orders, tentatively suggesting the end of September as the release date - has to be good news I think.

Yes, but at least the bogies will go round corners.

Well, it got 13 likes, so some of us must have found it vaguely amusing.........

Reminds me of the Native American who drank tea all night long. He fell fast asleep and woke up the next morning in his TeePee.

In my long ago childhood, all school puddings were served with thick lumpy custard - Bog Roll, Stiff Dick, Sahara Desert (sic), Wet Nellie and especially Flie Pie. It has got to be custard with crumble for me too.

Not railway related, and not an expensive item, but I am bemused at the level of skill needed to create this model. Perhaps the value lies in the signature, but if it had been me, I don't think I would have put my name to it. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Signed-1998-Hand-Made-Model-of-Indiana-1837-Canal-Boat-Prairie-Hen-/301962812062?hash=item464e62da9e:m:mX_-ONyNhPf2iI3x8rgLw9Q

Oh well, derailments are only to be expectorated.

Outside our local primary school, the yummy mummies are wearing rumpled pyjamas, have last night's curlers in their hair and a fag dangling from their lips as they chuck the kids out of the car.

0-4-0 and to an extent 0-6-0 locos are liable to stall on plastic Vs as opposed to metal Vs because the wheels which are not touching the Vee may not be in contact with both rails at the same time and so no power is being picked up. Clean wheels and correctly adjusted pickups are a must in this case to make sure that at least one wheel on each side is picking up current. It is also essential to make sure that the point is layed perfectly level to maximise the chances of wheels picking up current. Live frog points from Peco are better but if your points are level, pickups are in wheel contact and wheels are clean, you have a fighting chance with Hornby points. If your points are indeed level, I would check that the pickups are actually touching the wheels and not gummed up with fluff or grunge. Te

I am truly stunned at your workmanship and take my hat off to you sir!

In Liverpool, there are two places near Knotty Ash known as Big Bongs and Little Bongs, but these are eclipsed by two smallish hills separated by the old Cheshire Lines Committee route through Southport, known as Big Balls and Little Balls. I wonder would anyone have the b - I mean courage - to build and exhibit a layout with these names?

So how do they sh... then? Or are they like politicians where it comes out of both ends?

It is always amusingly ironic to spot a spelling mistake in a post which highlights spelling mistakes!

I recently sold my entire 00 collection over a period of 4 months across 5 separate sales, and was stunned at the total I received, in excess of £3K - I wouldn't have got anything near that with a dealer or box shifter. When selling, ebay gives a suggested starting price, based on previous sales of similar items, and I found this a surprisingly good guide for starting my items. Out of over 70 items, only 2 did not sell, most achieved or exceeded EBay 's predicted price so starting at 99p for an item is not really necessary.

Winkers and Gory - they have offices in the city centre near here.

You could tape a sheet of paper over the tracks, then use a crayon to rub over them, leaving the impression on the paper. Then, cut inside the marks at whatever clearance you need. BTW what is Fab Foam?

It was certainly double tracked during the 50s and early to mid 60s but that section fell into disuse pretty quickly I think, and I can only recall mainly light engine usage before I inevitably lost interest as a teenager. The road bridge gained a metal footbridge at the side around 1965 and I remember being disappointed that what should have been a great vantage point was fairly disappointing because of the restricted traffic on the line. I can also remember walking the line to the sidings at Aintree, close to where the Giro is now, but it was well patrolled and resulted in many a merry chase across the cutting banks. There were plenty of brake vans in the sidings, and a lot of empty coke wagons on the occasions we got thAt far. I now live in Crosby, just a few miles away. I have just sold all my 00 stock, and like yourself, am just starting in 0 gauge. Good luck with the new layout.

I was born in, and lived in number 9 Walker Drive from 1951 until I married in 1976, and continued to visit regularly until Dad died in 1997. As a boy, I remember how, at the first puff of smoke or chuff in the distance, all the lads would run, hell for leather to the road bridge on Orrell Road, climb on to the parapet and cheer as a Jinty, or 4F or other dirty black loco belched thick yellow smoke all over us (earning most of us a clout over the ear when we got home smelling of sulphur and smoke). The cutting was a nice yellow/red sandstone, and successive generations used what we called a cave, really an eroded gentle cliff face, as a gang den, where you had to be prepared to run when a ganger crew came striding along the track. I can really appreciate the potential of this site for a diesel depot, and will now be following your posts with great interest. BTW, in one of the regular but never fulfilled efforts to reopen parts of the Liverpool railways, several years ago there was a proposal to build a station in the cutting, below the terraces on Walker Drive, where you have two sidings planned. Quite what the reason for it was, I forget, and needless to say, nothing ever came of it.

Are the buildings actually on a layout, and is that layout at floor level or higher? If higher, then standing the legs in a small pot of salt will stop the slugs getting anywhere near. If the layout or buildings are at ground level, clearly they need raising. But I agree with other posters, laying pellets near the points of ingress would help keep the bxggers away. I have read dire warnings in the press that the mild winter has allowed many slugs and snails to survive, and therefore to breed earlier, and we are to expect them in plague proportions this year. Good news for starlings.

Head over parapet. My boss wanted the report on his desk and told me to expect grim repercussions if it wasn't ready. Strange, I thought they were what Death had on his sofa! Did you hear about the octogenarian pirate who greeted all his friends with, "Aye, matey!" Ducking down again.

Errr - 21 posts ago - I guess it's come of age.

Hot potatoes, orchestra stalls, blood will make amends. Or arguably, Puck will make amends.