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Much the same state the KESR was in quite a few yers ago. Fortunately that railway has survived and flourished. A lot of members there made long-term loans to the company most of which i understand have now been repaid. Some have foregone getting repaid, donating the money to the railway. One problem is that the UK has maybe too many preserved railways all chasing a similar market from both paying visitors and donations from enthusiasts. A bit like the reserved bus hobby with lots of 1950s buses all preserved with the best intent back in the early 1970s now up for sale as their owners struggle with their upkeep and younger entrants to the hobby aren't interested in buses of that age. I know because I'm one of those who preserves buses from the early 1950s.

Surely it's the locomotive's insurers who will pay for damage to other people's property?

I've got a set of about 6 blood and custard KM coaches, all built by someone back in the day. They all have weight in them that were included in the kits. There'sa couple of restaurant cars in maroon that need to be rebuilt as well, and a couple of others have the Peco card interiors which really do look nice when made up and fitted. The main errorI find is the channel section solebar. But run them as a complete train and they look quite good. Back in the day they were ideal for kit bashing, an article in the MRC back in 1962 showed how to make the Clacton electric units from them. I really must get on with my KM Blue Pullman rebuild.

Yes of course, traincrew area a different breed.

Lovely, thanks. Yes, the spurious bits were shared with the Lowmac wagon. I just found a part-built JCB and what appears to be a nearly complete kit in my round tuits boxes! It's amazing what's to be dug up. :)

There's also a quantity of Hartell track being disposed of.

4 more ran out of the box of rolling stock...cat paid a visit, he can go back in there today.

Sorting through my collection of round tuits I've re-discovered my tram kit collection and some of the missing parts. If anyone's interest drop me a pm on here. There's an LCC 4 wheel stores car in LCC brown, a West Ham 4 wheeler in LT livery, an E1 in a cream and brown LCC livery, all need finishing off and have motors, 1 Feltham in LT livery, complete but needs completing, another Feltham, part-built with motors, one end damaged window pillars, a Leeds Horsfield car with XT60 motor and an Anbrico Sheffield Roberts car with motor. And a Varney Liverpool car which was motorised but the bogies haven't been unearthed yes, not has the roof! It's dented but repairable. The London cars have ABS working trolley poles too.I posted pics on here about 5 years ago but they've probably vanished by now.

The domestic cat was utilised later on this afternoon. Rummaging through one of the stock boxes disturbed a family of about 4 mice! Cat was introduced to part of his evening meal. 3 others are still at large.

Pity I can't log in to the channel 4 site, yet another forgotten password. About 30 years ago a Finnish layout visited the MRC's exhibition. The Finnish club subsequently used a foam baseboard with varying degrees of success. I suspect we've all been brought up reading too many of Cyril's "shows you how" books.

The domestic cat is usually good at his job especially with field mice.

So while Avanti are short of drivers, DB freight are telling drivers their services are no longer required! as we know in the past most drivers were multi-skilled and could drive expresses as well as slow, heavy freight trains. Not so in this modern age. Last year I worked in Manchester on tram replacement bus driving, using the trains. I usually bought the ticket from Ashford Kent to Manchester Piccadilly, fare was about £82 with senior card, not to bacd. One weekend no advance returns available, so I had to but a single, no problem. Coming back the following weekend the ticket man at Piccadilly couldn't sell me a walk-up fare, I'd have to buy an advance ticket. But I want to travel today. No problem, there's a train in 10 minutes, you've bough an advance ticket. the knowing wink said a walk-up ticket would be a lot dearer. A computer is unlikely to tell you that.

I've jut found a few Airfix JCBs in a box but can't remember how they go together. Can anyone kindly post a copy on here for me? Thanks.

Most of my boxes and cupboards have suffered a severe mouse infestation. It's a brick-built room adjacent to the garage in the garden, built to "house" standards. Every cupboard has been invaded. Maybe they've eaten it??

I'll wait in hope for the moment...the other one may just re-appear from the carpet monster! I'm also missing a brake shoe from the etched chassis kit.

Speaking to a friend at the local railway club who is a eurostar engineer at Stratford, he says the "all stations trams" between STP and Ashford keep delaying his trains as they are so well used. Mind you, with the very high winds we've had this week the all-stations trams suffered considerable delays and cancellation because of overhead line problems. Wrong sort of electrification for the south? You really can't win.

A bit like Wansford am Rhein in war films? :)

Having recently built my first couple of Finetrax kits, I must say say how much easier it has made track building. Yet people spend a fortune on today's super-detailed ready-to-run stock with lights, bells whistles, but run them on proprietary track and 3' scale gaps between coaches. Oh well, each to their own.

The Croxley Tip trains remained steam hauled until the end of steam on LT. I've recently made the SEC brake van kit and despite having pin point wheels it's very heavy to move around! Otherwise a good model.

I'd suggest the government wanted a bit of "feel good" news in the run-up not only to the GE next year but in the light of what has been revealed this week as the Covid Inquiry gets under way. This has shown them for what they really are, totally incompetent, to say the least.

From what I remember in my years in the transport industry, it's always been a case that that things that started before 01.59GMT ran at GMT time throughout. At the other end of the year, trains that started on BST ran at BST throughout. Staff never lost and hour's pay or gained an hour's pay as they were still only doing 8 hours or whatever the rostered duty was. I believe that is still the case today. According to a radio quiz the other day, Daylight Saving wasn't devised to help war workers in 1916, it was devised by some very influential businessmen who played gold in the early morning and realised that if they put the clocks back/forward they'd be able to get an extra hour of daylight for golf before work.

As the title says, smokebox door wanted for Airfix 4F 0-6-0. I've just made a replacement chassis fr the loco, it runs very well and with a bit of super-detailing is looking good. But many years ago it was converted to a Thomas style loco and I lost the original! Somebody kindly sent me a replacement about 6 years ago, but the carpet monster has eaten that one. Going through my box of round tuits and this one came to the top of the pile. Help anybody?

ISTR trying to motorise a Kitmaster BoB back in the 1960s when i got one in a set along with 3 SR coaches, all unmade. I used the plastic chassis and glued silver paper to the wheel treads. It sort of worked after a fashion, but at the age of about 13 money was tight!

You may well be right there to a degree. I got fed up with having to modify or super-detail everything British outline in the 1980s. I visited Germany in 1981 and made friends with a DB Lokfuehrer who I m still friends with now. I was impressed with the DB of that era and of the models that were available. As a result I built a small DB exhibition layout. As you rightly say it's only with the advent of the super-detail British stuff we have now that I've gone back to British modelling.

Thanks for that John, I've been following the Templot developments on here for the last few years. I note it can even print the track in 3D! I ought to get back to planning y next layout. As an aside, I've found some unbuilt K's motor rail bogies and transfers, are you still interested in them?