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This week's interesting delay from the FB "Lost Boys" group, something like the 0625 Cambridge-Liverpool Street cancelled as the driver has retired. If I can find the original pic I'll post it on here.

Yes, it was on the Liverpool Street-Cambridge line a few years ago. someone on here put a recording from the driver on here. It was genuine.

I'd suggest that RTT doesn't always show kettle specials to try to prevent trespass incidents along the way.

How about the Bluebell's Chesham set which I believe has Mansell wooden wheels which was authorised to run from East Grinstead to Kings Cross a few years ago? But that was ECS for a film job.

Another view of Minories Mk4 (I think). Lifted from FB group Metroplitan Railway Past and Present. Photographer unknown.

Nice work there. the P class was the first whitemetal loco kit I built back in the 1960s, a Wills finecast kit that cost me many weeks of paper round money! I still have that loco in my collection, but it had the motor upgraded from a Triang XT60 many years ago. I've also worked on the real thing as a trainee fireman on the K&ESR a few years ago.

I had a conversation with Tony Hultman of Gothenberg Tramways about this sort of stuff a couple of years ago and he confirms what Jim has said above. There's some little-used emergency crossovers in Manchester where the trams actually run over the top of the running rail when they are crossing over. On the straight rail there is a continuous groove. Tram wheels have different profiles to suit the systems they are to operate on, curves, whether they have ride-over crossings as mentioned above..

The consensus of opinion from the FB "BR Lost Boys 1968-1988" group say it's Baylham. These are the men who would have seen it an awful lot from the front of the train.

Nice find!

The main fault with the Trix model is the bogie wheelbase as we've discussed before. The lat Adrian Swain of ABS Models done the patterns to fit an existing bogie casting. Otherwise I'm not aware of any major things wrong with it. Nothing that the right size buffers and super-detailing won't put right.

I've got an 81 body part-converted to an 86! Plus the bogies to go with it. :) I made one into an 85 many years ago.

All of this reminds me of the Anbrico DMUs and other rolling stock, including a ready-made Glasgow blue train. Late 1960s, just after the invention of Protofour, a couple of us were working downstairs on a club project at the Central Hall exhibition. Opposite us was Protofour BLT with an Anbrico single-unit railcar. It looked very nice running on P4 track, except the wheels didn't line up with the axle boxes! Why on earth go to all the trouble to get the trak right then not bother about the wheels lining up with the axleboxes? It was a source of amusement and comments for the week. BTW, I've just found my Anbrico railbus, must get that finished one day! and the Anbrico Sheffield tram, which I more or less finished many years ago and spent ages filling in the big gaps between the decks, only to find it should have been there anyway! Oh well, out with the pan of boiling water for yet another rebuild!

A good model that's stood the test of time.

Railway wheels don't run very well in tramway rail, the flanges are too deep and, in true model railway form, the back-to-backs are different.

I doubt "proper" Warships would have pulled TC stock unless they were fitted with air brakes. :)

Remember you only need trailer bogies under the parlour car. the kitchen car has one of each!

Maybe bore the chassis out to take Romford bearings? :) Meanwhile, I recently found my K's Motorail bogies we spoke about a couple of years ago, along with some of the Motorail transfers if you're still interested.

I've never known such a basic layout plan generate so much interest over such a long period of time. As I mentioned in a much earlier comment, I spoke with Cyril Freezer about this layout in the 1980s and asked him about the kick-back loco spur. As he based this layout on Moorgate Widened lines , as rebuilt in 1967 this had a loco spur from each platform. These spurs were accessible directly from the 2 platforms to save time and movements. Cyril said he done his as a kick-back to make working such a layout a bit more interesting. The original Moorgate Widened Lines station also had 2 separate loco spurs, one for the Eastern and one for the Midland. another terminal platform had a loco spur for the Metropolitan electric locos. In a later conversation with Cyril, he complimented me on my Tidmouth Junction "Thomas" themed layout which done the rounds in the late 1980s. It had a continuous run, a separate branch, a main line terminus, loco shed with turntable, a goods yard AND fiddle loops, all in a space of 11x4, built in a short time frame of 3 weeks! It could also be run as a proper railway. He admitted it was something he tried to achieve but never quite managed it. some kind soul on here posted the link to the RM article on Tidmouth Junction a while ago. I tried building several of Cyril's ideas over the years, none of them quite worked out!

I've got a spare XT60 if you want to keep it original.

At least the SUB units worked. i loved driving them. Westinghouse brake and handbrake, everything works on line volts and as someone said, hang out the front window to change the headcode. :)

Yes, I've got a later Finecast P with etched chassis and the commercially produced model, Bachy or Hornby, I can't remember which. I intend keeping the original original if that makes sense with vintage detailing but with a small modern motor. Plain black or green livery, I dare not try the SECR livery! I've got. video of the modern SEF model pulling over 40 wagons on my layout! .

During my visit to India in 1987 I was lucky to have a BR travel permit and priv facilities. I was made most welcome at Bombay VT and was introduced to the station Master, a man of great Importance. I was introduced to a couple of the local train drivers who showed me the cab of a couple of the local trains. the controls were remarkably the same as the Southern Region VEP/CEP etc units that I was used to driving out of Waterloo! Pity I didn't have time to go for a cab ride in one as we had a later train to catch overnight to somewhere. Sadly my photos of the holiday were largely lost by the film developing company. I was left with 4 rolls out of 18! A fascinating system. I had a cab ride on the Nigri Hills line as well as a main line ride out of Golden Rock towards the coast to a place that had a layout similar to Cambridge.

i too have a box of doom of kits started way back in the 1960s that are still far from complete, or have been built and dismantled a few times since then, the oldest being a Wills Finecast P class, then a couple of wills 02s... Lost parts are a bugbear for completing some of the kits!.

The original motors seem to have badly worn brushes and gear problems. I'll have to re-visit the Warship fleet!

This lot's going on Ebay soon, open to offers!