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January '73 for the singling. Boxes at Speeton and Flamborough were downgraded with Bempton eventually becoming a frame on the platform. Details from my scanned copy of the Weekly Operating Notice for Jan 1973 "BETWEEN BRIDLINGTON QUAY AND HUNMANBY Double line working has ceased and the Up line between Bridlington Quay and a point where the line is slued into the Down line at approximately 40 1/2 m.p. (near the Hunmanby Down Distant) and the Down line from there to Hunmanby is now a Single line worked in both directions under the Electric Token Block Working Regulations. The adjacent redundant sections of the Down and Up Main lines will, except as shown below be subsequently removed. 310 yards of the Down Main are being retained at Bridlington Quay as a Shunt Spur and a 440 yards Up Main over-run retained at Hunmanby. A new facing crossover has been brought into use at Hunmanby for Up direction movements from Up Main to Single line and a new facing crossover has been provided at Bridlington Quay for Down direction movements from Down Main to Single line. Bridlington Quay The Down Home No.2 and Down Starting signals have been abolished. The former No.1 Platform Down Home signal is now the No.1 Platform Down Home (Platform Starting) signal to Single line and an off-set disc mounted on the signal post has been provided applying towards the new Shunt Spur (former Down Main). The former No.2 Platform Down Home is now the No.2 Platform Down Home (Platform Starting signal to Single line) and an adjacent ground disc has been provided applying towards the Shunt Spur. The double disc formerly applying - shunting - Down Main to Nos.5 or 4 Platform lines or (lower disc) towards the Sidings now applies (Upper disc) Shunt Spur to Nos.2 or 1 Platform lines and (lower disc) Shunt Spur to Sidings . The Up Home 3-aspect colour light (No.36/37) has had the diamond sign removed and this signal is now the Up Single line Home to Nos.4 or 5 Platform lines." The single line now enjoys two trains an hour throughout the day - the busiest the section has been outside the summer Saturday heydays.

Forgive my ignorance, but does anyone make a 742 in HO?

Living in Bridlington as a child I the railway scene came alive in the summer months. We lived on a leafy road close to the railway embankment north of the station and the line was, effectively, the horizon when looking toward the sea. By 3 or 4 years I would watch out for the distant signals to raise and wait to see what came and counting the carriages. (In winter often just two) At bedtime I would peep through the curtains in summer whenever I heard the sound of a train. Northbound trains were climbing the bank and working hard whilst southbound trains would fly down at speed. Sometimes two would pass, but only until 1973 when they singled the line to Hunmanby. When I started school at 5 the first big thrill of the morning was the walk to over Quay Crossing as the 0830 was due and seeing a train close hand. Sometimes there was a class 20 shunting over the road to the gasworks, a thrilling sound that had me holding my mother's hand tightly in case the engine got too close. After school we'd go and take a look at the goods yard if we could hear an engine. I remember going in to the goods warehouse and seeing a class 31 moving through when I was a good bit older. By then I was very keen and knew the different types of DMU and some of the diesels. The station was large with 8 platforms and several entrances. To a child it was the very grandest station until I saw Hull Paragon and then Kings Cross. Summer would see long trains going to Filey Holiday Camp with mixed rakes of maroon and blue and grey. Excursions would arrive almost everyday and Saturday mornings were a feast of trains in the 70s with DMUs from all over joined by some loco workings including Kings Cross trains. Traction was mostly 31s, 40s, 37s, and the odd 47. The station front had a road crossing to access the goods yard and if you timed it right you'd see the flagman come out and a loco cross the road to shunt the yard.

What a great project, a restoration that starts with the buildings rather than the track . Some lovely work by a dedicated modeller.

I wish they would take a leaf out of Lego's book and implement dead-rail, radio control. My nephew's Lego train has sound and the running track can be laid quickly and changed each time. It doesn't need the track to run. Most of the problems in model railways come from dirty track, point rails and electrical connection issues. Supplying electricity to the rails is the weakest link. Fitting low power motors and rechargeable batteries would allow huge flexibility and more realistic operation. Slow performance would improve with smaller motors too rather than the present motors which are rarely used at full speed (often a scale 150 mph or more). Wiring would only be for simple turnout control and signals. Prototypical rusty rails in sidings would enhance realism. Will a big manufacturer take the plunge?

Looking neat. Which colour for the rail sides?

Omicron has mutated from Beta therefore the immunity in SA is quite different to ours. Unlike the UK, where only a minority caught covid, in SA there was large scale infection with beta. Omicron is coming up against beta antibodies in SA and therefore it's not so damaging. Our immune response to wild covid and delta after boosters is excellent. It's a medical triumph to have such effective vaccines. But Omicron will get round them in our population more easily and many more will be ill, particularly children. We will only be clear of this in the next five years or so. In the next 18 months things will become better as vaccines are adapted and anti virals created but there will be setbacks. We owe all those in the NHS and the scientists creating vaccines an enormous thank you.

Perhaps they could do an episode on their H class? How to repair a brand new model after paying full price. My cousin collects handbags and buys new ones - she doesn't seem to have to get her needle and thread out to re-sew them or patch up holes in them before she uses them.

I've had three Heljan 26s over time and they've all run themselves to a stand and are virtually useless. They don't seem to pick up well after a while and even after cleaning the wheels they're never as good.

Read it carefully and between the lines. There is no positive assertion and the phasing diagram does not include it. The words refer to the new line providing full electrification, not the existing one. It's a rushed piece of work, we know this as it was still being edited by Gillighan the night before. It's also a complete shambles.

No plans to electrify the existing route between Stalybridge and Huddersfield.

A couple of photos of the new layout at Bridlington taken earlier this month

In an ideal world BR would've started freight forwarding and bought lorries to set up a complete logistics business.

I'm looking for a trailer car for a Cravens 105 set. SYP preferred although stripe would do.

I have wildebeest sitting in a drawer in a box.

How do you allocate the wagons and how does it work with the dice? Do you have several sets of sidings and work between them?

Apparently several variations of poker were sometimes played in them.

Rob, speeds remain broadly the same with 20mph on the crossover and 15 for the turnout to No.6. There is no longer a round facility but platform 5 will be bi-directional allowing trains to run north towards Scarborough or terminate in passenger service. Some good news, yesterday, for the Beverley to York re-instatement from the DfT. It now progresses to a more serious study of potential. More pictures tomorrow when I pass through.

The Black and Tans have gone! It'll have to be a Supertrain for me. Xmas has to come early.

More from today now the trackwork is all in place

More pics here The platforms will apparently remain as 4,5 and 6.

The down main was removed overnight, with trains working over a temporary up main connection before the crossover is installed, probably by tomorrow.

Hi, some single one or two double. I think they used the old layout with wrong direction movements. 7 trains were in on Saturday standing along the single line up to Sewerby. As they left 4 more came in today. The new Up Main is connected but the new crossover is still to be lifted into place. This may occur overnight. The down main may be removed tonight or tomorrow. The lever frame in the box is still in place. Edit. Trains lined up along the gradient buffering up until the last one, which was top and tailed, arrived. Leading locos were then coupled to preceding trains. Last one out is now top and tailed.

Sunday at the Bridlington blockade

More pics from the remodelling at Bridlington available on twitter here