Chris Gilbert1

Could anyone tell me when BR started painting their GUVs and Full Brakes in the red parcels/Royal Mail scheme. I’ve got it in my mind it was in the late 80s but I can’t seem to find any photos. TIA

TBH F-Unit, it’s not my cup of tea, I just wanted a paper manufacturer that wasn’t real, so nobody could tell me I’d modelled that wrong, same reason I model the Brownville and Ashland.

Thanks Keith The layout is 8ft 8 inches by 18inches

Last test before it’s ready for Stafford exhibition, F-Unit it’s at Cradley in October.

A few work in progress shots of the layout going to Stafford Railway Circle Annual Model Railway Exhibition The paint still has a few days to dry. The layout was originally built by Richard New for Graham Causer, but after a house move, it became surplus to requirements. I managed to save it and tart it up a little.

Yes there are definitely a few ex Soo Line bargains on this railroad

Thanks, just one of the many quirks of the BRAR fleet

Rusty Monday morning. GP35s 238 & 233 leave Waterloo Road yard and head up the branch to the Dr Pepper bottling plant at Haywood, where they switch out empty syrup tank cars and return south will the empties.

It just needs ballasting, I built a Cornish clay layout after that and now I’m playing around with some British O gauge

I’ve started a new project a couple of weeks ago called Tremoy Junction. Set in the late 80’s to mid 90s on a branch line close to St Blazey.

WTF Wednesday. I was watching a YouTube clip called GWR Volume 3 Saltash to Penzance by GWR Yam Yam last night. There’s some very interesting stuff on there but at 1.40 these made me sit up and go Wait What Anyone shed any light on it.

Morning all Interesting comments, I can already report that I’ve been politely told that Thumpers only ran east of Portsmouth or something like that, by a number of (former ) friends. Your right F-UnitMad rules have to be adhered to. One thing that never fails to amaze me, is the British modeller will complain if things don’t quite look right, from the curve on the nose of a class 37 to the idea of using the wrong class of loco in the wrong area. Yet will put up with poor standards of running, god awful coupling and narrow gauge track. The layout is at the ballasting stage now , but I’ve spent the last few days rearranging the railway room, to find space to store it. It’s now at eye level and I’ve noticed a slight bow in the baseboard Not sure what it do about it now.

Funny you should say that Raymondo