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Blimey Rich. You’ve managed to make a Voyager look almost romantic with that shot! 😄

The Good, the bad and the ugly?

I don’t think I’ve seen these featured before? Donaghadee, County Down. The tracks have been filled in obviously, but you can see the outline of a set of points further along the quayside as well (taken in May this year).

We were there as well and that’s not my dad so at least we’ve narrowed the field down. 😉

That’s just wonderful.

A late running and diverted Down Midnight on Moors View.

I’ve also got the upside down issue so (and hopefully Duncan won’t mind) I’ve taken the liberty of turning them over as they look rather good: The 58 under the lights in the shed looks amazing.

Ah good news. I’ll definitely get a copy Chris. Looking forward to Warley I must say, I’ve never been before either so that’s a real bonus. 👍

Great to read a thread about the railway Chris. Even though I’ve seen it in the flesh plenty of times having the photos in front of you gives an opportunity to study the buildings and scenery a little better without having to step out of the way because of the amount of people admiring it! A few days ago I sketched out a couple of plans for a future Moors View replacement and one of my ideas was for a shortened section of the sea wall leaving Teignmouth. I was quite pleased with it but when I sent to Paul he just said “Nah. No point, Chris has done that area in N gauge too well already.” 😄 Nick

The sticker on the back of my daughters car: What else could David have been with a surname like that..?

That would be 33035 I believe. 👍

Yeah I think it must be! 😄

I only noticed this last night when I was doing my paperwork. I was buying paint a couple of days ago and when the chap asked me if I wanted to put a job reference on the invoice I hesitated before saying ‘Tina’…

That really helpful Nearholmer thanks for that. I work through a builder (I’m his painter) so I’m hopeful that I should be able to pick up a few leftover bits and bobs from the various jobs we’ve currently got on the go. I think probably stockpiling materials for the time being is the best course of action because I really want to do a decent job with this and not regret any decisions made at the planning stage later on…

Hello again everyone. Having taken onboard the advice given on here and also having subsequently had a complete rethink, I’m not somewhat nearer or more thought out plan. The initial idea of where to build it was a little bit too compromised and also too complicated for what I actually wanted to achieve. So I’ve moved my attention to different area of the garden, one that isn’t really used very much and that’s at the top corner of the garden underneath the oak tree that’s on the boundary with our neighbours garden: The current plan that I’m bit by bit firming up is to have a similar arrangement to the plan above, but once the groundwork is done I should have a circular area nearly 10 metres across as well as a decent sized terminus which will be in an extension on the side of the shed to the right in the photo below, which is 14 feet long: My neighbour who has a digger and a dumper truck was over the other night and we’ve gone over the plans and pencilled in making a start towards the end of June. He’s got a huge heap of soil in his field that needs moving so we’re going to bring quite a lot of that into mine and dig the higher parts out (as well as a pond) to try get things a little lower and flatter for what needs to be done. We’ll also dig out the footings once everything is compacted. I’ve also been toying with the idea of making the raised track bed out of reclaimed bricks as I think I could probably get them for free. I was wondering if anyone else had used brick in this kind of scenario before? Nick

Nope, not travelling in that thanks.

Yep I’d definitely get one. 👍

I saw some ointment for an outbreak of fish in a supermarket in Porto last week:

Great stuff, thanks for posting these John.

I was there yesterday helping a friend move in. 😉

Ah thanks for that.