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Yes I’d like to add my thanks too, I really love the forum and there’s always something interesting to look at if you’ve got some time spare.
 

Happy Christmas everyone. 

Yes gutted to hear he’d passed away yesterday. Although I’ve always been a bit of rocker at heart I did go through a bit of a dance phase in the late 90s and seeing Faithless at Glastonbury sometime around 1999 was one of the highlights of that time. Just so good!

Thanks for the music Maxi. Love to his family and friends.

That’s really starting to take shape now. I really like the view through the tunnel mouth.

Hope you feel better soon and have a great Christmas for you and your family Duncan.
 

I hear brandy is quite good for flu…

Nick

This in the supermarket carpark earlier:

And this:

4 hours ago, RJS1977 said:

 

Clearly not a genuine AHB as there are no wig-wag lights.

 

It looks a bit like they’ve made a 12” to the foot version of the Peco model, not realising that there are lights that are meant to do something...

21 minutes ago, RJS1977 said:

Spotted this going across a level crossing in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em earlier this evening - but what is it?

 

Is that D0226 on the Worth Valley railway maybe?

3 minutes ago, montyburns56 said:

"No, I said make sure that the train is properly buffered up"

 

Birkett Common 1983 by Bill Watson

 

That’s a very interesting train. I don’t recall ever seeing that kind of formation before.

2 hours ago, woodenhead said:

Not a 47, just looks like one but with that particular number it is actually a class 58 prototype.

Always quite a distinctive loco with its little sealed beam rubber surrounded headlight. 

18 hours ago, Reorte said:

On the side of a vehicle with a big diesel engine!

Well I suppose it’s better than Gary Gritter…

4 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

Better than sitting on top of Black Dunghill I suppose.

Ah, the fun one can have with Dartmoor Tors.

https://www.torsofdartmoor.co.uk/map.php

 

I now regret we didn't take a set of Yes albums with us to take a pic at the top of Yes Tor. Years later, when I met Rick Wakeman, it would have been such a delightfully nerdy groupy kind of thing to have given him a copy of the picture.

 

But never ever ask Dartmoor sheep for directions - they can't be trusted.

 

Please tell me you’ve got a farm Keith..?

41 minutes ago, Moxy said:

Although not very clear in that photo, the corridor connector is painted yellow.  An early version of rail blue, and one of only 2 or 3 vehicles so painted.

 

More info here : https://railcar.co.uk/type/class-128/liveries

Well I never. Thanks Moxy.

9 hours ago, rodent279 said:

This has probably been posted here before,  but no apologies for doing so again:-

 

 

Would the lack of yellow ends mean that it was just used in a larger consist - ie never driven?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one like that before.

3 hours ago, johndon said:

South Pelaw was back home and unpacked by 11 last night.  Notwithstanding the issues that have already been mentioned we had a thoroughly enjoyable weekend among some superb layouts.  Whilst not in my chosen gauge and about as far removed from my modelling interests as it is possible to get, my favourite other layout at the show was Sherton Abbas.

 

 

There was some absolutely top quality stuff there. I didn’t get a chance to look around at the last show we did but I got a couple of proper goes around this weekend and took some photos too. Sherton Abbas was one of my favourites as well.

Blimey, just before midnight and finally got back to Exeter.

We really enjoyed the show and it’s lovely looking through the photos and comments above. Thanks also to Phil and everyone who organised it, who made us feel so welcome, it was really good meeting people in a completely different area to our normal stamping ground and Moors View seemed to go down well which was great. I’ll make sure Paul sees this tomorrow.
 

Now I’m going to bed!

Morning everyone 

Yes it was good to see it so busy yesterday and being from Devon there were lots of top quality layouts that I hadn’t seen before.
I’m helping Paul operate Moors View today so feel free to introduce yourself if you come and see us.

Nick (the one with hair out of the three of us)

29 minutes ago, Halvarras said:

Regarding 50017, anyone remember when it briefly carried Railfreight General livery as 50117 - it was located at the West Somerset Railway at the time, must have been 1997, so 25 years ago, and 50149 was there too at the time. I thought I had a photo of it, and maybe both together, at Williton but can't find it ATM......

Yes I remember it. They looked pretty impressive paired together I must say.

When I volunteered at the Mid Hants in the 1990s I thought that the perfect loco for the line was the little Standard 4 76017.
It had enough power to take a five coach train up and down the hills reasonably efficiently, it was fairly easy to maintain, it was reliable and it was also a local engine (in fact it was involved in a derailment somewhere nearby in BR days).

Each line is different and has differing requirements obviously but those locos with their decent visibility in each direction and their 80xxx tank equivalents seem like excellent all rounders to me.

4 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

55022 Royal Scots Grey Liverpool Lime Street 1980 by Kevin Connolly

 

 

Oh yes. What a fantastic shot!

3 hours ago, DCB said:

 

A DC Hall posed on the 1 in 14 grade on a sunny day.   One of my  battery locos a 37/4 with a B set,( all the blue grey stock is in the loft,) this afternoon, 4pm Dec 1st crossing the path on the level and then popping out of the tunnel.

I will edit with better photos when I get a chance to find some.

 

 

 

Thanks for doing that. It wasn’t the warmest of days!

The sunlight on the Hall looks great.

4 hours ago, DCB said:

You need about 11 feet for your 3 coach plus loco terminus.  Our 00 BLT is 7ft X 18" and takes 4 X 60ft coaches and a small loco, a 4-6-0 wont fit so multiply by 7/4 and you have about 11 ft.

My garden line was /is 00, ruling grade is 1 in 14! and its battery powered.  It runs on walls and across paths and steps so has no real impact on use of the garden.   It starts at around 36" above ground and climbs to  a tunnel 12" below ground before popping out of its tunnel about 36 " above ground level but about 5 feet higher than it started.  Most of it has track laid on wet cement laid on stone walls, in channels cut into paths and steps and some on concrete laid in trenches along the edge of the lawn.  It was / is OK but too small, grass stems and slugs cause all to many derailments.  On the plus side battery power is so smnooth compared to jerky DCC and DC and track cleaning is limited to what is needed to stop derailments, cleaning the inside edge of the rail head.  Intention was/is to go for RTR R/C with soud etc but funds never became available but its great fun even if the success rate without derailments is one run in three.   0 gauge would have cured it but some of my curves are only 30"  Problem areas are where the concrete base is laid on the lawn as the ground heaves and cracks the concrete so I would caution against assuming the ground is a firm base.  Putting it on wood was a disaster. Ground level works well in not compromising the use of the garden but if yours is level unlike mine which has a variation around 10 feet from bottom to top then the station in the shed is a challenge.  However a train lift might do the trick.......

That’s really interesting. I don’t suppose you’ve got any photos of the railway that you might be able to post?

I’m going to pop along to the local 0 gauge group meeting tonight (for the second time), my friend has recently become a member and I think I’ll probably join tonight as well because they’re a really nice bunch of people and ever so knowledgeable and helpful. There’s also a guy there that’s into his remote control stuff who I’d like to have a chat to. That’s definitely something worth looking into.