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Update on DVL: 3672's newly overhauled tender arrived at Newbridge earlier today. The tender has now been trip worked to Carriage and Wagon at Pickering to be displayed during the coming gala weekend. (Photos are not mine)

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Went to the launching ceremony of the Yorkshire Wolds Railway's newly restored 20T brake van yesterday. The Mayor of Malton and the Mayoress of Driffield attended the event and cut the ceremonial ribbons on the brake van to introduce it into service. BBC Look North and a Driffield based radio station attended the event. The result of 5 year's hard work. A freshly cleaned Sir Tatton Sykes. One of the volunteers gave a speech before the ceremonial ribbon cutting. The ceremonial ribbons being cut. The first brake van ride departing Fimber Halt. The Mayor of Malton and the Mayoress of Driffield cutting the celebration cake alongside YWR volunteers.

Ok, so just now, I've gone through all the functions on the 40 using the function list that Kaput gave me yesterday. After testing them all to see which worked and which didn't, I made a new functions list for 40159 and binned the old one.

It just disintegrated

I brought them off eBay from a seller called toms_refurbishments. Here's the link.

I realized I should have put some photos of what I've got up: This is the Police box with the light on it. It's 3D printed and I brought it from Layouts4U at the model railway show held at Doncaster racecourse at the beginning of this year. The second police box is a Hornby Skaledale model. Last but not least, the Daleks! I have 2 types of Dalek: the Invasion Dalek (left) and the Time War Dalek (right). I currently have 2 of each but I have ordered some more Invasion Daleks. The Invasion Dalek was first seen in 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' in 1964. Oxendale is set during the 60's so this Dalek fits the time period. The Time War Dalek was first seen in the episode 'Dalek' in 2005, when the series was revived. The design is still being used today, its most recent appearance being in 'Power of The Doctor'.

It's very unlikely to happen.

I don't have a footbridge on Oxendale currently as it's only one platform. But it's a good idea.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway has confirmed that WD 2-10-0 3672 Dame Vera Lynn will burn 'liquid fuels' when it returns from overhaul. Originally, WDs were built as either coal-fired or oil-fired locos and there is evidence that 3672 was originally built as a oil-fired loco so converting it will be historically accurate. Plus, not only it will be cleaner but they'll be able to run the loco during the fire risk season. It is expected that it is the next loco to be overhauled after the completion of Black 5 44806. The link for the article can be found here.

That's the trader we got the sound chip from when we went to the Doncaster show one year! We brought the 40 the same day.

My Grandad owns a Graham Farish Class 40, 40159, which is sound fitted. He brought from a trader called Modelmania. However, we've got a problem regarding the functions. Our sound chip didn't come with a list of functions so we had to try them all and guess what they were. Here's what we managed to get out of it. These are all correct as of now. This is the official function list of the Class 40. Now, both lists of functions are different and some of the functions don't work (the ones that aren't filled in on our list) plus there's two functions that I'm not sure what they're supposed to be. Can anyone help?

Isn't there someone in the US restoring one to airworthy condition? I remember reading about it a while ago.

If he was blind how would he build it?

Since I've been reading everyone's experiences when showing layouts, I think it's time I told mine. I took Oxendale for its first ever exhibition: Bridlington Model Railway Show in Emmanuel Church on 02/09/23, however it didn't go to plan. A lot of things happened during the day so I'm just going to summarize it: Oxendale wasn't working properly and even though we did A LOT of track cleaning before and after we got to the venue, the locos would stall at certain points on the track. On the lower level, the powerfeed is located at the station headshunt (the red circle) and had been working fine until the day of the show. The blue is what parts of the track the loco ran on, everything else was dead. My Grandad had to do an emergency soldering job and had to put another powerfeed on (green circle). Even with this now added, it still wouldn't work properly. The higher level did work but not properly: 51218 kept going slow despite the controller being set to full power. It was now 08:30 and my Grandad said he'd have to leave me to sort it out as he had his layout to set up so he left me and I thought about what I could do. Before I knew it, it was 10:00am (the time the show started) and people started coming in. I was now a bit tense as my layout still wasn't working and I hadn't even put any people or cars on as I was too concentrated in getting the layout operational. I thought the point blades needed cleaning so I used a bit of emery paper (it's like very fine sandpaper) to clean it. Tested a loco and... nothing. Still stalled in the same place. Having just about given up, I decided to leave it for now and just put some locos and rolling stock on display and talk to people. I chose to put D5061 and 80136 (with its new NYMR MPD headboard) on display on the lower level and 69023 (now completely dead) and 51218 on the higher level. It wasn't until 11:30ish that I got the high level line fully working. I managed to do it with the track rubber, slightly bending the point blades, the emery paper plus running a retractable blade down the sides of the rails to get rid of stray ballast. Also of note, I didn't have any lunch as the planned burger van didn't show up so I had nothing to eat except for a packet of crisps and a can of Fanta. 12:30pm: Disaster strikes. I was running Ivatt 4MT tank 41224 on the high level running line when the one thing you do not want to happen at a show happened: The loco went into the buffers in the fiddleyard too quickly and fell straight on the hard wooden floor with a loud bang. The damage? The windows glazing came out, both bogies came apart and a corner of the bufferbeam sheared off completely. One of the club members rushed over to see what had happened and check that everything was okay. I asked him to keep an eye on the layout while I rang my dad up and look for the missing pieces. (I was stressed so I called him up and asked him to come to the show so I could talk to him in person). The extent of the damage: After I called my dad up, I immediately help the other club member looking for the missing bits. It took us nearly 30 minutes to them all with help from several members of the public. It wasn't until 02:00pm that I managed to, eventually, get the layout fully working, and decorated with people and vehicles. My Dad arrived about half 2pm. I explained to him what was going on and how stressed I was. He stayed with me for about 15 minutes. On the plus side, I had lots of interest in the layout, with most of it going to the police box with the flashing light which was on the entire time. Plus 80136 received a lot of interest.

As someone who had a layout that wasn't ready for literally half of an exhibition, I strongly recommend you do this.

Coastguard helicopter circling over Bridlington yesterday.

Land Rover on a hill.

I know this has been covered before here and here, but unfortunately, the latter has been archived and closed to further replies for a while and there's no signs of it being reactivated so I decided to make a new one. I have 2 Tardises and 4 Daleks already but I'm looking for a Doctor. Someone in the now closed topic suggested using Dart Casting's Teddy Boy Leaning to represent the 11th Doctor but I'm looking for a 1st Doctor and/or a 2nd Doctor. Can anyone help?

Are you still looking for Daleks?

Taking a sneaky cigarette...

That's the train I saw yesterday!

68030 Black Douglas at Scarborough on 06/07/23

Class 158 158845 and Class 156 156486 at Grosmont on 07/07/23.

I saw 7 Class 66s stabled at Leeds Midland Road yesterday (alongside a few Class 70s and a Class 59) 66552 & 66558 66558 & 66525 66536 & 66585 (with 70001) 66617 and an unidentified 66/5 I also saw 66780, a DRS 66 and another one (no photos of them) so that beats my current record of 4 in one day!