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We pride ourselves on offering a small, intimate show, where we display layouts from the club, members and local friends. It is held in aid of York Against Cancer and is sponsored by Monk Bar Model shop. The charity supports the show by providing refreshments. Being held at Heworth Church Hall, Melrosegate, Heworth, York, North Yorkshire YO31 0RL Sat 17 February 2024 10.00 - 17.00 Sun18 February 2024 10.00 - 16.00 The Club Secondhand stand is over-flowing! Layouts Attending : On30 gauge THE GREAT WHITE RIVER NAVIGATION, EXTRACTION & STEAM PACKET COMPANY O gauge BADGERS BOTTOM & MANOR FARM ( A DVLR might have been layout) OO gauge RAF KIDBROOKE; THE BRICK MPD; CHILDRENS INTERACTIVE LAYOUT N gauge STAMFORD EAST; LOW FELL 009 gauge DOLWYN; SCRAYINGHAM Trade Stands Monk Bar Model Shop YORK George Books Grosmont Paul Lunn Layout Design Demo’ Stands IAN FORSYTH Loco and wagon construction. BOB DAWSON Architectural model builder in all scales. Other Highlights YORK AGAINST CANCER TEAM Cafe Ebor Group 2nd Hand Shop. and on the door a TOMBOLA Admission fee Adults £4 Children £1 Under 5’s free A local exhibition in a local hall run by a local club. How Exhibitions should be.

My father rarely mentioned detail of his work (or his extensive war service for that matter). It was only my moving to Cardiff for my first Sandwich training that he mentioned the problems at Cardiff, that was 1970. He had even asked me about the Pembroke Dock branch when we went there for our A-level Ecology practical week in 1967 Would the Central Wales line be part of any long term plans - wasn't it supposed to close under Beeching? I haven't looked up my copy of the report. They had already lost the direct Southampton/Fawley to Birmingham routes so Oil trains (the heaviest in the country at that time) had to go via Acton. Paul

Well I was mistaken. A very positive take on the hobby from Cheltenham. Interesting that the shop owner suggested the new TT is selling very well. Pete W putting the spin on that there used to be two manufacturer's (!!) now 7. Paul PS, and to give no details I've assisted two manufacturer's in the past week with new projects, both of which were a surprise.

More nonsense to come? ITV News 10.30 introduction film and comment about end of Model Railways. Yet to see what they have to say. Paul

Thanks, I had overlooked the speed limitation of the Class 14s. Altogether a very strange idea - 40 mph would have made them a nuisance for any trips out on mainlines in busy periods - as you had through Cardiff where line capacity restricted the development of Milford Haven oil traffic. Paul (whose Dad sold the movement of oil on rail during the 1960s from Marylebone HQ)

I must show Julie that there is worse than ours! I was surprised that the original article didn't give any advice on how to dispose of them. I do agree fridge then freezer does sound reasonable, but then I'm not a Cane Toad. I love your Ibis Paul

Stationmaster, do you think they would have been a better, more flexible, loco if they had been fitted with steam heating? Or were they correct to assume all of the passenger traffic that the 0-6-0Ts had been responsible for had become operated by DMUs (or already lost - plenty of closures pre-Beeching) Paul

I haven't kept up with current offer. But, in the recent past Hornby did various starter packs that were restricted to sale by individual large catalogue companies such as Argos. Paul

The HMRS book also mentions that the only way to distinguish distant signals was the V cut in the end of the arm. Also having the black band on the back came in later, with comments that this hadn't happened for some of the signals illustrated. Paul

The GWR (Which the WR remained faithful to) was notorious for mis-ordering. Consider the hundreds of 0-6-0 tanks they had delivered in the first years of BR, many built (partially) by private works, many put straight to store. On the other hand, the lack of class 20s or similar in South Wales does seem to have led to O8s being used for trips which might have been better worked by a Class 14. I remember steel trains being worked into Newport Docks https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/br0809/e38e6c62e https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/br0809/e28e846e7 and Llanwern steel works or the Ford trains in Dan-y-Graig. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/br0809/e2e8c7978 But, these workings probably didn't inconvenience local mainline working too much. Paul

That is the correct way to carry a calf. I saw similar, one on a platform truck at Derby c1966. This discussion appears to overlook that unfitted cattle wagons were common until the 1950s. There is a full BR booklet on livestock. They must have been very happy to lose this traffic, very complex to operate. Paul

Thanks,. I don't have my bus spotter book anymore but IIRC RTs ran into several thousand. Annoyingly RMs appeared on the 117 route very early but we never got the RM on the 90 (1960-68). Paul

Weren't top box RTs unusual. We only had one used on the 90 route I used every school day for 7 years. Paul

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/alliedsteelwire Some years ago. Paul

Upwell is in an area that had glasshouses. They would be heated with anthracite - so from some of the South Wales field IIRC the western end. Paul

Saxby Junction 2 Class 20s heading north, photo taken from trackbed of MR Saxby to Bourne line July 74 C1688 Is that working from Boston Docks. There were similarly loaded Tubes when I found my way there in 1980 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtube/e36d59874 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtube/e5df3bd7 Paul

You mean PXA https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/pxatmlyeoman Paul

My (rather old) friend Roger Silsbury is the expert on the early Freightliners history. OK, I put my hands up a typo or misreading of the date of lot 3693. All my details on the scans need checking, I did 20 or 30K of them when coming home from work (and for 100 days a year I was either away or home after 21.00). It is quite possible the 1967 was working from an order date. I am grateful for the information on when "Freightliner Limited" became the title. I couldn't find it in Roger's book, nor clearly on Wikipedia but I was concerned it wasn't 1967 - but also had assumed the container could have been repainted. Perhaps someone could enter it on Wikipedia if they have a clear reference. I now consider my photo https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightlinercontainer is of it in original 1969 condition. So apologies to Arran for the small mistake [no one gave a ..... when posting these scans 20 years ago] Does suggest that the alternative earlier Freightliner livery could be produced on this model. Now what is needed is the type M curtainsided container https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightliner/e3d898f2f introduced in 1966 and pre-dating the now universal York curtain side trailers. Paul

69001 with 66793 worked a special returning RHTT wagons to York Network Rail workshops from Tonbridge. An interesting journey for the crews via Olympia, Willesden, Peterborough, Lincoln Doncaster and into York. Paul

Detail photos of 155385 in York yesterday at https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/153385 Paul

Anhinga anhinga - notable for usually swimming with only their head out of the water an appearance that gives them the name Snake bird. Common throughout much of the Americas. Paul

Sept 86 twin piped https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e3e15b870 & https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/ec688f53 & https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e3ee4bd30 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e38995ee5 May 87 twin https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e2f12f296 It looks like they came off by 1988. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/ef4daea39 I'd understood that BR dispensed with the reservoir pipe because the wagons coming in from Europe didn't have them, only a single pipe. So one of them in a train and the reservoir didn't work. [Mark responded whilst I was watching TV] Paul

The number is familiar, the model brake rigging isn't! https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmineralweld/e2f25b7b5 I thought N gauge was improving. And no, I cannot remember the last time I had any contact with Peco models. Perhaps the 13t hopper 7mm kit that was promised but never appeared. Paul

Wrexham 1980 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=wrexham Paul