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I managed to do it with the latest post, despite realising my error after the previous one!

5 car units have three engines (so 0.6 engines per car, 6 on a 10 car unit). 9 car units have 5 engines, which works out at 0.555... engines per car.

Benediction, about the life of Siegfried Sassoon, is on iPlayer at the moment. It has a few bits of black and white footage of railways, as well as a small number of scenes where Sassoon is travelling during WWI. They do seem to have made an effort, and probably couldn't have done much better given the era it's set in - he and his brother leave separately for war on an SECR coach and a GWR Toplight (chocolate and cream, but an older style with lining around the windows). This scene also features a loco pulling the SECR train, but the shot only shows it below the running plate, presumably concealing something innapropriate. Later, as Sassoon leaves Liverpool for Scotland, an LMS coach (Stanier?) is seen in the background. If it is it's too new, but still an awful lot better than the Mk1s that some productions would be happy with.

I think it's an alternative terminus on the ELL/Windrush Line for trains that would normally run to Clapham Junction. It only has a few trains per day and if I recall correctly these are mostly early mornings and late evenings. Is this just to avoid formal closure of the line?

Which of these is Uxbridge?

My notifications have been working for the past day or so. I hit 26 (i.e. filled a page) before this happened. Unlike @RobAllen, my previous pages are also working.

And while Waterloo was named after a bridge, I don't think the bridge (which was only 3 decades old at the time) was named independently of political considerations. Edit: Victoria (the queen, via the very new Victoria Street, and during her lifetime) also has a clear political hue. Maybe also Liverpool Street (the Prime Minister, via the admitedly slightly older Liverpool Street road).

Mine still doesn't work at all.

The same here, I now have 21 unread notifications. Clicking on the bell, and even trying to go through to the dedicated page, does not change this.

At Nailsea last year, I overheard a conversation between two gentlemen walking past a Croatian layout called Osjusko Stari with thick West Country accents to the effect of: "That there's some foreign stuff." "Crikey." In telling this story before somebody remarked to me that they may well have said the same about the LMS. One place I think would make a good model, and which will be familiar to some British people, is Aguas Calientes in Peru. Look around on Street View and I'm sure you'll see its potential: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.1551661,-72.5256983,2a,75y,58.25h,79.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAg8uy3S9EyNPekfl3JjMiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu If you are looking up the stream towards the footbridges, the rails leading round the curve on your right hand side lead to this junction at the edge of town: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.1578695,-72.5235395,2a,75y,341.11h,76.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snC37LWipxdiMI5ugINkZRw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu The other line comes from this terminus, on a higher level than the first picture. https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.1569789,-72.5236113,2a,70.7y,328.67h,85.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx2AZ-MUSCWCoWkUmISafvA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu Another thought would be the railways in the Llobregat valley near Barcelona, with metre, standard, Iberian, and mixed gauge lines running all sorts of passenger and freight trains.

I've tried logging out and also clearing RMweb cookies (while logged out), but exactly the same thing is still happening.

Since the red banner appeared last night saying that the 'Classifieds' section was out of action, my notifications have not loaded. I have a bell in the top corner with a number next to it (gradually increasing, so that bit seems to be working). When I click on the bell, it brings down the box as usual, but the wheel just spins around and never displays the notifications. Clicking on 'View all notifications' takes me to a page with the usual url, but this page does not load and displays the error code 500. All other functionality appears to be working as usual. I am using Chrome on a Windows 11 laptop if this helps.

4 Triang clerestories (two of each type) for £10.80 including postage: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235408204374 All have been repainted into plain brown, but as I plan to introduce them to a razor saw this makes very little difference to me.

I only have experience with code 100, but all Streamline points should be perfectly reliable if correctly wired. I have never had a derailment on Streamline points of any kind (when the correct route is set!) using modern rolling stock. The only reason for avoidng small radius points is aesthetic, which doesn't apply in the fiddle yard. Set-track points can cause issues, but they are an even smaller radius (and turn through a larger angle). I would focus on getting the best possible length and number of sidings (which usually means using small radius and curved Streamline points). They could be useful for adding a headshunt, or allowing a dead-end extension to a through siding to store and otherwise over-length train. They might be useful if you have multiple lines feeding into the fiddle yard, depending on how easily you want to move stock between them.

I normally only lurk on this thread, but I was about to chip in with a similar point. The problem for the club is that theydon't have enough young members to organise and run the event. But modellers and members are not the same thing. The only closest thing to a model railway club that I am a member of is a model engineering society, but that is entirely because my mum's partner is a long-standing member (and now chair) of the club. Without him, I would still be modelling in 00 and I would still be engaging through RMWeb. I was inspired to start building scenic layouts mostly by Budget Model Railways on YouTube and @TechnicArrow's contributions to RMWeb. I made my first attempts at modifying cheap RTR stock, and looking at plastic kits, because I enjoyed following the Pugbash thread on here. A number of sources online have shown what sort of results can be acheived even with fairly cheap FDM printers, and it was a video by BMR that finally pushed me into taking the (hugely rewarding) leap last year. I follow this thread because I enjoy reading through some of the discussion on technical and historical issues that I'd never have thought about otherwise. Very simply, there are lots of ways for younger modellers starting out to find information, inspiration, and encouragement without being a club member. In much of the rest of our lives, we use the Internet to find out about and share the things we care about. It shouldn't be a surprise that the phenomena is replicated in railway modelling. If anything I would expect the effect to be stronger. I would imagine that railway modelling does have a higher that average proportion of people who, for one reason or another, find social interactions and unfamiliar environments unusually daunting. I probably fit that description. It makes it difficult to go out and join a club where you don't know anyone. On here it's a lot easier to dip your toe in and see how things go, and to just take a break or walk away completely if you need to. If you can get many of the benefits of club membership without having to overcome what could be a rather big psychological hurdle, what are you going to do? In short, the hobby can and will survive, but there is an ongoing shift in the way that we share it with others. That might mean that some exhibitions fall away. So long as there are people involved in the hobby (which there will be) its unlikely they all will.