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The very village. The rain is stopping us hearing the Voyagers and Freightliners going past today!

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And hello from 600 yards from the site of the Great Western’s worst ever train crash! Paul

MTP is an incredibly effective camouflage. AFVs are quite hard to see out of, and are very noisy. High-visibility tabards are there for a reason. After all, loading wagons onto a wagon is not something you would be doing in a hot zone!

More on the Army website; with the latest update, Ludgershall gets a mention. https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/events/tractable/

More detail on the Army website: https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/events/tractable/

I think it’s to do with the full equipment rotation for Op CABRIT - NATO’s enhanced forward presence in Poland and the Baltics. I have seen some Facebook chat about this. The vehicles shown include RWMIK, Jackal and CVRT, which are all part of the ORBAT.

That looks really good. Just one thing; the machine gun on the Ferret (it’s the original Browning .30) is always dismounted when the vehicle is unattended, especially for transport. It would be signed out of the armoury by the commander, along with his personal weapon (SMG) before deploying. If moving by rail to an exercise area, the weapons are mostly likely to have been centralised and transported under escort. Paul

I took my 10-year old daughter with me yesterday. She enjoyed the show; no rucksack of hygiene issues to speak of, and a some excellent layouts. Burntisland is the best P4 layout I have ever seen, and had tons to interest us both. The new roundhouse was fabulous, and I was impressed to see that the capstans turned when wagons were shunted to the coal loading dock. Really lovely people on the layout too - thank you. We were also impressed by the demonstrations, and the team on the Isinglass stand were particularly helpful too.

I’m glad this thread has come back to life. The original picture is definitely SIIA 109 FFRs. I have been playing in Army Rovers since I passed my test with the SSM in 1986, including owning my own S3 Lightweight for ten years (having children meant I couldn’t keep it on any longer...). In HQ Squadron RY we had a SIIA BFA (battlefield ambulance) from 1965, all the way through to 1997. It would do 80 happily, and only the interim buy V8 110s could keep up with it. The brakes were less impressive however... Trains and Rovers... What could be more fun?

Looks good, but the turret needs to be reversed so that the gun is over the back decks. I haven’t seen the model in the flesh, but most tanks of that time had a shackle to put around the barrel to guard against the traverse lock coming off and the turret swinging round, with potentially catastrophic results.

I wonder what the Indian Army’s stoppage drills are for the T-72 main armament..? “Gun fires all right, gun fires, louder than usual bang, driver complains periscope blocked...” Mine would be “Coax on! Driver reverse!”

According to the Indian press, the Indian Army has had more than 200 barrels bursting on its T-72 fleet, and is buying T-90 parts to replace them.

Thanks for this - it was great to meet you all at Warley, and I have added my steam plea here!

Enjoyed the Patriot/Scot debate. My question is what is Duck? His most prominent feature, after the pannier tanks, is the pair of above running plate sandboxes. To me, this makes him seem to be a pre-grouping pannier; either a 2721 or 1854; maybe an 1813, but not one of the Wolverhampton engines! What do people think?

But you travel (for free) in first class. Try standard before telling the rest of us that the seats are ok.

I can assure you that it was not.

The reason I asked for a date and a location is if it is in the title, then you can see if it’s worth looking at the thread. A lot of past exhibitions come up, and until someone has invented a time machine, it is not worth trying to see if you can get to them. Abingdon is just down the road. Sadly, I cannot make it that weekend, but again, thanks to the OP for providing the information. just as an aside, Google is not always your friend either, putting up previous years ahead of the current one. Paul

A date and location might be helpful... Thanks, Paul

The 11.15 from Porthmadog to Beddgelert this morning. Double headed, and two Pullman cars...

Afraid my comment is not positive, although I appreciate the hard work put in. Simply, it is not as easy to browse quickly on a phone. The change from being able to view unread content in the old way, and the time it takes to reset the page when you go back, makes it harder to use. the upshot is that I have got out of the habit of looking at RMWeb.

What’s the website? Very interested in Plymouth’s railways and slowly getting things sorted to build a simplified model of North Road. Thanks, Paul

Not just a troll, but a troll that cannot spell. Hopefully, you will give up on RMWEB soon too.

According to the Hornby man on the stand.

Coming soon, and at the Toyfair today. Exquisite little models, and I shall get a Westminster as soon as it comes out! Paul