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I really like the last shot, actually. We are right in and among the action of an arriving train from London. It might be the slow train, but here all trains have to run slowly! And the background is entirely non-distracting.

As well as telling you as you exit a 130 kph autoroute, that the slip road is 70 kph. With no braking zone.

French postcodes typically cover hundreds of square miles and thousands of properties. They rely on a commune name to get closer.

Quali shows Sainz clearly back to form.

10.32 Redhill - Ravenhead

Google minifer.fr. Other companies producing French structure kits include Regions & Companies and Architecture & Passion.

I am happy to say my silver pass works just fine whenever I need it, and Sherry finds hers equally useful. Regular trips on GWR and XC during my several visits to the UK each year do just what it says on the tin. Avoiding strike days and blockades only requires minimal planning. 20 years of retirement after 38 years service still seems a bargain in life.

Tipping is optional on Fred Olsen. But you can simply sidestep the awkwardness of tipping this waiter but not that one by paying a fixed sum as part of your cruise fee. The army of Filipinos that provide all the courtesy services are not well-paid, I am sure. Competition for jobs is fierce, and that bespeaks a buyer's market.

Perhaps these people see Cornwall as having changed too much already since they grew up or moved there. They fear a once-tranquil county, such as my parents knew and loved when dad was on leave in WW2, becoming even more populous and busy. Too many emmets! It's about the haves, often incomers, and have-nots, usually locals, even if children of incomers. The latter need commerce and thriving businesses to provide jobs, and better transport links encourage this. The former want the idyll of the poster-Cornwall.

About a thousand years ago I had a Hornby Dublo bogie brick wagon, labelled empty to Fletton. I had heard builders refer to 'Flettons', too. I had always understood flyash to be the basis for breeze-blocks, themselves a sort of brick-alternative.

Chapel,Amble! The Maltsters Arms for Sunday lunch! Those were the days....

Seriously? Some of us have been building layouts for more than 60 years and are still learning how to make them better, using modern materials and techniques to finer scales. Andi and others are quite right - build something small and manageable and you might see fruition in a couple of years - which will be a thrill in itself, and give you confidence in taking on the big one. There used to be a chap on RMweb who was building a model of Birmingham New Street in 4mm. He had all the skills, and structures and such that he turned out were first rate. But he freely admitted that it might never be finished, although that didn't dismay him because to him the construction phase was an end and a joy in itself. I imagine you look forward to your finished model, with trains running. You have a very, very long time to wait, and I hope your mojo doesn't head elsewhere in the meantime.

Amazon sells a huge range of cased transformers with all sorts of output ratings. V affordable and safe.

It is an ongoing source of bafflement to me that anyone would pay serious wonga to ride anywhere in a chraracterless Mk1 at National Network speeds in 2024. 25 mph on an impecunious preserved line is one thing, this is another. Obviously WCRC know their business, or perhaps don't.

And where scantily-clad teens go clubbing at the weekend.

I believe St Enedoc (another Rock reference) of this parish has a layout approaching operating fruition which encompasses something of the sort.

Phew! They knew how to live in those days!

A decent size, but still needing massive selective compression for all but the most modest of prototypes. I think someone mentioned earlier that you need to think carefully about access to build the layout and service it in use. This is about how far you can reach across to work on laying track, creating scenery etc. It varies a little according to operator-height - 6 footers reach further than shorter people - but also according to how high the baseboard surface is from the floor. If you have access from both sides, so a 3 foot reach either side, you might just be able to use boards 6 feet wide, but are you confident you can build and maintain at that reach? Experiment.

I suspect there are ways around that. His participation in other formulae implies money is still available. Years ago at Le Mans, Deb got close to a Russian team who were not short of cash, and if they needed parts or an upgrade, they simply turned to Igor The Banker, who could procure funds for such. Much smaller numbers, I know, but.....

Yes, but has she got CDL or an Exemption Cert?

He had been a discredit to Haas off the track, and no great shakes on it.

The old jokes survive, evidently. By 1997, sandwiches sold by Travellers Fare had been supplied for nearly 20 years by the same people who do them for M&S. A clear indication that you weren't a customer. And the range of products was far wider than sandwiches. Brands like Casey Jones and Upper Crust had been launched by TF decades earlier. Edit. You weren't alone. In the mid-80s, Hellman launched a campaign suggesting that their product could materially enhance a BR sandwich. It was quietly pointed out to them that they already had a very nice contract to supply all the mayo used. Had this been the private sector, I would hope they might have been publicly lampooned but as a state firm that was not the done thing. Some years before, the head of Schweppes wrote to the BRB Chairman complaining that on a train he had been served some foreign brand, and shouldn't BR be supporting British firms? True, he had - because his distributor was on strike!

What the Duck?

Having justly discouraged tobacco sales, and thus use, the tax coffers are somewhat emptier than when people puffed away happily.

DCC stay-alive is purely to overcome interruptions in the track power, not for smooth stopping. Any DCC chip has a Configuration Value, set by the owner, and re-settable at a moment's notice, that governs how quickly or slowly a loco comes to a stand when the throttle is closed. Imagine a flywheel with almost infinitely adjustable powers.