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Dave, I work a lot with Construction Contracts and the presiding rule of thumb is that it generally follows that the law in the country in which the contract is formed takes precedent. So, if the contract was signed in England under English law, then the warranty would follow suit (should there be a claim under the contract and/or warranty), irrespective of where the work was physically undertaken - apologies if I've misunderstood what you've said above, and I don't aim to unpick what you've stated, I'm actually interested from the contract perspective. I suppose to short-circuit my text above, if an overseas buyer contracted with a UK shop, does the associated warranty not support this purchase? Finally, I've got 'Enterprise', 'Reliance' and await 'Princess'. I wish I could afford more, they are fantastic models.

That could be Speke / Garston way - some of the sidings were not wired with O/H and the factory in the distance could be the British Leyland Nr. 2 factory which sits above the cutting of the line from Hunts Cross to Warrington Central. Only know that as my dad worked for British Leyland or Triumph, as was. And then joined the railway. My split box 40 is lined up for this loco dependent upon how ways the tanks come off.

"I can't believe, just because he's Jose Mourhino, he gets to ride in the front cab..."

This link helped me when I was looking into the making up of rakes - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/36604-regional-railways-mk2-coach-numbering/ Ian

Western Monocle.

Great photo, and even a newspaper / parcels van in the yard behind.

Few of my dad on there, out with Springs Branch Breakdown train and then on the overhead following a round of depot redundancies.

Hi Peter, Love this layout. In terms of shed inspection pit length details, the recent 'The Wigan Sheds Vol. 1 - Springs Branch MPD', by Chris Coates, has details of the rebuild in 1951 to the LMR depot modernisation programme and this shows up one or two details which may help. The revised layout had a walkway across all roads approx. 1/3 along the length of the shed and the back half of the shed was capable of being closed off the full width with doors, the pits continued after the walkway but were also lit and interestingly weren't vented so presumably steam locos were shunted into this zone dead? The wheeldrop was also in the latter half of the shed, on road 6. I remember seeing the gantry rail for this peeping out of the shed wall when visiting with my dad to collect his wages in the early 80's (quick walk round the depot and then always time to catch a 40 whistle past on an ICI tank train [Hardendale tanks?]) all in the days before the roof was condemned, locos were banned from the confines of the shed building and the building being subsequently dropped. I've noticed a quirk with the Bachmann 4 road shed which has the pit roads lit (with dummy lights) and not the walkways - whereas all contemporary sheds of this type seem to show in pics that the walkways were lit. Regarding Holyhead pics, the website of North Wales late 70's pics, www.2d53.co.uk, has a series of shed pics on the Holyhead page. I've also got a book on LMR sheds somewhere which has plans for Bescot's 8-road steam shed, the fenced off shed was still standing last time a journey took me past on the M6, I'll root that out and see if the walkway strip was a regular detail. Trust of help. Regards Ian Note to self, you can't have a rear half of a shed which is trans-sected at 1/3 along the length by a walkway as that would still only be 5/6 of a shed??

Absolutely, bloomin', fantastic. That is one beauty of a structure. Ian