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I'll buy them in N gauge, but I do rather like the idea of an O gauge one as well. The price would be rather high for Dave to make though, and I wouldn't be surprised if Heljan announce a 17 to compliment their recent O gauge range before Dave has the opportunity

Even with the price increase from Heljan my 'Yeo' in SR on pre order has reached £178. And that already seems to be the going rate for the few people that have the first batch left

Well to buck the trend, my Exe arrived today from the Bure Valley and has been running faultlessly through Kato Unitrack (got no layout at the moment) including points for several hours. Couldnt be happier with it

A superb railway please do carry on

Hopefully a lot better than Heljans Class 17 did!

It was prototypical the real ones caught fire and so did Heljan's

Well, in my normal habit of swimming against thetide, I've not only kept my pre-order for the SR liveried 'Exe', but placed two preorders for 'Taw' and 'Yeo' in SR green .

Judging by what is on here, I'll need to test the locos carefully though

in my opinion, if 51% of the engine/plane/etc. (how I can measure this has not yet been thrashed out ) is constructed from scratch then it is a new build. It may incorporate elements of original machines but it has been newly constructed.

Although, it may also be valid to classify a steam loco as a rebuild if the frames are not newly constructed as these are traditionally the basis for the engine's identity, and in practice whatever parts fitted were bolted on

I've written a few constitutions for a couple of charities and the one thing I can say is that it needs to be both simple and clear. Think everything through very carefully and then get two or three other people to do the same thing.

Questions that the constitution would need to answer and leap to mind for me are:

- Will there be elected positions within the club? (e.g. chairman, treasurer)

- Will there be officers of the club (exhibition manager, fundraising manager, archivist etc.)

- What will the duties of all of the above be? How often would they need to be re-elected/appointed?

- What will membership of the club entail? (i.e. what do members get?)

- Who ultimately has ownership of the layouts? (I understand that often club layouts are owned by the organisation but that any layouts entirely financed privately are the property of their builders)

It's best to keep these simple and unambiguous, one or maybe two sentences to avoid anyone in the future creatively interpreting them 

Someone has just bought one from me! Graham Farish LMR set for £61.00! Was most disgruntled to have to depart with it for that price.

Still good on him he's got a good buy there

I'd buy 'Lyn' (don't forget that there are TWO British variants that can be done, L&B Original and Southern 762) which may make it a tad more viable. I'm also hoping that 'Lew/Lyd' will hit the shelves at some point - I have an ambition to get the whole L&B fleet in SR livery

Not sure about the VoR lcoos, I'd have thought a FR Fairlie could well be the next step, but that is my own reckoning and is based on nothing more than what I want.

Smarties in a bowel is definitely unusual

It'd be more unusual if they ended up somewhere else...

Indeed, but he came a creditable 4th and Ed Jones flew the Union Jack on the podium, so British drivers acquitted themselves very well

Not F1 news, but fomer F1 racer Takuma Sato just won the 2017 Indy 500

For those interested in the Alonso/Indy situation, he was thoroughly competitive and was in the lead group when his Honda engine let go about 22 laps from the end. He received a standing ovation from the entire Indy crowd and I rather suspect that he will be driving for Andretti there next year

In terms of filming, there is rarely anything worth catching from the window of a train in my opinion. Your eyes catch the scenery better than a camera from a moving train, and curves are rarely sharp enough to catch sight of the loco hauling you along. That being said, I still try

I never put my head out of any window on the Main Line - very close equipment and clearances combined with higher speeds give you less chance to get out of the way even if you do see something coming. I limit it to preserved railways where the speed seldom exceeds 25mph and gives me plenty of chance to get my head back inside if I see a tunnel or a bridge coming up

The cause of this man's hatred remains illusive to me. This I am very grateful for, as I'm not sure that I would care to understand the mind of someone who thought it was a good thing to kill (among many others) an eight year old girl. It utterly escapes me.

In rather sad news, F4 competitor Billy Monger lost both of his legs following his crash at Donington on Sunday.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/129067/monger-loses-lower-legs-after-f4-crash

Force India are independent of Mallya. They will survive without him, albeit with a different name.

McLaren had another abysmal showing today in the test, 2 laps before the upgraded engine gave out. Sounds like they could use a little L&B 'perchance it is not dead, but sleepeth' spirit

A great little shop - a daytrip to Warhammer World with half an hour in Gee Dees and lunch with my beautiful Nottingham based gf makes for a damn good day. Hope it stays, I don't like change

Is there an expected price for CoT?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39589767

BBC expect Button to be announced shortly as the McLaren replacement. Also heard rumours that he may get a Friday outing at Spanish GP (taking Vandoorne's car) to acclimatise himself to the 2017 car

Alonso to skip Monaco GP and run in a McLaren at the indy 500 instead. Please note that the date is not April 1st..

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128926/alonso-to-race-in-2017-indy-500

Looks like the car will actually be an Andretti Autosport car but with McLaren colour scheme and branding. JB possibly back in for Monaco seat

This has got to take the biscuit I'm afraid - an engine without round wheels:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onward_(locomotive)

Mick Thornton posted this image on NGRM and has kindly said it's ok to share it here. Taken at the 009 Society AGM at Rainford last weekend.

Mick said,

"Andrew Burnham kindly brought along 2 production models from Peco of the new Heljan Manning Wardle and they spent the day in a very suitable setting, running on Bob Barnard's superb Chelfham diorama layout (as seen in 009 News current issue). Photos of the first of the range to appear, in Southern livery have already been published, so for this report, here is possibly everyone's first glimpse of Manning wardle Yeo in original Lynton and Barnstaple Indian Red, Black and lined Green - an absolutely splendid model that looks even better in the flesh than it does in a photo."

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Re Fueling and Tyre Changing is fine if it goes right, but if one Mechanic C*cks it up, then the Driver suffers and that for me takes away the reason for Motor Racing, to find out which is the best Driver.

 

It;s the same if the Pit Crew dont fit the wheel correctly, the Driver gets penalised, and I don't get that, he has done nothing wrong, and is already penalised so why does the Driver suffer twice.

 

From my point of view I would like to see Tyres and Fuel go a Race Distance, and put the statergy down to the Driver to do what he can with the Car he's been given.

In an ideal world, that would work, but as F1 stands at the moment that would end up with finishing positions almost exactly the same as the grid order after qualifying