Tim H

Still no new tooling RU in WR chocolate and cream. Seems a very odd omission.

Landmarq - Origins: A Landmarq Anthology 1992-2014. One significant 90s/00s prog band that had passed me by. Meanwhile, my review of Yes' album appeared in the print edition of The Guardian on Friday http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/17/yes-heaven-and-earth-review

I agree it's not a very exciting list, but I'm reading it more as "Let's focus on delivering the huge backlog of stuff we've announced over the last couple of years before announcing yet more new models that probably won't see the light of day for 3-4 years". As far as I'm concerned, the most exciting stuff is progress on previously-announced models; most notably the Polybulks.

Note that they're doing the BSO and TSO in NSE, but no sign of the FK. Did any Mk2a FKs carry NSE livery?

How about Mk2b or Mk2c coaches in N?

Touchstone - Live Inside Outside (DVD) Knifeworld - The Unravelling. Bonkers psychedelic rock with a brass section and a bassoon Yes - Heaven and Earth, which I'm reviewing.

What's I'd love to see in Nm would be one of the standard design railcars as used on many smaller lines, suitable for a narrow-gauge feeder for a standard-gauge layout. Although it's probably another case of "dream on"...

The Japanese model scene appears to have embraced multiple units in a big way. In contrast, despite a prototype scene dominated by units, British-outline modellers have still focussed on locomotives. Do you think this will ever change?

Going from memory here, the pattern in the late 80s and early 90s there was always a trip down to Burngullow & Parkindillick in the morning (used to follow the Sleeper from Par) that connected out of the overnight Speedlink from Exeter. which returned to St Blazey around lunchtime. The loco would often work a rake of CDAs to Lostwithiel and back mid-morning There was a second trip that ran as required in the afternoon, leaving St Blazey at about 2pm and returning at around 4, and a final train to west Cornwall (Truro and Penzance) leaving in the evening coming back late at night. Occasionally you'd see the odd wagon attached to a local CDA set to save an additional trip. In this case it would often run via Lostwithiel and back to save detaching it at Par.

Musical differences, obviously

Or put the two togather - the D&E era equivalent of the those smaller and more mundane steam classes is surely multiple units, which have always been the poor relation of locos. Yes, it's got better in recent years, and the late BR/Early privatisation period is better covered, but there are still plenty of gaps, from workhorses to iconic trains. Cross-country class 120 and 4-VEPs (at least in N) are two of the more obvious. On the other hand, D600s in N. You know you want to....

The viaduct on the closed section of the Callendar and Oban high above Glen Ogle. Not sure of the line, but the viaduct across the Don valley visible from the ex-GC Sheffield-Doncaster line. The surviving bits of embankment around Swansea Victoria, just tantalising remains that give little clue as to where the railway went. The bridge the now carries the A4 in Reading over the A33, built on the trackbed of the old Reading South freight branch. The Leek and Manifold railway, especially the bit now used as minor road including a tunnel.

Curved Air - North Star They seem to have picked up exactly where they left off in the 70s. Sonja Kristina has still got it.

Cloud Atlas - Beyond the Value

Search on Google Images bought up this one from West Germany in 1972 https://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/6086772354/in/gallery-42309484@N03-72157627543986120/

Freightliner trans did run alongside steam, but the flats were air-braked, and IIRC the suriving steam fleet was vacuum-brake only.

Behemoth - The Satanist Gazpacho - Demon Crippled Black Phoenix - White Light Generator John Lees Barclay James Harvest - North

Arena - Pepper's Ghost. Great headlining set from them at Trinity Live in Leamington on Sunday, though Magenta deservedly stole the show.

I saw some tram tracks uncovered in Deansgate in Manchester only a couple of years ago. A lot of track still down there.

Dio - Holy Diver Four years ago the greatest hard rock singer of all time left us

Rush - Grace Under Pressure Rush - Power Windows Rush - Signals Rush - Roll the Bones This a reason for this....

Well, only a bit (and it's only one song)

Mostly Autumn, Dressed in Voices. Now I'm finally home I can listen to it again. Most prog thing they've ever done? Apart from the bits that go country and western.... I'm already making comparisons with Marillion's "Brave".And that's one of my all time favourite albums.

Downside of making a weekend of it in York is that somebody else beats me to it.....