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Sorry mike, It's amazing how things get out of hand easily on forums.....back on topic

So you can't leave it obviously, My original post was not offensive - I'm not abusing you personally, my own opinion is that Lima is " xxxxxx". Unfortunately that didn't fit your view so you bit with your condescending comments , and kept on writing " xxxxx" . If someone said your choice of car was " xxxxxy" would you get all upset ? It's no big deal. Please don't call me ' m'lad' either - again a kind of condescending comment obviously. Like I said , good luck with the Lima. I was in the Lima collectors club 15 years ago, but the world has moved on for me.

obviously you don't otherwise you wouldn't make snide insinuations about there being two types of modeller - you obviously consider yourself in some way superior ? some form of model related snobbery ? you are clearly a very humourless, uptight individual so I'll leave it at that .

ooh, Derek , I'm a box opener now - the ultimate insult has been thrown ! seems you have had a sense of humour bypass - regardless of how your Lima works , the fact remains , mine were all " crappy " - fact. I don't care how you fettle yours, I got rid of them a decade ago and I'm not going back. you also misread what I said - the only one that ran well HAD a can of WD40 sprayed in it.... in desperation, that or binning it. there's no denying the " crappy " ness of its construction either - what was that crude metal weight made of ? depleted uranium ? and the hideousness of that feeble earthing wire to feeble clip attached to feeble bogie.... " crappy " , " crappy " with a side salad of " crappy " I'm glad you like yours, but please don't assume everyone should

I don't want to go back to crappy Italian plastic chassis, or their badly running pancakes. I had about 25 Lima locos and the only one that ran smoothly had the best part of a can if WD40 sprayed in the motor. A couple of locos with Mazak issues and we want to go back to the stone age ....... I want CNC milled aluminium chassis......er, with no price rise please.....

Great photos as ever.... FC is spot on abou the Abingdon traffic, it was domestic coal until 1984. I've seen a picture of a blue 31 in the yard there with those coal wagons that were bigger than 16T and had two doors per side. Photos in this period of both the Abingdon and Wallingford branches are hard to come by

Ha, I wondered what the pick ups were for....

Great pics !

So , I think I recall from the thread on the bescot Banbury goods I started in 2008 (!) , Fenny Compton was served from Banbury as a MR trip, originating in bescot with a 25 normally. Whereas, Bicester was a WR trip with a 31 from Oxford south ? Never seen pics of a 25 going to bicester

Some great photos as usual , I guess this was before did or became a RFD hub for MOD traffic ? Amazing how rural it was then, I have fond memories of walking over the sea of rusting sidings as you emerge from the tunnel towards the GWS...........like popping up in narnia to a train mad 10 year old Rob

That Sydney garden scene is crying out for a large logo 50, or a 31/4...... I'd say stick with the period you like anyway. Present day in Cornwall is BORING ! No two ways about it. FGW units, FGW HST, DBS 66,,,,,,,,,, that's about it.......runs for cover...

I think the A refers to the fact it has a reissued body as the original, 31270, was missing the body side strapping. As to whether chassis is iffy, I'm not sure TBH, it was my 31110 that fell apart on me

Looks brilliant Ian, Any plans for Demu show in May ? This may be the first show I get to in 5 years !

It's a shame there isn't enough material to do this monthly,,,, but I think that was tried.....

Bottles of p*ss deposited by Bulgarian truck drivers on roundabouts

Indeed, I did, but they were all the same. I have a policy of not having identical locos anymore, other than, er 47s Having said that it would be hard to do I think as Hornby released 31111 as a blue skinhead, but you'd have to be careful as that was one of the rotten ones, or repaint 105 from rail freight grey. What I really need is a 50.....

31121, looks like a beast , may have to put that on the to model list.

Carlsberg don't do DE mags but if they did.... That was extremely good, well done to those involved

Super cool SPA, and love the garage. Your still teasing us with your desert Island discs selection though - sugar babes would have gone in the humbrol...

Nice pics, Neil, especially like the ones under the bridge

Like the 2 swigging special brew I saw last year.... Lots of Japanese tourists, taking pictures of my crazy kids wading under the little bridges last time I was there

Nice pictures of the activity at Swindon , where I now live. Strangely one of my modelling periods is 1982, and my Bachman 08 is ' 839, split from the China clay set. It's still a reasonably interesting rail location, with the transfer yard, newly relaid and full of yellow trains fro the electrification . The cockleburs yard has been cleared , relaid as well, presumably for the same idea. There is the regular scrap traffic to Liverpool, which brings in a DBs 66, and the steel traffic to Swindon stores bringing another or a 60.

Nice, You don't hang about - there always new stuff coming off your bench Have a productive 2015 !

Good luck for 2015, I'm hoping to do a Dutch 47 myself in the new year

Isn't it just an illusion of being green ? If you repeat the word ' sustainable ' over and over eventually people will believe it means something