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I haven't got a single RTR loco that will haul 15 coaches, Six new M&C coaches are a lot heavier and a bit more "draggy" than others and probably close to 9 or 10 typical coaches. The N class is one of few locos that will pull them reliably, as will a Accurascale Manor. Hornby new 61XX & Dapol Mogul are useless, with no pulling power at all.

You are talking rubbish. The Elan Valley reservoirs have dams across the end, whether they block a watercourse or not is irrelevant, it's still a dam. Bartley reservoir has a dam at the NE end that's what they call the earth mound across the end.

Accurascale don't seem to get much criticism and they have done this: Unfortunately in the close position shown , there isn't quite enough opening up on my 36" -ish curves

Just tried my N class pulling the 6 Mainline & City coaches. It works as it should, it opens up on the curves and closes on the straights and the tender isn't skewed. I would like it closer than it is but it works fine. I will post some pictures later. A disclaimer. The original plastic one got broken so I copied it in brass, AFAIK it is dimensionally as the original. One thing I could never get to work properly was Keen Systems couplings on a Dapol/Hornby 68' LMS restaurant car. They didn't seem to be free enough to move and tended not to re-centre. I ended up re-making one myself from Plasticard, I never got them to work correctly.

What spring on the N Class? Mine is a straightforward "H" shaped coupler which is free to move in it's housing and readily assumes the straight position under load. Why wouldn't it? What have bogies got to do with it, they are independent of the cam?

Looks like the crossing to access the causeway to Holme Island just off shore BTW The Golf course is sited where previouusly there was a tidal bay but the Furness Railway's embankment cut it off from the sea and it was drained and reclaimed.

I disagree The Bachmann N class has a kinetic coupling between loco and tender meaning it is nicely close on the straight but opens out on a curve in the same way as modern coach models.

Built by and wholly owned by the LNWR , the first section was opened in 1914 . A connection at Queens Park was provided in 1915 so the Baker St & Waterloo Railway could use it but at that time is wasn't yet electrified. It was fully electrified by 1917 and the Baker St & Waterloo Railway service was then extended over it from Queens Park from 16/4/1917 The LNWR didn't operate it's electric service over the full length of the route until 1922. The Rickmansworth arm wasn't ready until 1927. EDIT The LNWR suburban lines scheme was a plan in around 1908 to seperate the suburban services on the WCML from other traffic and electrify them. The electrification scheme included the recently acquired North London Railway Lines. Included in the plans were for the BS&WR trains to use the route north of Queens Park, hence 4 rail electrification to the BS&WR standard.

Frankley might not have a dam but there's one right next door at Bartley:

This is a still from Liverpool Museum

A picture dated when centre rail powered 1902:

In the second video there is some nice footage of Chicago streetcars. At about 16:05 on (all in context with the commentary)

Except blue.

Am I bothered? Again....... Probably, I haven't tried to update it apart from a sytsem update (map ?) from the Ford site, which I downloaded onto a USB stick and then didn't do.

Measuring the footbridge against the signal in the close up photo in the Judge & Potts book, the signal is 2.51x higher than the footbridge parapet, above the platform surface.

I can do quite well without Google Maps in the car, thank you. I have a touch screen Sat-Nav and haven't used it once since I got the car in 2017. I've also got voice controlled audio/phone, haven't used that either, even though I went to the trouble of pairing the phone.

3 days is 72 hours, at least it is in the northern hemisphere 😃 Drive for 3 days on the M25 and you haven't left London............

According to Radio Times(?) they use about 6 different places woven together to depict Shipton Abbot. Looe definitely has a major role in that.

The Tube network is currently having Wi-Fi installed, so I don't imagine HS2 will be without.

I've done this with Google Earth Pro: The pins just go to the location on Google Earth but you can link to a website so it will open the appropriate stream.

Been there done that, Tortoises driven by Switch-8s

Same here No facebook, instagram, tik tok or anything else. It seems I'm subscribed to Live Trains & VRF

Interesting Looks like clicking the Subscribe button on Live Trains website did work as when I logged on and went into the YT view it is showing as "Subscribed"

Looks quite like the 1921 Birmingham "Bull Ring" Woollies (actually in Spiceal Street.)

I assumed I had to be on a website to subscribe to it, not YT!