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Stow wasn't a booking on point pre 1990 as per the topic though. Andi (Ex Stowmarketarian)

Large logo blue first appeared at least three years prior to this. http://www.class56.co.uk/picture/56036-to-040781.jpg Edit: five years https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Rail_Class_56_locomotive_56036_1979.png

Could you expand on that a little please? Andi

I’m just hoping that my ordered and paid for 25 vehicles all arrive! Andi

Those of us who build realistic OLE are quite capable of changing a cosmetic pan for a working one. Judith Edge sell the correct pattern cross-arm as a kit. Yes it might cost a few quid and a bit of time but I’m going to be spending time sorting out the lights too so changing the pan isn’t really a hardship. To be honest there is not a single loco/unit that would be allowed under my OLE with a pan direct from the factory, they all without exception have springs that need to be weakened and I insist on a maximum height for a raised pan without wires of 80mm above rail height for clearance through the unwired fiddle yards. Andi

Stuart, if you can say where you are located you may find a local member here who is willing to reprogram the decoder for you. Andi

The trouble is that someone put the container models into a container that the models were modelled on, this created a vortex in the space/time continuum and now the models and the containing container can no longer be located... Andi

A drop of thick superglue in cut joints will stop them closing up in hot weather. I've never had a problem with ballasted track buckling, but have seen unballasted fiddle yard roads go distinctly off true. Andi

That's an Apple thing. Open the images in whatever image viewer you use and rotate them so that they show the wrong way up. Save them like that. Now rotate them again to be the right way up and save again. Now they will post the right way up. Andi

Amazing how many people comment on an article and the comments make it obvious that they haven't read it... Andi

I've got a twin motored Hornby one with a huge lump of weight filling the centre of the body. It's the single most powerful loco I own, will shift dead Heljan 58s with ease! It also hauled 140+ HAAs around Ravensclyffe, nothing else has been able to match it Andi

only two Phil? Andi

Likewise! Andi

I like that all those drinks cans are upside down with paper printed labels from the period Andi

370006 here has both head/marker lights and one tail light lit. Would only one tail light lamp have been lit at a time? Andi

Only the JPGs on 860 and a link that says it will go to the image files but is to the viewing software but no files. Edit: Ah, ignore me, the JPGs open as panoramic in the veiwer... Andi

Where are the panoramic images please Dave? Andi

As I understand it the masthead (the title with the date etc.) is removed and sent back to be credited, and the rest is recycled locally Andi

Damn, beaten to it by Andrew P... I was about to post the same thing asking if the stops had failed again https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/earthquake-tremors-england-north-yorkshire-british-geological-survey-a8391641.html Andi

Looking at Jamie’s photos, will the model have the red lights behind that strip below the window opposite the buffet counter? Andi

Sometimes you can combine them... a dumbell twisted around on itself to make a roundy roundy, then you add an extra turn and a coal mine in the middle and call it Ravensclyffe http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/3288-ravensclyffe/ Andi

I have a remarkably similar photo... Andi (The one in the black jacket whose phone is in front of you)

in the days before speed sensing was fitted there was nothing to stop the driver putting the loco into "neutral" while coasting to give his feet a rest from the deadmans pedal. Andi

I believe the centre headlight came on when the reverser was moved away from off. Andi

Still visible on Google maps https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@40.3753732,49.8627395,104m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en