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I bought one for the pleasure of owning it. I saw one of the first prototypes at Ansdell in the 1960s taking machinery to Turkey. Roger

The Chatham exhibition held in the Ropery was the best ever exhibition Sharon and I attended. Roger

If Warley was the window on our hobby, what pictureare we going to see when it comes round to the anniversary in the winter? Are there more surprises to come? Roger

How are they going to announce anything? If they refer to the wreckage they’ve got to deal with it’ll make the situation worse. Roger

I have looked at them with plastic in mind but the problems are as follows. As far as I remember the both coaches need 2 dies for sides because they aren’t identical. On the open coaches the mesh is very fine. And finally are any of the RTR manufacturers thinking about them? They like lots of liveries and there certainly lots of them! Roger

I was exited by the news that I could get a white stripe 104 until I read the price. I rode on them to Manchester and back for a good few years. The best ride I had was when our 6 car pair had failed and they put a class 40 on the front. Went like a rocket!

I just bought an Orchid ready to the second anniversary of Sharon’s death. When my kit for a Manning Wardle F class wasn’t as successful as we would like she asked what’s wrong with it and I said it’s not Ringing Rock. For the remainder of our Marriage she asked when I was going to do do it, an RTR one would make a wonderful 3rd Anniversary gift. A quintessential Manning Wardle! Roger

Ringing Rock. Roger

Brian Haresnape was my life drawing teacher at art school and he told me that there was no choice but blue. Although it was a new hard wearing formulation, and how wrong that turned out to be, there was another instruction passed down from on high. When the railways were nationalised the management of the regions carried on in their own sweet way so a decision was made that the new livery must not have any links to the big four. I’m sure I would have said Blue A4s, but I don’t remember! Roger

Have you all noticed on eBay the superbly built and painted example of our Wainwright J 0-6-4T. It is probably an early one, 1980s because it uses the turned frame spacers that I included in my first 2 kits. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285167208547?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=isuF048PTyS&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=RUCNTkdLQMq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Beautiful. Roger

The thing that I don’t understand is the positively bizarre choice of prototypes and the fact that people are prepared shell out for them. A 4DD when nobody’s done a dinky die 4SUB. I would guess if the did a SUB and possibly a 4COR they would have made more profit than from all the rest of the junk. Roger

Tedious and misinformative. I would love to lay into Fred Karno’s army, but I’d probably get hounded off the forum. Why do I watch it? It’s funnier than most sitcoms these days. Lifting the end of the baseboard up to see if the A4 needed rubber tyres! Roger

No, it’s different. Roger

I think the question could be Which one did you miss and now can’t afford?! Roger

Thanks for your reply. There are already people who use radio control from other models in model railways with rechargeable batteries but when I last heard about it it didn’t include sound.