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For all the good they will do you, you might as well shove-em up your ar**e

Damask Red is no longer available off the shelf. The Ford colour is Burgundy, which is OK perhaps a little brighter Red than either Damask Red or the Precision paint.

Given that the wagon paint was mixed from ingredients at the wagon workshop and therefore highly variable (in today's terms of colour mixing) I simply mix my own using white and black until I am satisfied with the result. It always dries to a slightly different colour anyway.

The problem is that they won't have the resources. If the whole country turned to electric traction and domestic use of Gas is stopped then present estimates suggest that the electrical generating capacity will need to at least double to cope. That's not just twice as many generating stations but also twice the transmission capacity. We (well the French - they're no better when you actually look at it) can't even build one nuclear generating station in anywhere a reasonable time - let alone twice the present capacity. The ineptitude of the politicos and Civil Servants is staggering.

My experience is that the machine will come with its own software that will convert, say, DXF (but usually it also accepts others) to its own machine code but which is very often GCode. So to use the machine run a DXF file through its own Software or if it is GCode then get a software package that produces GCode. However if I were the management I would want the GCode produced by the machine's own software rather than some third party's software. These are expensive machines!

Getting back to the original question - "Why was HS1 built with so much less fuss than HS2?" CTRL was conceived by a private sector consortium but principally one consultant who took one look at what BR were up to and presented the route, as we now have, to the Government. BR's moribund scheme was to deliver the trains to Waterloo with no feasible rail connections to the North. The Delivery vehicle for CTRL was also private sector driven and it delivered the CTRL more or less on time and on budget. In comparison HS2 is a project management disaster. If you list all things that Project Management should not do - HS2 has done.

In a word - no. It may look like a Fowler top but its not. It's a Johnson tender with the portion above the top beading amended with a steel straight plate.

For hand built and laid track a simple air gap is used - no rail joiners. C&L fish plates are installed at the time of laying the track, not after.

I may be reading your comments incorrectly but Highley does have ground signals. Siding No2 doesn't but that's because trains from Siding 2 are controlled by the same ground signals for siding 1. The ground signals at the northern (down) end are interesting in that the ground signal at that end is a yellow signal so enabling unfettered access to the head-shunt but is also the section signal from the sidings to the down line to Bridgnorth. What is different to the present signalling arrangement and that shown on the plan is there is now a ground signal at the Down Home that gives access to the sidings. The signal at the colliery siding has been removed. The trap point shown was actually in the colliery side of that particular siding which led to the colliery sidings that now houses the museum at Highley. Three-way points are never to be found in running lines; goods yards and sidings only. Tandem turnouts are found in running lines, and examples can be seen on the line serving Embsay Station. Interestingly there was also a three-way turnout in the yard at Embsay.

The most obvious feature (applicable to all PECO points) is the way the point blade ends dangle about in mid-air as opposed to being supported as real point blade ends are. It's that feature that always shouts out toy train to me.

The MERG version (PMK 4) does exactly the same thing for £2.50.

This is an accurate model of the 6-wheel GWR tanker: https://website.rumneymodels.co.uk/milk-tanks

Mine is based on purchasing power equivalent

£50 in 1854 is about £7,000 today. That's a lot of money to be carrying around. They clearly saw him coming.

Considering that you only have a RED and BLACK banana plug at each end of the baseboard you have to be particularly stupid to plug the RED into the BLACK.

Freemo (http://www.free-mo.org/standard/) uses Banana Plugs - so why not use those. Suggest you treat each baseboard as a power district and connect each baseboard to the primary DCC bus via a District cut-out. That way you protect each base board. I don't see why you think that a portable layout should be any different to a non-portable layout.

No - that was Stevenson.

80 years in those circumstances.

If you are using side cutter then you need Hardened wire cutters. I have found the best place to get these are music shops - used for cutting instrument strings. You will find them way cheaper than those sold by "Tool Shops".

You have one power booster feeding District cut-outs. A District is a baseboard - so you run a primary DCC bus from the Booster to each baseboard in turn (i.e. there is only two wires crossing between baseboards) and at each baseboard you tap into the primary DCC bus and, via a District cutout, you power that baseboard.

You cannot give good title if you don't have it in the first place - which a thief doesn't have. So the locomotive still belongs to Michael Edge. Proving it (as always in law) is a different matter. The Police won't be interested. You could sue the present seller if you have the time or patience. The exception to that is if the item was sold at a "Market Overt" in which case good title can pass. There are very few "Market Overt" about.

The railways are already Nationalised. However the Government chooses to run the Nationalised railway by contracting out services, by way of concession contracts, to private companies to run the trains.

They would have used Shunt into Forward section 3-3-2. When shunt complete it would have been withdrawn with 8. Where shunt into forward section was not authorised then it would have been as stated above.

In anticipation of the Norman invasion no doubt?

Make sure you know if you have a 26T or 21T wheel - both appear to have the same part number!