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Thanks John. As residents you can for the princely sum of £1 get a card that gives you 50% discount for a year......this is our second trip but 3rd attempt to have a ride, no queues either time and we didn't pre book. We were on the last trip of the day at 2030 and there were 12 of us on board. The 2000 trip had 2 on board!

The curved glass is a real problem for photos as yours shows. Might have to get KRC to put a flag pole on top of the hut....we are here!

Well after what has seemed like an age we have finally exchange contracts today. The removal van is booked and we should be in our new house 300 miles north in Haxby before the Whitsun bank holiday. To celebrate we had a meal out tonight and a trip on the i360........in the dark.......and it didn't break down!

Looking very very good. Nice to meet you both at York last weekend.

Managed to fit the York show in this year despite a very week prior that wasn't new home related.

Excellent exhibition managed to meet and chat with Ben and Mike on the RevolutioN trains stand, thank you both for your time, looking forward to the 35 ton tanks.

Didn't find bargains, rarely do these days, but picked up another GF Esso 45 tank plus a ICI Chemicals version for a fair price and another Mk2 TSO........where have all the FKs gone?

Got a couple of laser cut garage/warehouse type doors from York modelmaking. These will be used to form part of a Mews type property.

Nearly equaled our fastest time York to Brighton, managed it in 4 hrs 20 mins on Sunday night via A1, M11, M25.

I was quite surprised just how many parts went into a Dyson, when, like you, I repaired one.

 

Also, like you, I had one screw left over.

 

It didn't seem to hamper its ability to recover everything the carpet monster had swallowed, and then some, and lasted for several more years, until we had a break-in.

 

It obviously appealed to the theives, and I had to buy a new one!

 

Regards

 

Ian

That's when you really hope the repair fails very quickly!

The next instalment of the Carflat earth society is hitting the shops now

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/121609-traction-239/?p=2677652

Had a nice day out at Ally Pally yesterday with Corky from the Corkscrew lines, B.I.L. Neil and Posh Colin driving. Despite the sat nav being turned on late after we missed any turning off the North Circular. It then directed us towards Buckingham Palace or even Crystal Palace but definitely not Alexandra Palace! Still got there well before opening time!

Excellent, thank you Grahame

Albeit an unusual formation with a 4 Rep brake first in the middle.

Thanks, I hadn't spotted that.

You can get away with a 4TC almost anywhere on the SR plus they have reached as noted many places off Region.

Brighton Model Railway club ( of which I am a member ) ran one rail tour which was a class 73 and 4TC which visited Seaford, Newhaven Marine, Littlehampton, Haywards Heath, Beeding cement works, Lavant aggregates terminal...... and of course Brighton.

http://andygibbs.zenfolio.com/p982231745/h359f49aa#h359f49aa

An 8TC has been used with a 33/1 on a football special from Brighton to Pokesdown

http://andygibbs.zenfolio.com/p726940309/h106aace#h106aace

A 3TC also reached Kemp Town too

http://andygibbs.zenfolio.com/p726940309/h2baff22d#h2baff22d

4TC sets on my photo site.

http://andygibbs.zenfolio.com/search.html?q=4tc

Just back from a nice weekend in Edinburgh with an overnight stop at York both ways. The main reason for going was Mrs G was visiting http://www.edinyarnfest.com this gave me the chance to do a bit infilling on the Baker rail atlas. Lots of new bits of line in Scotland since my last visit, just a shame about the traction. With a fairly early start I got the Tweedbank line in, followed by a ride on an Edinburgh to Helensburgh service via Bathgate as far as Queen St low level. Last time I went to Bathgate that was the end of the line for passengers. Next ride across the Central belt was from Glasgow Central back to Edinburgh via Shotts. Last trip of the day was round the Fife circle, not the loco hauled set unfortunately.

Everything was on time, including the ECML and even the weather wasn't bad.

I repainted the cab but it's very difficult to paint the window black trim so as to get straight edges. Perhaps when glazed it wont be so obvious. There is a little more tidying up I can do but after that I think I'll give the hiab flat-back a rest

 

G.

Might be worth trying a Sharpie black marker, the ones with a thick and a thin end. I've used these successfully dolng window surrounds before.

Grahame, nice work. The pictures do the models more justice than those on railNscales website which make their painting look very crude. What paint did you use for the Range Rover, Halfords rattle can?

Finished reassembling the Dyson yesterday morning....and it works......one screw left over!

The week before last with our house being cleaned to within an inch of its life our Dyson Hoover died. On line option suggested it would be either the on off switch or the motor.......they are the only two electrical things in it after all! I put the meter over the switch and that seemed fine so I ordered a new motor. An online video showed whilst you pretty well have to dismantle the whole machine it didn't look to difficult.

Motor arrived today, following the video it took less than 20 mins to dismantle the cleaner and remove the motor.

75 mins later I finally managed to get the motor correctly seated in its housing, you needed to be a &£8@/??! Octopus to get the motor in its rubber housing back into the casing lining up the fitting and making sure the wires to the brushes didn't foul anything.

I won't be adding vacuum cleaner repairman to my CV.......bring on Michael Palin...oh no that was bicycles!

Dyson still not repaired as failing light brought an end to its reassembly. Potential programme for James May too.

Well as I can't show you any progress on the layout etc....so here for your entertainment are a few recently acquired slides.

An unidentified 47/4 heads through Kensington Olympia with 1O74 the 0958 Manchester Piccadilly to Brighton.

Slide dated May 1984.

Photographer unknown.

Taken from the South Main signalbox at Olympia, 47628 is captured with an unidentified Intercity cross London service.

Slide dated March 1987.

Photographer unknown.

An unidentified class 33/1 passes Kensington South Main signalbox with a pway train.

Slide dated June 1983.

Photographer unknown.

Correct. Treat yourself to a Kit-Kat (are they still made in York? I have a feeling that they're not). The Paddington Up Home signal has a blue arm, not red.

There is still a Kit Kat production line in York.

Beaten to it....those colours it's a Big Big train.

Pity Lurch and I aren't still around. We could have borrowed the Lovers' Walk Sherpa.

Made the second trip of the week to B and Q as the 'Really useful' storage boxes are still on offer. That's 8 18 litre and 4 35 litre boxes added to what we already had. Many have been used for Debbie's stash of wool. If you think you've too much rolling stock it's nothing compared to a knitter!!

Rolling stock now all safely boxed away BR and all the US stock too. Now why did I make the Georgian Town houses so long they won't fit in anything!

Last baseboard joints that needed soldering to copperclads now done and track cut to split the boards.

Had the first of the removal companies in for a quote today be interesting to see how much.

I'm looking forward to seeing the layout progress in its new home.

 

Good luck with the move - when you're settled feel free to come and introduce yourself to the Yorkshire Area Group of the NGS (home of Heworth Sidings); We meet once or twice a month in Heworth (NE corner of York).

 

 

Happy modelling.

 

Steven B.

Thanks for that, will do.

One indirect outcome of all this with the layout is so that I could split all the boards it's forced me to solder the rest of the part done baseboard joints and finish off the DCC droppers that were part started on a second board. Makes it more tidy for moving!

HAXBY?......Well I never. - My daughter lives only a couple of miles from there - Here's hoping you will allow me to see my old station in miniature once you're settled in! :-)

The layout will fit in 3 of the 4 bedrooms and I've been tentative permission that I can use the Dining room as a temp measure, saves moving it upstairs.

Assuming everything goes through OK we have plans for the house part of which will give me a layout room on the back of the garage.

In my days on the Central it was always used (possibly unofficially) for the breakdown train.

 

Haxby's all right. An old mate lived there when he worked in York HQ. Good luck with the move but on behalf of BMRC sorry to see you go...

The house almost backs on to the Scarborough line, can certainly see it from the bedrooms, so closer to real trains than models.

Wrong headcode on the first one?

I quick check of my SR Freight WTT shows BD as a Dover to LMR via Chatham and the WLL......so OK.

Now then a couple of photos to explain the lack of posts and progress from me ........................KPA is being dismantled..............................................cos.......................

.......................after only being on the market for a week it looks like we've sold our house.......just as well as we had an offer in on a house in Haxby, York that has been waiting since the end of January for acceptance because our house wasn't even on the market!

I'm surprised you don't want to replicate the great Springfield Parkway pway gang massacre when a passenger train was wrongly routed into the occupied goods loop and the resulting collision wiped out the whole of the pway gang working there!

Faulty logic. An RU converted to RBR has a different window arrangement (the change was made earlier with the conversion to RBs - s for small buffet counter). An RB converted to RBR has unaltered windows so an RB is a better choice when it comes to liveries other than that I have a feeling no RB was ever in WR choc/cream. The newest livery appropriate for an RU is blue/grey and even then (without looking it up) that would only be applicable up to the mid-'70s.

I was close....