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I did Tom Baker and Sarah Jane plus K9…….just found a male figure in a long coat with a hat and added a homemade scarf ( Tamiya masking tape) and a female figure in a trouser suit…K9 is scratchbuilt……..and this is 2mm scale.

….and I was Chief Clerk there for about 18 months too.

They were certainly used on Merrymakers up from the south coast, we went to Derby then coach trip to Riber castle and also Leicester for Rutland……and I’ve always had a soft spot for them. I do have a photo or two of them on the WLL. I can always do a layout in a suitable location to run them on the Brighton - Exeter service!

2B or not 2B…….that is the question……6B eventually.

A nice relaxing day at the Yorkshire NGS meeting. I took along the three Hastings DEMU coach bodies to start fitting them to the donor 4CEP. As expected the frames needed some substantial trimming to fit. The unpowered DMBS has been fitted OK and the TFK is nearly done too. I’ve made a start on dismantling the 4CEP power car……I might not need to trim the motor housing after all. I’ll post some photos tomorrow. Whilst it’s a long shot I’m going to contact Bachmann and see if they have any spare 4CEP bogies both trailers and powered types so that they can replace the B1s that’ll be present on the other two donor coaches.

That was it for this year. York Racecourse Easter 2024 is it’s next outing.

The exhibition gave me the opportunity to run / try various things and combinations for the first time……with mixed results. Hunt magnetic couplers didn’t perform very well. The last carflat always derailed it’s leading bogie on the curve entering the fiddle yard, not on a point, and retailed leaving. The Brighton - Manchester Mk1 set derailed so much that the couplings were pulled out and replaced with Rapidos. Several snapped off when being removed. I had bought a DCC Concepts track rubber…….very poor left loads of rubber debris all over the track….reverted to 800 grade wet and dry paper……Their mains CDU however was well worth the investment. Rolling stock in general all ran well. Locomotives were generally all OK with only one c47 causing some issues coming to a stand on curved plain track at the same place…..but only with a train in tow. LE it was fine! One of the Cromptons needs looking at as on Sunday it kept randomly slowing down and stopping then set off again a few seconds later. The Dapol c73 ran very well amazingly. Lots to ponder but overall very pleased with how the layout performed…and my two operators who had never used it before. Thank you to all the people who came up and introduced themselves…some not for the first time. We were packed up and out the door at the NRM dead on 5pm after closing at 4.

Thank you …….…well……I managed to get quite a lot of figures from the Modelshop in Shanklin and they included a pack of nuns…..so there are quite a few on the layout….mainly going into pubs plus one in the Bond Bug.

The layout behaved itself again today……and we won something too!

The 08 was having its first outing too, not even run it, it performed well.

I can’t remember what the chassis is, I’ll check, probably Roco or Fleischmann the body is totally scratch built from plasticard and brass.

Nice to see everyone yesterday, those who made themselves known from RMweb. Hope to see a few more today. Very busy show as mentioned earlier. Kensington Olympia largely behaved itself. The faults found after setting up Friday were in the main not there on Saturday morning……electrical fairies must have been hard at work!

Layout all set up at the NRM…….a few niggly faults which I hope we can solve tomorrow before opening. My two operators, brother in law Neil and long time friend Chris both arrived safely. Thanks to Mick for getting us there in his van. We have a view over the ECML to distract us too.

We started climbing up over 10 years ago….solid run of Ford Kuga 4x4s.

LNER are starting to show service details for the Friday, Saturdays will be posted to their website tomorrow.

Thanks for the comments…enjoy the party Jim……Olympia will be at the York Easter show next year….assuming it all works at the NRM! 😀

Very nice Paul, as requested by 03060 what’s the basis of the model.

Some good things this way come………..

I’m telling myself no more work on the layout prior to the exhibition. There are now around 300+ figures in the layout with over a hundred more to add afterwards. I have one more loco to chip too. Back to work for the next couple of days, a busy social weekend then Olympia will get dismantled again and boxed up ready for the NGS show.

One from the side and one from above, it’s a little higher and wider than the Farish Polybulk but not massively so.

Hi Neal yes it is 1/160, luckily I have a Farish one at hand so I’ll grab a comparison photo later.

Hi Ian, Yes it’s an Arnold model, HN6431, there were some similar slab sided wagons used in the UK but they were a bay longer. I have a second one so that one day I might get round to a cut and shut. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/belgianpolybulk/ea70f3cf

…and finally for the weekend a couple of Modelu tail lights fitted….more to do. Apologies for the mass lying down of figures….they were tired!

The Modelu signalman has obviously had a bad day, now fitted to the North Main box steps.

Weathered Cromptons. Weathered Polybulk and Telescopic hood wagon. …and finally weathered Tractor…..this requires a bit more work.