The Stationmaster

Very nice Al - lovely lighting effects

Looking very nice - no mistaking which Railway that belongs to!

Will the new figures have any clothes on?

Julia,

I'm truly sorry to see you go from here and can but echo the many sympathetic and positive remarks about your modelling and contribution to RMweb which have already appeared above.  I'm in the fortunate position that I will at least continue to meet you and see your exquisite work at various shows in our part of the world so my loss is perhaps not as great as that of some others.  And hopefully you will be at Steam on the Sunday which is my day for visiting there this year.

So very sad to see you go, hope to have time for a chat at Swindon.  Best regards and good wishes for the future

An excellent  presentation of your (and John's) day - most enjoyable to read although that booking office looks a bit more modern, and a heck of a sight cleaner, than one I worked in, hmm, er, 48 years ago (but at least it had electric light, and a lot ,lot more tickets).

Lovely tank wagon Julia - very impressive result on the tank barrel as well for a 3-D print.

Very tidy job Al, nice.

Lovely veg patch for the, hmm, Stationmaster - needs some beans and I'll be happy

The field looks smashing really lovely job although perhaps a bit early for sugarbeet - could well be spuds at the time of year that matches the veg patch and it does look like spuds.

Really lovely job all round Julia - all coming along in leaps & bounds.

Getting better all the time Julia (and that's really saying something!)

Miss Prism is heading in the right direction - you need a set in each direction.  And logically they would be near the signalbox end of the loops - rather daft putting them too far from the signalbox when you think about it.

I hope you ran chain (not signal wire) round the pulley

The rodding looks good Ian

Looks quite good although it is a bit of a mish-mash of styles being neither one thing nor another.  But for folk who are happy with a generic style of relatively modern colour light signal it doesn't look too bad.

Hello Simon,

Glad to hear you haven't deserted the hobby and wishing you all the best for your business.

Cor, that really looks good Julia, smashing job.

Smashing job, really captures the original (or it will once it has been heavily dirtied!).

By the way it did have levers - small ones.

Very interesting Al - not cheap as you say but they have distinct possibilities.

Will the Peco point motors be ok with the points you are using?

Very nice - and nice to see project number three is now underway and looking good.

Very nice Al, you've definitely 'caught' the subject matter.

Clearly the ladies are spending too much time gallivanting about and not using their sewing machine to make some nice curtains

Ah, back to the magnifying glass - that autocoach chassis would be a triumph in a larger scale, truly something in 2mm scale!

Great stuff Al - very Kingswear line - until the snow appeared!

It depends on the size of the place and level of business (and to some extent the type of traffic).  Yards generally tended to be shunted by the trip which could set-back into them without need to runround and the freight timetable would be arranged so that trains in that direction offered a morning arrival and an afternoon/early evening departure although in later years this pattern often collapsed to just a single trip where once there had been two (or sometimes more).

The most likely 'wrong way round' train would be, I think, and engine and brakevan coming to collect outward traffic at a time the ordinary trip(s) could not readily serve the station (or indeed a special working of inwards traffic).

I obviously can't post it here but I have a photo which clearly shows the two different whistles although it is on a preserved engine.

Lovely idea and bit of kit  Graham - but you'd better watch out the BCB lot don't come round knocking on your door for some equivalent units