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Platform (sides at least ) so you can ballast right up to them and you don’t have to clean ‘stray’ ballast away before planting them.

As of last Friday: The F is back That scaffolding has gone. So have all of those people The beer and food is still ****

Are they all the same though?

Gosh, not so long ago I had a couple of hours to fill there. I wish I had known about this. Ah, well. Next time.

Given that many (most) road users drive with a Satnav in front of them, when arguably much more attention is needed on the road, why would a dim view be taken of this. Well, perhaps not the hard copy, but some sort of electronic equivalent. Sorry if this seems to be going of at a tangent.

I did the same with Cadbury's mis - shapes once. Definitely not disappointed.

The Barrowmore model railway group have kindly uploaded the BR diagram books Barrowmore Model Railway Group (BMRG) (barrowmoremrg.co.uk) Book 200 coaching stock is the one you want. Or Parkin - Mark 1 Coaches may be the book you are thinking of

I wonder if the RAIB will be taking a look at this one. Does anyone know what their criteria/threshold is for deciding when to investigate or not?

Good to see that you are still modelling and haven’t lost the mojo whilst things are ‘packed away’. I too get the (very) occasional urge to start a new small box file/diorama/shunting type layout but knowing that I still have much to do on the main layout, I manage to resist the urge. Or at least I have so far. Let me know if your shrink is any good.

I am puzzled as to why you don’t (as Nigel has suggested) just read the current or set a new address using this facility on your DCC system, assuming this facility exists on yours.

… and if you look to the right the waters of the Kyle and towering hills of Skye. I am looking forward to seeing how this developed.

I’m sure I’ll be able to ruin it a week come Sunday.

I can be fairly confident with my predictions on how ‘The Falcons’ will do.

Definitely not a tunnel. As far as I can see it doesn’t have a church on top.

Thanks @37081LochLong and @Nick C. I know point rodding has the expansion widgets and often wondered how signal wiring was dealt with.

Looking good, Rob. What was the purpose of the wheels?

At the Steelworks and Rail Mill in Workington... ... oh, wait a minute though.

You have time for jigsaws too?

Obviously that assumes that the AWS/TPWS etc systems are all working as they should. Nobody would ever dream of overriding them, would they?

If you have the LZV100 command station with your LH90 you can read the address of a decoder. Page 23 or thereabouts in the manual. If you have removed the decoders from the locomotives how are you intending to ‘connect’ them for testing?

… and wasn’t that ‘management of the risk’ only supposed to be in place temporarily whilst the particular risk itself was dealt with? That it wasn’t is why we have this topic today.

I don't know the actual figures so I'm only speaking from observation and that report quoted earlier but I guess Kirkwall has a much greater number of cruise visitors than Lochaber. When I was visiting Kirkwall, not on a cruise, there were two largish cruise ships in each day. (Do you ever get more?) According to that report on the cruise economy Fort William only allow one cruise ship to dock per day and then it is one of the much smaller boutique size ships. I have only ever seen that size ship at Oban too. Do any cruise ships get to Mallaig? When I have been in Mallaig the town certainly seems to fill and empty with the coming and going of the Jacobite. I don't think WCRC are overstating things when playing the tourist effect on the economy card - I'm not saying that that it makes it a valid argument in this case though.

It’s quite possible that some of the media will report it that way too, without undertaking any investigative journalism to get to the real reasons behind what is happening.

So they wanted the exemption to run until it’s planned revocation at the end of February so that they could ‘work with the regulator to find a long term solution’ Genuine question - how long have they actually had to work towards that long term solution already? And a rhetorical one - what makes them believe they would reach a solution in a few short weeks when they haven’t wanted/been able to do so up to now?

They are (or were up until now) still recruiting stewards for the Jacobite. https://westcoastrailways.co.uk/careers