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ER; Season 9, Episode 1. Between 40.42 and 41.25. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/er/on-demand/32059-001 That is most definitely not the right train for Heathrow 😜

Snip from Google Maps as I didn't take a photo, but was surprised to note the NSE signage still on the 'box at Lancing last Friday.

Quite a day. After having the rear pads and discs changed on the car yesterday, complicated by a stuck brake caliper that also needed replacing, today we had a puncture about a mile after leaving home 😵‍💫. Fitter arrived just in time, and made it to Eastbourne station just as 37418 and Caroline were pulling in. Grab shots through the fence, straightened and slightly cropped but otherwise untouched.

Caroline out and about on Tuesday; Victoria-Tonbridge via Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=K01235&d=2024-04-09

You should be careful experimenting with bigger sheep...

Hope you cut the coupon for the free rolls out first!

You'll most probably be wanting the platform 'legs' from Dart; https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/dartcastings.php#DETAILINGPARTS(OOGAUGE)

One of my more eccentric habits is to catch up on the day's news from over 100 years ago. Way back in 2014, the Daily Telegraph started sharing their archived edition - Sundays, aside from a few in the very early part of World War One, are missing (they didn't exist), and the actual dedicated website seems to have vanished too, but the files are still active if you search for them on Google - for example February 19, 1914; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02821/Telegraph1914_1902_2821342a.pdf Edit; missed a sentence! This was done to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, and goes up until December 31st 1918. Anyway, today in 1914 there was a fairly interesting piece on Frederick Restall, who was evidently a very popular man. Note the (very) thinly veiled dig at the Great Eastern for appointing the first non-British General Manager towards the end! I'm hoping that as this is now 110 years old it is considered out of copyright, but if it isn't and needs to be removed, apologies!

Have now had a chance to have a proper read - inspiring stuff with some stunning photography as previously mentioned, and as close as I've seen to a 'coffee table' book for model railways. There are some great ideas, but also much to ponder, showing that the whys and the feelings that something invokes are just as, if not more, important than the 'how tos'. You have a lovely style @James Hilton , and with this and the Small Layout Design Handbook on my shelf, I look forward to a third joining them...(?)

My copy was delivered today - some stunning photography and some really interesting ideas. Looking forward to a proper read over the weekend.

Yes, I seem to remember you sharing the pictures of your last visit! Am currently weighing up a midnight trip to Eastbourne.

Heads up for tonight; https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=H09040&d=2024-02-07 Rail Record reports 37057 on 3Q08 Hither Green-Hither Green

Been following on the blog - it really is a lovely layout/diorama. Oozes with atmosphere.

Must say I'm very taken with the LBSC horsebox! Looks like a range of very useful kits!

Late to the party (was expecting to be able to pick up whilst away with work earlier in the month, but didn't manage it), but what an excellent issue. Geoff Kent's new layout looks as if it will be exquisite.

Disarano and Coke. So smooth you could drink it for ages without noticing the alcohol. Happy new year to the ovine collective!

Advanced notice for Friday for those of us in the East Rail Record reports 1Q77 - a rare daylight hours (the Sussex parts anyway!) test train from Tonbridge Yard to Woking CHS; Full gen - https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U27506&d=2023-12-22 Obviously things can change before Friday, so don't bank on it until you see it!

On the blocks at Eastbourne

Timings for Wednesday; Out; https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U14383/2023-12-06/detailed EBN-HGS; https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U14385/2023-12-06/detailed Back; https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U14386/2023-12-06/detailed

Does anyone happen to have the basic Minories plan in XtrkCad format? Looking for 00 ideally but can work with anything else. Many thanks

Quite liking Ghost at the moment. The recent covers EP is excellent.

Yes, undoubtedly the wrong way round. Practicality again I'm afraid - If the layout 'runs' the other way, the end curves would have to be across the shed door, which is possible with a lifting section but less than ideal. No goods shed planned, although it was included on early plans it was more of a placeholder to ensure I had left enough space in the yard for goods loading.

So I hear...! Must have been the reason why I'd always imagined it there! Certainly makes sense in that it flows nicely from the preferred of my two Alfriston locations, and also would allow the narrow gauge to follow the bottom of the valley, running, with some inevitable deviation in places, pretty much alongside the river.

Somewhere into the teens now! I've kept the 'goods yard' to a single siding, although the curve into it can be changed to another set of points, giving a second siding that ends by the cattle pens, but I've been down that road before and it quickly begins to look overcrowded. I don't know if the shingle line needs an engine shed, but if it did it would probably make more sense for it to be this end of the line than the other.

@Nearholmer Yep, same kind of thoughts as I had. In real life, the station would be behind the Plough & Harrow, but to add interest and save having to model the backs of buildings and nothing else, liberties have been taken with the road. A quick screen grab; Red circle is where I've always seen the station in my minds eye. Blue is an alternative that , if I pull the station inland a little, would potentially allow the shingle branch to go off the same way the standard gauge comes in, with a sharp curve Yellow is a more inland route that perhaps flows better from the previous station at Alfriston (see below) Another screen grab The three colours are as previously. The two black dots are locations where I'd planned the Alfriston station; The first is just before the present day 'The Willows' car park. It is currently, and probably always has been, low lying fields between North Street and the river. The other is on the other side of the river, more or less opposite the church. The track plan for this would be pure Rice, his plan for 'Clun' from 'Finescale in Small Spaces'. I'd love to build it one day as it offers pretty much everything I'd like from this kind of layout. There is not the space at present to do it justice, however!