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  1. bike2steam
    I hope you include the grassy bank by the turntable - I spent many happy hour there on sunny summer saturdays in the early 1960's!!!
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    Good man, same as me - sort of, I use oak shades ( dark, medium, and light) of wood stain, it doesn't have that 'porridge' look like pva or Copydex.
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    Deluxe Materials - Roket Card Glue deluxematerials.com
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    Take a trip to your nearest railway line and look at the ballast used. If you measure it you'll see the largest dimension on the larger stones is not much more than 3 inch/75mm. This equates to 1mm. Tesco make a cheap plastic, basic, tea-strainer at about 50p each, the mesh is about 1mm. Anything that doesn't go thro' is too big.
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    Nice pic Peter, 'Lady Wimborne Bridge' with an interesting but somewhat long back story. Involving the Guest family, Dowlais Ironworks, the original backing of both Somerset, and Dorset Central Railways, the Mayor Of Poole, and GKN.
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    Then there's the section (occasional dog walk for me, and the pups) from Louse Lane, Spetisbury to Ward's Drove, Blandford St.Mary, the sight of the original, and first station in Blandford, the first terminus of the Dorset Central. Then the 'Trailway' from Blandford to Stur. Newton
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    If yer at a good(busy) exhibition yer can't hear it.
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    What made it for me was one day, while working at Corfe Castle station, not long after the re-opening of the line from Norden in the early 90's with the 'park and ride' car-park, and seeing the kids bucket, and spades on the coach small tables by the windows, made me smile, and think all the effort was worth while.
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    Mmm, bare brass, looks too good to paint!!??
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    I like it but given the Purbecks has one of the lowest rainfall counts in the country rainy days aren't that often. That's probably why the original complainer moved there with his push-bike!!!????
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    Try the owners of 'Comet', Wizard Models.
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    In the train-set world everything is clean, tidy, and eternally brand new. In the real world everything weathers as soon as it leaves the works, then your true colour shades go right out the window. Always work to colour photos, and colour match with whatever you can find - but wait, how good was the colour reproduction on that photo?????????????????
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    He is a sad loser who has got a 'downer' on the world. A recent 'incomer' from the smoke, he is just a disillusioned lovey/artist who should be ignored for writing a load of b*******.
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    ' In support of O gauge in Dorset'. That brought a smile to my face, just before this Covid business hit, we at the Blandford Railway Club realized a few members were interested in 'O gauge', and so we were preparing to add an appropriate section to the club. But when things settle down again - perhaps?? Good luck Geoff
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    The issue of lining, and livery with this class is a minefield of variations depending on where they were shopped, even Stratford, and Cowlairs threw in variations as well as Darlington, and Doncaster, the Irwell Press book, on the class, outlines most of it - good luck!!
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    It's not rocket science getting them set up square, and central, and as mentioned above, use micro-switches for polarity change. Used them for years, no problem.
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    What most pictorial books on mechanical signaling don't show is good pics, taken from above, of signal-box 'lead-off beds'( that big piece of plate(s), in front of, and between the box, and the track). I need some info/ideas on the types of location of the signal wire, large, horizontal pulleys, preferrably BR, exLMS/LNWR, but anything will do for ideas. Probably trying to flog a dead 'orse, but it's worth a try!!??
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    My two, Willow on the right, a 3 year old BMD, and her 9 month old niece, Holly, the only time I can get a pic of them together, after they've had a good walk.
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    They didn't use the turn-table at Waterloo then??
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    It was only a few minutes walk from Willesden Junction station, to the 'hole in the wall' at Old Oak.
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    Single coach operation - inspection saloon??
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    No, it's not easy 'planting' a compensator baseplate where there's already ballast!!!!
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    Now I know I may get my knuckles rapped for this but there is a self confessed operations guru (? for the want of a better expression?) by the name of Tristan Bradshaw (? Xpress Publications?) that crops up on a few facebook railway groups ( either you like 'em, or hate 'em ?). My somewhat fuzzy memory is thinking that it was someone who cropped up on this forum a few years ago, and ruffled a few feathers - or I could be wrong???? But he is a good source of info on train operations.
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    https://www.expotools.com/acatalog/-Model-Railway-Electrics--27999.html
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    Funny you should mention it, I have a great deal more, left over from my engineering days, finished professionally nearly 30 years ago. Yes, taps, dies ( mostly British standards, BSW,BSF, and American UNC,UNF etc), and reamers, along with an assortment of various drill sleeves, and odds, and ends, all way to big for modelling, but some was retrieved for a short spell of railway preservation work. If you do find somewhere handy to off load, please let me know - tar!!??
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