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Err, yep just as post #2, now where's that 'emoticon' banging it's head against a brick wall?

Soon it'll be time for the greatest show on earth;- http://www.gdsf.co.uk/ where I will no doubt be consuming the usual cuisine of Cornish pastie, and chips (from the 'Cornish Kitchen') at lunch time, and partaking of the hog roast in the evening, all washed down with the usual large amount of well known brands of ale. Oh, and this year there is a model railway exhibition, arranged in conjunction with Hornby Mag, but I have reservations on holding such a thing in a marquee, especially if the weather is bad .

And there was me hopeing you had more, anyway what's with this rather official 'Mr Mays' then?

Bournemouth allocated Q's were frequent visitors to Blandford on goods workings. 40098(12.60-05.61)/126(10.60-04.61)/161(11.60 -12.60) & 171(09.60-05.61) were allocated to Templecombe, and occasionally worked to Bailey Gate. And I think the B12's were temporarily allocated to the West Country during WW2 on such workings as ambulance trains around D-Day, but is outside our era. Is what we know about at Blandford, but info on anything else we would welcome.

Baby Come Back - Eddy Grant

Please share what omissions you have found Tim.

Riding my 'sickle' down the deserted A5 near Rugby in the hot summer of '76, with all the idiots nose ta tail on the nearby M1, and seeing the rats scurrying across the road with surprise that some one was actually on it. My denim jacket sleeves rolled up, and getting a sun tan on my arms. Listening to the late great dj's such as Kenny Everett, who can forget the 66 Beatles tour of the US, and Tommy Vance, my radio was permenantly tuned in to Radio London right up to the last day - remember it well. But of all the the things I missed most, being able to spend hours at a time in those dirty, filthy, but wonderful cathedrals of steam such as Stratford, Willesden, Old Oak Common, and Nine Elms.

Sorry Dave, cant see the link. Aint No Mountain High Enough - Ashford & Simpson edit, sorry Dave, you missed a page

This'll tell you. http://sdjr.net/ ps One small fault, where under the heading of locos, and it reads 'locos newly introduced on the line' where it says 'Ivatt class 2 2-6-0', should be class 4.

Epton - Dick Yeo, did the rounds of exhibitions mainly in the London, and East Anglia area mid 1970's to 80's. Appeared in the Railway Modeller 1978 - ish, Dick, like me , was a founder member of the Ongar & District Model Railway Club, now defunct, I think. The trackwork (00) was all handbuilt, which included complicated LT 4-rail pointwork. It started life as an L shaped layout about 10ft x 10ft, and ended as about 30ft straight. Some help was supplied by a certain Stephen Poole, also a member of Ongar &DMRC - some may of heard of him.

Jump - Van Halen ( Well someone had to do it) Edit - Or ignore as it's been done a few times already .

Sorry I should have made it clearer, from Bromshall Junction to Stafford junction the line was pure GNR.I've edited out one word ( 'just' after WCML) in my previous post.

An extension of the branch to Derby Friargate, the line joined the NSR (somewhere ?) near Tutbury, and ran under running rights the few miles to Bromshall Junction just west of Uttoxeter, then south -ish to Stafford, joining the WCML north of Stafford station just north of 'Bagnalls Bridge', again with 'running rights' into Stafford for about a 1/4 of a mile. The photos I have are both 6w(1), and bogie stock(2) behind D2 4-4-0's, and J3 0-6-0's in the 1920's. Thro' passenger traffic ended in 1939, freight in 1951. My interest in the line incorporates a 'what if' aspect with my current layout, what if the use of the GN line to Stafford have developed into something bigger with through services from the LNER as my layout depicts a fictitious location on the GJR between Stafford, and Wolverhampton.

A couple of those pics were used in Ted Talbot's book on Stafford (Irwell Press). Wasn't that the furthest west that the GNR ran, as an independent railway rather than joint line ??

Shake Your Tail Feather - Ray Charles (The Blues Brothers)

That was the way I fealt, although it wasn't me that said it, I stopped in the June after a last visit to what was then newly closed Newton Heath, Heaton Mersey, Stockport Edgeley, and just about still open Patricroft to see the only loco in steam - 45156, and me feeling thoroughly depressed at the end of the day. Sorry to go OT.

Thanks for a bit of 'real' history ' Pobrien', but you could add another 10 years , oh I feel so old.

My Head's In Mississippi - ZZ Top

No problem, it gave me a good laugh,I just can't justify dcc but wiring always looks worse than it actually is, it includes a full semaphore signalling system (LNWR- LQ), and since the pic I've also added a full electro-magnetic uncoupling system, adding more switches.

Some pics (inside & out ) of the control panel for my latest layout I'm building, I built the box, the panel was engraved by a friend, with a pantograph engraver, from laminated plastic, he also built the controllers, better than any on the market rtb, his name - Kevin Trim of Dorset Kits.Ok, so I'm no electrician, which shows anyone can do it (?) but I can trace all the wiring - just.

I'm part of a small group modelling Blandford as it was in the late 1950's, as seen in, and on the cover of, Feb's Railway Modeller. The layout can be seen, semi-permanently, at the town museum, when it's not out at shows.

Star-ship Trooper - Yes (sorry, couldn't resist)

Eight Miles High - The Byrds

Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

Out Of Time - Rolling Stones