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montyburns56

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  1. This is utterly shocking news. I wonder if losing Bachmann sales has had a bigger impact that they expected and I guess that Brexit has probably had some impact as well, but I would have thought that the sheer size of their business would have made them immune to most of the ups and down of the model railway business. If they can't survive then how are the smaller retailers coping I wonder?
  2. When I took pictures of the estate in 2007 I took this one and I always presumed that part of the bridge was used for railway tracks which your picture confirms, but I never realised that there were tracks on the other side as well.
  3. "Cardiff Corporation battery loco on Glamorganshire canal railway and swingbridge Cardiff Bay Butetown April 1955 by Derek Chaplin"
  4. In Germany they have the Christmas tradition of Krampus, in the UK we have the Christmas tradition of Grampus. Tyseley 1985 by Geoff Barrow
  5. Fenwick Colliery, Backworth in 1973 by Billy Embleton
  6. Do you want to build a micro layout with two convenient scenic breaks? Holywell Town http://disused-stations.org.uk/h/holywell_town/index.shtml
  7. Didn't there used to be coal merchant there? I remember when I was photographing the line post closure that there was a coal merchant still situated on one of the station yards.
  8. I didn't really visit the Fallowfield Loop until it was gone unfortunately and I really regret not visiting Reddish depot, but I did photograph the line in the 90s when most of the track was still in place.
  9. Some nice wagon weathering inspiration here... Chester 1971 by David Blower
  10. A nice picture by our very own Mol_PMB of the Irlam Steelworks locos at Trafford Wharf in 1980
  11. I've just been re-reading the April 2009 Rail Express article about the TPE system and it says that the Nortons scrap yard had " a new contract to cut up 450 redundant MGR wagons"
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