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I've had two tabs open in the browser, switching between your two stations - the one above and this one below from your Beyond Dover/Sao Lucas thread. Partly to admire them, and partly to work out if they are the same layout (I think you were working on a concept some time ago where the same layout would depict different locations)? Apologies for losing the plot a bit, it's all borne out of genuine interest!

I was intrigued by the chalk scribblings, telling stories of long lost journeys.

Acid.

Thank you, the pre-WW1 features are useful. I would want to address some of them (whether on this one or on my trusty old Bachmann version, which for all its issues runs like silk and has personality). Looking at these Swindon shots of 4301 and 4302, which presumably have the wooden rooves, I'm wondering whether the rooves are notably different from the model in visual terms.

I've just realized that Iain Robinson - one of my modelling heroes - has built an excellent 4mm model of Princes Risbourough. He has posted photos of it on Instagram (sic), if anyone is interested. Registration not needed. This link goes to the first photo, click right to see his solution to the distinctive "Westbury" style: https://www.instagram.com/p/C20cQy3sQS1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Thanks Håvard, a fine list of craftsmen. Skövde sounds good! Do you know the Ribe Club in Denmark? Good stuff. They have an English website here, with some quirky videos captioned in English. The style is deliberately slow-paced, not your usual social media chop-chop 🙂 https://vibefilm.dk/rhjms-english/

They don't make station buildings like that anymore. Very attractive!

The Rainhill Trials anno 2024 ! Hornby Dublo does it again. I can imagine dilemmas will emerge once the testing is done, e.g. whether to go with the lowest common denominator for your gradient (allowing all locos to run), or to set the bar higher even if it means some favourite locos won't make the cut. Thanks for posting this S., it will be interesting to follow.

A lovely scene here, on Didcot's Facebook page. Probably posed, but so are model railway cameos 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/DidcotRailwayCentre/photos/a.210517012308528/3629346803758848/

Nice harvest, Chris. So you're the one who got the last A7 trade horse 🙂 They are currently sold out. But I follow in your footsteps with a couple of Shires and the horsebox from Gary on order. I look forward to seeing how the horsebox goes. It is strange to think that esoteric pregrouping horseboxes can now be purchased fully printed. The brewer's dray looks good, better than the Shirescenes etched one from the same, er, stable.

The For details and photo, see this page and scroll down to "Water Fillers" near the bottom: https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/zrailmotor93/features/features.html

"Stanier Green".

Fourth time lucky with the bridge, it looks right to me. And who would have thought a GWR coach looked good in green! 🙂

Trains in a bottle. Now there's a thought. It looks like a lovely van. I see from the Wizard site that they were "the most numerous of all the Midland ‘all brakes’ ". Your usual fact-based approach, then.

...and then mow grass between rails 🙂

Excellent weathering, quite a transformation. And an allegory of life 🙂

Indeed yes. No 1535 a.k.a Mrs Sanders being one of them. From the front she could perhaps pass for Edwardian, but once you see her behind...

A few will go a long way, visually. These are from a Preiser set. Double that and a fair impression of a release could be created, I think.

Thanks Stephen, now that is thought-provoking. I'll accept the challenge. I think I'll time it a bit shy of grouping though, i.e. ca. 1919 with my Open Cab 1854 PT as motive power. It will require a bit of joined up thinking. These five make up the sum total of my foreigners so far: They have been selected mainly from "the neighbours", in order to indicate Farthing's location on the Berks & Hants Extension. They tend to appear one or two at the time when I shunt the yards in my normal 1900-1907 pre-pooling mode. But for this 1919 train I'll need to take other factors into account, e.g. the size and distribution of nationwide fleets, as discussed in the "Foreign wagons" thread. The SDJR Road Van, MSWJR 3-planker and LSWR stone wagon need special backstories, and are out of the equation for the 1919 train I think. The D299 and LSWR 10 ton van are better candidates. Edited for clarity/rambling

See this post: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/171078-rmweb-change-of-hosting-missing-images-april-2022/

Thanks Dave. My mind is on Midland matters at the moment as I need to build one or two more MR wagons for my post-pooling goods trains. The obvious source is Bill Bedford's range of resin wagon kits: https://mousa-models.co.uk/product-category/4mm-scale/4mm-lms-resin-wagon/ I expect that @Compound2632 would instruct me to do another D299, but it's tempting to add a bit of variety with one of the other MR diagrams in that range instead.

Nice to see the railmotor crew and passengers, Neal. I was thinking of ordering the OO ones on the assumption that Modelu have made sure that they fit. But maybe they haven't? With the sheep and all, its going to be a full railmotor 😁

Lovely work, the Thai atmosphere is already there in bucketfuls. I'm impressed that you managed those flames with the Silhouette.

Impressive. Your work is so unique for the Scandinavian model railway scene, which - in my limited experience at least - has not had much of a tradition for advanced stuff like this.