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This might be of interest: https://www.flickr.com/photos/73536293@N02/42701187292/in/photostream/

Although the tube lines continue on, Greenford is an elevated terminus for the Branch from Ealing

As aluded to by Claire Williams today who said he is performing well....

Agree it is hard to tell from the CAD but I was immediately struck by the bottom of the windscreen looking too flat...

Looks a nice event. The Dave Lynn ERF is one of the lorries in the photo I posted in post #1 of this thread when in service, he has done a good job keeping it in nice condition.

05.56 from Chippenham today is 5 car again, if they are short of units then there must be some consideration given tobl reverting a diagram back to HST so peak services can run as 10 cars. This train will be rammed from Didcot..

They have been doing the same on some of the peak time ones as well, last Tuesday the 6.25 ex Chipp was 1 x 5 car with predictable overcrowding from Didcot...

I have a pressurised system and have similar issues with the mixer shower in the main bathroom. In essence the other taps and the shower in our ensuite are a good flow/,temperature but the main bathroom shower is both lukewarm and low on pressure. I did some research and it appears that shower has a safety mechanism that means that once the hot water gets above c35 degrees, it restricts the hot water flow. I have tried adjusting it with limited success and will eventually replace the mixer with a different type but it is not urgent as only the kids use the main bathroom and they prefer baths. Therefore I would definitely focus on the shower rather than the cylinder, your boiler service guy would have been able to tell if the pressure cylinder was duff. If you haven't already I would fit a water softener and I was told pressurised systems need a 22mm water feed pipe rather than 15mm.

Agree, the liabilities that Hilco have taken on is circa £1bn in store leases etc. General view in business press is that Bunnings have got a good exit deal, especially as they are entitled to 20% of the proceeds when Hilco sell it. The new owners are keeping Damian McLoughlin on which should be a good move, he worked at B&Q all his life and was very popular with the B&Q staff as well as being passionate about store standards, something that needs addressing at Homebase pretty urgently.

Not really a surprise, there wasn't a way back from the mess they were in as they had properly broken the business, lets not forget that 2 years ago this was a profitable business with a loyal customer base that had a clear defined proposition. Unfortunately I don't think there is a fairy-tale ending for Homebase, I feel really sorry for the staff who have already lost their jobs or may do over the coming years.

There is a blockade of Swindon next weekend so presume they are finishing off the bits in and around the station then.

Don't normally do non alcoholic beer but was at a wedding recently and I had to drive home so rather than J2O or similar I had a Becks blue and echo Jonny777's comment about it being drinkable even though Ale rather than Lager is my usual tipple.

I watched it and thought it was one of the better "railway related programs aimed at normals" that I have seen, I thought Chris Tarrant did an ok job, although I got annoyed about the attempt to hype things up before each ad break (along the lines of the Eddie Stobart program of "will Dave get to Tesco Doncaster before 12:00 or will his 28 tonnes of chicken be gong in the bin?") I am not an HST expert so didn't pick up on some of the finer historical events being out but will watch part 2. I guess it was inevitable they would put down the Deltics as the story they were telling was how revolutionary the HST's were to what went before....

Hi, have you looked at Langley Models, they do quite a few kits from the era you describe? You may need to do some scratchbuilding otherwise but Langley may be able to provide useful wheels/bogue components. That said it was pretty unusualnto move locos by road in the 50s and 60s.

I was talking to a dairy farmer about foreign milk imports yesterday and he also said the rumours about Polish milk are untrue, the reality is the tranaport lead time and cost do not make it viable.

Good work Grizz, I did something similar when I first put a Hornby mechanism in a Lima body. The chassis will eventually break but mine has been fine for 5 years and when it does eventually give up the Ghost I will stick the mechanism in a Lima frame as per my latest build.

I presume there has been a new IET diagram gone live yesterday, IET on 05.54 ex Chippenham today but only a 5 cat set, which will inevitably be full before Reading....

Don't forget the Hachette ones, solid underframe aside, they were effectively knock off's of Bachmann TSO.

Slow progress of late, due to various other things. The layout is buried in the garage at the moment so most modelling has been focussed on the work bench. The class 31 is in the paint shop, so hopefully won't be too long although to make the most of having the blue paint out I have made a start on the steam heating van. This is based around a Parkside PA10 20t mineral wagon chassis and bits of a MK1 BSK. The old adage of never throw anything away, I had just enough bits left over from my 2 x Bachmann MK1 BSK's into 1 x BSO conversion (pre Hornby days) to provide the bodysides for the steam heating van: Next step is to fit the griles under the bodyside windows and other details then make the ends. The roof detail will be a challenge, the photos on page 4 being the best guide I have. The container trailer is now finished and I have weathered the container, last bits to do but it has come out nicely, the trailer needs a bit more weathering as they weren't kept quite as clean as the tractor units. Weathering the container was fun but hard work, there is no chance of me ever building a container terminal if I need to weather 40 - 50 boxes...

No probs Pete, signs of the times used to do a billboard kit with a Ford Cortina advert, I think the range passed to Ten Commandments.

I can send you the images Pete if they are of interest

Never thought about the legality but I have had cigarette billboards on all of my exhibition layouts, I never had any negative comments over the years, in fact most were positive as they were a key part of the 1970s advertising scene:

FAQ section of the website says no plans to.... Yet....

When I bought a self destructing one recently the going rate was £35 - £40. I would personally keep them and chuck the mechanism in a Lima version

There is plenty of reminders to it's past in it still!