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Is that the implement required to get you out of the pub on a wet and windy night when rostered with a miserable driver? Alan

You need to have some pressure or else the hammer function doesn't kick in, but you don't need (or want) to lean on it. Let the bit do the work. That said, mine (Makita) is pretty heavy and gets tiring on long or successive jobs. Alan

Reading in an old Railway Modeller in the Exact Editions archive that is exactly how they were described by the originator of the range. Down the line of ownership and as more developed kits emerged in competition that key bit of information got rather lost. That said, getting frames and coupling rods mismatched and wrong isn't an aid to anything except disappointment. Alan

I think it might be related to the drainage function it also served, as in cesspit. The etymology of cess in that context is uncertain but some options would appear to relate to the railway usage. Alan

Amazed if you weren't, but out of context danger lurks. Alan

Dinghams via the 0 Gauge Society including the 4mm version or the new variant Flippems (I think), there is thread on here. Alan

is a variety of coal, at the cheaper end of the range rather than a colliery, Stephen. But in our worlds it could easily be a colliery. Out Wigan way, probably. As could F. Roth of Overwhinge. Alan

If the Grumpy one had been a bit more subtle I might have succumbed. Something like GRUMPY then Oldbloke Colliery. Alan

Thanks for your comprehensive explanation. When a firm produces useful items I want to support them. I'll email Mike when I've worked out which version to get. I've got the DJH kit so I could use that for early LMS and a Rapido for a later variation. Alan

I was fairly certain that would be the case, although I didn't know wingplates were sometimes regained. Choices have to be made and while the Big Goods was photographed a lot some are not great quality and would not have helped to ascertain details across the whole locomotive and tender. Looking at my own collection, the livery style is sometimes not discernable let alone tender type. Alan

Is there yet a view on the best way to buy Rapido models? Is delivery to local shops secure enough to rely on an order placed there (I might be being influenced by some of the recent issues with Hornby here) or is it better to order direct? I prefer to order from C&M (happy 20th anniversary btw) but I've not ordered any Rapido stuff from them before. Alan

If you mean the "coal" load, hopefully it will be removeable. I I'm not sure about the choice of varieties in terms of the front end, especially wing plates eg missing on the early LMS version but present on the post 1928 one. I'm sure each version corresponds to a researched locomotive but seem out of synch with the general trend of modifications to these locos. Looking through photos of the class, wingplates, louvred chimney and HR safety valves in the first LMS livery would appear to represent the condition of most of the class at that time, although wingplates were removed on some locos before 1923 (including 103). To be fair, there are a lot of variations to accommodate but to my eye the wingplates and chimney evoke the Highland railway but I don't fancy picking the first version and then painting it black. Alan

My Lancastrian grandfather when asked if it was "eether" or "eyether"... Orther'll do. Alan

Markets do 1/8 and 3mm. They are not the same, work out which you need. Wizard may stock them. Alan

Apart from the 5 "proper" ones, according to Stanier. They were ordered at the same time, although in terms of production, you are correct and until casings started being removed they remained the exception. Alan

According to the AA the pile of tossed teddies near Bourne should be treated as a roundabout. Alan

Car park prices in Ayvalik, Turkey. Not particularly whacky, but it made me smile. I've just arrived - 30 lira I'm waiting for someone- 30 lira I'll just be 5 minutes- 30 lira I'm on official business- 30 lira I'm a friend of the owner- 37 lira Alan

That has the whiff of the French engineer's comment:- "that's all very well in practice but what about in theory." Alan

In Ayrshire they were slaters, though. The bug, not the sluggish 4-6-0s.

Thank you for taking one for the team. Alan

Rabbit hole warning required. Alan

The former employs the dog whistle more frequently. Alan

A late breakfast by the Bosphorus last Sunday.

I usually use a laptop to view the magazines but occasionally will have a go on my Android mobile phone using the app. It's OK but I do need to zoom in and out and scroll around the read pages comfortably and it is rarely possible to read a caption when the picture it relates to is fully displayed. As this is down to size of screen I would expect the same issues with Pocketmags though. The EE app only displays a single page which hampers those pages where there is a spread picture, drawing or layout plan. On the laptop those pages can be displayed as a joined pair and then you can click to get a single page for reading. On both there is a skim facility to find where you were or move to a section of the magazine. On the laptop/PC version you can print/save a pdf which is much easier than ripping out and scanning items of interest which I used to do. The search facility is powerful, but you are dealing with thousands of articles so you do need to thoughtful about your terms. Alan

In full agreement, but note that you are best accessing this by having a World of Railways account and getting to BRM (and the other two) on Exact Editions via that, rather than subscribing directly through Exact Editions. That also gets you the ad-free RMWeb and (correct me if I'm wrong) Gold attributes for your RMWeb "experience". If you already have an EE subscription (eg for Railway Modeller) your WoR account access runs in parallel to that. I've just read BRM and doing that kicked me out of my trawl through the RM archive. Alan