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Daft question- can anyone tell me how to get the body off my Accurascale Deltic? Looking to fit my own sound.

Self checkouts in Aldi, wasn't expecting that this evening

blackmoor

...has just enjoyed a lovely haggis supper. Deliciously peppery!

Hello Jeff,

Do you still have the build manual for the Britannia, I purchased a kit without  any instruction 

Best regards

Andrew

Just checking!

Hi Ben, Sorry to bother you, still not had a result from Mike re my faulty 5600 tank Can I suggest best and cheapest option is for you to replace it and I return the faulty one when I am in receipt of it. Reading between the lines I do not think you have the facilities to repair it.  Sorry to do this via the forum but its the only way I have got a response

Still can’t view preorders

The correct verdict...

The correct verdict...

10:00 am om 10 January. RMweb is probably a better bet than the Hornby website to get the update.

Has anyone here heard of railway modelling fora? You can take pictures of and write about model railways and post them online for other people who share your interests to see. What's more, everyone can read through and post with just a single login, without having to shoot off to random social media pages that they might not like using. I know a really good one called RMWeb. You can find it here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php

I'd highly recommend joining!

Is anybody else getting these annoying pop up videos every time you click a page,it's driving me daft.

Wow, what's happened to this place? Pop up ads everywhere that I guess no one needs. Really awful.

Northern Exposure 

Hello Gary, I've also been trying to get hold of them without success. 

Willie Wonka

Street Hawk!

This Is The Story Of Ronald Opus…

My callsign is 37188 Jimmy Shand.

Main Force Patrol

Armed Forces Day - Red Arrows just completed their flypast over RMweb Towers.

Meet Aristophanes Smythe

Someone in our street has been given a drum kit.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhh

Dear Russ,

I just came across your post regarding unbuilt railways of Feb 19th 2017.

I moved to Sinnington about three years ago and have found out some more details about the proposed Rosedale and Lastingham line which was planned to join up with the Gilling and Pickering line close to the Sinnington railway station, then run northwards up the valley of the river Seven (yes, that spelling).

Other details below:

Rosedale & Lastingham Light Railway

A standard gauge light railway was planned to cover the eight miles from near Rosedale Abbey to a junction with the NER's branch that ran east from Helmsley to Pickering and west by way of Gilling and Coxwold to Malton on the main York-Scarborough line. The connection to the main Ryedale branch was to be made at Sinnington near Kirkbymoorside and received local financial backing in the early 20th Century. The scheme was promoted by a Mr Pope of Lastingham. A Light Railway Order was passed on 31st July, 1900. Nearly two years would pass before anything else was done.

The line would follow the dale down which the River Seven flowed, with stations foreseen at Applleton-le-Moors, at Askew for Lastingham and near Hartoft. Building the branch got no further than the sod-cutting ceremony near Rosedale Abbey on 14th June 1902, with the squire Captain Darley presiding. He later remarked, "It was the worst champagne I have ever tasted!" William Swales of Lastingham staked out the proposed route and nothing further was done.

A proposal to connect the light railway with the Rosedale West Branch - despite the yawning gap in altitude - may have been instrumental in bringing the scheme to a halt. It was remarkable that the railway was at all put forward, considering the area population was in decline. Ironstone mining was also past its peak, so the financial momentum for the line would have been lacking. Tourism alone - seasonal by nature - could not have kept the line open where the bulk of the income would have been used on hiring rolling stock and motive power. There was little likelihood of the NER becoming involved, although it supplied locomotives and stock for the Easingwold Light Railway between Thirsk and York.

Interestingly it is part of village folk law that during the 1950’s, following on from the success of lines such as the Tally Lyn railway, the idea was resurrected as a narrow-gauge line.

The Light railway order has never been rescinded and this line (technically) could therefore still be built.

The scenery along the proposed route is everything that it would need to be..

There are also a couple of 2-foot gauge O & K steam locomotives (and an O & K diesel in a yard in Willenhall…

Anyone for plate laying???