milkman matt

And I loved your late husband, Donald but such torture his memory brings.

suddenly someone is there by the turnstiles

It's been raining for so long.

and I loved your late husband, Donald. But such torture his memory brings.

His best effort to date was to say that we needed to "turn around and move forward" ! To the best of my knowledge, that would mean that we would be moving backaward!

I've never caught a Tube! I have boarded an undergound train at an underground station!

Would that be the same as identical? I have have a manager who starts sentences with, "what we need to do is turn around and...."

Possibly one small advantage of modelling from the other side of the world is that I don't have ready access to the real thing (Other than grainy and Amatuer videos on you tube) so I can't make comparrisons against models. I could go online and research an engine to the nth degree but I'm too lazy! . For me the best comparison is hold one of my more recent locos up against one from 10, 20 or even 30 years ago and see just how far the manufacturers have come over that period. I get very frustrasted with the press pickking on what really minor imperfections in a model and failing to appreciate the efforts of the manufacturer has gone to give us a more realistic looking model than was available 10 years ago. As one manufacturer put it some years ago, where do they draw the line as far as what detail to include on a model? Personally I applaud the efforts that manufacturers are going to to give us what we want but then again, I am on the other side of the world!!!

When we bought our house about 10 years ago, One of my many plans was to create a space for me to have a model railway. The garage was earmarked for conversion to a room for that purpose. Finally after years of inaction due to life, IVF, My Wifes cancer and just plain lack of money, I am about a month off having one. The house came with a "double" Garage but we never once put the car in it! Instead, it was used as a sort of storage shed/dumping ground for anything that didn't fit in the house or was not needed anymore. Eventually it just filled with "Stuff" and the trains got pushed back slowly into the "one day" category. That all changed last November when we received a gift that enabled us to afford to finally do something about it. Since then, my nephew and I have been working on it each Saturday and it is very nearly complete. This is how the Garage looked before work commenced. Those cupboards in the back are the halfway point of the Garage!! After clearing out 3mt of "Stuff" including the aforementioned cupboards we set up the wall frames to make 3 rooms. The front Half of the Garage will be the train room and the back will be divided into a craft room for my wife (2/3) and a storage room (1/3)! Another view of the train room under construction. Under all of that stuff in the foreground are cupboards containing my trains. You can also see what will become the storeroom in the back corner Moving forward a few months and now there is a door and front wall where the tilt door used to be. From the outside looking at the front of the garage. That large metal framework leaning on the shed was the frame for the tilt door!! The colourbond off the tilt door was used to protect the work during the winter months and later became the side of the chook pen. One window in and we finally get to move the colourbond and and replace it with small pieces of ply until we get the side windows sorted. For the side windows, I managed to pick up these 2 panels from a builders yard for $30 each. Just had to get frames made up for them. Like this! From the inside looking out through one of the completed leadlight windows. Windows in place and a coat of paint and we're getting closer by the day. Still need to finish off some trims and paint the side windows. The overall idea is to get the feel of an old station office. I think we have it right. Of course, the view from the inside doesn't feel like a station office! Maybe a nice mural on a wall outside the window?

Not anymore it seems. Won't display on my explorer.

Although not very active here, I live in Pakenham, Victoria. Close enough to most previous Victorian posters.

Here are som photo's from Victoria's "golden Triangle" taken in January this year. Ballarat Station plaforms under the overall roof. Clunes Railway station which was used in the Film "Mad Max". The station is currently closed but, is scheduled for reopening later this year One interesting feature of the platform at clunes is this planter on the middle post supporting the canopy Maryborough Railway station. Built to a grand scale! The Ticket windows at Marybourough station. All woodwork on the station was built solidly! here are just 2 of the doors on the platform The parcels scale built into the platform. And last of all, a long shot of the platform giving some idea of the length of the platform. The station is undergoing some restoration hence, the temporary fencing on the platform.

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