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The Highland Railway used distants to this sort of effect. I can't quite remember the exact details off the top of my head (at this hour!)... Andy G

Its at the store at Wrawton (the airfield place down south), but sadly its been damaged in storage. A friend offered to provide replacement parts but it was turned down. Andy G

NR has five units... 311, 376, 379, 385 and 385. Andy G

The stove from that box was, after the box was closed, recovered by the S&T gang for spares for the other stoves along the line. They recovered it by gently throwing it off the balcony at the top of the stairs. The bits required were then removed. My mate (who was a bobby down there), then got the remains. I now have it in my living room. It has a lovely crack across its base, and is missing a few things even now, like a hinge pin (a bolt is serving for this) and the bottom damper door (a London Brick serving for this). I really must get round to sorting it out, but every year it gets a bit of fire cement and is pressed back into service! Andy G

I would have thought that it would just make the ORR dig their heels in more.... I know I would. Andy G Maybe they'll have another lawsuit over this as well?

Aye, thats a good road for the Cambridgeshire fens.... Us in the Norfolk Fens have lovely smooth well maintained roads....😵 Andy G

Next to our level crossing here in Littleport there is an underpass that used to be a road. Its advertised height is 8'3". One day I was happily minding my own business with the gates across the road for a train to come. I then watch a full artic approach and then turn to go under the underpass. Thinking that this is going to be interesting, I get ready to throw back, but to my surprise the driver of the artic slows down to a crawl, but continues to go down the slope towards the bridge. And he keeps going, and going, until he stops about 3 feet from the bridge (the train has now gone), and then starts to reverse. I can only think he stopped as he was still looking over the top of the bridge when he did stop...... It was wonderful watching him make a right old mess of reversing up the slope for the next half hour..... Andy G

What issues are they? My two moggies (not including the one above) both love E10. The only issues could be the rubbery bits, but it cost me about £20 to change them on both motors.... Makes me laugh when I read about people filling on E5 with their Minor. And yes I use mine every day, so I'd soon find out what issues there are! Andy G

I'm talking about the new Hornby wheelsets that you can buy... Andy G

Look what I picked up this week: Lets just look in the cab shall we? What are these: That'll do rubbery thank you! Yeap rubber wings... its a 1954 rubber wing GPO engineers van. A bit of a Morris minor holy grail. Needs a lot of work, but theres no rush. Andy G

Interestingly the first photo shows it running on standard steel rims! Andy G

Plastic axles are easy. Force the old triang wheels off, and then get some Hornby coach wheels. Push the insulated bush out of the middle of the wheel pan, and then it will fit on the plastic axle. Andy G

Thats sounds familiar. Way back when the 1938 stock was taken over there, our family took advantage of a Network Day (remember them?) and went from King's Lynn for a day trip to the IoW. We were lucky to get a 1923 stock train to Shanklin, and after a quick wander around the return train was a set of 1938 stock. Dad got talking with the crew and it turned out that the old stock was being kept in service as the new stock had got serious bogie cracks appearing, owing to the track being on shingle, not ballast..... Andy G

Presumably the Mk2Z stock was used as it was vacuum braked unlike the later Mk2 stock, so could run with the Met-Camm saloon? Andy G

I am good for a fiver for Thomas' fizzog. ie I'll give you 5 English pounds for Thomas's face..... Ag

https://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-101/observation-saloon implies that it was 1989 that the green/cream mk2 were painted for the Kyle line.... With the last season being 1994. Andy G

Interestingly my parents bought their house in King's Lynn in the '70's, from the Gotobed's, who owned the shop that existed up until the turn of the century in Littleport (and which is now, of course a charity shop). Very much a local name.... Andy G

Looking at the photos above, it appears that you have inadvertently put steps on the inner ends whereas the real thing didn't have them... Andy G

The translators are interesting too, the leading one having two sets of double doors fitted, one each end.... Andy G

What's 'classic valeting'? Does their Butler and Footmen come and clean the car? Andy G

Its between the piles of the bridge over the canal at Outwell basin. You can see the pile caps at each side of the photo, so these are not original trees! Andy G

Don't you believe it.... I live on the fens and we have lots of deer running around (the little ones, those without the pantographs). Andy G

Look the distant's off! I don't think we've seen it off before have we? Andy G

The one I've seen was in the RM. It was basically fitting Romfords to the existing Lima products and leaving everything else the same. Just doing this makes a huge difference. I started on one to widen the footplate along the boiler (easy enough) then I cut the cab sides off and widened them, and filled in the roof (which was tricky to get the roof profile right). I was going to use Airfix tenders. But then I got a couple of Wills ones, which are much better apart from the silly raised bit between the frames at the leading end. I still need to cut them out and make them thin. The worst part is using the triang cylinders, hence the scrounging of the lima ones! I might one day build up the comet chassis for them... Andy G Edit: For some reason the front bufferbeams are invariably damaged on the Lima Crabs, I think all the ones I've had, had variable levels of damage, and a peculiar upward lift to the footplating behind it. They also suffer from Mazak rot with the weight over the driving wheels, that locks them up.

The driving axles on the Lima Crab are not 1/8th, as you have to open out the slots in the weird plastic to accept 1/8th axles when you fit romfords to them (I've done that, but have now moved over to Wills crabs!). Does seem an odd thing to do to keep the Lima pizza cutters. If you do scrap it, can I have the cylinders and valve gear please, as I use it on the wills ones..... (And yes I did hear the scream from here!). Andy G