2E Sub Shed

Just been using the copy function in draft listings, as I have a number of similar items to list , and every time it adds International shipping / postage to the listing which I have to delete. Bit of a pain after the 15th time of deleting it.

In the Key Publishing magazine "English Electric - Loco Builder Extraordinaire", published in 2017, it gives after the 1st fifty had been converted in 1964, a figure of "over £6 million for the fleet-wide replacement". However in the same paragraph it states that the British Transport Commission and Mirrlees reached a financial agreement for compensation , the details of which have never been released.

And as a matter of routine, at Waterloo on an Exeter bound service, the on train staff well before departure, helpfully remind passengers, that they are as likely to see a catering trolley on the service, as a live Dodo, and advise making a return visit to the station concourse vendors.

Mention of "Whirlpool" white goods, reminds me of a photo in one of the books in my collection of Ferry Wagons in Northampton Castle Station Goods shed in the 1960's captioned as containing washing machines from Italy. Philips had a large warehouse outside Northampton at the time.

And six of these "pre-packed" items can be combined into a single P&P charge, one assumes into a single package.

In 1926 B-L moved to a new build home in Northampton, "New Ways" the first "modernist" house in the UK, where the main room was specified to the architect to be "large enough for dancing".

Never bought the magazines as I was a (very) armchair modeler for a number of years awaiting retirement and the great layout in the loft / spare room / shed, and was not aware of them. It was buying a copy (and then several more), of the booklets that has brought me back into active modelling. Chris's coverage of small layouts showed me that I could actually complete something and get it working and not spend all my income, rather than build a large single interest layout that i might never finish. They & Chris's enthusiasm are partly to blame inspired me to add North American HO and German HO to my range of interests. Also now fortunate to have possession of one of the micro layouts featured in a MTI.

eBay automatic bidding software ?

My best eBay week so far resulted in 18 packages and a queue of 10 behind me at the Post Office. Have to go into town with that many as I would overwhelm village post office's holding facility (sack). Been caught out with pre-wrapping before auction ends, when a bidder wins multiple items, not really fair to take two lots of P&P.

If there is no transformer in the controller, then it will most likely be a 16 Volt AC input, possibly 12 volt DC. DO NOT connect 240 V to the unit.

As someone confronted by well over 2,000 items (so far) that require re-boxing, you may need to do a little more than shove them in the loft . Sorting this situation out for a family member who has no knowledge and has a considerable amount of rolling stock to dispose of. Fortunately between Hattons web site and eBay have been able to match rolling stock to boxes.

I seem to recall that the BBC 1 drama series (late 60'S) "First Lady" with Thora Hird, had an episode where the "Beef" in a Indian restaurant was Cat.

I have helped at a large, i.e. several thousand attendance, (non model railway or railway) event where a youth organisation assisted with the Car Parking. Due to the aggressive behaviour of some of those being directed to parking by a young person, they withdrew from supporting the event. A sad reflection on society.

Such was the use of railways to move airmen in the early post WW2 RAF mindset, that there is a story relating to a transfer of airmen from RAF Compton Bassett (or RAF Yatesbury which was next door) to RAF Lyneham which was undertaken by transfer to Calne Railway Station by lorry, train travel to Wootton Bassett Railway Station and onward transfer by another lorry to RAF Lyneham. A look at a map of the area would show a more elegant solution.

Bus companies used a range of ex-military vehicles as towing vehicles and other Engineering uses, some lasting in use into the 1970's . Some Matadors became un-recognisable having bus type coachwork bodies built on them. Although one company used a Gun Tractor. See "National Bus Company Service Vehicles 1972-1986" by Michael Hitchen.

Re Cockley Brake Junction - Have located a photo on the web. An original photo of the point work has been photo-shopped onto a 2018 view of the site. Link to photo of Junction Pointwork

A Gloucester Warwickshire Steam Railway Blog reports issues with the use of an alternative "Black stuff" to fuel locos on Saturday GWSR C&W Blog 12th March

Did not one of the guest workers on an episode of the Repair Shop TV programme have a special apron to catch the gold scraps from filing and cutting gold as he worked ?

In the early 1990's there was a Reliant Van belonging to a local tyre company in Newbury that on the rear had a sticker stating it to be a "3 X 3"

An the next step will be that the electricity distributor will be able to remotely cut your supply off when there is excess demand on a per household basis, so we will all end up drinking tea in the streets registered "at risk" person's house who still has a supply.

Cockley Brake Junction - Junction of the Northampton & Banbury Railway and the LNWR Buckinghamshire Branch after 1872. The two single lines converged via a scissors crossing to form a short double track section before becoming a single line to Banbury.

In Adrian Vaughan's "The Faringdon Branch & Uffington Station", it includes a drawing of the station layout, in which the right hand point of the run round loop is shown further to right (i.e. towards London), than the OS map extract included. There is also a description (on page 85) of the signalman's actions when a locomotive was running round a train (shown in one pictures as a 2-coach train), which does not mention the action of pulling forward or reversing the train. However the description of the operation identifies that it required 21 lever movements to achieve this.

Best use two servos and separate control boards as you can adjust them individually for travel, i.e the throw of the point. If the control boards work by applying a ground to switch direction, i.e. move the servos, then a couple of diodes will combine this to a single switching point, e.g. Single Pole switch, however the servo travel of direction needs to be in sync, so they will each need to be mounted "the right way round" to operate together to switch the crossover. Assume if you are using CBUS, you can get over the both moving the same way by using logic in CBUS. Suggest you ask the question on the MERG Forum as suggested above.

I had some luck in finding a back issue of MTI from the Rother Valley Railway - Link to Back Issues Page . Also there is the Vintage Carriage Trust who also sell back issues VCT Magazine Sales

Hi You d have the option of cancelling a postage label, which I did, just do not see the refund for a month while Royal Mail waits to see if you try to use it.