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In the old days two tail lamps indicated the royal train. Three.. Maybe a member of the illuminati is being conveyed!

Thanks for the kind words. You're right about Norfolk layouts, there doesn't seem to be too many based on Norfolk. Suffolk seems more popular for some reason, could be that Suffolk doesn't have the amount of flint buildings that we have up here. AFAIK there have never been any ready to plant ones

I think I have some SE finecast if you get stuck

Hi Pete would it not have been easier to make it from card and cover in some thin plastic such as SE finecast

Are they all yours kit? They're excellent did all the HS's have the recessed lamps? I know HSRs were flush. I used to have the chevette's main competitor a while back, the sunbeam lotus'. I have since bought slower more practical classics for Norfolk roads namely a metro turbo, maestro EFi,MGf and my everyday transport BR maestro van!

Truly excellent Dave the 96 pictures are just about the time it all started going down hill. All bring back very happy memories. Thanks

I like that Pete, needs a vintage round top colour light to complete the scene

Thanks again Kit, don't know if you have seen this before but gas turbine powered Leyland vehicles are still alive and well, although as an MGf owner myself I can see this must be a pig to work on . interesting non the less as its got APT style transmission! https://youtu.be/gfJ6iVVVHIU

Thanks Kit, that truck sounds awesome, just a shame it was another blind alley for BL. Is that engine descended from the rover one latterly in the P6? It make me smile regarding the turbine P6 that it got as far as a turbine friendly engine bay with offset suspension lasting throughout production. Can you imagine if it had gone ahead when home vehicle maintenance was almost mandatory especially among working men. Some bloke bodging a repair to his super high revving but long past its best P6 on a Sunday morning only for to explode as he drove back from the pub after six pints!... I've watched strategic air command many times excellent film some great B47 footage too. Apparently James Stewart actually qualified on them later as he was an air force reservist

Cheers, Derek. I bought an Eastern counties base toys MW last week,it's currently downstairs with my diecast but it will be upstairs soon. The water does seem popular, it's only PVA

Thanks Scott, hoping to get some work done on it soon , had intense radiotherapy last year and I'm only now getting the energy to start modelling again. Ice been buying stuff over the year so I must get cracking!

Possibly en route to wagon shops for exams or repairs

You'd have thought that they would have done a buffet car as they could have done a blue and grey one. Seems an odd absence when they are doing two brakes

Sorry Kit, it's JT3 not 8. Oh Conway 707 I'd forgotten them. I'd have loved to have heard it. Would Leyland have managed to silence it in a truck,if it had been successful imagine the noise at motorway service stations with all these starting away. Gas turbine engines are truly multi fuel the extra podded jets fitted to the B36 bomber ( were they j35s?) ran on avgas ( petrol) the tanks on that must have been huge as it had capacity to do a USA to Russia and back to some rubble where the US had been without refueling as they couldn't (at first?) refuel mid air With regards model aircraft I had on a previous layout an airbase perimeter fence ( complete with anti nuclear supporters) and a model of a B47 coming into land over the layout

Thanks Kit, the last time I was at Mildenhall which is a few years ago there were still a few C135 derivatives with JT8s which I think we're the military version of the engine so I get the basic idea of sound. One thing I've never thought of before is what fuel did it use?

How loud was it kit? Say compared to an HST or was it more like a DH Trident without the thrust crackle? Cheers

Well mine finally downloaded and installed on Friday. Everything seems to work, but what's all the hype about it? It has the buttons on the bottom but other than that it doesn't seem to do anything my windows xp did

I like that, hope your kids have outgrown Lego or the won't have anything left!

The problem is with long girders the grow proportionally in height, sometimes with more than one row of panels I also have one that crosses two lots of four with concrete beams and cast iron girders over another two. Both with brick above them. I quite like making bridges (and burning ones with the school!!)

As I took a couple of shots for another thread I thought I'd put them on here too. Apologies for lack of a bus!!

Here's a couple of another one

I have a couple of bridges where I've assumed that both sides were built at different times which is very common I've used full plate girder on one side then cast girder and brick in the other like this http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_11_2014/post-9362-0-81286700-1416150673.jpg The wills walls are very similar to the ones on the GE round Maryland. Have a scroll through my thread

There are some really trick bits of kit for MFD, I went on a course to use it years ago. We had to right a 100t tank that was on its side. This was done by the use of a steel rope ladders that were put round the tank. Two pairs of tall jacks were used on this to kind of twist the tank upright

It's obvious now to me why Gresley didn't build his 4-8-2 heavy passenger loco now.... There was no letters in the alphabet left to give it a class!!

The Norwich to Liverpool service doesn't suffer much timing wise with a 156 . I used to be a driver on central trains and 156s on the route used to really P me off, especially when you got 170 on a Worksop service. I'm sure with 158s it could be sped up a bit. From Norwich or Peterborough to Manchester it's actually quicker to go via Leeds