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Family man.... Mike Oldfield or hall and oates

Just had a look at some on eBay, look like they would need a bit of work to get a decent model. Looks like they are mk1s

Aren't they a bit overscale? I've not seen one for a long time. They also did an 1800 I think

From the Oxford website it looks like the only ADO16 1300 is the GT, a shame really as much as I love GTs they weren't introduced until 69 which is a tad late for me,though I may sneak one in as I am helping a friend to restore one in the same colour as the Oxford one. But I hope they release more as it was Britain's best selling car in the 1960s.I was also hoping for metro's and maestro's but would prefer 1/43 for those.

Rain on the hills... Judie Tzuke

Red rain .... Peter Gabriel

I seem to think there was two of them in a navy blue colour

How about haligate, skipford, huddesford,harriford , bradgate, bradersgate, skipgate, hotley, ilksford,skelmasfield, harrofax... I could go on!

Flying in a blue dream... Joe Satriani

I was at Derby last year or so and I think the vehicle you are taking about was going for scrap. It looked like an EPB or SUB. They had to chain it to the 350 to move it,all looked very dodgey!

I'm also glad that Cley has stayed as it is. Just imagine if my idea was real,no doubt the line from Lynn would have closed along with the yards and depots. Would it have been electrified? Probably not. Two platforms would probably remain with sprinters and the odd visit by the short loco hauled set.flats by the harbour no trace of the bridge,car park and supermarket in the station yard for cheap supplies for all the DSS lot that live here. Yep glad it never happened!! Oh and it wouldn't be perfectly dark outside my front room window like it is now

The next task will be the diesel depot and the yard

This is a similar scenario to my layout, I have based mine on the port of Cley not silting up in the sixteenth century and becoming an important port similar to Yarmouth. I have therefore assumed the GE mainline continued out to the coast which met another GE route from Lynn and the Midlands. Cley is also a big holiday destination with summer Saturday extras from the Midlands and the north

A bit of progress this afternoon. Done a bit of work on a yard that will be Glandford p-way sidings hence the odd vit of fresh ballast

I will do,its work in progress at present. Had a huge tidy up last weekend as there was so many boxes under the layout you couldn't move. There is a hatch into some roof space that I'd put a few things in when we moved in but didn't take much notice of it. Turns out its about eight feet long fully boarded and plastered another small albeit low room in effect . storage now sorted. We've only been here nearly four years!!

That looks very neat and tidy Pete, I'm actually cracking on with my layout at the moment think you've put me to shame. I see from the view from the window where you got the name from!

It looks like it might get saved as the bidding has got above what the chav mini owner would pay for an engine and gearbox

I was the driver on 31439 when it was named at Grosmont, it was named by the actor Ian Carmicheal. At the time i had no idea who he was. But he seemed a very nice chap and insisted on having his photo taken with me

Excellent, interesting to see what looks like a stanier BG in blue and grey

Saves you buying a controller of any kind, the only power you would need would be to power the smoke generator in the scabs house!!!

Or ripping lineside cables out, save you wiring points and signals up!

Excellent again Dave, I always think Shirebrook looks like an unfeasible model,little country station with a quite sizeable diesel depot. You see it modelled but never looks right!! LD&ECR What a railway that would have been had it been completed, would have had Britain's highest viaduct crossing the midland on in monsal dale on an angle. And think of the current post industrial decay in the huge dock at Sutton on sea!

This went on for years,it was at washstones crossing, when I worked for central trains in the early 2000s he was there then... Takes all sorts I presume!!!

Easy to buy some 1:72 soldiers and paint them as policemen!!

Heart of stone.... Cher