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Lady Eleanor... Lindisfarne

Mary's prayer.. Danny Wilson

Child of vision... Supertramp

Is the concrete one the Whitby bypass?

Bird inside a cage... Emily McGuire

Hi Derek, the top one is wills sheets and the bottom one is south eastern fine cast sheets. Both were painted in a light grey primer then dry brushed with humbrol red brick and odd bits dry brushed with a blue brick mix. Then I misted some model mates oil black die over it

Thank you. The grain store on the quayside is Walther's as is the concrete bridge and goods shed. The station building is an old 1970s Hornby kit that were actually rebranded polo ho kits. I've used one of these for the upper floors and scratchbuilt the ground floor so it doesn't look under scale anymore

How things have changed, the driver has no HV at all. Using a phone that before resignalling you weren't allowed to use under normal circumstances. Strangely he's actually using the wrong phone for some reason, the proper phone for that signal is the one between 3&4 middle

For those that are interested post 747 has been edited so there is the correct link for the 16v story, it was written before I found out my engine was a TR7 one

World start turning... Rick Springfield

I had modern cars for a short while, but for the last 8 years have gone back to the old stuff and much prefer it. As long as you can keep rust a bay its not bad. The van has no electronics whatsoever and does 60mpg on a run

It would have to go via Darlington by then as the Reilly mill to bishop Auckland line was closed in 68. If it was now they would send it round the houses is still in ton and eaglescliffe as companies seem scared of shunting and run rounds

The 1600 when setup properly was a good car and hoot to drive, but went out of tune very quickly. I had a rig with two DMU vacuum gauges to balance the carbs. The brakes were never very good on any of them and on the turbo with all that power could be very scarey. Nowadays if you use bigger wheels you can use MGF four pot callipers

Its the 2.0EFi, your right about the hot starting I used to own a 1600 in the 80s . can't imagine what they are like on modern fuel. The metro can be a pain to start on hot summer days which I put down to modern fuel. I had a maestro turbo and your right it flew. I also had one that I fitted a prototype O series 16v engine to which I only found out last year was for a TR7 the story behind it is here. http://www.maestro.org.uk/forums/blog.php?b=31 Other maestro's that I've had http://www.maestro.org.uk/forums/album.php?albumid=45 The current metro MG Metro Turbo: http://youtu.be/880Jhv72mto

Not quite as old as some of the others but never the less rare vehicles. The maestro is currently stored but the metro has had a few upgrades this year and is more than a match for modern traffic

Excellent pictures, 93 was coming to the end of the good days

Looking stunning pete

Run to her.... Mister mister

Excellent Chris, all you need is Michael Caine flying about in a mk2 cortina!!

If it was dropped today would cause thousands of pounds of improvements to the lobster!!!

King of sunset town... Marillion

I'm not sure of the current export situation but remember in the 60s the home market was absolutely massive in this country with very few foreign cars being sold here. And if we do produce more cars now, any profit goes to foreign companiesThe BL models built overseas were supplied with a lot of British built components so that would have entailed ferry van movements. You're right about innocenti in Italy, they built minis and there own little hatchback also called mini which used mini engines and subframes, it predated the metro but unfortunately had less room than a standard mini. They also briefly produced the allegro and called it the innocenti regent

It was because of 'industrial problems'at Longbridge went on for a number of years. Surprisingly the quality of the Belgium built cars was inferior to the British one and very few survive today, most having rusted away. What is not commonly known is that allegro's were for the day quite corrosion resistant. That would never have appeared in print as Britain's media didn't want any good news stories about and industry they were intent and ultimately succeeded in destroying

It was the signalbox until Colchester took over

I've had another look a the picture and I'm pretty certain that they are for export as there are triumph's on the train. Harwich was also used to import BL cars, both allegro's and minis were also built at BLs plant at Senneffe in Belgium