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Thanks, I will need quite a few Bachmann grain wagons when they are released. Eventually there should be three locations on the layout dealing with grain

A couple of bridges I have built recently the smaller one will be a scenic break for a truncated branch line which is now a single siding serving a grain silo The longer one is to add some relief to what would otherwise be a fairly flat yard

It's dead easy so much easier than flock, its one of those tedious jobs which becomes quite satisfying. Next layout... I'm feeling very lazy seeing how fast you work!

Looking very good Pete, can't believe how quickly you have built it! I have a static grass applicator if you want to borrow it?

Fantastic, I didn't realise they'd got it to work in multi with a production power car. Good to see the exhaust cleared when it got a bit more use

There is an approximation of the three swallows on the layout to keep things real! I'm only about three miles from you so I wouldn't want all the light pollution too

And I'm afraid to say he isn't the only one, there are too many people getting in the seat of things they have no idea about... But they think they do....

Thanks simon. Its far from finished there will be a wells style gantry to load a coaster at the quayside when finished

And a couple of more recent ones

And a few more. The room is 16x12

Ahh two more

It won't let me attach anymore

Here are a few pictures of my layout, its far from finished and the stock in the pictures are mostly old stuff used for gauging. The scenario is that the port of Cley next the sea in Norfolk did not silt up in the 1500s and became a port to rival Yarmouth. The GE continued the main line to here. There is also a secondary route to King's Lynn and the Midlands ( more duplication for the M&GN!) The layout when complete will be a circuit with a triangle into the station which is a watered down Norwich but for space issues the King's Lynn line leg of the triangle is single it will be dcc an is set 1966/68 so green and blue diesels

I think this is the one http://www.aditnow.co.uk/mines/Whitehall-Pit-Iron-Mine/ I can't find my mining books still packed away after a house move over 3 years ago! The location on the map is not exactly where I remember reading about it

I'm pretty certain that in one of my books possibly the one about the Grosmont mines it makes a reference to a shaft near Bog Hall, I'll see if I can find the book over the weekend

I think the ironstone mine was somewhere where the boats are stored today. I don't think it was open very long but it was a shaft mine,it is referred to in one of Simon chapmans excellent books on the Cleveland mines, are you local to the area as Guisborough book shop and two bookshops in Whitby sell them. Not many down here in Norfolk!

Heljan actually do a teesside specific 27 and i have a mate who may be selling one but its 1960s not late 80s I will be experimenting with dock walls soon on my Cley on Sea layout. Did you know that in the 19th century there was an ironstone mine opposite Bog Hall on the riverside

There was a nice picture in a magazine a few months back of a 27 at South bank. There is a bit of 25/0 footage on here at north skelton http://www.nefacalfilms.co.uk/2014/01/13/week-commencing-13th-january/

I hope you have a Clayton and heljans non boilered 27? I remember an old boy at Thornaby telling me about a fatal incident at Hutton Gate level crossing where the guisborough pick up hit a milkfloat and the train was hauled by a 27 or as he called it a Birmingham

If your doing late 80s why not do Hawsker potash mine? The actual station but with a couple of exchange sidings, and assume the wagons were brought to and from the sidings by private locos. Excuse for a sentinel or even a 14

I would say it depends on how much time you have to spare? The full fat version would be superb, but there is a hell of lot of points to construct. How about starting with a post 84 layout that didn't get as rationalised as it did?

Thats right Alan, i have seen a sectional appendix entry regarding these signals in fog and falling snow. They appear on the box diagram as red arms but with a black outline ring around them

That's correct

The passenger service to Guisborough lasted until 1964, it was cut back from Loftus in 1960 after which the line between Guisborough and Boosbeck saw very little use but didn't officially close until 1964