SGJ

Normanton and Pontefract railway modelers might be able to help, they had made a layout called Ramsfield that was based on Kirkgate in the 80`s / 90`s

https://nprms.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Normanton-and-Pontefract-RMS-201805369942268/photos/?tab=album&album_id=533094750146660

43091at Paignton, Preston, and presumably Leeds to Wakefield line

66415 and 66956 at Midland Road yesterday

43089 setting off from Leeds

43088 at Doncaster

Great pictures.

 

But there is some awful pun lurking near to the surface.

 

Cuba sugar anyone?

that took me the best part of an hour to get it, I`ll have one in my coffee

43086 on a 7 coach rake, Goodrington sidings

When Elland Road had proper floodlights...!

I heard Queen from a similar location 500 yards or so away when they played in the Elland Road ground, I was more into playing on the park at the time though

43084 at Leeds

There doesn't seem to be many XC liveried sets in this thread?  One of the better recent paint schemes.  The current garish swooshy EMT is one of the worst.

I don`t have a current livery cross country HST photo, how many power cars are in the livery ?

43082 at Chesterfield

43081 at Leeds

43080 at Preston and Exeter

I am still thinking about the road into the yard and the hard standing area, I am liking this look best ( nothing is stuck down yet though).

43079 going into Crewe station

A blurry 43078 ( I  think it is, but not 100% sure )

43077 getting close to Copley Hill going over the Dewsbury line before descending into Leeds

43076 looking a bit dirty at Wakefield Westgate and at Neville Hill

43075

I am not making a point or statement or want flames thrown in my direction but there seams to be a way on ebay to ask for a discount  ...http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/128138-ebay-best-offer-why-do-sellers-use-it/

43 073 at Derby and Neville Hill west end junction

Sound like the geezer (apart form the wellies and cap) who at a show picked up a scratchbuilt loco turned it over and said "Oh!! Not Hornby" and just plonked it down not even back on the tracks. I just stood there in shock muttering "he hasn't put it on the tracks" ......my mates took me away to get a cup of tea. No sorry when another of my mates challenged him.

It`s bad enough when the train derails on its own let alone the "hand of God" doing it too 

43071 at Totnes

The only 68 that I have seen so far is 68031 which was behind a Deltic and blue grey aircon mk2s going to Liverpool pictured at Neville Hill west end junction / Marsh Lane cutting

Hi Simon

 

What if your boss was to knock a few quid off your wages every now and then? Because that is what you are doing to traders when you ask for a discount.

That is a different situation however...

I asked one trader once for a small discount the reason I asked for the discount is that I had the cash in my pocket which was less than the ticket price, Frizinghall already discount the loco`s ( I don`t ask them to ), and online retailers such as Hattons, Rails etc have already discounted the models too

Also I used to have a model shop years ago, and if asked i gave discounts, the reason I stopped trading is because I was driving up to a show, it was raining quite heavily I had got passed Carlilse on the way up to the show, My car started aquaplaning ( I was doing around 50 - 60mph because of the rain ), the next thing I know I was facing the motorway in a field with my son Dominick shouting at me to wake up as I was unconscious, as I was coming round there was a lot of Dapol wagons around me, We spent the night in a hospital so that was the end of model retailing for me.

It was a long time ago  

Simon