DavidLong

Alessandro Sabella!!!

Has treated himself to a new backscene using the Captain's photos.Superb work all round.

Sat in a camping chair in a field waiting for James Blunt to come on stage

Finally got round to using my resistance soldering iron. Starting gently with a few small laminations...all OK so far..

Right now, 50 years ago, the last ever passenger service is leaving Southport before the closure of the old South Coast Line that ran to the Gold Coast. This year also marks 125 years since the line first opened, on January 25, 1889.

Right now, 50 years ago, the last ever passenger service is leaving Southport before the closure of the old South Coast Line that ran to the Gold Coast. This year also marks 125 years since the line first opened, on January 25, 1889.

The sun has got his hat on, hip, hip, hip.......

Following on from 'train station' we now seem to have the even more ghastly 'train tracks'. I'd say that it sounds like something a six year old would write but that would be to insult a lot of intelligent six year olds . . .

Amazing number of Minitrix locos on ebay and they all have bids on them. Unbelievable!

Amazing number of Minitrix locos on ebay and they all have bids on them. Unbelievable!

Amazing number of Minitrix locos on ebay and they all have bids on them. Unbelievable!

Happy Birthday to me....

is going to the IRRS lecture tonight. #irishrailwaysignalling

blimey, the French PM is trying to bore the world to death before commenting on his little 'indiscretion''

The Finching Sisters live at the Ricoh Arena.Why not, we've had Take That,Rod,Bruce and Muse in the last couple of years!

is somewhere in the 1920s.

Its the Winter Solstice very soon:D Look east young man!

What is it with these small new housing developments, that like to call themselves such nonsensical twee names as 'Badger's Grove', 'Foxglove Mews' or 'Meadow Rise' etc. etc. - you know the ones I mean - you can find them all over... Why are there no 'Blast Furnace Streets', 'Corporation Car Park Avenues' or 'Engineering Factory Roads'...?!

Reading 'Britain's New Railway' (1966). You can tell it is 1966 because Mr.Nock refers to problems and not challenges ;-)

Wagons - the useful alternative to getting on with the layout...

Where have all the flowers gone?

He sees angels in the architecture/Spinning in infinity

So neither myself nor any neighbours have had post since last Friday, yet most of us are actually waiting for items to arrive. Good old Royal Mail.

Where's my storm then?

To Hull and back