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Get ahead of the game and build the new Oxford Road! Hope this works. On the present station, platforms 1 and 5 (the bay) only take four coaches and the others take six. And there are signalling restrictions which limit the number of trains. I like your long fiddle yard line for a Freightliner

Try reading aloud "Parliament Hill Fields" Rumbling under blackened girders Midland bound for Cricklewood

Not wishing to create more work for you, but 37688 is back in its ICI Great Rocks livery

I am still loving all the photos. So much change, but so much is still the same underneath. A minor mystery from Great Ponton J2439 in 1970 The signaller has reset the home signal, and normally the system of balance weights would have reset the distant signal. Either it is stuck, or you have captured a split-second! regards Peter

I got mine from Peter's Spares good luck!

Some genuine pairs - Have we had Duke of Sutherland and Duchess of Sutherland King George V and Queen Mary King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

All is well! I clicked on the OneDay ticket expecting a follow up to request Sat or Sun (I am going on the Sunday) Bit disconcerted when the email confirmation showed Saturday. Rechecked website to make sure I had not missed something. The tickets arrived and show One Day of Sat or Sun phew! I am posting this to help anyone else in the same situation

Of course, if it had lasted until the transfer of Bromsgrove to WR, it might have gone to Swindon for servicing and come back in lined green, and possibly with a copper-capped chimney! ( sorry if someone already suggested this pages back)

If it takes a railway modeller one year to build a model locomotive one foot long, how long does it take to put up a shelf three feet long??

Roads - there is a whole site - Sabre-roads.org.uk (Society for all British Road enthusiasts)

Hi Dave and friends Sorry to be a few days late The picture of ICI hoppers at Great Rocks is a useful prototype for modellers where both loaded and empty trains ran both ways. And the Nottingham to Derby local stretching into the distance - I remember an article (probably in Trains Illustrated) concerning the Bakewell to Derby, and Darley Dale to Derby where the stock went to Nottingham and returned as a single train. But the stocks were used alternately, and also the opposite way round. I am still enjoying my daily fix of nostalgia - thanks for the photos ( and for having the foresight to take pictures which one day are commonplace, and the next are history.

For pictures of Class 91 electrics in various stages of weathering ( see top of this page) and so much more besides, try Dave Ford's thread in UK Prototype Discussions

Hi Dave Love the Dinting photos - great to think that Bahamas, Leander and Scots Guardsman are still with us nearly three times their age in the pictures!

The pictures of Embsay prompted me to look it up on the NLS map site. I knew that a tramway left the sidings and curled round to a quarry in the hills to the right, but I have now discovered that it ran as far as Skipton Castle. There is always more to know!

Friends bringing locos to run at our exhibition would sometimes be reversed polarity. So we had a special bell code 3-3 for train on line and turn your controller the opposite way!

The New Mills and District Railway Modellers collect model railway items to sell on behalf of Blythe house Hospice; some online and some at exhibitions. Over £100,000 has been raised over about 20 years. See nmdrm.co.uk and follow Blythe House Information Peter

Dear Miss P I don't think we have met neither in railway station cloakrooms nor even on RMWeb threads, but I send you greetings as a railway enthusiast, railway modeller, morris dancer and church treasurer. Peter

Am I too late to suggest a partial mirror-image? Keep the viaduct on the left. Put the junction at the top, prototypically facing right after the viaduct, and all the fiddle yard at the bottom. Or put the viaduct opposite the door ( for a great view when entering the room), the junction at the bottom, and fiddle yard to the left. ( actually I suspect that you did all this long ago and rejected it for all sorts of good reasons!!)

I was helping on a friend's roundy-roundy and fiddle yard layout. A young lad said "do you know what's wrong with this layout, mister? You've only got these two tracks at the front to see trains, and you've got all those trains at the back that we can't see. It's the wrong way round!"

At one time in the 90's at Ingrow, the tender for Bahamas had disc front axle and two spoked.

Can I put in a bid for Brindle Heath where the fast lines from Victoria go over the others?

Next to it. In the pictures above, you can see the passenger line climbing towards Dove Holes and on to Stockport, then the "new" sidings - actually an extension of what was already there, then a large space - this was the site of the steam shed. There were always half a dozen sidings between the shed and the Stockport line - colloquially known as Donaghue or Doneroo

Hi - have you tried www.old-maps.co.uk There is a 1928 1:2500 plan with more tracks than your photo cheers Peter

Thanks for pointing me to this layout thread - another one to follow! The best sources are the photos of E. R. Morten and H Towneley - they went out together and often appear in each other's photos. The collection is widely available in Foxline books. Another good source is Trains Illustrated. There are a number of Groups on Facebook - Manchester, Derbyshire, Rowsley-Chinley for photos of local lines I was put out to find that 45712 Victory had a Fowler tender - we modelled it with a Stanier tender. Somewhere I have some spotting notes - a highlight was 70015 Apollo piloted by compound 40907 on consecutive days

Hi - ref 9074 at York - baseboards are for track, and scenery goes on the bits where you can't sensibly put more track! A good B&B just to the right of the Church regards Peter