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Usually go on Sunday, but this year it had to be Saturday - noticeably busier, but went to Hall 3 and worked back. A great show - easy to get to, easy to park, easy to find your way around. And well done to the staff involved with the Casualty and trying to keep part of the dining area clear at lunchtime - hope he was ok

Manchester Victoria - the L&Y wall map is about the oldest thing in the set - and just about the only thing you could see now!! Thanks again for all the photos kind regards Peter

Scapping? I thought they were new. Until I saw the pic from 1989!

C15309 Yesterday - now I know you have really been everywhere - you even have my house! Still enjoying the thread

My first post on this wonderful thread. Going back to the recent discussion of online maps, I use the OS site www.old-maps .co.uk. There are editions for c1880, 1898, 1923, mid 30's, 50s, 60's and 70's, but not everywhere was surveyed for all dates, and some later railways escaped altogether. ( aside - Devon County Council planned the dual carriageway trunk roads using maps from 1903) The later OS maps are marked in 100m squares. For initial planning purposes this equates to four feet in 4mm and two feet in 2mm After all, nobody builds a model to the exact size, do they?? ( and its's four foot three and three quarters for those who do)

Really enjoyed seeing this layout - and almost on my doorstep . And thanks to Innocentman and friends for letting me operate - not everyone gets a chance to drive the trains they saw from school past the house where they live. Now I'll go and run my Britannia, Jubilee 8f etc

Hi Dave - Glad we are back in business - ref the picture C8395 of Workington on Monday - the centre tracks have been removed but the ground signals are(were) still there - presumably to avoid changing the interlocking.

Check that you haven't got the inside of a wheel touching the point blade. ( How did I know to suggest that??)

Happy Christmas, David. Thanks for all your posts. From one of your regular viewers Peter

The viaduct in the first of today's photos is on the remains of the LNW line to Ashbourne. It provides an interesting prototype for modellers in that loaded stone trains go both ways, and returning empties go both ways. They run round in the sidings adjacent to the old steam shed in Buxton (mysteriously called Donaghue or Donaroo) which are currently being extended to allow longer trains. Trains between Tunstead Quarry and the cement plant at Hindlow have another run-round at Great Rocks/Peak Forest.

I'm just glad BR didn't repaint Jubilees, Scots 9F's etc so frequently - I've thought of modernising my layout to the current time, but my local trains have had four livery changes in two years.

I can't have missed many days in the four years of this thread. Thanks very much for all the posts - and for the foresight to take all the photos.

Any more Morris Dancers out there?

Single railcars were used on the Buxton-Milers Dale shuttle, so you could run one as empty stock non-stop. ps is there a shortage of Hyphens in Leeds? Here are some spares for Chapel-en-le-Frith - - - - - - - - - - - -

I've not used the harness myself, but I have looked up the picture. It should be green to two contacts one one side of the motor, and red and black on the other side. Which two colours have you linked to your spdt switch? It needs to be red and black. Confession time - I have a pl-11 . As a true Swallows and Amazons fan, I wired it as red for point set to left (port) , and green for right (starboard) . It would only change left. As a last resort I looked up the instructions and found that it should switch between red and black. It now works ok

A day late with my post 5731 of the lime hoppers at Chinley North Junction Note that the train is wrong line. it worked from Tunstead onto the down slow. The engine left the train and ran to Chinley Station North Junction (south closed in 1968) and crossed over. Ran to Chinley n j and reversed onto the train, and departed via a crossover. c 1967 this procedure was carried out with steam locos, involving turning on Chinley turntable. I seem to remember that the return working ran round on the down fast. Eventually ( c 1984) the south to east chord was reinstated for through running, with rationalisation to the two tracks through Chinley and one island platform that we see today.

Some time ago, someone wrote to the Times about something described as being "more pedantic" - surely it was pedantic or not. Then came the reply that something with three instances of pedantry was more pedantic than something else with only two.

Is the crank on the centre driving wheel correct? It looks to be leaning backwards rather than forwards.

One of my favourites is the Midland signal box at "Zagreb" in "From Russia with love".

Excel is useful for station nameboards - use white text on maroon background in sans-seri font and scale to size

In earlier times, the "pipeline" bridge carried a narrow gauge tramline for waste from the quarry on one side to form the embankment on the other side

There are some old photos here http://www.nabsend.co.uk/more_than_ch2.html Maybe someone could copy them into the thread. There is about a metre of narrow gauge tramway left on the remains of a loading bank next to the railway in Dove Holes dale. An interesting feature for modellers about the flows via Buxton is that loaded trains and empties go both ways.

One and a half million - it's not all me! But I do enjoy looking every day. Thanks for carrying on posting all the photos.

Didn't someone do an analysis of how many trains, how many trucks, how many tons, what calorific value and show that more power goes through the cable in Woodhead tunnel than could be generated by all the coal

I can't just locate the pictures - I think it's one of Peter Gray's books - of the engine off the Torbay Express working tender first, still with headboard, to Newton Abbot on a goods, and back the next morning tender first on a local passenger. It may not be quite your time period, but just say "well this is what it would have looked like if it had"