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Yep! Nice little display piece, your scratchbuild barn fits in well with the Airfix/Dapol buildings, and the right loco to see that Santa is on the footplate, I wonder what else will they turn it into!

Check the wording in your insurance. A model railway tends to be treated as a collection of items, in which case you have to list them all, or a single high value item in which case they want to know what security precautions you have. It would be a good idea to make sure that the door and window fr...

Trying to judge their colour, are those the original design of point switches with the sprung contact that gave just one pulse? They were much sought after in the late 50's as they were just about foolproof whereas the later simplified design pulsed both coils as it was moved, and worse could be hel...

Hi Tom, welcome to the forum. Baseboards come in a host of configurations. You say that you are disabled which could make quite a difference to the best sort of baseboard for your needs. An 8x4 board is a heavy beast of a thing for any of us and single piece boards of this size are probably responsi...

Looks a confident start, landscape preceeds railway, by a few millennia. I'll try not to delete this one

I think Peco hedged their bets by making the chassis EM friendly, many of the kit builders of the time were experimenting in 18mm or P4, it was only when Airfix, Ratio et.al. got into the act that wagon kits ceased to "specialist" products.

here we are. A "Plastic Pig" would have been just right for the PO Tunnel down to New Street.

Next a road vehicle in early BR colours!

i've heard the tales of the level crossings in Burton several times, the bus drivers would go on about them forever and the fact that they made a nonsense of the timetable.

I think they were aligned to clear the original Triang Tensionlock which are quite thin and held in line by a hollow rivet. The thicker hooks and flexible mountings of the NEM types might clash with them, and the force required to operate the mechanism might be a bit much for the push in couplers to...

Yes No20 is a bit of an oddball, I've not seen a BE loco of that style before the noses are much shorter than most.
{Edit] Seems I miss identified it, it's a petrol powered loco (transmission not stated) which makes the design even more oddball!

That's the mechanism in mine. It comes from the prehistoric period of engineering, it's quite heavy and I would definitely hesitate to fit it with plug-in couplers. Once the mechanism is detached from the operating levers, it's quite light to operate and could be adapted with a small solenoid. The b...

I've thought about it many times, after all it's only when we have visitors staying that the two doorways it would block are needed.

I have one that looks as though it should work, but on a preserved line with its 25mph max speed there's not much point, it looks good just standing in the parcels bay.

Are you sure it's not Playcraft? The headless buffers look like their work.

Thanks Ex-Pat, yes I see what you mean about it being more American.

Weren't they a home built response to the design of some imported Pullmans? The inset vestibule doors and the huge clerestory are very Pullmanesque. Magnificent coaches must have given a marvellous ride!