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Just a thought,
last I heard he was leading CIRAS after being MD South Wales & West
until privatisation. We were cycle racers in the Southampton area
back in the early '60's. He nicked & married my girlfriend, it took
me until their 25th wedding anniversary to almost forgive him.

Geoff T.

Hi aleopardstail,

As you spent some years in the Railway Industry
did you come across John Mummery - South Wales Area ?

Geoff T.

Nothing to do with railways. Hey & watch this manager knocking, or perhaps not. I was a manager at a distribution & sales depot. We had received a mandatory ban on ANY capital expenditure. I was called to head-up a product recall exercise where I worked half my time in Kingsbury North London...

Hi aleopardstail, It's an enamel, O.K that is old fashioned, but that's what I've always used since the 1960's and I generally understand how to work it. At least with Lysander's comment I can rest that it's not been me over thinning. Some paint's I've had never fully hardened, Hannan't Xtracolour e...

Current state of play. This Railmatch paint is taking it's time to harden with the rather glossy finish showing off the less than perfect silo seams..All the top piping in with just the walkway and two ladders to add, but some decaling to do first. https://i.ibb.co/MMvqqrW/IMG-5245.jpg My 9 year old...

Hi Mountain, Paul Bartlett's site has both colours and some streaky worn liveries look like the late Bauxite has been over painted on the original brown, but worn off in places !! His site has a good selection of photographs of the 1/277 diagram, even couple of the short 10 ft wheelbase version 1/27...

I do like the idea of them making more 'In-House' where possible. I can't go much further as I have to wait for some glued joins to fully harden before I can sand off to get the finish I want. Both hopper tops just resting on with a few other 'bits' just plugged in for a photograph. Alongside is one...

Hi phred,

Probably made in china with the cheapest steel the factory could find and
made up wheels thrown in a bin by the 1000. What you get is sheer luck.
I once rang Dapol when the non-magnetic ones started to appear - They had
NO idea of what was being used !!

Geoff T.

What else on a wet day ? I can't recall if I fitted brass bearings in my 2015 builds. I have on this with the usual requirement for Dapol kits. Use a 2.0 mm drill to bore out all axle boxes JUST SHY of drilling right through. Then open the top slightly with a 3.0 - 3.2 mm drill, enough to accept the...

As it's such a shockingly awful day I shall start my next wagon build. Another Dapol, and an interesting wagon, The BR made fine powder twin silo from 1960. There were 2 different diagrams of this wagon made, 30 with a 10 Ft wheelbase followed by 100 with a 12 Ft wheel base and this is the version t...

I've had a think about the Parkside PC-35 kit, I can't be kind about it so will not be doing anything in depth. PC-35 is a Conflat 'S' with a DX 4 ton open container. The original design was LNER, where the containers were I read, painted a shade of Oxford Blue, with white markings. The Conflat bein...

peterm, I expect that's what the car workers thought - until all the works closed down ! Anyway back onto subject. The Dapol 16 Ton steel mineral wagon kit. My last photo from this build, now with decals on. I still have to weather, but as yet don't know for what use. Chalk usage means very white, c...

The use of 'Way' predates the English language even getting to the Americas. a "Way" was & still is used to indicate a passage of movement. Right of Way Drovers Way Ridge Way Passage Way By Way Tram Way Rail Way Way Side Carriage Way It is even used to describe a method as used in Fran...

Mostly 2 similar, but rather different languages.
American & English, there can be several embarrassing confusions.

Geoff T.

I suppose it's all still going on .... Even in our hobby. At the club's exhibition in July a guy I'm trying to get to join us bought a brand new factory sealed Hornby sound fitted loco - I wasn't particularly interested in the actual loco, but said he could run it on the club test track. Box opened ...