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captrees wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:56 am If you hadn't said it was afternoon, it would be what my mother would call a misty-moisty morning.

Definitely afternoon, captrees. I have mentioned previously that sometimes the sunshine through the window plays 'wonderful tricks'.

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When I see those military types on the platform it triggers a memory of the smell of cigarette smoke on my father's army uniform. Funny how the brain works. Yes. When I see certain road haulage vehicles 'I am transported back' to travelling the old A roads (pre motorway) to Liverpool. Glencairn

No trains running, just trees and shrubbery growing on a sunny Spring afternoon
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Red Squirrels at Roseville Station.
Looking towards Crown Point Yard
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1914/1919 A southbound troop train comprising mainly of North British Railway rolling stock, seen at Leeds Sovereign Street Station IMG_3044.JPG A passenger train of LNWR rolling stock on its way to Leeds, passing Crown Point Yard IMG_3048.JPG A Leeds to Dewsbury Market Place freight train at the Ju...

Mountain wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:50 pm I still do my own thing!

'Allan Water' has a coal bunker in front of the cab.
A mix of home-made private owner wagons at Leeds Sovereign Street Station.
A scene at Clarence Dock Goods Yard.
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Jaz creates a magic of her own.

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STUNNING!!!!!!!!

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I used to either paint my own liveries or copy them from photos, though the trouble with copying from old photos is one does not have a clue in regards to their colour. I painted one open wagon that came from Cardigan in Wales in red, because I thought to myself "I may as well pick a colour as...

New wagons slightly weathered to knock the sheen of newness off.
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Purchased three limited edition wagons from Yeovil Railway Centre.
Two LSWR wagons to go with my Leeds, Scarcroft & Wetherby Railway fleet of rolling stock. Also purchased a boxvan I like.
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I see that more rolling stock has arrived at Llwyndrissi Halt.

You can never have too much (so I tell myself).

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It does look wet. Hehe! Not many model rainy days. I'm looking at that photo and thinking 'Gee, I can actually smell the wet ground!' Then I realise the window next to me is open and it rained last night. :roll: Thank you, gentlemen. I am just daring to do something different. Just clear varnish th...

I have been going through old photographs

Clarence Dock Goods Yard After the Rainfall
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Like your choices. It was simply irresistible to break up 'Noconnectingrods' into three short names all beginning with N, once their absence had been noticed... I wondered how you came up with the names. :lol: Well done. I have a group of locomotives on named on Greek mythology. Hence the names cho...