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I'm not going to make a judgement on this but I do not believe the driver wanter to do that!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr5EztEPJS8&feature=youtube_gdata_player Look forward to reading the RAIB report for this one, just glad nobody appeared to be hurt and not significant damage done to the ...

Belated Congrats on the Marriage! That's a fair old size ship you got there, I may be mistaken as I know nothing really of ships, but the name Corvette (spelling) reminds me of ships helping the atlantic convoys and dropping depth charges and stuff? Might have been in a book I read when I was much ...

Shaun Wilson wrote:

hiffano wrote:our local cash shop will let you test anything if you ask.

wish my local shop would, that blond behind the counter is stunning.

Come, Come now, it is a Pawn shop, not one that sounds similar (as in Hardcore Pawn on TV)

Jim

Boxcar Willie wrote:......the whole assembly gallops round like an sheik's horse on the way home from the chemist's. .....

Going to steal that one, love it!!!

Jim

Outstanding modelling, out of interest how many locomotives do you have?

Jim

Wonder if that "Frosted Ultra Detail (FUD)" was so named with a bit of tongue in cheek, that Acronym is used to describe someone who is a bit stupid (among other things) up here in Scotland.

Jim

The Germans have another subtle method of ensuring that industry stays within their borders. For 13 years to 1999 I worked for the German tyre company Continental, my job was made redundant when they closed the factory on the outskirts of Edinburgh with production being transferred to low cost count...

Hi all Just a quick text update, the control panel for Northbridge East hasbeen completed, so I can get on with the scenic work shortly. Very unusually for me the new panel was built in a systematic fashion, which bore fruit as a diode matrix using 12 diodes to work 10 points from 8 push to make swi...

Generally speaking, The brake 2nd was usually directly behind the loco because it was not a through coach for passengers. That would be followed by either a full 1st or a 1st/2nd composite. After that it depends on the nature of the train...not all had restaurant or buffet facilities. The centre of...

Hi Locohunter - as with all queries regarding coaches and train formations, I would recommend registering for the BR Coaching stock Yahoo group http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BRCoachingStock/ . Robert Carroll has assembled an amazing amount of info, including actual BR stock formation registe...

I've always wondered if they ever misspelled "Britsih Railwyas" on any of those locos?! They famously got the later BR crest wrong, this was originally produced in left and right hand versions so that the lion always faced forward, but a dispute with the College of Arms meant that BR was ...

40106 never received blue livery right up to withdrawal, sometimes locos got so far past the mass repaint that they became celebrities, and staff would then do what they can to keep them that way.

Jim

Old Man Phil wrote:And dont forget, for the night mail you need a class 40 in green, say No. 326.

Front coach will be a Mainline LMS all steel BG, followed by an LMS sorting van

http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/greattrainrobbery

Agree with Bufferstop, I would definately fit some extra pickups. I had one of these and it ran superbly on clean track, but if the wheels got even slightly dirty and the track was less than 100% clean it stuttered badly.

Jim

Prototypically, the mailbag collection apparatus was gone about twenty years before the parcel red livery arrived. However, to repaint I would mask off the sides then lightly spray either a clear coat or a matching red colour to the exposed edges of the masking tape. This seals the edges to allevia...