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Photograph I dug up this morning of the two class 26s at Preston Station, Saturday 24th April 1992.

Jim

That reminds me Ian, i've had a plan to paint up a Terrier in BR Coal Sector colours for ages... 8) 8) http://www.freewebs.com/meadowlandsamrc/Coal%20sector%20terrier.JPG Chris P This is a J35 from the strategic reserve, secretly photographed in the 1990s.. http://www.jhowie.f9.co.uk/j35railfreight...

Thanks Clive - The Guttering is Evergreen 1.5mm half round Styrene strip, supported where necessary. The down pipes are 1.5mm copper tube, with small sectons of 1.5mm inside diameter tube sleeved over the top to look like joins and bent and soldered where required, if you really want to see a gutter...

Some great stuff there - The "railbus" would make an interesting modelling project for someone!!

Jim

A cheeky snipe bid on Ebay today netted three Peco points for £11.50 so the project 2013 I mentioned is now going ahead, still need one left hand point and some lengths of track to complete but i don't see that being a problem. Couple of Diagrams to show what I am doing Northbridge Control Panel lar...

HI Garret - have a trawl through this site http://www.timewarp.abelgratis.com/ch/classic.html It may take you some time to find what you are looking for, but it will be fun. There is a massive amount of data shouwing which locomotive ran with which train.

Jim

Hi John - That looks very ingenious indeed"" - If youwanted it a bit longer you could incorporate a drop down 45 degree gusset that bears on teh side of the cabinet, that could give you sufficient support for another foor or so.

Great stuff

Jim

Hi Steve - The layout is looking really great, that is my kind of layout (as you might expect). Those last two views realy give a great impression of distance. Thank God I didn't get into N gauge when I returned to the hobby, lord only knows what sort of convoluted track plan I would have ended up w...

Unfortunately for all it was a class 47 that has derailed and the fuel tank punctured. There is a video here of the fire-fighting efforts http://www.itv.com/news/granada/story/2013-01-23/train-derails-in-manchester/#video-firefighters-tackle-blaze-on-derailed-train_150767 . Unlikely that 47500 will ...

Well I thought it was a good programme, entertaining and a reasonably balanced views. Pity though it only brushed over the recent developments in the hobby, made no mention of the later commercial and technical changes such as the general move to China for manufacturing with the associated improveme...

flying scotsman123 wrote:Anyone got any ideas what to use for the old hornby points, as the whole thing moves, rather than just the lower half as with odern ones

Go with the wire bridging between the two rails as described above, it will work just the same for old Hornby points.

Jim

Hi On Insulated frog points you can add two Hornby digital clips (8232) per point. These make a connection between stock rail and the adjacent closure rail. These then remove reliance on the actual point switch blade making connection onto its stock rail when closed together. These are designed to ...

I think that the Warflat was the standard tank transportion vehicle in WW2, there is an extensive description of these vehicles here http://www.railalbum.co.uk/railway-wagons/military/index.htm Matador Models do kits of Military related vehicles http://www.matadormodels.co.uk/xtrain/lists%20train.ht...

DCL wagons remained in use well into the diesel era. I forget the name of the video but theres a cracking sequence of a class 17 on a rake in the suburbs of Edinburgh in the late 60. In the north midlands they had pretty much dissapeared by 1960. Due to the nature of the product, salt wagons were a...

Thanks for viewing and your history of Blackpool Central Station, Tornado. In its heyday (the station no longer exists) it had 14 platforms, reflecting the towns importance has a holiday destination. 265px-Blackpool_central_railway_station1818598_f45c256b (265x156).jpg If you were to stand where th...