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FFS Trainlover, it was NOT top and tailed, Tornado ran round at each end ! Some of us were there !

I'd glue them shut, but then most of my locos get a lot more 'damaged' than just glueing the doors shut. "Pretty but noisy" seems to be the default review on these things. As for coreless motors, DJM's response on the forum he chooses to engage with amounted to buy another controller as he...

Not sure I understand that Bufferstop, there wasn't another 'leading' loco in the Skipton - Appleby direction, the single 67 stayed at the Skipton end in both directions. The timetabled service was the 09:47 Leeds to Appleby. This ran as a DMU between Leeds and Skipton as booked, passengers for Appl...

Arriving at Skipton this morning from Appleby:

Departing half an hour later:


All the southbound runs this week have been tender first - as LMB says - there's nowhere to turn it ! The diesel is only providing ETH power.

Here's New Galloway in 1964 with grass everywhere, even in B&W: http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/record/rcahms/64221/new-galloway-station/rcahms?item=634726#carousel http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/record/rcahms/64221/new-galloway-station/rcahms?item=634730#carousel Castle Douglas a year late...

As mentioned, observation of photos is the way to go. I'll post links later when I'm not on a phone but I have photos of my chosen prototype, a medium sized junction, and the goods yard was busy and largely weed free right up until closure in 1965. One of the smaller intermediate station yards, alth...

Mountain wrote:Going back to the subject of creativity and especially with our hobby, I do see the issue that we are being stifled somewhat with the excellent vast array of RTR products which we take out the box and plonk them on our layout...

Now that I can't disagree with !

The theory of evolution being taught as a fact rather then being taught alongside the other theories. Teaching will explore the many theories and let the pupil decide. I disagree with almost everything you've written but life is short so I'll just pick on this. No it isn't, at least not in the UK. ...

Dave, that's a work of art, but Paule23's previous posts suggest he's new to this (am I right ?), and in those circumstances I'd suggest better safe than sorry. I will, however, modify my earlier comment: Personally, I'd prefer the mechanical strength of screws, even on a small board, and even if yo...

You need the mechanical strength of screws, even on a small board, and even if you glue it as well. Otherwise the glued joint between the ply and the PSE will fail because every time you lift or move the board , or even lean on it, it will flex slightly. If the screws bother you countersink them and...

Grey paint (not too dark) on top of thin card, sprinkle pepper or talc into the surface while still wet to vary the texture, then a couple of washes of darker/browner grey to vary the colour a bit. Or ground up chalk pastel, dusting of powder paint etc, anything to add subtle tone. I wouldn't make t...

Why remove the bench ? Hinge the layout board at that point (like a door lifting flap but bigger) and lift it out of the way when you want to work, or build a sliding worktop on a couple of drawer/server runners and slide it underneath out of the way when not in use.

LondonFlat wrote:If the little man didnt live in the scale world, he would still live in ours

But he doesn't so the rest of your premise is false. Time doesn't scale. You can miss huge chunks of it out by running to a sequence rather than real time, but you can't scale it.

Time doesn't scale. Your little man would just take shorter steps than you to cover his two scale miles and his heart would beat at the same rate, just with much smaller quantities of blood involved. Pigeons perceive time as passing more slowly (apparently) in that they absorb and react to more info...

What Stuartp says is I believe correct for general purpose vehicles. When a 'foreign' vehicle was emptied, it would be sent back asap. A railway company disliked having other company vehicles on their system. No, the whole point of the common user system was that a foreign vehicle didn't need to be...