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Hi - Just spotted this layout, great stuff. I used to visit Deanside as part of my job about five years ago, the 08 shunter was still parked up but when I asked the guy that was acting as my host he couldn't remember when it had last been used. Jim

Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? - The Rolling Stones

But you do get a free hot breakfast, that cant be bad

Meanwhile at the other end of the country, a certain GWR loco was enjoying exploring strange new worlds! https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/35/509/

If anyone is interested, Dave is a member and occasionally posts on the British Railway Modelling Group on Facebook Jim

Sorry of resurrect an old thread but I recently salvaged a number of traffic cones (the red/white ones) from a display layout. and was wondering when they started to appear in the UK, would they have been about in say 1963 or is that too early? Thanks Jim

Bingo!!! This photo also shows the "mock catenary" and a 303 is lurking in the background to boot https://www.flickr.com/photos/monochrome_trains/4459929051/ Jim

Tonight I returned my focus to the back bridge parapet and some scenic dressing of the "old" trackbed, I had kicked this off a couple of nights ago and had placed a length of track in place and ballasted round about it, then pulled the track up before the glue had fully set, this gave the impression of the track panel having recently been lifted, tonight I went back and gave it some scatter and static grass. The back girders have also been painted grey and weathered At the end near the bridge, I have added a fence to mark the end of the disused line and the operational line, as was usual for these boundaries, the old line has become a shortcut and the fence has been breached! I want to add some bits and pieces to give it that real run down look. With that done I cranked up the soldering iron and made this up from some strips of brass sheet and old Hornby steel rail What is it? It is something that seems to be rarely modelled, picking up the back story fro a few pages ago the bridge is in dodgy condition, so the CCE has added some reinforcement bars to keep the stonework from collapsing! Even RIbblehead Viaduct had this done! This has now been set aside and given a coat of red oxide primer, once it has then been painted rusty brown it will be glued in place on the bridge parapet. Jim

No - all three operational vehicles at Boness are ex Ayrshire 126s, the other vehicle you might be thinking about is SC79443 which was now the only surviving Edinburgh & Glasgow vehicle and is under restoration at Boness. JIm

STP probably

Or Supercaleyfragilisticexpialidocious in the event of 123 running!

Its interesting to look at old timetables and see which services ran, the semi fast and fast services were confined to one or two peak hour trains from Helensburgh to Bridgeton in the morning and return in the evening, these trains always ran via Yoker so effectively Headcode 21 was never used for normal service trains. The Craigendoran and Dumbarton headcodes were only used by one or two Summer Sunday services that ran between Craigendoran Pier and Balloch Pier (reversing at Dumbarton) as part of a train/steamer excursion. The south side headcodes were actually part of a 4 digit headcode that would have been carried if a DMU was substituted and this would have been the description of the train on the Glasgow Central Signalbox diagram, so the Gourock train which carried 50 was actually 1L50 or 2L50 depending on the stopping pattern Jim

The Gates of Delirium - Yes

Here are your possible headcode permutations. Some were never used in practise, others were quite rare. Most used in the early days anyway were 15, 35, 65 and 26 https://web.archive.org/web/20040312161544/http://www.jhowie.force9.co.uk:80/303tributepage5.htm Edit - tried to paste it in here but the formats were lost Jim

Hi Martyn - I have not seen that photo, cannot ever remember any OHLE at Eastfield (but that is not to say it wasn't there), I would have thought that a more likely place to have a stretch of OHLE for test and adjustment purposes would have been at Glasgow (St Rollox) Works, as that is where the AM3/class 303 heavy overhauls took place, the depot was completely rebuilt from the old steam shed to the Diesel Depot in 1969/70. Would like to see that photo. Jim

"Mary Poppins" is actually a mole with a parasol - a closer view of the cartoon can be seen here http://vaunut.org/kuva/61542 various cartoon characters adorn the coaches. Apologies for the confusion over the location of the steam loco, I was totally lost with this policy of dual language station signs and announcements! Jim

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night) - Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group (As posted in the "Burning Questions" thread)

To resurrect this thread, I visited Turku on a business trip last week, little has changed since 2017. The old Soviet built locos are still in use, this one came in while I was waiting for my train. Some interesting tank wagons, I assume these are Russian The more common haulage. This old Steam Loco was on display at Karis Station, where there is another old roundhouse. Jim

Skuma's homestead apparently, but as Skuma was a bit of a #### that is how the town got its name

Also one other interesting feature is the headcode on the unit - 59 which was ECS to Singer Works Platform Jim

What is the best? EM or Protofour?

Dancing with Tears in my Eyes - Ultravox

I assume the shop is called "Last One".

its a Scottish version of everyone being called Bruce .

They were common visitors to Eastfield Depot, it had the most convenient tyre turning lathe for the "Blue Trains" Jim