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If/when I get round to washing ANYTHING model-related, here in North Lincs, I'll also have to have plenty of de-ionised water to rinse it: our water is so hard that lime deposits appear even on a newly washed car windscreen if left to dry naturally.

Why not use the "strips of ply screwed and glued to spacers" method as the supports, and mdf as the base again?

The method has been well documented in the modelling press.

If you Jiffy-bagged the waste back to Exactoscale, could they re-use it?

And would that sort of recycling help to keep modelling companies afloat?

I wouldn't go N. I'm not detracting from any of the talented folk who CAN make N look realistic, but if OO is what you wanted, then OO is what you should build. Do otherwise and risk disappointment and costs later when you inevitably swap.

Short freights would run, there are plenty of pics of them on all regions.

Why not have freight delivered and collected from a restricted site: oil terminal, MoD sidings, cement etc, where only those and a few other wagons run. The main train is made up elsewhere and your locos bring and fetch to a yard not shown?

Ah, Kempenfelt, you didn't read Barrowroad's posts properly, did you?

Second last line: "The detail on the wall adjacent to the shed building has been omitted because it needs to be a flush fit."

That looks amazing.

I have to say that every time I see another in your series of posts, I rush to open it to see what you have done next.

Any more pics of the real thing?

Looking at the pic of the frets, I can't see a hole on one side for the pivot NOT on the other? If there IS one, you take the frames off the fret, hold them together by PUSHING three of the bearings through BOTH frames at once, two from one side, one from the other, and use the existing hole to help you drill one in the other frame.

The links ARE on the fret, the larger ones,top left, bottom fret, just below the buffer beam and top right, middle fret, next to the buffer beam, unless I'm very much mistaken?

Personally, I WOULD go this appraoch with a short wheelbase loco, but the choice is yours.

Are you sure there are no bearings in with the wire or the castings? If not, e-mail Michael Edge about it, it may be an oversight.

Finally, look here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230415145155&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I have no links with the seller, but it's a Metalsmiths item. If you are building in 00 you may need a new punch and anvil, see their site.

This is just lovely. More photos please.

What will be the finished size of your model of Barrow Road?

Have you checked for a) dirty track, B) dirty pickups, c) dirty wheels where the pickups bear, and d) dirty wheel TREADS?

Love the photos, especially the one near Sam Farmer's lock.

Outstanding, if perhaps a little CLEAN for the period of the slide?

Can we see more of the slides? Barrow Road has always fascinated me.

Errmm. ....."...late winter sun"?

The grass needs to be short and/or dried up/dead, for late winter sun.

Unless 60001 got transferred to Australia? LOL

Looks amazing. Is it a converted barn?

The third photo does it for me: track disappearing, we know not where, points sunk into the ground, the building with it's multitude of levels, angles etc, and the old stock and car. Just pure atmosphere.

MRJ used to be excellent at publishing photos like this, I could look at them for hours. No train needed, but if one WERE to appear.........

Strangely, one of my favourite "atmosphere" shots is the cover of Pink Floyd's "Animals", showing the south London freight terminal and Battersea power station at sunset.

I actually quite like that, the openness of the area round the station is more reminiscent of real life than a lot of models. Not over crowded with stock, people etc.

How do your model passengers get access to the platforms?

And can we see a train?

The bit that jars with me is that the end of the turntable would allow a loco to drop off it. In reality, there would be a short stub-road with a buffer stop of some sort, so that if a loco overshot, no real damage would be done.

What spoils it for me, and would be MY first change, are the oversized awful coupling rods. They just scream, "Model!!!!!" Or even, "Toy!!!!!!"

That's amazing. I love this thread since Barrow Road was such a name to conjure with to us as young spotters. I mean...Bristol? Who would EVER get to Bristol? I only ever saw one loco allocated there, 45685, "Barfleur", on a returning "Devonian" one sunday evening, having waited for it for an hour at Wath North, in the old West Riding. It must have worked up the previous working, why it didn't get taken off at Birmingham, or Derby I don't know.

Can't wait to see the next instalment.

Someone at the shed has sprayed that grass with "Green and Feed"

I'm looking forward to seeing (into) it.

Will the interior of the shed be fully detailed? And will it be visible?

Can't wait to see the shed take shape.

What major and smaller turntables will you use?

They look great, especially the weathering. Before I fully scrolled down, I thought the top photo was of the real thing.

Pity not to have such lovely locos able to move: refit the motor/gears, plus a nice 08 soundcard, some smoke etc.

I like it: even without the loco lineup, it looks like Copley Hill.

I had the Minitrix version of that loco, it was what finally killed "N" gauge for me. It derailed every time it went over a point boiler first, had little haulage power, and the valvegear and wheels were so far over scale as to be horrendous.

A horrid little thing.