MrWolf

I repaired and reroofed the outside toilet at the last house I owned because it was close to the workshop and you weren't trailing in the house covered in grease and rust dust.

I get where you're coming from, the inland boats appear to have a more pointed shape to the bows.

It may be as daft as the body pressing down on a connection causing an increased resistance rather than an actual short? Time for little bits of insulation tape perhaps? Or even part of the mech catching slightly? I had this on a Bachmann Pannier where the body had been crammed back on causing some of the wiring to foul a wheel.

Don't be daft, Amenia is a country...

Some of the weighbridge buildings in mid Wales were very basic, such as llansilin Road on the Tanat Valley. Photo: C.C.Green from The Tanat Valley light railway by M. Lloyd. A lot of English ones were no fancier. Basically a garden shed covering the weighing machine. There were two flaps that opened up on the side, rather like a burger van... Longdon Road, Shipston on Stour branch. Picture Warwickshire Railways. Yet the next station at Stretton on Fosse had a typically sturdy GWR brick building. A bit of a minefield, but it does make it easier to build what you fancy.

I remember IZAL in the outside toilet at my grandparents in the 70s and those at my junior school, where only the cubicles had a full width roof. I can just imagine the wails of suffering from today's self obsessed and pampered little angels and the outraged emails from parents. I also found out the hard way that fancy toilet roll swells up like a barrage balloon and becomes useless in a damp outside cludgie...

Definitely. Eight miles high still gets played around here. Apparently written for brass instruments but played on guitar.

Now that is definitely useful information.

Wizard models do a selection of etched brass weighbridge plates and the guardrail on their website. The back of beyond station that came to mind first was Nateby (Originally Winmarleigh) Lancashire, closed to passengers as long ago as 1930. Photos, Disused Railways website.

It's unlikely that either of us will be having a tender drive Hornby Brittania flying round at a scale 200mph nowadays though!

I know the one that you are talking about, it's a proper shed, I could do with a full size one in the back yard here. I also have a carriage shed kit I picked up secondhand, it might just form the basis of the locomotive shed when I get around to building the terminus of my branch.

Not wishing to dampen your enthusiasm, but isn't a grain of rice about the size of a rugby ball in 4mm? I do recall that there's a model of a robin atop a spade handle in one of Pendon's gardens though, so it can be done -

I remember taking one of those old hand drills to the chipboard when I was about ten to plant the first batch of Airfix telephone poles! I even threaded a single line of copper wire between the tops, salvaged from an old speaker winding. That was a project that ended in disaster at the first high speed derailment! 😆

Even maps of some of the most obscure, back of beyond r send of nowhere stations have "WM" for weighing machine marked somewhere. Particularly if there is a siding on site.

That's a part of the off air discussion we've been having, a dumb barge on the canals would have to be a narrow boat, just to get through the locks, but not necessarily a seventy foot long example, probably forty feet.

The sign is about the extent of the coal facilities on my layout, the assumption is that coal is quickly bagged up from a wagon and taken away to avoid demurrage charges from the wagon owners.

They are just jammed into the bases which makes them easier to paint. They'll go in the bin as the poles go onto the layout.

They're not a great representation, but river barges are often towed and manoeuvred as well as moored in such a way.

Nice job! I am looking forward to / dreading the thought of (strike out that which do not apply.) constructing the dozens of trees my layout requires.... But I keep getting inspired by the efforts of others.

Oh be sensible Wolfers old man, it's the towing post, braced between keel(?) and prow. I would expect wood on a wooden boat. https://victorianweb.org/technology/ships/33.html

Is that some kind of Bluetooth/ satnav interface or just a cupholder?

Unloading straight from wagons into sacks and onto horse transport was obviously a practice common enough for various companies to issue these warnings:

If your current item is anything to go by, it will be worth the wait. It puts me in mind of those which once stood by the buffer stops at Wallingford. Is that model Graham has currently available?

One of those Dart Castings lamp huts is pretty much a legal requirement for GWR layouts, it must be something over forty years old now, but it's a great little kit. Here's mine lurking behind an equally antiquated loco purchase which you may bear some responsibility for. 😉 Turned out to be a worthwhile project though and it looks nothing like that now!

I rather like the shed that @Brinklysupplied. It's quite a common size. I think that someone used to make the longer ones but I have had to make my own. Mike's Models used to do the platform shelter type as installed on the Wye valley in the late 1920s. This is my scratchbuilt version which I think would be a good subject for a kit.