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HMRS transfers would be OK. I have a sheet of numbers for ex LMS stock from Modelmaster and have also used lining from Replica Railways. Ones with knocks can be useful for donor chassis and body shells for adding brass sides. I am doing a Period 3 Open Brake Third from the Replica Open Third and another was used for a Blood & Custard repaint. They were both a bit tatty but the two only cost me £20, one already having metal wheels and Bachmann narrow couplings.

Any siding onto a passenger running line would have a trap point.

Our local Tesco has really gone down lately. After it changed from 24 hours there was still a shelf stacking shift. They got rid of that then you couldn't get round for carts of stock lying around or being pushed from behind. Now they don't seem to restock during the day, many empty shelves and lots of what there is has use by dates only a day away. What's more a lot of the prices seem to to have gone up recently. Think it will be off to Aldi next week.

I won an item the day before the bad weather started so wasn't expecting it to arrive until sometime this week. I was surprised by a knock at the door last Sunday lunchtime and there was the local Hermes man with my parcel.

When possible we preferred going on LMR trains to the West Country on holiday with 6-seat compartments rather than the WR ones with 8-seaters.

I use Royal Mail and two couriers who have drop off points closer than the Post Office. I had an issue with Royal Mail who have currently lost one of my postings and previously with DPD losing a parcel to me and Yodel leaving a box of books out in the rain outside my front door. My biggest gripe lately has been tracked deliveries which have reportedly been handed to me when I was 50 miles away.

They may possibly be TI21 track circuits, which were developed on the Aster principle. The details are in this document. https://www.rssb.co.uk/rgs/standards/GKRC0761%20Iss%201.pdf If you look around on the RGS site there are handbooks for all sorts of equipment lurking, especially in the withdrawn documents.

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Quite a few of my wagon fleet came like that. Six minerals from Airfix, Parkside and Cambrian kits cost me £6 plus a pack of Hornby wheels, some bearings and a few replacement couplings. I got an LMS CCT and GWR Python complete but needing rebuilds for £7 the pair and a Jinty with damaged exhauster but otherwise excellent made a steam brake only version for £30, a bit of filler and a respray.

I more or less gave up TV and to some extent radio when I got fed up of interviewers who ask the same question repeatedly when they get a short answer they don't like from what the interviewee has on his pre-prepared reply sheet.

Think it may be difficult to get my hands on 1CES. The Mr Whippy Mafia have gone to war over less.

Coming into this thread a bit late but my experience has been some RTR out of the box, others renumbering to suit the area, livery variations, RTR bashing e.g. no top feed Airfix 14xx body, 64xx to 74xx. For wagons there are some essentials for my area only currently available kits or recently being produced such as the Boplate E, Plate, rivetted minerals, Banana vans, Mica B. Coaching stock is even thinner on the ground e.g. the some of the most common LMS stock was Open Thirds which I am now cobbling up from Comet sides with RTR parts where possible. I've done a Period 2 Pull-push from RTR parts but what I need is a GWR panelled autocoach and suburbans. To round up my opinion is that RTR is good at giving a flavour of the railway from about WW2 up to present but if you want a complete picture of something specific you need to do some bashing and kit building.

The Pines was mainly LMS Period 3 stock in the mid-1950s. The later formation was discussed in the old forum. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25064 In August 1960 there was still an LMS 12-wheel diner in use with a mix of LMS and Mk1 coaches. Lickey Bank up Pines Express ascending geograph-2744295-by-Ben-Brooksbank [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], by Ben Brooksbank (From geograph.org.uk), from Wikimedia Commons If you look at the Carriage Working Notices on the Yahoo Group I mentioned earlier the LMR Midland Lines for Summer 1960 shows through trains from Bournemouth West to the LMR and ER via Birmingham which reverse at Bath. There have a variety of stock including at least one which is ER and SR stock on alternate days. It does not give actual vehicles, just the types.

Coming down thick and fast over the Dark Peak.

Had a few like that in BR. My answer on one occasion was if I had waited for the Stores Contract stuff I would have stopped a commissioning which would have delayed the introduction of Channel Tunnel services. Got out of that one. Subsequently I had an arrangement with a local Office Supplies shop. I quite officially was able to hire office furniture and equipment for a temporary office through the system. What the system didn't know was that I had agreed with the supplier that as the hire cost was more than the retail value of the stuff he would write it off and not collect it. Win-Win-Win situation. I got the furniture for the job, he got his profit and I didn't have to worry about where I got it from for the next job.

If you join Robert Carroll's Yahoo Group there are copies of a lot of carriage working notice in the files section. You will find The Pines in the S&D period in the London Midland Region books. The S&D trains to Bristol can be found in one of the Southern books. The group address is https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BRCoachingStock/info

It's worth trying different searches, I've picked up a couple for around £12 last year for donors. Search on the replica cat nos, 12221 for LMS and 12222 for BR liveries respectively, or just browse generic descriptions like LMS coach. Rails usually have some but nowadays seem to put a lot of s/h in bundles at crazy prices, long gone are their 99p starts but if they have something you want on Ebay make an offer rather than pay the BIN price. Edit Rails have about 10 of the BR version (12222) on Ebay for £17.50 + £2 p&p at the moment

There would have been a lot of pre-grouping, LMS Period 1 and Period 2 stock on through trains to the West Country at the start of WW2. There would probably be some of the panelled coaches made by Bachmann in evidence. http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/mrknlms229.htm Even into the 1950s these services seemed to attract a lot of old stock. There is a picture on the Warwickshire Railways site of a M&GN coach at New St in 1952. The next coach is ex-NER. There's also one about somewhere at the same period with an ex-Highland railway coach. For my 1950s 'Excursion' set I am using a variety of old Airfix, Mainline, Replica, Bachmann and Dapol coaches and parts along with Comet sides. The Replica version mentioned above represents Diagram 1915, of which over 300 were built 1935-7. I am currently using Comet sides to convert a Replica one to a Diagram 1913 Open Brake 3rd built 1934.

Not too much snow on today's bike ride as we restricted the height and avoided some places where we know that snow lingers by the walls. Detours in several places where damage to paths because of the bad weather is being repaired. There was one place on the canal near Disley where the towpath was difficult because of a drift and there was in iceberg on the water. Most frightening was the size of the fallen tree we found across the path we use from school with the grandchildren. It must have come down in the gales at the weekend and had fallen on the bridge over the railway just Romiley side of Marple station and obviously a lot had ended up on the track. It's a stone bridge the trunk had hit the parapet right on top of the abutment. It has what look like millstone grit cappings about 9" thick and one had split right through. It's a good job no-one was around when it came down.

At the beginning of 1971 I was lodging by the bridge where the Met crosses the WCML and DC Lines by South Kenton. When it was icy it was like being in the middle of a tropical thunderstorm

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Yellow ToY at BunYola.

I Jest Not. Some years ago I lived in a village near Royston Vasey. It had been in Cheshire but elected to become part of High Peak rather than Greater Manchester. A man from the other side of the river who was allocated a Council house in the village was known as 'The Illegal Immigrant'. For my own part, I may have well been from another galaxy for what most of them knew of life on the outside. During the recent snow there were lots of comments on Facebook about foreign lorry drivers moving the closed signs and trying to go over Woodhead. On villager asked if by foreign they meant someone not born in the village.

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Where was that taken, Phil? I think it was 1956 when we were hauled by that one on part of our trip to Devon I walked up to the loco with my Grandad when we got off, I think it was probably Ilfracombe. . Probably not the first Spam I saw but the first I remember as I was too young on previous trips to the West Country (but I do remember travelling in green coaches to Swanage in 1953).