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Is the blue and cream beastie in the background an accutriebwagon (battery-electric railcar)? Modellers, take note!

Thermalite (or other brand aerated blocks) are easiest as you can knock panel pins straight into them without drilling. Heavier masonry can be dealt with using a hammer drill, rawlplugs and screws.

No problem, though the quantity and quality of your reports are giving us a tough act to follow.

When I last did it, a highlight of the steam-hauled tour of Scunthorpe Steelworks was the shed visit, with a demonstration of radio control on the standard gauge 90-ton Hunslet BoBo, before handing the transmitter to a junior passenger and inviting him to have a go!

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Brilliant and inspiring.

To move away a little, what strategies do you lot have for dealing with unwanted phone calls? Step 1: Check number via caller ID Step 2: If the number is unfamilar or "Out of area, International" answer with "Hallo" or pass to wifey. If number is blocked, don't even bother picki...

Make use of the time to come up with a first-class design. Once the line is built changing it is hard work, so better to make your mistakes on paper than in concrete. I can't tell you how many goes I had to come up with a design I liked, but I'm glad I did. The only things I would change would requi...

In the early days of the hobby, it was the default option. Most early Archangel locomotives used a single cylinder and slip eccentric valve gear, with dummy outside cyls if the prototype called for it. Even today it's a common setup in gauge 1, with the popular "Project" loco (LMS 4F 0-6-0...

I've been drawing up some local buildings (based on brick counting) to 16mm scale/ 1:19 they're vast. Even the little LYR station grotty hut is mahoosive. And really bring home how small narrow gauge actually is. You know what? I think that's probably a good thing. Many of us are drawn to narrow ga...

Alternatively, try using very soft, thin flexible wire- as used to feed power to indoor layouts- ideally multistrand. Double up and feed it through to create a "snare" loop and try and capture the errant hose.

Tender engines have possibilities, but to be commercially viable it would need to have a reasonable size and wheel arrangement, to allow for a standard boiler and enough adhesion to shift a worthwhile load without equalising beams and other fiddly expensive trickery. Something along the lines of the...

You do have the option of bagged "cold roll" tarmac, sold for drive repairs. The aggregate component will naturally be well overscale, but texture and colour will be spot-on and fade resistant.

why not consider using a proven small 3 1/2 inch gauge loco boiler design such as a Titch or Rob Roy. I believe John Campbell used the small tich design (LBSC produced 2 boiler options, as well as Walschaerts or slip-eccentric valve gear options) in his first coalfired engines (freelance rigid tend...

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I would say so. The axlebox details and body proportions look right for an LAT or LBT, I think that's an 88DS in the background and the buildings look right for the Firth Road factory in Lincoln,

The body style and proportions shout "Fowler" to me. I suspect it's a GRS kit so probably doesn't have an exact prototype, but I'm very strongly reminded of the two 2-4-0DMs that went to the APCM cement works at Harbury, and later Kilvington. I believe the correct livery would be faded mat...

Search out old books on tramway modelling, especially in the larger scales. It was not at all uncommon for modellers to generate their own power- often from a Stuart Turner engine and boiler powering the genny. On the prototype many early schemes had to produce their own power as the municipal servi...

Some bitting and bobbing summer holiday jobs, serving in a roadside caff and sweating in the incubators of a hatchery, but first "proper" job was starting as a Signalman in 1992. 19 years in boxes, and three in a white van but still with the railway- even if the employer's name on the pays...

We still had National Service in the 50s, so a sudden shortfall in the working population as qualified drivers swapped their overalls for green battledress may have led to special measures. Certainly during the war, my late Gran (then in her early 20s) was given the job of driving the delivery van f...

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:93992 wrote:Chain shunting and horse shunting abound!

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And in the same vein, a brewery or maltings on the right-hand-side is just begging for wagon turntables and capstan shunting.