HelloVinylepea and others, 1 / whilst I had not seen a P class / 1000hp with HEP ( rebuilt 1st series T / 870hp ) on the Stony Point shuttle, I...
Hello Vinylepea, the closest F209 would get to Frankston was Flinders St. It was used in lieu of an E1103 class to dock/shunt the Eastern Pass...
Hello Jim and others, 1 / thanks for that. 2 / I actually think that the two pairs of single bridges makes the scene look longer and deeper, and...
Hello Jim and others, 1 / very nice ! 2 / Picture 5, what's the source of the two sets of grey truss bridges in the background please ? 3 / I...
Dear Ron, may I suggest you try a a retailer selling 2nd hand Hornby Dublo / Wrenn Grain wagons, though a bit short in length, they are well...
Hello All, Gormo got lucky there, those hair clips have become as as rare as hen's teeth ! Echidna
Dear Jim and others, 1 / re US railroads, the current wagon data panel displays in North America date back to the 1940s, and I recall a Trains...
Hello All, re spray can vandalism. 1 / in the mid 1980s ( that seems a long time ago now ! ), according to the US trade magazine "The Railway...
Dear Jim, thank you for your reply. My wife and I were fortunate to do a Rhine Danube River cruise to Budapest last year, and the Budapest...
Hello All, let us not forget Vivian Thompson's LBSCR Eastbourne and BR SR Eridge, both 00 gauge 4mm scale, and the PECO book "Period Railway...
Hello Jim and others, re #203 above, Dinky Cat nos 755 & 756, the typically English UDC / Urban District Council street lamps that you would see...
Dear Jim, thank you for the follow up, and your nice comments are greatly appreciated, with warm regards, Echidna
Hello All, well and truly an accident waiting to happen. Bloke in wagon shovelling coal out of wagon suspended in mid air, wagon pivots around due...
Hello All, BR stopped running pigeon trains in the late 1960s (1968-9 ?) due to changes in transporting livestock regulations, and pigeon clubs...
Hello All, it was the BTC in 1950 who decided and directed that the WR would use diesel hydraulic on the basis that WR train running was fairly...
Hello All, re the LMS loco blue. bearing in mind that the senior BR Locomotive men in 1948 were primarily from the LMS, and that there was a...
Hello All, the GWR Collett 48xx, later renumbered to 14xx, were equipped with mechanical push-pull apparatus to allow the driver to remotely...
Hello All, was not a concrete floor (up to the window ledge) a gag in the Brittas Empire? I vaguely recall a similar incident making the nightly...
