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This page is just to inform  anyone who might be interested of  my latest blunderings.

Photographs of new rolling stock will be seen here first and then as soon as I remember they will be allocated onto a proper location.
 1 Hidden beneath a "sheeted load" is the battery for the flashing tail light. The model for the cover was a Morris Minor Traveller. (What else?)
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2 A close up of another fine controlled weathering contract by Neil Ripley, he is also a layout designer to the nobility.
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3 A train load of four twin set IPA double deck car transporters in the red livery of STVA.
                                                                            
4 A locomotive I met in reality on the 23rd August 1962 in a woodyard near Bo'ness in Scotland, it was waiting to go for scrap that day.
 When I had the opportunity to acquire a cheap Bachmann example, perhaps it was because the handrail on the smoke box door was straight? In any event, I couldn't resist it. Now the "Laird of Balmawhappie" has been saved for a short time to pull an enthusiasts special to Margate.
5 After several complains from one of the operators*, I conceeded that the capacity of the fiddle yard should be increased. After careful measurements I realised that I could insert a sixth road in the fiddle yard without a significant lost of finger poking space. The extra roads are not as long as the others but being on the centre road it is bi-directional, if only one road at a time.* Remember that Ray, you wanted them!
6 Two Hornby Cemflo's, "cut & shut" by Jeff Taylor to correct a basic dimension fault
Cut & Shut by Jeff Taylor
7  Fixed couplings are used on several trains. The second bar on the right hand coupling prevents buffer locking when the train is reversed, a throw back to Brockley Green days.
8 I have finally purchased a Hornby Class 395 to represent as upto date as I can be with this layout. It should be noted that this video was shot on the day of purchase and the extra trailer coaches to make upto a six car set did not arrive until the next day.
9 After much difficulty I have aquired a Roco z21 control system and a "tablet" to give me a walkabout controller. The tablet may not last long as Roco are producing a cordless handset "soon".
10 In a moment of semi-madness, inflluenced by the low price, I have purchased a Hornby green 2-BIL unit. It will join the ranks of the enthusiast's specials and maybe loaned out to Mr Taylor's next 00 layout.


11  A return empty coal train at last, to complement the "full" one. Comprising of 10 x 21T hoppers suitably weathered. Drawn by the Class N and protected in the rear by a Hornby "Queen Mary" bogie brake. The eagle eyed will notice that there are only 9 hoppers in the picture below. The 10th one has now joined the fleet!
Empty coal wagons.
12 Flash unit number 5. Fitted to one of the "in the country" sections of track. 

A Flash not a twinkle!



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