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A lovely looking lot of locos! O looks to be wonderful to work in for detail, just space consuming :D - I'd have no chance of approval :lol:

Spent a while this evening with eyes on stalks applying transfers to a pair of ex-LNER diagram 194 wagons (ancient PC01 Parkside kits). No idea why they look so orange in the pic... 1774820935 The Workbench goes on tour. Well, not quite, but am off in the caravan for Easter with Mrs 4Cor and...

It's more about - I have some kind of complaint/ailment/symptom that started before we left, but hasn't been formally diagnosed at the time of departure.

48 Victor 101s left on the road (and 10 SORNed) according to https://www.howrareismycar.co.uk/vauxhall/victor/victor-101/ In contrast, thousands of Morris Minors...

People called Romanes they go the house? :lol: Looks good - had a lot worse waiting rooms all over south London TBH....

Went to ABRAIL today (spent nearly 6 hours there - lots to see, some very impressive layouts!). Resisted a few items, but did pick up a bargain book (Essery, LMS Wagons vol 1) for the princely sum of £2...

A specialist auction house like Vectis might be an alternative, but it's probably better if you have a fair few items to sell.

It doesn't cost the seller (as you have described) so they are perfectly correct. It costs to buy.

More speculative bidding, and surprised no-one bid against me for this one - 34078, "222 Squadron" (in post '61 guise when it was a 72A loco - it might get reshedded to 73B at some point where she was allocated after her overhaul in 1959 until 1961). Loco looks in great nick - will need a bit...

Unpainted wood has been a challenge. Not sure I can get much further on this - this is a Cambrian C6 (ex-SR 8 plank diagram 1379).

Related, railsigns has an image (on: https://www.railsigns.uk/photos/p_repsig1.htm) of a red banner repeater at Stirling which repeated the semaphore signals controlling departures from the dock platform where the train was starting beyond - now historic. Presumably, much easier to apply that...

Pre March 1950 (20003 was outshopped in black at that point), but long enough after Feb 49 (when British Railways published the new livery details) for both the coaches to be out shopped in CLC and the van in crimson!

Had a Cambrian 25T SR Brake kit arrive, and some exciting bedtime reading in the form of a copy of Rowland's British Railway Wagons (First half million) which was cheap on eBay.

Finished off the Bolster D this weekend - here with log load (ivy branches, dried, washed dark and powdered) held down by chains. 1770422654 This is a project not for me, but for my Dad - he has been quietly awaiting the KR Models Mica B vans, so I thought I would make him up the Parkside...

Have booked myself in for ABRAIL on 7th March this year (Held at Abingdon and Witney College at their Abingdon campus).

We are in a fairly rural location as well - mobile reception is hit and miss on occasion, and yet it still worked: my memory is sketchy (and I can't find a video/picture to show it), but I have a feeling on my phone it showed the coordinates on screen as part of the focused calling mode)...

I got these as (somewhat delayed - best not to ask TBH) Xmas presents - a load of Fox transfers for pre-TOPS vans, which allows me to get on with quite a lot of kits I have, some coupler blocks, and of course, another kit to add to the pile :rolleyes: . This an SR Ling ballast wagon from Chivers...

Can confirm - I have called 999 on mobile as first at the scene of a car crash before (2-3 yrs back?) and was asked to give location - as I was doing so, the call handler said "Ok - I can see your location from your phone now", so clearly they had suitable data, regardless of number called. And...

The Dartmouth Steam Railway does run on the adjacent line if I recall correctly, though there are often no services as this time of year.

Really good video - and glad to see the snow has cleared in Fort George! Also appreciate some van action - ex-LMS CCT, ex-LNER fish van, ex-LMS 12T(?) - lovely stuff :)