David Holman

Amazing how wide the track looks in that third photo. Makes me think I should be using Code 75, or even 55, instead of 100... What a railway!

Great to see two iconic Easy Coast Mainline racehorses looking in fine fettle. Give me green diesels rather than blue anyday!

That signal is certainly different! A one off? Somebody out there will know.

Modern Image (ish) too as BR class 01 diesel shutters worked the breakwater for many years. There were quite a few pier railways with idiosyncratic motive power. The Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway used Muir Hill tractors - one literally a road model with uneven sized rail wheels, the other looking more like a motorised garden shed. Then there was the Spurn Head Railway, which used sail powered trolleys and old motor cars with rail wheels. Great modelling possibilities methinks!

Slightly surprised to see Mike Edge recommending larger wheels. On the prototype, tyres were allowed to wear down at least and inch or two before replacement and with flanges on models being somewhat oversized (P4 etc, excepted), had always thought accepted practice was to go down an inch or two to avoid them fouling footpaths or splashers.

Thanks, Andrew did his usual fine job with the photos and likewise whoever put them and the article into print. Their payment is now £210, so that nicely covered the three points I bought from Marcway recently!

Excellent, especially as I do have a copy!

Lovely and subt!e.

Do any photos exist? Might make an interesting wagon for Swillybegs!

Based the wagons (?) on WL&W coaches. Made one side and end from plastic sheet and strip, using this to create masters for resin castings. Significantly quicker than scratchbuilding four sides/ends and a method well worth considering if learning CAD/3D printing is not your thing. The six wheel chassis is Alphagraphix, while the turf load is chopped up matchsticks and needless to say, only a few mm deep.

What about pioneering enthusiasts and Modellers? Cyril Fry, Norman Johnson, Des Coakham for example.

Yep, looks great!

Some fine recycling going on here for the baseboards.

Been making lists, to try and minimise the pain of wiring. So, holes drilled for sockets, switches, point motors and the like, along with fitting the wings of the 'proscenium arch, each end. Very Iain Rice. The inlaid control panel with have three point switches, three push to make switches for the uncoupling magnets, plus an isolating switch for the loco shed. Am using Tortoise point motors, but as these are about 10cm deep, I make simple brackets from plywood, so they can be mounted on their sides. Above, you can see where I've drilled holes next to each point blade. A piece of stiff wire is soldered to each blade and then to a piece of copperclad below the baseboard, which then acts as an invisible tie bar. Below, you can see the brackets I've made for the Tortoises, with the hidden tie bar alongside in the second picture. The bracket includes a pivot arm, with the torsion rod from the tortoise going through one end and [eventually] a piece of stiff wire the other, going to the tie bar. Clever idea that I was given by Gorden Gravett.

Often said that coaches are every bit as demanding as locos. So much detailing work and roofs (simple arc types apart) always a pain. While Worsley have saved a lot of effort with the sides, so much more clearly required, so very well done. The late David Jenkinson had the answer to complex roof shapes in his book Carriage Modelling Made Easy - he had them machined from hardwood in bulk. Fine if you are making dozens, less so for just one or two!