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Thanks Paul! Likewise, that E class is fab! As a reminder, all IRRS Manchester branch events are detailed online here: https://irrs.ie/branches/manchester/ Drop me a PM or email IRRSManchester@gmail.com for further details. Richard.

There’s all.the old MECCANO magazines available for free viewing here: http://meccano.magazines.free.fr you can pick out any article quite quickly, and it makes for a very interesting read

Wilfrid & Patricia I believe!

Ah, you're thinking of KM1. Exquisite stuff, but you can buy a decent, if old, used car for the price of some of their models.

Had Meccano myself in the 70s. Do not think I would have the dexterity in the fingers to do anything with it now.

I had a Meccano crane set back in the 80s & had great fun building the various cranes

From 1931 . 182 feet on one wind up for the loco! Regarding the ERECTOR. Imagine a parent's face when the son says,"I am going up to my room to play with my ERECTOR". Definately different times!

The German stuff is spectacular in this scale but way above my pay scale.

Wondering if anyone is using this scale? Thinking of moving to it.

AI slop in dead tree format it would appear. Since the original book was published as far back as 1928, author is definitely gone to his reward and the publishers are probably out of business for decades, no one to pursue a copyright case. "It'll do"* *Insert stock image of old timey train.

If it's not Indian, it'll be the Chinese doing it. At the end of the day, they don't really observe foreign copyright, so everything is fair game for them.

That cover is a particularly fine fine effort at abstract art by AI. Its remarkable, the more I look at it ..... the less I see (less realistic things, that is)

Might be a UK only thing, I can purchase it form Amazon.ie if i wished. Not that I'd waste my money or support this criminal.....

Does anyone know will 171 be running on the Santa Special services over the weekend…? How did she fare out last weekend?

Note that it is unavailable on Amazon. Someone's twigged that this is a reprint of Conroy's book published in 1928 (my copy is not with me). I note on ABE Books various Indian reprints of books - this one is on "Print on demand" from some organisation in India. Enough said.

Excellent will pop over there for a gander! love the two rollers under the wagon! great ol system in all fairness.

It really makes me so cross when this info is so freely available. This latest book from Damien Lewis annoyed me considerably ..given that the raid in question was in 1940s continental Europe, why is a 1950s UK steam loco involved ?

https://www.amazon.ie/History-Railways-Ireland-John-Conroy/dp/B0DC5K4R7J/ref=asc_df_B0DC5K4R7J?mcid=f79551b5739b3c6f8c2aba9f63bddd97&tag=ieshopgode-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=743331779719&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5566497439174151990&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=2372&hvtargid=pla-2363842162240&psc=1&language=en_IE&gad_source=1 Found this this morning.....

It's often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is colour I would say. I've had surgery to one eye (to fix a macular hole) with the result that I have slightly different colour vision in each eye. The operated eye sees things cooler than the other one. So where does that leave me when it comes to assessing colour?

Polite reminder. Our pre-Christmas meeting is tonight at 6pm (followed by the Area AGM at 8pm). If you're in London Area, please support us while we're still here!!!!

Thanks! It's a big project of mine, but a slow burner and I keep getting distracted onto different things. The model is Om scale, and there's a thread on it over on RMweb: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/184135-the-broc-branch-in-om-scale-an-ambitious-project-that-stalled-for-a-decade-but-is-now-reawakening/ The prototype is the Swiss line from Bulle to Broc-Fabrique (a chocolate factory), metre-gauge for most of its life, including the 1980s period I'm modelling, when it was operated by GFM. From the 1950s to the 1980s, transporter wagons were used for the freight. They then changed to transporter bogies, used until the 2010s. The line has now been regauged to standard and lost much of its character, and there's no longer any freight! I've got quite a few transporter wagons of different lengths, based on the mix of second-hand vehicles bought by the GFM in the 1950s and 1960s:

Got some . 5mm static grass and leaves from GModel Scene - Supplies for railway modellers and builders! and had a go at a hedge for the hotel. Need to sort the lights in that next as I am sick of looking at it roofless That looks fantastic, What Railway is that from? any chance of a few more piccies. When I laid the track I did no thave the Transporter wagons at the time so did not allow for it. I might make up a mast from some brass and use the arms from one of the RTR jobs. and place it outside the siding. Wont look right I reckon though.

That's fab!!!

Ah... thank you Paul. That makes perfect sense now you point it out. Those bits were vaguely bothering me but clearly not enough to make me read the instruction sheet properly! It does say "upright panels can now be fitted along the top edge of the side flares". As to why Kieran and I both made the same mistake, builder fatigue might have something to do with it. The relevant instruction is close to the end of a long list. This should be a joy to fix Cheers, Alan

Can only agree with the comments above. Lovely stuff.