Galteemore

Simply splendid. I do like a nice clean nickel silver engine. Some lovely work on that tender - I do like the elegant brackets holding up the coal space just adjacent to the tank filler.

That van is gorgeous. One for you, @leslie10646?

Now that’s rather charming. Ideal for those jobs when lugging out the pillar drill just isn’t worth it! Good for plasticard wagon making I dare say….

Excellent. Nothing better than trying your hand at this and building some confidence.

Great little line - used to be my local ! Good to see the main line connection back. Risborough is like the Goraghwood of the Chilterns, with two active branches!

Sounds like fun Leslie! Be interested to know what’s causing the S to short. One of the joys of building brass kits…..

Beautiful Alan. That represents many hours of thought, care, effort - and in all likelihood some choice combinations of words….really captures the likeness of the original.

Agree with Leslie, whoever took it, it must rank in the top ten of colour Irish rail photos from that era.

Some of these ladies were very adventurous, taking part in the ultimate Wild West of railtours, the LRTL trip to Dingle.

The drone eye view is most interesting - the Hattons ones look very skinny by comparison !

Great stuff Leslie. To be pedantic Rev Alexander was Dean of Derry and then Archbishop of Armagh

Know what you mean David! For me it’s also the mystery of what’s inside….shades of Auden… .Letters of thanks, letters from banks, Letters of joy from girl and boy, Receipted bills and invitations To inspect new stock or to visit relations, And applications for situations, And timid lovers' declarations, And gossip, gossip from all the nations, News circumstantial, news financial, Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in, Letters with faces scrawled on the margin, Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts, Letters to Scotland from the South of France, Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands Written on paper of every hue, The pink, the violet, the white and the blue, The chatty, the catty, the boring, the adoring, The cold and official and the heart's outpouring, Clever, stupid, short and long, The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong. and that’s only the letters - haven’t got to the parcels yet!

Fab Leslie - was hoping for a parcels train from you! Love that little W1 van. Your efforts last year inspired me to run my own GN parcels this year

That’s pretty good for the genre. At least it doesn’t have a cowcatcher and a Flying Scotsman nameplate

Latest project - two GNR parcels vans, variants of which traversed SLNC metals regularly. Alphagraphix kits. Not quite finished yet / need to sort last few transfers. Will lightly weather them when that’s done. Nice little kits. Rocking axle allows some compensation.

Nespresso order arrived today with a new flavour. Hadn’t realised they had a link with Belmond. Interesting bogie design….

Fabulous story. Will be a nice mix of stock. Multum in parvo !!

Thanks Alan. Beyer tanks are like that as you know. Simple squares at the back - horrendous curves at the front!!

Yep. Been there done that got the burnt fingers…..

Well done Alan. The Beyer smokebox is a thing of beauty but not easy to replicate, with those subtle curve reversals. Looks great.

Quite agree as it happens. My early working life was spent immersed in archives and historical documents so I am rather concerned to get things right. It’s easier than ever to do that given the resources at the web’s command. Totems are fun but for my own layout fascia I avoided them and copied the actual sign…..

How exciting! I can see some interesting operating sequences developing out of this one.

At Tolworth show, a chap was taking commissions and would have your totem ready to take away at end of show! Mind you, can’t complain. My last workplace gave me a personalised one as a very thoughtful leaving gift.

Excellent - and the undulating bodywork gives it a real ‘patina’ of use. Think you have a similar mantra to the US armed forces. To paraphrase…no kit left behind.