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I'll send him an e-mail anyway with the contact details of the potential customers

In particular, that photo confirms that the coupling rods were fork-jointed on the middle driving crankpins.

Over the weekend, I've had two people asking me about Des Sullivan @Weshty. Both want to buy his 800 class kits, but it seems he's not answering website e-mails. I hope nothing's happened to him.

I recently offered two 7mm A5 full point kits on eBay at half the current retail price each. They contained everything including pre-formed blades and common crossings, plus gauges, and were very quickly snapped up!

Bear in mind that point kits aren't cheap these days. A 7mm kit is getting on for £110!

Clear photos of the J26s in later life, showing all the detail like this, are quite hard to come by, so this one is especially welcome. I'm still after good quality photos of 560 (which also had the enlarged cab) in its last few years.

There'll be time enough to sleep when you're dead.

I'm still using this stuff when I fill up my Citroën

Bill Bedford was notorious for not providing any instructions for most of his etches during the time when he used to run an extensive catalogue. His principle was "IOI" (It's Obvious, Innit)....which was fine if you were dealing with a pair of coach sides, but anything more complex required you to be fully familiar with the prototype or you needed to be able to think like Bill in order to understand how the smaller bits fitted in....or you needed to be the original customer who had commissioned Bill to design the etch in the first place! I have an etch for a pair of BR Class 25 bogies, which Bill used to produce. The main structure is understandable. The cosmetic parts are far from obvious!

T gauge is also available

Kind of makes you wish it was the chocolate Aero concrete that's a ticking timebomb in so many British public buildings at the moment!

I can't wait to convert these to 21mm. Big box of P4 profile coach wheels just waiting here...... They'll go well with the three Murphy RPSI Mk2s.

Having the pony truck rammed in so close to the front drivers does give the engine a quite ungainly look

Now I understand it even less.

Grease is the word.

I was last in Luzern in 2006, and still haven't quite worked out how Buchli drive actually works. Maybe some madmen might try to recreate the LMS Turbomotive in full size....

A fair few MG EVs in London - the Uber cab drivers are increasingly going around in MG5 EV estates, which look like a cross between a Toyota and a VW Passat.

I'm curious as to why there aren't additional CCTV/ANPR cameras situated on the road approaches to each crossing. Then you'd at least have a chance of working out who the eejits at the wheel are. Currently they all seem to be getting off scot-free when they shouldn't even be behind the wheel.

The ends only need to be prised upwards as the side clips are being released.

Er.....the nameplate definitely reads Lough Erne...

Interesting to see the Glenties line starter mounted on the bridge - the cable wheel and vertical cable run still visible on the footbridge wall. The arm does have a bit of a droop, suggesting that tension has been lost.... I think the starter signal is still in existence today, exhibited inside the Talyllyn Railway museum at Tywyn.

Remove the bogie outer frames - they pull off. Unclip the baseplate - there are four clips to be levered out with a screwdriver blade. That's it. See my post here

I thought the whole point of a greenway was to ensure the railway never came back.

One thing they're all good at is kicking the can down the road....

Scale flanges on scale rail, at the right gauge, are generally an improvement. Some people in the past have managed to turn down flanges just by using a file with the wheel mounted in an ordinary drill, but I'd suspect the results might be a bit inconsistent unless you're careful to constantly measure whilst the work is underway.