Horsetan

You don't have to go straight in, but approach from the side - the tool would be cranked like a dentist's mirror.

Maybe having fixed magnet positions isn't the solution. How about a magnet mounted on a handheld spade-type device that you slip under the couplings only when you need it?

Brian is brilliantly mad. He has worked in P4 and P87, but decided that Märklin's MiniClub Z-gauge was much too rough, so he came up with Proto-220. That's finescale Z, with correct clearances through pointwork and wheels turned down to correct width and flanges. He brought a demo P220 board to one show years ago, and all the pointwork worked flawlessly. This was in the days when my eyes could still focus on things that small. Completely mad.

Heljan did do some work for Hattons including, as it happens, the Beyer Garratt. You only need one motor in most engines, but the question is what type? Coreless motors - which are only now finding their way into RTR products - are more efficient but they do have to be matched to the job. You can't just stick any old coreless in there and expect it to take the abuse.

Will you be installing any signalling at all?

Saddle tank design is distinctive - is it a Neilson?

They outlasted the equivalent Great Eastern E4/T26 2-4-0s by about 4 years.

There's some very interesting footage in that website, including film of the County Donegal around the time of closure. I'd never seen film of the shunting tractor Phoenix moving until now....

They seem to have been widespread. There's at least one photo of a 650 taking the road to Ballina at Manulla Junction, when the station buildings still existed.

Signal spectacle plate design looks remarkably close to the type used by the Caledonian Railway, probably produced by Stevens & Co.

Probably try again some other time

'Tis only money.... *shrugs*

Auction fever!

If he didn't, it'll probably reappear on eBay for twice the price

Your parcel is probably bigger than mine, as I had no duty to pay...

Arrived! Kit looks excellent; even has 28mm pinpoints, so I can use them for my Ultrascale 12mm disc wheels

It's like classic cars - you get some that seem to have no purpose other than for flipping on at ever more fantasy figures.

To misquote a Michael Jackson lyric: "I'm looking at the man in a hurry..."

That looks like the upperworks - the cab, tanks and footplate - were intended for a standard gauge engine with a higher-pitched boiler, and adapted for narrow-gauge use.

One of the very few photos to show the "pointer light" subsidiary signals governing the entrance to York Road. There's never been quite enough information about them, or close-ups showing them in operation, so anything like this is welcome.

Just need you to accelerate your discovery of workable treatments /cures for motor neurone disease, cancer, things like that.....

Everyone's time upon this Earth is limited. It may be that Darius is more aware of this than most people, and with that clarity of consciousness is thus driven to productively cram much much more into that limited time. Imagine if he did that for a living.....

The Reverse Midas Touch is also possible....

It's a block indicator from a signal box

UK modellers also lost David Geen this week at the age of 80, so that's another kit range that's likely to be lost