Mike 84C

I wonder how many of us on this thread read S&DJR and thoughts of a well known cross country line in the south of England spring to mind? I know I do!

Those are fantastic photos of the mill and quay area's. I know nothing of the Irish milling industry but spent 30+ yrs in the English milling industry. I think judging by the type of elevators shown the wagons will be bringing in product to be made into flour or cattle/animal feeds. I say this because behind the vans & against the mill wall is what looks like a short elevator known over here as a "bag" elevator and the sacks would have been emptied into a small hopper to feed it. The coaster is I believe being emptied by a vacuum evacuator or it could be an enclosed belt and cup elevator. I think maybe the latter, I cannot get enough magnification on my machine. A descent shoo in for the building could be the Walther's Red Wing mill kit, its deffo the right style if a little small but that may work well on your layout. Those white sacks in the MGWR convertibles look like 2-1/4cwt sacks thats 252 lbs or 18 stones per sack. Pretty fit old boys back in the day! If you want to metericate 2.2 lbs = 1 kg.

An Accurascale Deltic landed here on our club test track Wednesday night. So silent it should be called a "stealth" all you could hear was the click of the wheels over the rail joints. Amazing! If Accurascale can produce such quality for the price, it does beg the question, why can't others?

Madness!

Full of promise and much more story telling. I shall look forward to the tales from Dugort Harbour. I can hear waves lapping against a quay already.

Lots of variables in mpg figures, the drivers foot playing the biggest part and that is using any kind of energy. That electric Kia Niro range, roughly equates to 346 miles @ say 55mpg = 6.3 galls derv, using local Lincolnshire diesel prices would cost £ 51.28. Governments will be quite happy to let fossil prices keep rising because their tax take gets larger. But when that starts to go down because drivers buy EV's just watch the price differential change. We will pay through the nose via increased electricity costs and road pricing plus probably high charges to recycle your worn out batteries. It will be a money spinner for somebody! And here on big island there is no way of distributing the electricity needed let alone generating it. I see a u turn on targets to get rid of IC engines. I'm not a politician so what would I know.

I just been shopping in my 07 2.0 Diesel Skoda Est. 66.9 mpg, what the car is worth would not buy me an electric bike. And the Skoda has done 163000 miles, so even if diesel reaches £10 per gallon I think I shall keep driving it till it will not pass an MOT or I need it for a Viking funeral! Keep the Hyundia Tuscon as the caravan tug. Did anyone pick up on the DVLA changing the driving licence to go up to 10tonnes? I think that opens the door for long range electric motorhomes and maybe the death of the towed caravan.

I'm rather surprised that local drivers of Transit pickups have not removed all the Mold Rly for recycling, obviously without paying for anything. But a few more years and nature will have overgrown the lot!

Darius, such high quality models and your output is staggering! I think you need to sit on the beach with an ice cream or you may have to buy all of our kit stashes to keep going!! Inspirational modelling.

Bantry's trip to Stamford went better than expected, particularly as we had not really had a proper shake down session and the backscene was painted by Mrs 84C that week!! Our club got soo lucky AND I am a lucky husband ; big thanks to my Sheila. Here are some pictures.

Just had a look at the MM Jenny coach & thought HOW much? insane, if people pay that sot of price we are headed into far more money than sense territory. In the same league as women's fashion in the Sunday supplements. Just my opinion.

What an impressive facade Heuston has looks more like a stately house than a railway station.

Brilliant stuff Eoin! have you tried lamps from Lanarkshire Models? I have found them very fine , a good range and lots of other detail parts in whitemetal and good to deal with. Also, you should make and sell those holding jigs. They look like a very well thought out tool and so flexible. Mick

Bantry makes its debut at Stamford Welland Academy this weekend. This is the event held by the Market Deeping club, thats the one that had all its exhibitors layouts vandalised, how long ago was it!!?? But if any of you here on the big island wish to visit and see the heads in hands, and as many aspects of model railway stress that you can think of!! please do show your faces. 10-4pm Sat and Sun full details on the club website.

I suppose the thing to keep in mind with all mills is the grain was taken to the top of the mill once, by elevator, then worked its way down the floors as it was processed. Animal feed had various products added in the mixing process then cooked by steam in the presses with a fat binder to make pellets/rolls. An interesting book is Milled from Golden Fields by Grahame Edge, gives a flavour of the flour milling industry in England but there are a lot of photos of lorries ancient and modern!

Been to a lot of mills in my working life and you are getting exactly the right atmosphere. Are you using a specific prototype or a sort of collage type mill?

I bought a Worsley Works Park Royal kit last year, still in the to do drawer. Projects my love, just projects!! I do like Park Royals they are so different to any other design.

I wonder if a straw poll on this group would give an indication of how many more U & UG's 00 works could sell?. I also regret not buying either model.

Yes, hard wired. You got a discount!! lucky man! Think of all these different ways of paying as part of life's experience's and its how it always happened in the past , will the treasured model sneak in under the customs radar. In the distant past I bought two brass locos one from the USA, paid duty and vat and the b--- PO handling fee made it a rather expensive loco the other one came from Australia, only paid the handling fee. Some you win !! Still got the locos, Colorado Midland 2-8-0's .

I have one , its a very good model and may in later years become more valuable. 00 works only do very limited runs and I believe once only. Just a thought.

That signal at Colooney looks strange/interesting, two arms sharing a single lamp? Mounted on one of those Courtney,Stevens and Bailey posts are there any more pictures of that signal at higher resolution? Can I feel a model coming on?

Well Mark, you had some lovely weather, the L&B has potential to be a fantastic railway and not so much competition in that corner of Devon. I rather like Lynn, for me its a much more attractive loco than the Manning Wardles. They look like a lot of loco with not much boiler but they have their admirers. Mic

I have a 4mm scale Bat to build, if it looks as good as your 7mm Bat I'll be happy. A first loco? it looks fantastic.

Regarding the Puffer, Is it street scenes that do one of those print yourself puffers? I did wonder if splicing two together , bit of a cut and shut job and a longer hold or even a fore & aft hold might work? or would it make the hull a bit too narrow looking? Just chuking balls in the air now.

That looks really first class David, I'm looking hard to see the join!!! And I failed! Please can I come and you know, operate your railway, one day? I can only hope the back scene for Bantry turns out as well as yours, I live in anticipation!