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I mentioned this chap before - Dublin-based and with some very nice scenic stuff. https://www.gmodelscene.com/

I've been in a few stations that look like that on a weekend.

Bank? I'm having trouble sleeping at night now. Not just because of the worry of penury, but because the mattress is empty now.

I bought one of these pipe cutters from a chap at a boot sale a few years ago. He was obviously clearing out a garage/workshop after many years and felt obliged to ask me if I knew what it was for. I replied that it didn't really matter, but times were hard and I had just started up a new kidnapping venture and I wanted to provide my clients with a neater and more efficient service. At that point, he looked at me dead-pan and held up a hand with an incomplete set of fingers...

It's a bit like a more complicated Schmidt coupling.

I remember it being next to the Victoria Hall and in front of the Police Station, but it's all fifty years ago now - amazingly. That is a much better arrangement now.

In Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, in the 1970s, there was a Spitfire in what was effectively a giant greenhouse. This was a monument to Reg Mitchell, not far from his childhood home. That was all very well in normal times, but the years 1975 & 6 were notoriously sunny, as the elderly amongst us will remember. All around the building were displays of model aircraft. These were plastic models and many succumbed to the extreme temperatures, even though every orifice of the building was left open. I remember convincing a visitor that a Liberator, whose wings had subsided to the floor, was actually a model of a folding prototype that was intended for Fleet Air Arm use, but the war ended before it could enter service.

It's all getting a bit Four Yorkshiremen... When I was a lad, the only train I had was a train of thought.

Chin Ho was a character in Hawaii Five-O, but I don't remember him ever chasing crooks with a tractor.

Just send a blank cheque and have faith.

I knew nothing at the time, but I had built a layout for an old boy that I knew and I went to a toy/model fair to get some bits for him. I saw one and bought it on a whim, for myself to have something to run on his layout. When we first ran it, it was immediately obvious that it was considerably better than anything we had become used to, in every respect. A fortuitous glance in the right direction, at the right moment, was all that it took. Up to that point, plausible carriages and wagons weren't too hard a prospect, but a decent loco required rather too much effort for me. It was an absolute transition in the market.

I would be inclined to use the 'silver glue' first, then attempt to mechanically reinforce that with the super glue. There are risks in all this...

Mmm, the glue will be an insulator, but you might get a result, if there is metal-to-metal contact when things are 'set'. Another 'solution', depending on the circumstances, might be to hold the wire in place with a bit of tape, allowing contact, and 'loading' the tape up via something resilient, pressing it in place when the cover is reinstated. There is a small piece of folded paper in my Seiko solar watch that stops the cell disconnecting itself - it's worked well for several years now, since I realised what was happening.

Using electricity to heat the water... A technology revived by Hornby for their live steamers. To be fair to the Swiss, if you have a 'real' steam loco available, you can just shove a big immersion heater in the boiler and a pantograph on the roof, so that you can run them (on electric lines) using indigenous hydro-electricity, whilst foreign coal was in short supply.

Galway Races. You're not safe anywhere... She may have stopped him because he only had one light working at the front..?

Mmm, maybe I should have started a specific thread? This one is near the TV mast at the top of Mount Leinster.

It seems that it might be a 'rising chock' which acts to brake the stock and the loco pulls away, breaking the coupling.

Agreed! The next person posting one should be poked in the eye with a skua.

I know him - he'll always do you a good tern.

It's no good hiding in there, she'll still find you.

I believe that there are actually several similar moulds, but only to accommodate issues of bodywork size and some detail equipment fittings.

Excellent! Do make sure the window is open, we don't want any monoxide issues after all this.

The Tanat Valley Railway, near Oswestry in Shropshire seems an interesting place. Shades of Lartigue there...