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If the issue is with B&W pictures, it can be a matter of whether Ortho- or Pan- film was in used. Yellows came out very differently depending on which was used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchromatic_film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthochromasia

I wouldn't leave you Hyundai.

I'm tempted to say Velox to it all now.

Well Said! This thread needs to return to its original Focus.

As a Moderator, surely you are the Manta put a stop to it?

Excellent! Ascona say that, as well.

You should probably stay there until 'they' say you can come out.

Dangerously political there - twenty minutes in the bin for you!

Amusingly, Twitter has offered to translate this for me - from Danish.

Easily done.... (Saturday was the 1st in 1867, I remember it well.)

Excellent - we have it in the book - http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/5891-Sleaford-Exhibition-Lincolnshire?highlight=sleaford - but for the 3rd of June...

A bit of discussion from the past - http://irishrailwaymodeller.yuku.com/topic/50/Track-inspection-vehicles?page=1#.WL13q4Hyhpg

The Dapol device is quite good, especially if you're running DCC, when you can run the cleaner at full power whilst propelling it slowly around the track via a separately controlled loco - with DC, getting a suitable compromise of speed of the cleaning disc and time spent on each part of the track is difficult.

Indeed, but not to hard to bodge up something similar enough... There may be something to be said for two pads - the leading one wet and the trailing one drying.

Behold the CMX track cleaner - a brass tank for holding the fluid and providing the weight.

I quite like the sound from metal wheels - it sounds 'right' - to me. Any train will have metal wheels somewhere, if only just those on the loco, and so, if you have shorting issues at points, etc., then that will probably happen anyway and it would be better to sort that out. The dirt aspect does seem to be exacerbated by plastic wheels.

And a rather more dramatic one on the big island. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-39144133

Merrion Gates again this morning.

And another.

I hope it wasn't this realistic... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-39124787

Or http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/member.php/1365-wheeltapper ?

Place like Maplin sell Anglepoise-style magnifier lamps, like this. Apart from the magnifying lens, which is useful at times, they have a circular fluorescent tube, which is usually of a high colour temperature and produces a very clear, intense, white light. I find it very 'sharp' to work on small items with. Do remember to cover the lens, when not in use, if there is any chance of sunlight reaching it...

Another nice picture this morning from Twitter.

This may be the new C-o-S bridge.