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Broithe

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  1. That was in Telford, not far from me - I'm not sure if it's still there.
  2. If only there was some way that we could go back in time.......
  3. The interestingly named Maryborough Station in Victoria, Australia, has dual gauge track - 5' 3" and 4' 8½". ..bit far to run a tunnel to there, though..
  4. Ah, that tapered rear pillar said "not Fiesta" to me, you could well be right - not a common car in the UK, as many as there were in Ireland..
  5. Hopefully there was an offshore breeze, or there would only be the glass and tyres left when he came back for it..
  6. Full scale components being produced. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32597809
  7. Please yourself.
  8. Maybe it would have been greater if it had been properly funded before - the cost to the nation is far greater than it was before the break-up.
  9. I've sent the odd two-fingered letter....
  10. The taxpayer-funded subsidies to the UK's 'private' rail system now far exceed anything that the nationalised system could have even dreamed of....
  11. Indeed, it would almost be shame to hide them with a load. A lovely thing.
  12. http://www.peco-uk.com/imageselector/Files/Instruction%20sheets/Code%2075%20Concrete%20Sleeper%20Eng.pdf
  13. I'm not a fan of the Hornby flexi-track - the Peco seemed a lot easier to use.
  14. Yes, but they aren't really fishplates, so Rail Joiners is a better description.... You can also get plastic ones, for where you might want an isolated section. Cosmetic plastic fishplates are available for the right 'look'.
  15. If buying flexi-track, don't forget to get enough joiners, as well......
  16. That's the beauty of Streamline - you can have a closer spacing on the straights and 'slide' the spacing wider on the bends, as necessary.
  17. In 00 4mm is one foot - a tenth of an inch is 2.5 mm, or 5/8 of a foot, which is 5 times 1.5 inches, or 7.5 inches - a bit over-sized. Somewhere around 5 or 5.5 inches seems about right, in real life.
  18. I've never had any trouble bending Peco 100 Streamline flexi-track in either direction.
  19. Streamline is a trade-name for Peco's flexitrack system and its associated points, slips and crossovers. I think the term is used because you can sweep bends more realistically than with fixed-curve Setrack. The rail on code 100 is 100/1000th of an inch high and Code 75 is 75/1000ths high. Fine scale is a generic term for things that are more scale-accurate - thus, 75 track is more "fine scale" than 100 is.
  20. Looks great, D C. A vertical shot of the real thing might be of interest.
  21. I once spent ages trying to get an old loco running on 100 to stop ticking - only to eventually find that the noise was not in the mechanism, but came from the flanges hitting the chairs..
  22. New stuff will run on 100 or 75 - older stuff will prefer100 - some really old wheels will argue even on 100.
  23. Get one of these to keep things (almost) running.
  24. Anybody that hasn't seen this should make the effort.
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