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Looks like a direct switch to me Mick. Change the starter too.

You answered your own questions. They were my first thoughts too. I do agree that a low board does improve things

Showers all morning. Just had a nasty bout of sleet that was enough to turn everything white.

Why is that? Park in an empty car park, and somebody will park next to you. Go fishing on an empty riverbank, and you soon gain a neighbour. The only place to get left alone is in the Gents, where it becomes almost obligatory to leave an empty urinal between people. Mayflower was certainly working up to that bend, and what a sound. I remember often as a kid, being double headed by steamers over the Schlochd Summit. Hanging out of the carriage window to see them leading the train around the curves. What locos would they have been from the mid 50s to the end of steam?

Chin up Mick. I am to the North of you. This weather front is moving south. It stopped raining here at 10.30, and I am starting to see some blue in the sky.

MOUNTAINS! THat embankment is not too high Mick. There is no fixed hight to determine an embankment or a cutting is there.

and tissue paper for mountains.

I have seen that deck board, probably in Wickes. You can also buy rolls of the strip to put into a plain board.

I am mixed with it. I don't like the presenters at all. I can see the fun in getting something going in 3 days, especially with the gimmicks. Some of them are very cleverly thought out and executed. They tell a story using a model railway as the vehicle. It certainly is not for the serious prototypical modeller, but it can feed the imaginative side although how many people want James Bond entering a moving train and then leaping into a pool? Even the one hour challenge with odd articles is entertaining in it's own way. It is the presenters that kill it for me.

Just like Balbeggie, you don't need much in the way of buildings. The landscape seems much larger without them.

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Good Luck with it Mick. Here is an example from 2004 when I started working for myself with a little Donut trailer. I bought the trailer brand new from a reputable supplier, and with it came a certificate of safety from the Corgi engineer, even though it was Propane powered. I started work and Environmental Health appeared of course for the first inspection. They wanted an isolating valve fitted. I argued the point, that it was certified as safe by the regulating body, and who were the Environmental Health people to tell me different. If I changed it to suit them, what happens to my certificate of safety? He cleared off and came back within the hour with his boss, who agreed with his man that an isolating valve should be fitted. After some time of discussion, he said that he would have to contact the Health and Safety Executive to find out who was right or wrong. That was in early 2004 and I still have no answer. I retired over 8 years ago. Heads and backsides come to mind. I shall pass on your thanks to Pat.

Mick. I have a good friend who is a Consumer Champion in Suffolk. She advises to contact your local Citizens advice who will get onto the case if it is thought necessary. The other possibility is Ofgem. ok not sure trading standards , but get him to speak to citizens advice on 03454 040506 and get advice there, they will pass it on to his mothers local trading standards office if they feel it needs looking into further i would think maybe contactng Ofgem would be better.

As far as I am concerned Mick, if the engineer deemed the boiler unsafe, he should have disabled it so that it could not be used. I would take this to Trading Standards as something is clearly not right.

Have you got the replacement buses laid on?

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I doubt that anybody at Hornby can remember the working steamers, so don't realise that the wheels were more of an oily black than the dry dusty modern dirt.

Thanks Mick. I should hope drivers are not colour blind Mick. Whoops. A lot of years ago, I passed all of the tests to join the Fire Brigade. Just the medical to do, and I was thinking about the colour tests. Medical all done and ppassed, and Doc suddenly said. "Oh, colours!" and pulled out a length of card with wool wrapped around it. All nice bright colours so easy to see Red, and Green and all of the others. Couple of years later I got caught out on a snooker table when I played the Brown instead of a Red. Hahaha. Nobody reported me thankfully.

It's weird Mick. I can see that there is a red light and what I assumed was the brighter green, but which you say is white. We have the Metro rail system here where we can actually sit at the front and look out. The driver is in his little cabin on one side of the carriage. I see signals coming with 4 lights arranged vertically, and every one of those looks orange to me. I am affected by shades of all sorts of colours. I moved to a new bakery years ago, and buggered up all the figurework which was supposed to be red and green. I could not differentiate the inks, but the plastic on the pens was easy. I also did a whole batch of fondant fancies in white because I thought it was pink. Yes I do drive, Traffic lights are ok, but I admit to having to be careful in a strange town at night as I can lose the red light in the sodium street lamps. Oh what fun. I have made it to 71 without serious mishap, but do wonder sometimes what I have missed. Poppies in a field for instance. I have to be close to see them.

More great work Mick. Would dummy signal satisfy you for the ones that you can't see? May I ask a really daft question please. Being colour blind, I see all sorts of colours in railway signals, depending on the level of light. Red, Orange, and Green, maybe Yellow. I don't really have a clue. Now you are talking about Red and White. Please put me out of my misery.

That is correct. Can you cut down the building on say, the ridge line, and create space for sone trees cut and painted from mdf?

That is exactly the right attitude Mick It is your railway, and could justifiably be called MWR. That is Mick's Wonderful Railway. Your planting has matured beautifully, your viaducts have weathered a treat, and now your shed stations are just about perfect. For God's sake put your tools away now, and run some trains.

Your painting is great Mick. It certainly works and the mountains do look realistic. If I had produced that I would have been delighted. I refuse to mention the geographical error, because I doubt so very much that anybody will notice. Your backscenes are nothing short of brilliant!

What a difference! That works for me Mick

That is so very different from a couple of weeks ago Mick. I was teasing about the fence you know. If anything, I might add some of the brushwood screen or whatever its called, but that is neither here nor there as that behid the shed area is hardly part of your intended "picture".