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Hi everyone. Our youngest daughter’s partner has just moved over from Canada and it’s looking like he’s been offered a job in London. The office is quite near Vauxhall station. Neither of them are particularly city type people and they’re very unlikely to want to go out clubbing in London at...

A relation of mine has ended up with a load of surplus 5 inch gauge track and a rather careworn looking shunter style loco with a couple of ride on carriages from a dismantled garden railway, but I’ve not got much in the way of knowledge when it comes to these things or what they’re worth? Does...

The forum staff team would like to wish all of you a Happy and relaxing Christmas this year. If it’s not happy and relaxing and it’s a difficult time of year for you then we especially wish you all the best as well. Merry Christmas. :)

Hello people. We’ve got an unused bit of land on our property where we’d like to put a new wooden cabin. I’m really not sure of the laws around planning though and was wondering if any of you might be able to either advise ( and I won’t hold you to it ;)), or at least be able to point me in...

A bit of a long shot really but I’m trying to find a bit of information out about this place. The power station was situated between Barnstaple and Bideford and had a small internal rail system with a little shunter, photo here by Gordon Edgar...

Evening history types. :) I’ve always been quite interested in the make up of mail trains during the 1960s/70s and perhaps even into the early 1980s when they still featured vans built to former SR/GWR/LNER and LMS designs. Would these vans be seen in trains around the whole network back...

I thought I’d leave this at the top of the page as on top of sharing information about exhibitions it could be a good way of meeting fellow like minded forum members from time to time. 1st one on the list from me is the Stafford Show next weekend (22nd and 23rd of September)...

I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with the older style of road signs that you still see from time to time. There’s certain areas in the country that seem to have retained them and if I ever see an unusual one I try and either get a photo of it or remember where it was so that I can have a...

Morning people. :) Would anyone know what Pullman services ran on the ex Southern and Great Western Routes into Devon and Cornwall in the 1950s? I’m just doing a bit of model railway research for a friend. Thanks in advance.

Afternoon folks. I’ve got a few historical questions for all you London Underground experts. This is related to a bit of research for someone I know that’s currently writing a fictional novel and part of it is set in 1941. The ones here I would really appreciate a bit of advice on if possible...

Evening everyone. My partner and I travelled back from Vancouver Island a couple of weeks ago and the itinerary should have been: Victoria - Vancouver Vancouver - Montreal Montreal - Heathrow Unfortunately our Vancouver to Montreal flight was cancelled while we were at the airport and we...

Yep this is a massive stab in the dark. :lol: Mrs C is now the proud owner of a fully wired up kiln which we’ve loaded up with her various creations this afternoon. Unfortunately though it’s somewhat more of a complex process than I’d appreciated (ie you don’t just press ‘on’ and then retire to...

This looks like it’s been an absolute nightmare: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65731795.amp Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this will be sorted out this week? We’re flying out of Heathrow on Saturday and I’m not sure if I should allow for an extra couple of hours or not? Thanks in...

There’s been so many stories about this recently and I’ve just picked a couple of them out below to get the ball rolling. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230522-ai-optimism-how-embracing-artificial-intelligence-is-getting-workers-ahead...

Hello history types. It’s a bit of a modelling question really. I’m trying to put a diesel hauled N gauge sleeper train together in the era when blue and grey was just starting to give way to Intercity executive livery, so around 1987/88. The up and down Penzance to Paddington sleepers as well...

Evening everyone. A friend of mine had this photo of 50004 St Vincent posted on one of his Facebook feeds the other day but the person who posted it has absolutely no details of what had occurred and was asking if anyone else knew? I don’t even know where the location is but if anyone can...

Good evening model railway types. :) I was just thinking about getting some ideas down for this and I thought actually it might make quite a fun topic if anyone else fancies getting involved as well? A friend of mine has a 9 year old son who’s into model railways and they’ve got some space at...

Hello people. :) I was just wondering if anyone had done this journey before? We’ve got a chance of doing a trip to Seattle from Vancouver sometime around the second week in June and the prices look reasonably decent. Having never travelled by train in either country I’m not really sure what...

Good afternoon everyone. An issue has come up in a post in this thread that we’d like to take a moment to clarify. Probably for fairly obvious reasons we are not particularly comfortable with a situation like that happening away from the main forum. We would always expect members who want to...

This one stems from a conversation I was having with someone the other day. Growing up in the 1980s the world seemed to be awash with urban myths that were believed (to a point) and passed on with exuberant enthusiasm and glee. However with our modern ability to look things up instantly with a...