Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Superb, WTD.   It is hard to believe this is not reality !    Perhaps the only thing missing is graffiti on the inside of the telephone box door ! Congratulations on putting together this great scene.

Thank you Jimbo. Don't remember much graffiti in the 60's. 

Thank you Jimbo. Don't remember much graffiti in the 60's. 

"Kilroy was here" ?

There was graffiti in the 60s BUT apart from some "Ban the Bomb" slogans painted in whitewash in 12 inch / 2 foot letters on walls now and again it tended to be done in chalk, wax crayon or pencil, which quickly faded.or could be cleaned off fairly easily. Spray can paint was rare and expensive and hadn't come to the attentiuon of the common thuggery, and felt tip permanent markers virtually unavailable.Unfortunately cutting or scratching graffiti into stone or wood (and paintwork) was quite common, as it has been since caveman times.  There are some mature trees near us which have slogans carved into the bark which from the content appear to date from the 1970s.

Recently purchased the Honby Balfour Beatty Sentinel. Absolutely chuffed to bits with it.

The previous owner had already DCC fitted too which was an extra bonus! I’d like to make some more additions to my layout. I saw a Balfour Beatty themed small layout online and it looked great. Amazing how much detail can be applied to a small layout.

To be accurate all the phone box needs is the odour of stale urine. All th ones near us in the 70s were obviously used as a convenient urinal or worse with the phone directory making easy toilet paper. I don't remember much graffiti on them but I remember having to make a call once in the middle of winter with most of the windows broken. The phone box was a 5 minute walk and the only one on our estate. There could sometimes be a queue even in the rain. Most of my friends didn't have phones and the only way to see if they were coming out was to walk to their house and knock on the door. One who had a phone had a family code for the number of rings to avoid paying for calls. I think 3 rings meant his dad was coming home from work so put the tea on. 

Not really the good old days from that perspective!

Great layout by the way. 

Phone boxes - you were more likely to find little business cards tucked in wherever they would stick - advertising 'French Lessons', etc!

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Latest purchase - one of those cleaning pencils I mentioned a couple of days ago. Looks like it might work.

I don't really want/need any more rolling stock or loco's - I have nowhere left to store them! So I'm down to adding little bits and pieces of 'detailing' and decoration, now.

I have been told I don’t need any more trains. We shall see. I need around £500 (RRP) worth of track and points for the new layout so that may have to be slipped under the table somehow.

Latest  is a 5ft wooden shelf for my layout under construction to accommodate the ever-growing horde of 0-6-0 tanks. I don't like to put them away in their boxes as I run something almost every day. I will post pictures of the recent arrivals after the struggle with aligning rawl-plugs. 

Hi Jimbo..........that mention of rawl-plugs brings back memories from the 1960s using the asbestos composed Rawlplastic to plug many a hole in my first house in London in my early attempts at DIY....................HB