Dare ga omatta no? Think that's who'd of thought in Japanese.

Also Senegal, who'd of thought, google translate doesn't do Senegalese  .

What a wonderful and weird World Cup it is.

Great stuff.

Cheers weave 

I've created a photo album from the images I took when I visited Westbury.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HMDFfCezrKBXweg6A
Best regards,
Leon

@Leon Lovely set of photographs that. Thank you for posting.
Ive only ever been through Westbury once and of course its a very interesting station/yard. When I've looked back at your plan, I think you've done really well to squeeze in all that track work. Really interested to watch this develop.
Cheers
Kirky

The first of these posts about locomotives and rolling stock on the railways of Uganda and Kenya covered locomotives used by the Uganda Railway. This second post primarily covers locomotives introduced by the Kenya Uganda Railway up until it handed over to the East African Railways Corporation in 1948.

Locomotives on the Kenya and Uganda Railway and Harbours Lines (1927- 1948)

In 1926/27 the Uganda Railway was replaced first by the Kenya and Uganda Railways in 1926 and then by the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours (KURH) Corporation in 1927, when the powers-that-be placed Mombasa Harbour into the same company as the railways.

Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours (KURH) ran harbours, railways and lake and river ferries in Kenya Colony and the UgandaProtectorate until 1948. It included the Uganda Railway, which it extended from Nakuru to Kampala in 1931. In the same year it built a branch line to Mount Kenya. [1]

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/uganda-railways-part-24-locomotives-and-rolling-stock-part-b-1927-to-19/

The Kenya Uganda Railway introduced Beyer Garratt locomotives to the network. These were massive machines with huge pulling power which suited the lightly constructed lines on which they ran.

Attracting youth to the hobby/people being priced out etc comes up periodically, these were my thoughts from last time we discussed it, as I’m too lazy to type it all again :

 I’ve never bought the argument about people being “priced out”. There are always people selling up - I acquired the bulk of my stock from a chap doing just so in 2012 (IIRC), when prices were far cheaper.

 We’re fortunate it’s a hobby where the ongoing costs don’t need to be anything significant at all. Once you have a collection that’s it, it just (generally) appreciates slightly in value. As such, even if your hypothetical modeller decided it was all too expensive and that he was going to sell his entire collection, the strong residual value would leave him with a not insignificant sum with which to buy new models.

The second hand values having increased with the new prices reinforces this.

One has to recalibrate your expectations - I have 16 “silver bullets”, that I paid no more than £20 each for. I want a couple more, but they’re now £30ish, which I’m entertaining. If they were £40+ I’d sit tight on my current rake. Other things I’m considering selling to buy other models, but that’s part of the fun for me, it’s certainly not a reason to give up altogether

Re: the young, most children will still have Brio or a similar wooden trainset as toddlers, many will progress to Hornby circles of track even, it’s from there that the near instant gratification of Xboxes and PS4s will cannibalise the market, but you’re never going to stop that, it’s just one of those things and it’s not driven by price IMO.

I’m 30, my son is 1, I’d quite like if he wanted a model railway, he’s fascinated by watching mine, but equally there’s a PS4 beside the TV, and if he wants to play that then sobeit, I’ll not be trying to influence him too heavily.

Some interesting although anticipated posts since mine at 20.02.  As I have said previously there will always be people who can afford to pay whatever Farish or any other manufacturer charge. Howerver each time their prices rise there will be people who either drop out from buying or become very controlled over what they do buy. Will this result in Farish continuing to raise their prices to make up for declining sales?

Our son in laws Father is from Hong Kong and he is a businessman. He returns to H/K on business regularly. When I relayed how prices have risen over the last few years and by the amounts he grinned broadly. He said some truth about increased labour costs, but the levels of price increase don't add up.

As Newportnobby said they could price themselves out of the market, given U.K. wages have been pretty stagnant whilst essential outgoings continue to rise.

For some of us the ongoing price increases will have the effect of forcing us to get back to some scratchbuilding...it has with me, and enjoying it very much.