Memories

I've been thinking of starting this thread for a while as I was/am completely unsure about the level of interest but here goes anyway.

The idea is partly inspired by the excellent tales from John @Train Waiting on his inspirational Poppingham threadingham where he frequently waxes lyrical about trainsetty trainsets.

I'm sure that many of us had model railways or trainsets, call them as you will, as youngsters and I thought it might be an idea to share photographs of such layouts regardless of quality of modelling or the photographs themselves.

As a start, here are the only two photos of my loft layout which I/my Dad probably started in around 1964 and continued in use until I lost interest in about 1969 or so.

The layout was Hornby Dublo three rail which ran right around our loft. The locomotives I can recall were 7013 Bristol Castle, Standard 4 80054, 46232 Duchess of Montrose, 8F no 48158 plus an A4 and what is now a BR Class 20 diesel loco. There may well have been others.

Anyway, here are the VERY poor quality photographs probably from 1965 when I would have been 10/11 taken with a Box Brownie camera in poor light.
Note the thumb print which must have been on an original negative.
Note also the Airfix German fighter (possibly a Junkers?) hanging from the roof.




The track laying, as you can see, was not all that it might have been but remarkably the trains ran well enough.

It's frightening to think that this was all some 60 years ago but I had great fun with that railway.

Hopefully this will encourage others to share their childhood modelling efforts.

Martin
 

Quote from: joe cassidy on March 25, 2026, 02:02:25 PMThere are people in France offering to change the ink pad for 45 euros but I preferred paying 70 euros for a new printer.

Has the value of the Euro really plummeted that mutch??
It was less than a fiver last time I changed one, and for your printer can be had for £5.60 on Amazon right now...

That's what i have done Alan.

There are people in France offering to change the ink pad for 45 euros but I preferred paying 70 euros for a new printer.

Quote from: joe cassidy on March 25, 2026, 11:42:30 AMMy 7 year old Epson XP 452 printer gave up the ghost yesterday.

It's final words were :

"The printer's ink pad is at the end of its service life. Please contact Epson Support."

Is this Epson's way of saying "go buy a new printer" or can the ink pad be replaced ?

Thanks in advance.

There are ink pad replacement kits for most Epsons although I've no idea if just getting a new printer would be the better investment.

Strewth!!!
A 15 year
Nice one, Joe

Oh, dear. The tale of woe just goes on................
George has now got an infection in his ankle so has to go back to the hospital from the rehabilitation centre to have the infection flushed out. The hope is it has not attached itself to the metal pin in his ankle.
It does delay the fight at Chez Bealman as to who gets the one pair of crutches Anne and George have between them. I know who my money is on...........

In the UK, you get tested for MRSA before you can be admitted to hospital, and then they make sure you actually do have it when you get kicked out

My 7 year old Epson XP 452 printer gave up the ghost yesterday.

It's final words were :

"The printer's ink pad is at the end of its service life. Please contact Epson Support."

Is this Epson's way of saying "go buy a new printer" or can the ink pad be replaced ?

Thanks in advance.

Many moons ago when Opera did play up I used 'Firefox' as a back up browser. I use Opera for precisely the same reason as you do, Chris

Keep it quiet, boys and girls, but I think I've fixed it.

As a backup I copied all the bookmarks over to MS Edge, which is already installed on my laptop, then uninstalled Opera, ran Ccleaner again, reloaded the program and sshhhh! it seems to be working...

Edge would probably be OK if I had to use it but I much prefer the way Opera displays bookmarks as thumbnails rather than just a list which is why I'd like to persevere with it.

Cheers,

Chris