In 2025 I drove up to and onto the Isle of Skye, using the ferry to reach Skye and the bridge to leave. The road from Kyle of Lochalsh to Spean Bridge was glorious scenery all the way.
Sadly I'd bought a cheap USB stick which corrupted and 3 days of dashcam footage was lost.
So, this year I retraced my steps with much more success and better weather, too
I drove straight to KoL, stayed overnight and then came back to Spean Bridge before turning east for Dunfermline. I took some pics of Kyle of Lochalsh station but the stupid system turned them all on their sides so I'm not going to post them.
Instead, here's a couple of pics of the Commando Memorial just outside Spean Bridge

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Quote from: Nbodger on May 08, 2026, 06:47:43 PMRumoured he has taken refuge in Macdonalds. 

No, that can't be right. They don't serve VB in there.

One would need lashings 'N' lashings of VB to recover from a visit to McDonalds. Might take several days.

Check for sold prices on Ebay - some are going for over £100.

There's a whole lot of them. If you can't see it from my post, check it out on YouTube

Groups.io is awful! It has no redeeming features I can think of.

I did volunteer to help with what I think is a credibility issue with the NGS. I got a perfunctory acceptance on one occasion, then nothing. Got the impression they were happy with how things were and didn't want to resolve issues. That's not an inherent issue of course, but I didn't bother renewing my membership.

Given the NGS makes/commissions their own models it begs the question about whether they would be the right organisation to 'lobby' the industry at large, although again I'm not sure how much lobbying Peachy does.

That said when I started 3D printing TT:120 he got in touch with encouragement and he offered to link to a website some centralised repository he has/had of TT:120 suppliers.

Quote from: Newportnobby on May 08, 2026, 12:10:08 PM@Moonglum Love the Zappa quote but not, as you said, the tune shown

@kusojiji I'm OK with ELO in small doeses. If you want lyrical oddities try...........

What song is that? All I see is video not available.

Quote from: njee20 on May 08, 2026, 04:45:36 PMI'm perhaps being unkind, but the NGS doesn't seem the most forward thinking on such matters. That the 'official' forum is hosted on groups.io speaks volumes!

Nothing wrong with groups.io - it's just a different style of interaction.

But yes, the NGS can be a bit slow about these kind of things. Thats because it's entirely run by volunteers, and no-one is coming forward to volunteer. Anyone who wants to help the NGS get better at what it does only has to volunteer.

Will probably put this here.  I'm going to stop my threads on Aberffilli, The Nova Scotia South Shore and Bad Katsberg for a good reason, but I need a little help

I've expanded what was Aberffilli, jacked up the NSSS and attached them all together so I have 1 layout!  Its now about 10x14 U shaped layout that I can sit in the middle of, and while the old layout still exist, I'm going to just have scenic magic to separate them and trains will be able to run through them all!.

I have no pics yet as the room is a mess as I've been given a large full height set of shelves for the other end of the room, so its an absolute tip until I get them setup.

I'll explain more in the future but I'm going to start updating things here instead

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Quote from: Nbodger on May 08, 2026, 06:47:43 PMRumoured he has taken refuge in Macdonalds. 

No, that can't be right. They don't serve VB in there.

Rumoured he has taken refuge in Macdonalds.