Drink Up Thee Zider!

[Dog Star]

Arf, arf... very good sir, a typical Will Hay response.

 

[Osgood]

Yes, it certainly reads better in a Will Hay way . Not quite Oh Mr Porter, but the Mid Suffolk was under very serious consideration for the location filming of The Titfield Thunderbolt until they found the Limpley Stoke branch.

 

[ZiderHead]

Ive only met a couple of people in my life who have even heard of Will Hay.

I am definitely in the right place


The next train's gone!

 

[Osgood]

 

[Phill Dyson]

Ive only met a couple of people in my life who have even heard of Will Hay.

I am definitely in the right place


The next train's gone!

Well that's at least three of us on here then

 

[Heather Kay]

Well that's at least three of us on here then

Four.

 

[Phill Dyson]

Four.

Perhaps a rename is in order then?...'Westetn Thunder (Incorperating the Will Hay Appreciation Society)'

Phill

 

[Simon]

Hmm, "You're Wasting Your Time" perhaps

Simon

 

[Simon]

Sorry, too much cardboard bending in prospect at the mo

 

[Devonbelle]

Gosh I didn't realise this forum was a gathering of Will Hay fans! Welcome Ziderhead. On my French o gauge layout messrs Hay Moffat and Marriot are to be found.

"Gladstone, lovely lines ain't she" (IIRC that is before the fantastic shunting sequence, working out the shunt moves with a pocket watch, box of matches on the railhead head, as Gladstone steams over them, crushing the watch - cue Moore Marriot holding to his ear "it's stopped" Devonbelle

 

[Phill Dyson]

ooo I like that

I'm looking for a house at the moment, and trying hard not to be too influenced by wondering how a western with a rake of 8/9 coaches and the same number of flats behind em will look in the garden

Well I wouldn't want to tempt you or anything , but .......




Phill

 

[ZiderHead]

now you see, that is exactly what I should not be thinking about when I view on Thursday. the property is fantastic, good value (well relatively), needs a refurb, with a large garden ... on the side of a steep hill

 

[marsa69]

now you see, that is exactly what I should not be thinking about when I view on Thursday. the property is fantastic, good value (well relatively), needs a refurb, with a large garden ... on the side of a steep hill

That'll be Lickey Bank then

 

[ZiderHead]

looks a bit more than 1in37 to me ... and this is the flattest bit

 

[marsa69]

That's got loads of potential. Lots of viaducts spring to mind

 

[marsa69]

I didn't want to say

 

[Osgood]

Viaduct straight into the upstairs spare bedroom window - you lucky so-and-so!

 

[adrian]

That's got loads of potential. Lots of viaducts spring to mind

I was thinking more a shed cut into the side of the bank, inside the shed a good working height for the boards and then straight out into ground level running - ok a few viaducts and cuttings as well.

 

[ZiderHead]

oh goody ... now I have to build the pway, the rolling stock and a shed!

 

[marsa69]

Best if the shed was built out of brick (or stone to match the viaducts)