Peckett tank by RT Models.

[Hobby]

It may be but they can keep their spiders, snakes and other nasties!  ;)

[pilotfriend]

Well I have the heat on right now!

[tedp]

Chatting to a friend of mine last year, from what she was saying I rather got the impression that the winter in Melbourne was better than our summer!

Funny thing is its summer in Oz!

[pilotfriend]

There have been a few sunny moments and I grant it is warmer than Herefordshire at present.

[pilotfriend]

I spent the day getting to know Adelaide. The Australians seem to be much more at ease with their trains than we in the UK. The broad gauge metroline weaves its way through suburbia and actually has stations where they are needed.

The entire transit system is perfectly integrated and a joy to use. Disabled access throughout is a doddle and everybody is so helpful, polite and friendly. Downtown Adelaide is clean, well laid out and interesting. Public toilets seem clean everywhere and there were no signs of the usual British disease of peeing all over the floor and toilet seat.

I spent a good three hours pottering about before finally taking a tram to the main model railway shop called Orient Express. The tram whisked me to within 100 metres of the establishment where, guess what, I found a foot high step into the shop, no ramp and a complete disregard of the problem. I am unable to report on an OZ shop as I had intended.

What is it about model railway people?

[garrywhiting]

As this is has now drifted a bit far from the original topic, it is now locked