Vince's World

Here's the latest member of my miniature locomotive fleet (for now!). It's a 5" gauge model of a 'Large Penrhyn' Quarr...

In my experience this rings true. The best non-pilot 'pilots' I took flying were young girls like this. They have no pre-conceiv...

Wednesday is Manchester Locomotive Society (MLS) day and though I don't go every Wednesday, I decided it was time for a little run out ...

I took the new 4MT Standard Class Tank loco to Urmston club on Sunday for its hydraulic and steam test, and to see how it runs. It passed...

The Kingscale 5" gauge BR Standard Class 4 tank loco arrived this morning in a big wooden crate, all 15 stone of it. Once the rain sto...

Very glad to see that Manchester has at last put in place an enhancement to Concorde G-BOAC. They have allowed Heritage Concorde to re-act...

First batch of 10 (of 50 - all now sold) Kingscale 5" gauge BR Standard Class 4 Tank engines at Northampton for pre-delivery boiler hy...