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Phil, Great Pictures there :thumbup: I'm heading down there with a bit of luck this month in hope to get some shots, I was wondering how would I get to that crossing? Is there a street or road that I can get access to it from? I am not from the area but I am only a 40 minute drive away. Regards Hi ...

There was something I forgot to mention on your dhs thread, seeing as this has been stripped of all decals, how are you going to replicate the side vents, as those we're very finely done in decal form?

I finally had a little spare time last Saturday morning, so I jumped on my bike & had a look at UK Coals Minorca site, situated just to the edge of the village of where I live, in Measham. There's a public ftpath that cuts straight through the middle of the site, & the haul road to t...

I will not be going this year. this is because , it is the same weekend as the big holland show. :thumbdown: Most of the traders / collectors are going to Holland. :arrrrgh: so i feel that it will not be a good show this year. Bummer. Though they always seem to pick a bad day, i.e, snow, mothers da...

Just thought I would ask.....who's making the trip to Spalding Model Show this Sunday, 17th March?

Reading in the Sun City pages today, UK Coal has split itself into two, & will now be known as Coalfield Resources, with the company divided into a mining business & property firm. It seems without restructuring the business - hit by falling coal prices, UK Coal would almost certainly have g...

Very interesting, but apart from the jobs of the machine operators & the like, I think there is a bigger problem for the UK opencast scene if small mining companies start to go bust. One of the arguments for the protest group set up in my own village of Measham towards UK Coals new Minorca site ...

It pains me to say it but I bet that'll be better than you think! :eh: It a copy no doubt of the Komatsu, but look what the Japanese and the Koreans have done to the earthmover and crane markets! Slow to start, copy the best and buy their way in. :shock: People said Hitachi would n't be any good in...

Jeremy Rowland wrote:Nice pics Phil shame you could not have met up with the rest of us.

Jeremy

No worries, maybe next time? It was all a bit of a rush for me on the day as I had to do a job in Warslow on route! Even missed my usual partner in crime, Mr R M Furniss.

Here's a few of my phone pics.... http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/post_img/4839638024fe829867c7d5.jpg URL of the original image: http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/philblack1260/IMAG1739.jpg http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/post_img/1937014494fe829880d5fb.jpg URL of the o...