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I was recently interviewed by Peter Day for Radio 4's In Business programme in the UK, to go out on Thursday 20:30-21:00 BST (19:30 GMT, 21:30 CEST, 15:30 EDT or 14:30 EST, whichever you're on) and repeated Sunday 21:30-22:00. This contact was (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | 5th Great Western LEGO Train Show, Swindon, UK - 6/7 Oct
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The Brickish Association will be displaying at STEAM, the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, UK on Saturday/Sunday 6/7 October 2007. The event title is now a little misleading as it's much more than a train show! We will have two (...) (17 years ago, 29-Sep-07, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | London Underground 1972mkII Tube Stock
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The 1972 tube stock was a minor evolution of the 1967 stock that was ordered for the Victoria line. The first batch (MkI) were for the Northern Line to replace 1938 stock. The second batch (MKII), while intended for the new Fleet (now Jubilee) line (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.underground, FTX)
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| | Re: London Underground Standard Tube Stock
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(...) [...] (...) Well done. I really like the way you did the doors. Chris (17 years ago, 18-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: London Underground Standard Tube Stock
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(...) Sock! LOL Thanks for your comments. If you look at the pic below you should be able to see the skirting (far left of pic, with a motor wheel visible under by its metallic shine). (URL) Ta, David (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.underground, FTX)
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| | Re: London Underground Standard Tube Stock
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(...) David: Nice work! I love the general shape of those cars and the use of the smaller train wheels is spot-on. One question. You mentioned the motor in the actual cars being hidden beneath a skirt. Is this true on your model as well? Do these (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.underground, FTX)
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| | London Underground Standard Tube Stock
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This is my most recent tube train. I haven't had much time to build recently so I've been putting more stuff online. The Standard tube stock dates back to the 1920s. It was a series of tube stocks which were designed to be cross-compatable. The (...) (17 years ago, 16-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.underground, FTX) !
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| | Re: Trains at Merrist Wood
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(...) In a similar vein here are two videos from 2005, one is footage from an on-board (wireless) camera. (URL) (17 years ago, 3-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX)
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| | 7998 Heavy Hauler (Classic Truck) half price in Argos
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Lego UK price £34.99 / Argos price £17.49 - this is the standard price for the catalogue that runs to the end of this year... Argos catalogue reference 387/0983 ...and I've just seen that Huw posted this on Brickset on Jul 28... I wonder if this (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jul-07, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Trains at Merrist Wood
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Hi All, I've put together a load of my video clips from this year's Merrist Wood Summer Show (Guildford, Surrey, UK) which was held on the 20th of May. The clips were of the joint layout by myself and Ben Rogers. Ben's trains were Thomas the Tank (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX)
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| | Irish LUG (hopefully)
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Hey all, just sent these out to a few people and thought I'd post here just in case... I'm crossposting to .UK/.NI in case anyone reads there more frequently. We're trying to be island wide (I'm from Portadown so the North is represented)... The (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.uk.ni, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX)
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| | The formation of Scot LUG
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Hello all. For a while now I have wanted to attend a lego event. But even with Brickish all of the big events (minus ScotFest which I need to catch one day) are all in england. And I have no way of getting down there. So I have created a new LUG (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego AFOL Display @ The Merrist Wood Summer Show 20/05/07
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LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO !!! (...) (18 years ago, 14-May-07, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | LEGO trains at the Glenrothes, Scotland
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LEGO trains at the Glenrothes Model Railway Exhibition, Fife, Scotland Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th May at The Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife. A popular show - Come along and watch, help or show your trains/buildings etc. Open Saturday, 12th May 2007 (...) (18 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New Monorail System (MOC) - 360 degree roll - Videos!
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(...) Thanks Matt :-) Here are a couple of videos of the roller coaster, my first ones: Flat circuit: (URL) degree roll: (URL) too bad I hope, considering it's not a movie camera. I had to use a floodlight as my earlier attempt came out too dark. (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GBC MOC: Track Wheel Reservoir - Video!
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(...) Absolutely! :-) (...) I thought about that when you said so before, but then I thought it was better to keep the tracks rigid, otherwise the tension might vary in the round ends, requiring good control of the tracks on the straight part. I (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Lego AFOL Display @ The Merrist Wood Summer Show 20/05/07
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I'm organising this event now for the third year. It will be on Sunday, the 20th of May. It's probably the biggest AFOL display in the UK (by visitor numbers) and is a small part of a very big one day event. Merrist Wood Campus (of Guildford (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | GBC MOC: Track Wheel Reservoir (was Re: Tunnel Mouth / Bridge Arch)
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(...) I've not made very much GBC before but this was such a nice idea that I thought I'd have a go Brian: (URL) I used 36 tracks with pins on alternate ones to give a maximum 4 balls/second output. This can be reduced easily to the standard 1 (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Mind the gap! London Underground Standard tube stock
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(URL) With my designing of the W+C 1940 stock (SR class 487) model recently I overcame some design obstacles that had set me against continuing the design process for the standard stock, having started it by throwing together a quick demonstrator (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX)
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| | Petersfield Lego Show - Sat 7th April 2007
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For the fourth year I am organising a Lego Show in Petersfield, South Hampshire. When: Sat April 9th 2006 Where: Main Hall, Community Centre, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4BW Entrance: Free (public 11:30am to 2:30pm, others 9am to 5pm) Like before, (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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