Man builds underground train set in home - The Telegraph

Nice layout.

There is an Underground station on the Model Railway Club's famous 2mm scale Copenhagen Fields layout, using a modified Z-gauge mechanism in a tube train.

You might find this of interest then. Even has Exhibition dates.

Thank you!

Bruce wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I'm petty sure that it was at Blackburn this year - certainly there was an underground layout there but having just reviewed the photos I took on my phone found them to be far to shaky to be of any use ... grrr!

From the article ... raised a smile ...

"The model, which is based on real places but set in a fictitious London, is built to a scale where 4mm equals 30cm.'

You really can't expect anyone but a British model railway enthusiast to understand the concept of muddling metric and imperial measurements to state a muddling scale!

Greg.P. =8^)

Well, NASA ... :()

Sure, and GM cars get a bit confused around here (Southern Hemisphere) Motors from Japan/Korea/Taiwan and bodies from Australia, or ... The bolts all go in if you hit them with a big enough hammer.

In these days of assembly plants, cross-badging, and trading of bits and pieces between car companies (who all seem to own each other, no car is "pure brand" anymore. Right now I'm driving a replacement ride while our car is getting repaired, it's a Mazda G6 - which is in fact a Ford Fusion with a Mazda badge. Our car is an Escape, which is a Mazda Tribute in Ford clothing. This mix'n'match started in the 60s. The last "pure" car I owned was a 1954 VW Beetle. Then we had a Halifax (Canada)- assembled Volvo, which contained a lot of GM parts. And so it goes.

Wolf K.

Had a Mazda 121 a few years ago (the one that was taken on by Kia), now that was a treasure of a car. Was that one of the last of the true Mazda range ?

Cheers, Simon

No idea, Simon, sorry.

Wolf K.

Sold as a Ford in Australasia, and (like most of that generation of Mazdas) developed with considerable Ford input. Mazda were part-owned by Ford then - not sure of the current situation - and supplied Fords for Australia and elsewhere in that region with considerable Ford design input. The immediately earlier (323) and later (626) designs were certainly co-developments with Ford, the former as an Escort alternative (and including lots of design developments from Ford-Europe for the Escort) and the latter as a Sierra alternative for East Asia/Pacific. I suspect the last "pure" Mazda was the 929 (never really marketed in UK), with the last rear-drive 626s and 323s falling into the same group (or were there Cortina genes in the RWD 626 - can't recall...).

Amazing, the 121 was a dream to drive, went like a bomb and you could steer it with a ladies little finger - but then the sporty escort (x2 or something) was as well. My parents had a RWD 626, IIRC more like a tank .

Thanks, Simon

I had a 1968 Volvo 142S, which proudly bore a "Made in Canada" sticker.

My current Honda Civic was built in Alliston, Ontario, while GM are selling rebadged Daewoos from Korea as Chevrolets and Opels from Europe as Buicks.

Around here we call it a "Brumagem screwdriver" :o)

(kim)

I've also heard it called an "Irish screwdriver" :-)

And a Liverpool screwdriver.