Coming south from a visit to Durham in early autumn we revisited the Locomotion museum at Shilsdon https://www.locomotion.org.uk/home. I'm collecting information and models for a railway layout based on the very early years of railways with scenes representing the pre-loco wagonways at Throckley which one of Jean's ancestors built, the cottage down the road where George Stephenson lived (with an imagined workshop attached), with tracks running into Newcastle where we time travel to the opening of the High Level Bridge by Queen Victoria, and on to North Shields where another of Jean's ancestors is waving her husband off on a collier ship en route to London. A few locos and wagons from this period are now starting to be available ready-to-run but surprisingly Locomotion itself is not one of them. Someone at the museum did say though that some folk perhaps from a modelling company had been taking measurements... Meanwhile a 3D printed kit to help a really hardy modelmaker have a go themselves is on the market, but may be beyond my skills (especialy if an RTTR is just round the corner). I had great fun working out what all the bits of mechanism on the real thing were actually doing: not actually that complicated but still quite a puzzle. Fascinating.