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  1. WILLIAM
    Anyone fancy putting their 86416 into 1999 condition?
  2. WILLIAM
    Drax Biomass Hoppers available to pre-order now at 'Model Railways Direct'. No connection just trying to help those looking.
  3. WILLIAM
    'Model Railways Direct' have them on their website. They are currently showing as sold out but there is a note on the main page saying they will show this until their allocation is confirmed by Hornby. Think it is a matter of patience while websites and allocations get updated/confirmed but they did go rather quick at Kernows so suggest you don't hang around when you do see them.
  4. WILLIAM
    Yes, definately on my list. Shouldn't the duckets be black however as per the picture in this thread? Any idea when this brake van was withdrawn other than early/mid 80s?
  5. WILLIAM
    Agreed. Are they available anywhere on the net now or did anyone have the foresight to copy them before they went? Looking for BRILL volumes 26 to 28 in particular.
  6. WILLIAM
    Front tank is a Carless TUA - Design Code TU020A. Not sure about the other two.
  7. WILLIAM
    2nd June 2004 at Lower Hatton.
  8. WILLIAM
    Searching through some old photographs and I've found the perfect prototypical train to go with my pre-ordered 92003 :-)
  9. WILLIAM
    You might just scrape in according to the excellent ITSV resource. http://www.ltsv.com/w_profile_028.php
  10. WILLIAM
    I believe 92022 was more or less released in its Railfreight Distribution livery too. I was toying for ages between it and 92003 for the same reasons as you but when I saw the latest samples I crumbled and ordered both!
  11. WILLIAM
    Cannot justify a full coal rake but could these still have been MDVs on a scrap metal working in 1988 or would these wagons have been converted to MDWs by then? (picture credit Gray Callaway from Flickr).
  12. WILLIAM
    A couple of quick questions if I may. I've just received 5028 from the latest batch of these wagons. The weight is clearly loose inside the wagon and is sliding around. Is it supposed to be like that and, if not, does anyone know how to remove the body so I can sort it out? Thanks.
  13. WILLIAM
    It's funny, I think the opposite. Maybe there was just a lot of variation on the real things.
  14. WILLIAM
    Ex-works appears much lighter although I appreciate you cannot trust just one picture. I'm happy to live with it the way it is however. Love the yellow fan.
  15. WILLIAM
    My 20227 arrived today. I wondered what other owners of this model thought about the shade a railfreight grey used? Looks a bit too dark to me. Lovely model in all other aspects.
  16. WILLIAM
    If that. It entered service in April 1990 and was renumbered in July 1991.
  17. WILLIAM
    90037 was numbered 90137 from 1991 to 1999. This is what it looked like in August 1998.
  18. WILLIAM
    Great news, love these wagons. Transition from old to new Castle livery actually started as early as 1998 as this great picture on Flickr by Bill Atkinson shows.
  19. WILLIAM
    Sounds like these wagon conversions were a bit of a white elephant in the real world - trialled a lot but never settling down on a single flow for any length of time. I note they are still in the current Bachmann catalogue however.
  20. WILLIAM
    Nice one. Anyone know when the BBAs received Railfreight Metals livery?
  21. WILLIAM
    Bachmann TTA chassis and scratch built body.
  22. WILLIAM
    By the way, here is one of the Liquid Chlorine TTAs my Step-Father has converted for the same train. I'm well happy.
  23. WILLIAM
    My Step-Father is kindly building me some tank wagons to form a typical Almwch to Ellemere Port chemical train from the 80s & 90s. We need to choose the barrel colour for the Ethylene Dibromide TTA/Bs as per Paul Bartlett's excellent photos below: https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/associatedocteltankwagon/hbd14942#hbd14942 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/associatedocteltankwagon/h15788f76#h15788f76 Anyone any idea what the name of this grey was? Was it a standard colour? Many thanks.
  24. WILLIAM
    From memory there were only three 86s put into EWS livery; 261, 401 & 426. Here's a minty 401 at Crewe in May 1998.
  25. WILLIAM
    Thanks Ben. 25912 in its special livery will keep me duly occupied until then but great to hear they are in the plan. Here's a shot I took of 904 and 903 passing through Shotton in late 1986 just as I remember the 25s from my early spotting days.
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