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    It started off as the railways I knew when I was growing up, i.e. BR(SR) EMUs in SE London where we lived, and BR(WR) in the S Wales valleys where we went on holiday to my grandparents' house. The freight side then developed into Coal and Iron Ore, and I got interested in those minerals in the US and Australia, so it all got out of hand. Good thing my layout's in the garden :)

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  1. But don't damage the customer's goods as a result, because your employer will have to pay them compensation.
  2. Here's another American one, but this has a better outcome: https://youtu.be/Ntsl65yUUyE?t=384
  3. Getting back on topic, mine, which I ordered on 26 Nov 2014, arrived today. I havent taken it out of its inner packaging yet, although I have opened the box and had a good look at it.
  4. Manufacturers bother because we ask them to, and they can make a profit which we do not begrudge them. Talking of which, I have ordered one too. I wonder how many pre-orders they need before going ahead.
  5. How do you keep the track in the tunnel clean? Do you have a trackplan of the complete layout?
  6. I remember waiting on Battersea Park station for my train homewards on the South London Line and watching 12-car trains of 6PUL and 6PAN (1 of each) passing through on the fast lines, and also 12-car trains of 2x4COR with a 4RES or 4BUF in between them. Meanwhile the slow lines carried many 8-car trains of 4Subs, next stop Clapham Junction one way and Victoria the other. Of course, many of the 4Sub coaches were converted into Bulleid-designed 4EPBs in the 1950s and '60s. The change to the bodywork involved just the guards' and driver's compartments on the motor coach; the trailer coaches were basically the same for the Subs and the EPBs.
  7. Another US one, I'm afraid. This is from Florida. 2nd deadly crash involving Brightline train at same Melbourne crossing as Wednesday's wreck -
  8. I would buy a couple of 4SUBs to make an 8-car train, just like the ones I used to travel on when I was a teenager in the 1960s.
  9. Maybe Peco can be persuaded to make a new backscene: a typical South Wales rainstorm.
  10. I am getting on in years, and I am getting forgetful. I've got one of these locos, so obviously I'm not bothered if they are ugly or not. Maybe I should have asked you which issue the review was published in, so I can go to the relevant issue and read it (again). I normally read all the reviews in BRM, but I've been too busy to look at the most recent couple of issues, which is another reason why I'm not sure if I've read the review or not.
  11. I can't remember. Which issue did the review appear in?
  12. I would have thought it would be self-evident. If a review is full of the opinions of the reviewer, it is not going to be of much use to people who rely on the review to let them know what the model being reviewed is like.
  13. "Ugly" is a subjective opinion, and should not appear in a review.
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