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Holy shmoley ! awesome, most superb ! Andrew

It's been sometime since I saw this film, I didn't realise their lunch was delivered by Caledonian 123. Plus you see the B12 too. Excellent. Thanks for posting this clip. Gerry Anderson was a genius.

A couple of others, who'd of thought Jodie Foster would have been waiting for a train at Arley, known as Hambleton for the film Candleshoe. In the same film 4566 stars with a rake of GWR coaches as they chase the train to stop it on Waterworks crossing outside Hampton Loade. Nice shots of the train passing through Eardington and along the line. They had to see a painting on the train that was being shipped to London. The painting was of a ship called the Eclipse which held a clue to the whereabouts of the booty. In one of the Thunderbirds films, the IR boys live it up in a restaurant where the meals are delivered by Triang Jintys on flat wagons! Pre Wallace and Gromit. Oh there's that too ..... cracking. Andrew

Hi All, I'm just catching up with this thread. I recently had one, a blue analogue version. A problem I've found it derails on corners, in the case of my layout coming in and out of points. After close inspection, the coupling bars on the ends of the cabs are quite tight which appears to offer resistance when the leading bogie tries to force the coupling round a curve. This resistance causes the coupling not to turn with the bogie causing the lead wheels to derail. By putting the two ends together and dragging them across point work, the couplings lead the other round resulting in no derailment. I had noticed a difference in speed on curves, I put it down to the cleanliness of the track I hadn't noticed traction tyres until I saw the photos, mine are on the one set of wheels, leaving the other set for better current collection. This is probably why it sometimes stops on slower speeds running over insul frog sections. Originally I put the two ends on the wrong way round which made the lights run in the opposite direction. I don't know why Hornby don't put the vehicle numbers on the diagram provided in the literature. This would solve this from the outset. The internal couplings I think are also far easier to couple than the Bachmann version. On the whole, I think it's a superb model which will go nicely with the blue dup a dup DEMU from Kernow Models, when it arrives. Rew570