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'InterCity' Pacers - nope...

Any idea what the TOPS classification is?

I would think it would have been on a Summer Saturday...

I always thought 'Cark and Cartmel' was a Cumbrian Curse...

C14200 - my first effort at a similar (straight-walled) cutting on one of my first layouts came out a bit like this - a shame that, at the time, I didn't know I could justify leaving the whole mess as it was...

The first tranche of the Dapol N Gauge R4 High-window Maunsells have finally gone on sale. These are the individual coaches in SR lined Olive Green: 2P-014-020 6-compartment BTK 3733 2P-014-040 CK 5635 2P-014-060 FK 7226 2P-014-080 TK 1122 There are two sets awaiting delivery: 4-set 193 and 6-set 456. As you can see, the single BTK is numbered 3733, not 3730 (a 4-compartment BTK) as in the pre-release publicity and listings on all the major shopping websites - The change was due to my advising them of the error and they have obviously taken the correction on board. At the same time, I also advised of the error in the BTK in set 193 (publicity lists 3735, should be 3738) so presumably that will be corrected, also.

By the time it got to it's destination, that 'HA' would be nicely weathered...

Must be because I was posting on Mobile; it wouldn't post my message until I deleted the Emoji from my post...

I nearly fainted when the Eagles got a pen at Old Trafford last month... As an aside, any idea why we can't use Emojis here?

The only accessable one I can find is this one of a stopping service at Masbury Summit posted by Matt Pinto on the Dapol Digest forum... Looks like there's a high-window TK 'swinger' on the back.

Only for parcels up to a certain weight and/or size. Chaps in branded vans are delivering the parcels to the 'last mile' couriers to deliver in their private cars and/or picking up parcels from the shops that take in parcels.

TTG at that time and in this instance does mean two-tone green...

In C18120, I see a bit of woodwork replacement has been done on the 'Shark', but no-one got round to wielding the paintbrush yet...

As well as the split-box 45 and the TTG 47. I mourn every time I go southbound out of BTM...

I had a similar experience a few years ago. We had driven from home to our town's twin town on the edge of the Black Forest in Germany. We had a rush to get to the EuroTunnel terminal as the offside rear tyre had punctured just east of Reading, and most of our recovery time had been used up by replacing that and the horrendous traffic getting round London. The spare had a little lump in the side wall, and most of the time going through Belgium and Germany on the Autoroute/Autobahn had been a subliminal prayer to whatever deity was around that the lump didn't get any bigger or anything more serious. We arrived safely, and the next morning, our host took me down to the local garage to see about getting the tyre repaired. Of course, you can imagine the effect a puncture at 70+ has on the side wall of a tyre, and the only two things I understood in the rapid-fire conversation in German between my host and the garage guy was the big puff of wind at the beginning of the garage guy's reply and the word 'kaput'...

J4504 - not a prototypical combination of carriage liveries, but a good display of the progression of same through the years of Nationalised railways in Britain...

Is it what they used before they managed to get a padlock and chain for it?

...and they've obviously had issues with this, hence the additional two signs in the Queen's English...

I think it's more like the side split and the roof wrapped around the mast...

...or just under 1026 feet = 2.11m in 1:148 scale. Interesting idea for (another) layout...

Every time I've been on a Padd-BTM service, the changeover at Chippenham has been at a speed significantly under 100mph, as the train is either still accelerating away from the station stop, or braking for same... but yes, it is an 'on the move' changeover. As an aside, it seems that Hitachi still haven't got their minds around the 'First Class at the Paddington end' requirement as at least one BTM-Padd service I saw yesterday was the wrong way round (the 15:30 BTM-Padd, 800 312 IIRC, spotted at the station stop at Bath Spa) and one on layover in Plat 15 at BTM (couldn't see which one as any identifying marks were obscured either by the sister unit in Plat 13 or station structures). It seems all the BTM-Padd are 9-car 800 units - at least off-peak - before lockdown, a couple of peak services were diagrammed 2x 5-car which split/joined at BTM, shedding one unit for Weston-super-Mare.

Watching the Bond movie last night, and 'GoldenEye' had some olive drab livery Mk1s standing in for Russian rolling stock in the short scene where Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova (izabella Scorupco) arrives in St. Petersburg... As well as an armour-clad Class 20 and a couple of heavily-disguised Mk1s in Alec Trevelyan/Janus' (Sean Bean) private train.

Did the consignees/recipients of the contents of the 'Shock' van still expect them to be protected from the impact?

Does that mean the Blackpool Toastrack has to be upside down to do the 'Circular Tour'?

LSWR 'Gate' stock being hauled by a 14xx 48xx?