SimonBoulton

Would the green wagons with SPV on the side, be engineering freight wagons too?

This is a very welcome development. For those who know the area, I believe you can also get a bus from Long Eaton Station, its the airport service from Nottingham to Leicester that serves both Long Eaton and Loughborough too.

https://artitec.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Artitec_Neuheiten_Civiel_2024.pdf Artitec, for me, they announced one of the most interesting new items with the DR versions of the C12c passenger coach

An advantage with Austrian stock is that you can run it on a layout set in a neighbouring country too, even East Germany and Czechoslovakia saw Austrian stock

I do like Cologne. Thanks for posting the pics, brings back fond memories of catching the last of the BR215’s on passenger services

Spot on Stefan. The other advantage with CSD/CD stock is that it can also be used on layouts based in the neighbouring countries

Maybe it’s a bit like when older British modellers modelled the late steam era, the mix of remembering their younger years and nostalgia. PKP in the same eras seems pretty popular right now too.

The PKP Ty2 is the most interesting item for me, Roco are finally doing it with the correct Polish lights. Also good to see the return of the plain red Bardotka

In my experience, I don’t know any German retailer who follows the system correctly for orders under £135, they either charge the German VAT or deduct it and send the order VAT free

If you cancel it once the payment has been taken, the app will still have the ticket you’ve purchased but won’t renew. I found it worked really well on the Hamburg app

Would the VAT be right if you include the postage? Seems unlikely though, cos you’d need the total to be £150? I know two friends who had to pay VAT on orders where they went over £135 if you include the postage, that was with FedEx. Fedex were adamant they were right and apart from sending the order back, there was no option. maybe they’ve started checking if the retailer has actually charged the VAT or not?

Dresden is a wonderful city, Leipzig is very nice too. Check out the Deutschland Ticket, you can sign up using a couple of local transport apps and cancel it after the first month. The first ticket is prorated and as I was there at the end of September, I traveled from Berlin to Leipzig and back, and all round the area for three days, for less than ten euros.

It was in the shops Thursday so your subscription copy should have arrived a couple of days ago

Thanks Gordon, what colour would the doors have been in the early 90’s?

Great pictures, I travelled around Brittany and Normandy by rail in the early nineties and wish now I'd paid more attention to the railways, I remember a double headed freight train coming out of Cherbourg Harbour, the old red and cream diesel railcars and a loco hauled service to St Malo with those low silver coloured coaches, thing the locomotive was one of the 67000 family