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  1. SimonBoulton
    Would the green wagons with SPV on the side, be engineering freight wagons too?
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    I do like Cologne. Thanks for posting the pics, brings back fond memories of catching the last of the BR215’s on passenger services
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    Spot on Stefan. The other advantage with CSD/CD stock is that it can also be used on layouts based in the neighbouring countries
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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?
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    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.
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    It was in the shops Thursday so your subscription copy should have arrived a couple of days ago
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    Thanks Gordon, what colour would the doors have been in the early 90’s?
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    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
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    Has anyone else had issues with the subscription copy of Continental Modeller being late? When I first subscribed, a couple of years ago, it used on arrive on the Saturday before the official publication date on the following Thursday. Now it rarely arrives before it appears in the shops, wondered if anyone else has been having this issue?
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    My knowledge of CSD coaches is pretty limited. Igra make some nice model coaches, including a restaurant and a couchette but no first class. I’m guessing because this series of coaches didn’t have one. Does anyone happen to know what type of first class coach would have been used with these or what kind of service they were used on. I know that the restaurant cars were used on the Zapadni express at one time. https://www.modellbahnunion.com/IGRA-Model-m1361434.htm?shop=modellbahn-union-en&a=marke&Hersteller=1361434
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    Would that be one of the East German built Y wagen?
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    That’s a great picture of the 749 with the single double decker
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    56 2009-1 was shutdown on 21/12/1970 and stored on the 25th, so yes a very short time scale
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    Some standard gauge locomotives also received the painted extra digit, Roco have represented it on their DR Era IV model of the BR55 and the recent BR56.20 https://www.roco.cc/ren/products/locomotives/steam-locomotives/70037-steam-locomotive-56-2009-1-dr.html
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    Depends on the type of train and date really Clinton. The prewar baggage cars lasted the longest but the prewar passenger cars became rarer as the seventies progressed
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    Great video, I didn’t realise container traffic started so early
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    Piko do the version with the panoramic windscreen as well now. Do you know how long it took to convert all the numbers to the new system?
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    Neil, where do you get your Kadee’s from? They seem to have got really expensive now
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