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Andy Hayter

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  1. Caustic soda https://rainbowrailways.co.uk/product/revolution-tua-tu013a-51ton-caustic-soda-tank-wagon-ici-mond-trl-oo-gauge-oo-tua-004/ Possible route starting points: ICI Runcorn or ICI Wilton
  2. I have given up on visual loading/unloading. It never looks realistic because you cannot scale acceleration under gravity. The same issue as for those who try to use real water to represent a stream flowing.
  3. A question if I may. I like the sequence, all of which makes operational sense, but how do you justify getting 6 empty wagons back into that siding for the next repeat of the sequence? I have the same dilemma with regards full wagons delivering to various spots and somehow departing later still full of coal.
  4. Looks like a VTG creation https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PHOTO-JNA-BOGIE-BOX-WAGON-NO-VTG-3422-OF-VTG-EX-CAIB-IN-STORE-AT-MOTOR-RAIL-LOG-/362613585931
  5. OT but not true. I can buy from the South easternmost point in Cyprus to the Northernmost point in Sweden to the westernmost point in Portugal to the southernmost point in Malta and there are no issues for the buyer
  6. While I agree that setting up VAT registered entities in the EU is expensive and storing goods for customers requires a lot of warehouse space and therefore I would not recommend Rails to go down either route, your comment about overseas customers paying the true costs show a lack of appreciation of the issues however. On the costs side Overseas customers have always paid p&p "at cost". Now ask yourself why, if a seller says free delivery to the UK, UK postage and packaging costs are not deducted from the overseas costs. They never are. So that regarding costs but it does not stop there. Some administrations and delivery systems (and I understand that Ireland and Spain are among the worst) make life very difficult and sometimes impossible through bureaucracy and inefficiency. If you look through the buying and sell from / to the EU thread you will find many examples of things going badly or completely wrong. Some administrations seem to have streamlined systems and Australia seems to be a good place to receive your orders. Yes we don't pay UK VAT but we in the EU are required to pay local VAT and the process of doing that means that we have to pay additional administration charges. These can be quite reasonable. They can sometimes be quite horrendous. A £10.50 purchase however has just cost me €35 - so 3 times the purchase price. I have also "enjoyed" poor administration of VAT collection. I received a package (it happened to be from Rails but no criticism of them) where the VAT seemed to be rather higher than I expected and the administration costs were also much higher than I would pay though the local post office. It turned out that the commercial invoice had the costs declared in Euros and the import agent had converted this to euros by applying the pound to euro exchange rate so inflating the purchase cost. I have complained to the agent but received no reply. Even had they admitted the error and recompensed, the time and trouble really is a PITA. Administration costs can be €3 (La Poste online) so why do UPS, DPD, DHL etc; charge many times that.
  7. Yes I was going to make the point that large swathes of France are like the remoter parts of Northern England or much of Scotland. We are very lucky that local postal facilities remain in what would be totally uneconomic places in the UK. This is thanks to local subventions to keep such establishments going and is one reason why our taxes are a bit higher here. I have no objection.
  8. France is a much bigger country than the UK and consequently an alternative to La Poste may well be many kilometres away, whereas even small villages tend to have a post office counter. My own village of 300 souls has a poste office but I have a round trip of 22km to deliver to a UPS drop off point. So that is €3,50 or so petrol cost to counteract any savings in the actual postage cost.
  9. Two thoughts Is the sale through Ebay's Global Shipping Plan? They just fleeced me about the same for delivering 3 sets of 3D printed 00 chimney pots from the UK to France. La Poste encourage people to use one of their standard sized boxes (goes down the sorting lines easily) and often give the impression that there is no option. These are sold at a very nice premium for nice La Poste that is. Guessing at the weight however, this looks like standard package postage: Poids jusqu’à…Tarifs Colissimo Vers zone OM 1 (overseas postage rates) from La Poste's website 500 g 12,65 1 kg 20,00 2 kg 27,25
  10. I don't want to stray from Dymented but to answer the questions: Haltemprice is a real area on the north bank of the Humber just west of Hull*. So no it's not GWR. The station is a tad over 1/2 metre long and the layout around 5.5 m including the fiddle yard. Windows are actually already in place but don't show - Scale Model Scenery and are probably closer to scale thickness. I did say my photo skills lacked a lot! The station is based on but is certainly not a copy of the GNR station at Bardney*** on the original GNR route to the north from Kings X to Doncaster - now called the loop line. * Perhaps better known because it was also the centre of a comedy - The New Statesman - featuring Tory MP Alan B'Stard played by Rik Mayall. Reading the fictitious obituary**, some items seem to have predicted the behaviour of a former PM. ** https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_new_statesman/features/alan_bstard_obituary/ *** http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bardney/ Further questions will hopefully be answered when my virtual pen gets around to finishing a thread in the Pre-grouping railways section.
  11. I teased last week about my in the house project. It is taking a lot longer than I expected to firstly write my own thread and secondly finish the model, which is a station building for my Haltemprice Quay layout. So to stop the tease, here are rough shots (photography is not my forte as demonstrated by the lean on both pictures) of the work in progress. Roofing, facias and soffits, rain water goods, chimney pots etc still to do.
  12. But it can be just as easy to make fundamental mistakes in scenic modelling. Perhaps these go unnoticed because while some of us a true experts in the railway, I suspect few of us would claim to be experts in the wider world. This can result in an almost anything goes view of what happens beyond the railway fence. Examples of the above would be: vehicles out of period too many vehicles in periods when motorised transport was much rarer wrong sort of farm animals - no a cow is not just a cow for example and cows were bred and raised for particular regions. out of period advertising wrong sort of road signs or road markings
  13. Sadly not illegal @jamie92208. French customs site clearly states that VAT is applicable from the first euro for all imports from outside the EU. The old rules of thirty something euros being exempt was rescinded by the EU a couple of years ago. You are right though that it makes buying small low value items hellishly expensive. One thing that can help is if you ask the seller to include your email address in the commercial invoice. This usually results in an email from La Poste's import department demanding the VAT but with a reduced fee to La Poste.
  14. Selective quoting missed off the "kits are as rare as rocking horse poo". I and many others would wish that David's range would reappear. Until then keep your rarities safe.
  15. I agree Stephen I was more focused on the overall availability where the Midland at least gets a showing courtesy of Slaters.
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