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The Pilotman

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  1. If that’s the case, then @Craig1989 would be better off asking the retailers themselves…
  2. https://revolutiontrains.com/projects/ Fourth from the bottom.
  3. Signal T2865 Newbury East Junction, the route from Down Westbury to Platform 3 (bay) is a position 5 junction indicator. Not flashing aspects but definitely “feathers.”
  4. I wasn’t aware of that but that’s excellent news. To go from two people doing things in their own time to four full time staff proves the soundness of your business model, and your knack for knowing what subjects are viable for producing as models.
  5. Someone did a few days ago… Your comparisons between Revolution and other companies are unfair. I would not expect a company run by a handful of people, doing it in their spare time, to go about things in the same way as a large company with multiple paid staff on their books.
  6. I hadn’t spotted them, until someone pointed them out…
  7. Maybe it was this train? Photo by Tom Derrington on Flickr:
  8. Almost, Mike; it was R134. It had 6 “main aspect” routes; to platform 4, the up main and platforms 5, 6, 9 and 10, apart from the primary route to the down relief to which you referred.
  9. I reckon that N gauge Turbot wagons would sell well; they’ve done them in O and OO already. They were a numerous and very widely travelled wagon. I made up a few from the N Gauge Society kits but masking and painting them in Dutch grey and yellow with all that raised detail on the doors was a right pain. I’d like some more but I’m not sure I could put myself through that again 🙄
  10. I think you’re right. Whenever possible now I opt for DPD for purchases from UK suppliers. After an order has been placed, DPD email me with a link to pay the local tax (plus their fee). Parcels arrive quicker than the traditional Royal Mail/Deutsche Post combination too.
  11. Thanks for clearing that up so quickly, Arran. Based on how things are going, do you think the production wagons will be along sometime in 2024?
  12. Thanks for posting those Arran. Very much looking forward to having something to plonk your excellent containers onto. I know these are only decorated samples but it looks to me like the wagon top in the first picture has a bit of distortion whereas all the others look absolutely spot on and flat as a pancake. Is that perhaps a trick of the light or an optical illusion? If not, is that one of the tooling improvements to which you referred in your post? Thanks!
  13. Not many, I suspect. Perhaps only the sort of wagons that make up long block trains for which 2mm modellers have the space, that 4mm modellers don’t. The answer to that is probably as simple as there were sufficient expressions of interest for the 2mm version to convince Revolution Trains that it was viable. For the 4mm version there weren’t enough, apparently. Why that was the case, I’ve no idea. Revolution Trains have been around long enough and have a track record that shows they have a very good idea of the current market. I would accept their judgement on the viability of this, or any other, project. Anyway, time to go and do some modelling as this is starting to sound like the Carmine and Cream Class 314 discussion all over again.
  14. Fair enough, I hadn’t been following this thread from the beginning so I did take a look and found the number of people stating that they would purchase a 4mm First North Western 175 was fewer than ten. Of those, I think at least one of those expressing an interest has an N gauge layout. As this model is out of my area and era of interest, I don’t know whether I’m surprised or not. But it’s hardly a glowing endorsement, so I’m not surprised that the version isn’t going ahead, based on that figure, and the apparent lack of expressions of interest directly to Revolution Trains earlier this year.
  15. From the Revolution Trains website, FAQ section:
  16. Or, more likely, the fact they had little response would suggest that not many people want one? Clearly there was enough interest in the ones they are doing otherwise Revolution Trains wouldn’t be doing the model at all. If you’re so sure the version you want is viable, perhaps you could approach a suitable retailer in the target area for the livery in question and see if they’re interested in commissioning one. So far, on here at least, you seem to be the only voice in favour of the version you want.
  17. I’ve only ever seen one picture of a Class 56 on the Dover - St. Blazey Polybulks. It was a Railfreight Construction livery loco approaching Cowley Bridge Junction at Exeter. Couldn’t be the same train as in the slide to which you refer as 56050 was still in Railfreight grey at that time. I don’t recall any talk of trials of Class 56s on these trains so maybe these are just isolated examples. I only ever saw this train with a 33, 37, 47 or 50 on the front. Class 56s were, at that time, rarely seen in Devon but here’s one from Flickr at Dawlish Warren in 1983:
  18. In the early 1990s it was usually a Class 60 with 30 bogie wagons, Mike. Sometimes one or two fewer, never more, but usually 30. I’m guessing by then Langley must have been able to deal with such a load on a daily basis.
  19. C4419 55011 THE ROYAL NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS C3399 55016 GORDON HIGHLANDER C3400 47415 J2507 I’ll pass on that one….
  20. In the early 1990s I regularly witnessed the class 60 hauled Lindsey to Langley tanks loaded to 30 bogie tank wagons, certainly one of the heaviest “oil” trains on the network at the time. I was wondering if there was a similarly heavy train of TTA tanks running somewhere on the network around that time. The longest train of two axle tank wagons I’ve found so far was a train in Scotland loaded to 32 TTAs. Any advance on that?
  21. How about asking them directly? customer.services@Bachmann-europe.co.uk
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