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Gordon Connell

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  1. 11 hours ago, rapidoandy said:

    Visual differences do help - it needs to be different, but not too different.

     

    With all of that in mind  what would you make? I’m genuinely interested to here and am always happy for a PM to be sent my way so we can exchange ideas and details…

     

     

    I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but let's just say again the double-deck sheep wagons for the Highland - they go with the Jones Goods and they're different but not too different.

     

    Gordon

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  2. 22 hours ago, phil gollin said:

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    Any update on the R-T-R  GNoSR V/F Class 4-4-0SE&CR G Class 4-4-0 wheels issue ?

     

    Maybe an estimated date for delivery ?

     

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    I messaged a couple of weeks ago and was told that they were only receiving the wheels in small batches and sending more locos out as soon as they got a new batch. I'm guessing I'm towards the end of the queue as I think I ordered just about the last one before they stopped being available on eBay.

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  3. On 05/04/2023 at 16:38, Ian Hargrave said:

     
    For the future perhaps,a look at the USA,starting in NYC with Grand Central,Penn Station ( the original)  the Subway and the El & a walk on the High Line. Some great material there ? Meanwhile the series is the tv highlight of the week IMHO. 
     

     

     

     

    As much as I've been enjoying the series, and I have, I've missed having a foreign piece in each episode. I know Tim has said that budgets are shrinking but I hope they manage to put this back for the next series. Nonetheless thank you for some really enjoyable viewing.

     

    Gordon

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  4. Can't help entirely Stephen but I doubt they were tethered, cattle don't usually have the necessary halters to give you something to tie on to and I certainly don't see anything to indicate this in pictures of cattle waiting in loading docks. If modern road transport is anything to go by you'd simply pack them in tight enough that they'd hold each other up and if there weren't enough to fill the wagon, then as you've already indicated you'd use a moveable bar or partition to provide the necessary support. Have to emphasise this is mostly educated guesswork based on no experience of moving cattle by train except what I've seen in photographs but some experience from the farm I grew up on.

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  5. 11 minutes ago, GWR-fan said:

    Similarly,  does Rapido have the will to fight this through the court?  I am sure that Hornby would have run their "Trains on Film" proposal through their legal department before making any announcements or do they really believe that they were untouchable.  Look to the very smug Mr. Kohler,  he looks very confident.  Hornby could very well lose some friends over this act of bastardry.

     

    If action is taken, it would not be Rapido doing so directly, they are not the rights holders, it would be StudioCanal.

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  6. 19 minutes ago, wombatofludham said:

    I suppose it will all come down to whether Hornby's "inspired by the Titfield Thunderbolt" gets them off the hook, and how long copyright lasts for films (isn't it 70 years or so?  I remember Cliff Richard getting upset because his early stuff was running out of copyright and he was still drawing breath).  

     

    Basically, copyright exists for 70 years after the death of the major contributors to the film. How copyright protects your work: How long copyright lasts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). In this case, Charles Crichton alone, the director, died in 1999, so quite some time to go.

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