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  1. I received an e-mail from eBay this morning reminding me that I had not yet left feedback for two recent purchases. One has still not arrived, nor is it showing on eBay as delivered. The other, as eBay are aware, was returned due to wrong item sent and I am presently awaiting a refund. I won't leave feedback until both issues are resolved, and the nature of my feedback will depend on whether the seller resolves the matter or whether I will need to enlist eBay's help.
  2. I will second that. Since my solitary Mk2b BFK recently arrived from Accurascale and received a short test run, it has languished back in its box awaiting the rest of my intended rake arriving from Accurascale (which are all Mk2c). Craving some instant gratification, I saw from this thread that Model Railways Direct had stocks of Mk2b available. Viewing stock levels on their website a few times it was soon obvious that these were selling quickly. Yesterday afternoon I pulled the trigger and placed an order for a blue and grey TSO. The postie delivered it this morning. Excellent service.
  3. Fair comment. That has been my experience also. Back in June 2013 I pre-ordered a Bachmann Mk2f RFO in blue/grey from Hattons because there was a full size example on my local heritage railway. Can't remember the exact price to the nearest penny but the headline figure was £28 plus pence. By October 2018, the real RFO had left our heritage railway and out of the blue I started receiving daily notifications from Hattons that my debit card had expired and I needed to pay £46.90 if I still wanted my pre-order which had now arrived. After a few days of such reminders I decided that, with inflation, this was now in 2018 a favourable price and I went ahead with the purchase. Due to the long lead time and the effects of inflation, I have never pre-ordered any Bachmann since then. I take my chance, sometimes I miss out, sometimes I get a bargain much later.
  4. Possibly because the announcements of the proposed product and deadline for pre-order were quite low key, easily missed unless you were a regular visitor to this thread and many of us still didn't have any when you posted. I only found out at the Glasgow show that these wagons were already available retail and I am sure I have been far from alone in scrambling around trying to obtain these much sought after wagons. I only have a small fiddle yard to branch terminus layout so my scenario is that the Lynemouth-Fort William train has been diverted via a triangular junction and needs to run round at the end of my branch. The train had to be split as the loop is only long enough for the GBRf 66 to run round 7 PCA wagons. My 4-pack arrived this morning and I am absolutely delighted with the crisp detail and superb running qualities. I may look out for another three single wagons either on the second hand market or if these are offered as singles in a future production run (hint).
  5. I also missed the deadline for ordering these wagons direct. I thought I still had plenty time and was caught by surprise at the Glasgow show when I found that they were already released. Rails of Sheffield still have five different packs remaining in stock on their website covering Rio Tinto, debranded Alcan, Lochaber-Liberty and Alvance. If you still want them, I suggest you might move quickly though, Rails still had a choice of seven different packs listed last weekend when I placed my order, down to five already. I have just been notified that mine are due for delivery tomorrow. Edited to add:- Of the original condition with ladders wagons, it looks like the only pack still available from Rails is the de-branded version.
  6. I used to get the 80% offer almost every second weekend but last year it changed to 70%. I received the 70% offer again this weekend.
  7. Probably as close as I can get to a ballast cleaner train:- Bachmann Class 20, Hornby Staff Coach, Accurascale ex-Banana van, Hornby Loriot with Siku tractor/excavator load and Bachmann departmental Toad brake van.
  8. Delighted with my Accurascale Mk2b BFK which arrived today. For now it will run with a Bachmann Mk2f RFB and some Hornby Mk2e coaches, until my new rake of Mk2c vehicles arrives from Accurascale later in the year.
  9. For private selllers there is no listing fee payable if the item doesn't sell. Twice recently I just missed on bidding on items which went unsold and were relisted. In both cases I then placed a bid which was higher than the unsold price, yet in both cases I ended up being outbid as the items sold for substantially more on their second listing.
  10. Rapido wagon sails the seven seas? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256122882398?itmmeta=01HQQRMQYB4V2KXNC79XSBFH0B&hash=item3ba21d095e%3Ag%3AGtIAAOSwW6RkmtOB&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4BUEcvDRllAGSAw7hlbM%2FkqyBiEuimsWYRzOnxhXEL7PqOtSy5WzXPSXLU4mXEceiEBkpZeUKG%2Fxvi23QS8aNbQNKsen%2BDPW2jA%2B1dcWCROmOaPwQZ2Qv636RaXC4pi740v%2BfAf4SzHiN4mPOlJVRXNiSgCDQ0zVdhroZ3KnhCX0Xre%2Bcjhy8%2F4KBaUSZk36q0tf24mTjDgalhiOxMRMH36QDUBPtfe2r7dKU9fUkKPPWoBUVg58bvfoZI4YUpSyneEGJj0YmBjwiQ8YMICkTj4P29sfMRZTqJGSvD6Ek7pw|tkp%3ABk9SR6L_0vi9Yw&LH_BIN=1
  11. A great day out to Glasgow on Saturday. The forecast of fine weather in Glasgow for a good walk along the river bank from the city centre to the show, together with my previous knowledge of the warmth of the hall, contrasted with a frosty early morning start from home, hence walking around Glasgow all day exposing a hemline of knee length winter trunks which proved to be a tad too long to be completely concealed inside my shorts. It was great to meet old friends whom I had not seen since last year. I was very impressed with the standard of the layouts and took some photos on my mobile phone which will find their way to my Flickr pages. I especially liked Rolvenden, Gresty Bridge, Tulloch Bridge, Weedram, and of course the sheer size of Eastfield, though I had a long wait there to see something running, until a class 121 single unit Diesel railcar appeared on the running line. Trudging up Finnieston Street afterwards to catch a bus back to the city centre, my back pack felt really heavy, however it was filled with free literature from the various manufacturers and traders and my only item of new rolling stock was a Dapol wagon which was part of an offer to re-subscribe to BRM. As with @woodenhead's earlier Pendolino, the 18:40 also left Glasgow a few minutes late and crawled the first few miles behind a local, with arrival back in Carlisle around 20-25 minutes behind schedule. Arrived home slightly later than planned, tired, but happy after an enjoyable day out.
  12. Is the line which runs from Forchheim to Behringsmühle? My wife is originally from Nürnberg and we have travelled the preserved section between Ebermannstadt and Behringsmühle a few times behind steam and diesel, a very scenic route. So far I have not managed a ride on DB Regio between Forchheim and Ebermannstadt as this section was subject to long term bustitution with Schmetterling Reisen buses serving the villages along the route due to construction works on the parallel ICE line through Forchheim.
  13. The Cadbury depot at Potterhill was on the site of an old coal yard. In my early childhood I lived on Lothian Crescent Paisley and a steam engine hauling a few coal wagons would trundle along behind the houses most weekday mornings. Occasionally it went beyond Potterhill, possibly to serve coal supply for Glenfield Works. At some time after 1957 the coal yard closed and the line was later re-opened to serve Cadburys. The Cadbury trains typically comprised around eight to ten twelve ton vans. These wagons carried BR numbers. They were tripped from some goods yard in the Glasgow area by a Class 08 and I often saw this train on the Paisley Canal line once I started commuting to Glasgow University. The line closed in February 1970 when Cadburys traffic to Potterhill ceased. BR sold most of the trackbed to Paisley Corporation for a footpath and cycleway, but following local government changes and neighbouring property owners objections to the footpath, the land was fenced off and sold by Strathclyde Regional Council in the 1980s. Some of the trackbed became incorporated into private gardens while other parts were eventually swallowed up by housing development. I don't think there would have been any Cadburys owned internal user vans at Potterhill. Certainly I never saw any, and I would have thought the layout was too small, just a run round loop and a siding running from one end of the loop into the warehouse.
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