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I have several Hornby 66s because they are cheap and cheerful and a good range of liveries. The split section airdam which goes either side of the coupling is very delicate and over time I have broken several of those. Some of these models originally came with spare airdams including the option of fitting the much solid or stronger version which does not have a gap for a coupling. I have run out of split section airdams and have had to convert a couple of 66s to the solid airdams and therefore having a coupling on one end only which is a limitation as I have an end to end layout. I have been unable to find a supplier for spares. Logically these ought to be available as spares as they are parts which are easily broken.

Any thoughts on this? https://www.reducebusinessbills.com/margates-Hornby-hobbies-secures-12m-business-funding-the-isle-of-thanet-news/?fbclid=IwAR0EpHxKKHNOuV1IO1e7IbEWqWE9SVjBlM-_CK4YGbXSHihVFXfFAOZh82E

I had one of those Wills Track Cleaning wagons in the 1960s and re-acquired one in 2020. I soak the filter tips in Track Magic. Propelled by my Wrenn 8F the cleaning action is very effective, just leaving the point blades to be treated manually with the Track Magic pipette.

if you could only find one lol There would seem to be plenty around. I bought two from Rails of Sheffield and then decided to auction one on eBay, complete with original box and logo. It fetched slightly less than I paid for it. Somebody got a bargain. Thanks for the tip, Jenny Emily. At 29 pounds including postage for a simple four wheel wagon this needs careful thought, however I'd better decide quickly and get my order in soon if I'm going to have one.

"Exnt, boxed, missing detali" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363734210140 and a few other dubious descriptions from the same seller.

Like this? A photo which my father took at York in August 1964, showing me standing beside one of the "new" English Electric Type 3s.

The full size 142 020 is being repainted into Tyne and Wear livery. Seen here running at an open day at Whitrope Heritage Centre last Saturday.

Bear in mind that as you get older the appetite for huge layouts may diminish as there is a lot of work to building and maintaining them. Years ago, our local railway society had a huge layout in the basement of our town hall, two lap large circuits on two levels with trains returning to fiddle yard below the scenery at end of every second lap, plus two lengthy branch lines. The second branch line was never fully wired or sceniced. We eventually demolished it and downsized to a large oval to allow more clubroom circulation space. As we are now mostly old age pensioners we gave up the clubrooms and took accommodation in our local men's shed, where we have a small roundy roundy 00 layout based on a Hornby trackmat plan. This is good enough for me for a continuous run if I want to test a loco or run in a new loco, as my home layout is end to end round three sides of a small spare bedroom. However, each to their own, and our tastes may change with the different phases of our lives.

If the roles were reversed I would continue to rely on the more stringent standards.

I have now binned all my Humbrol paints. I prefer to rely on the EU REACH regulations to keep me safe from carcinogenic substances, and I won't be buying stuff which is illegal in mainland Europe. My personal decision. As the paints are now permitted under uk rules it is a matter of personal choice but I for one will be boycotting these paints.

My bauxite HUO arrived this morning. A beautiful wagon with lots of very intricate and accurately focussed small printed detail which I could barely read even with a magnifying glass. Just need to get some more loads for HUOs and MDVs. I thought I had ordered some but it seems the Accurascale software dropped my order as I had ordered on my Accurascale.eu account but gave my home address in Scotland for delivery, and now they are showing on Accurascale.co.uk as out of stock. Cursing the B***** word again! (two min

I bought a Hornby Sir Keith Park in March 2012 as I am a member of Southern Locomotives Ltd. Model was a poor runner, big disappointment so it was rarely taken out of its box and I resold it on eBay in November 2014.

26 040 Engine run today to test systems, compressors, traction motor coolers, horn etc., Whitrope, 7th May, 2022. The open day also featured trips on 141 020 to the Golden Bridge and Whitrope Tunnel South Portal and brake van rides hauled by Foden Planet shunter. Next Open Day Saturday 4th JUne 10am till 4pm

Fairly straightforward actually. Upload video to your Flickr Account. Post a link to the Flickr page on which your video is uploaded. As per my example on page 7 of this thread. Hope this helps.

You could upload to YouTube or Flickr and then post a link on this forum.

30th September 2019 at Carlisle, 37 419 Carl Havilland and 37 409 Lord Hinton, the latter in large logo blue. The locos had just been detached from a four day Pathfinder railtour, after working the Scottish legs of the tour to the Far North Line with heritage stock (mainly Mark 1s in Western Region chocolate and cream). 37 409 is a loco which I had travelled behind in the past, though not always in this name and livery. Sold out at Accurascale but happily I was able to order via Rails of Sheffield. Looking forward to this one, it will go well with nuclear traffic, with DRS coaches, with a Mk2/3 Fort William sleeper rake, or with heritage coaches.

Yes, I was born and raised in the west of Scotland and I recall well the Sinclair Street bridge. I believe the pins were installed in more recent years to stop larger vehicles attempting to go through that way.

London Transport 227 comes to mind. At Chislehurst. Single deckers, forever. This is on a school bus route which I covered for a time before I retired. A low arch under the closed St.Boswells-Kelso line near Rutherford.

If you want a four coach train of Seated/Club/Sleeper accessible/sleeper then the Highlander pack 3 and Lowlander packs 1 and 3 contain that formation. Good suggestion. Now that I have been gifted a Hornby Railroad 73/9 in GBRf livery as a retiral gift from colleagues, I need coaches to run with it. I was too late to order the Fort William pack but have instead ordered the Highlander pack 3 Inverness which contains the same formation. By road but not by rail Inverness is the next closest sleeper destination to Fort William. Apart from the destination displays beside the doors it should easily pass as a Fort William set, especially since I can barely read the small print on today's highly detailed models. Edited to add:- Or there could be a potential market for "Fort William" transfers to change the destinations on the coaches.

Correct. I am grateful to that Someone because otherwise I would have waited longer, only for Hornby to eventually admit that they had oversold, by which time I would have missed the chance to buy from the retailer.

I'm out of step too then. Back in BR days I could join a steam tour at Carlisle and go one way on it and get back home with an Inter-City £8 add on. That stopped when the railways were privatised. Happily I have the memories. While I stopped travelling on railtours years ago, I still visited heritage railways up to 2019. For this year I will be staying local, doing a few days volunteering at Whitrope Heritage Centre. I am acutely aware of soaring costs of running a heritage train, even if it is only an ex-Northern Rail 142 on half a mile of track, and I do worry that there will be enough people of sufficient means who are able and willing to continue to support our heritage railways. We were closed during 2020 and 2021 and taking the modest step of re-opening and running public trains on the first Saturday of each month from the beginning of May through to the autumn..

That is what seems to have happened with the last Hornby special issue which proved highly popular. I had pre-ordered the Hornby Captain Tom Moore from Hornby when it was announced. A few months later I began to read on fora that people were now receiving theirs. After a few weeks of still waiting for mine the rumour began to circulate that Hornby would not be fulfilling all the orders. A trader whom I dealt with had bought several and had been selling them at Hornby list price and I asked if they would keep one aside for me. After a further two or three weeks I decided to purchase that one and cancelled my Hornby pre-order. I later learned that my order number was in the range which would not have been fulfilled by Hornby, so just as well I bought from a retailer while I still could. If I recall correctly I paid £81, which covered the retail price plus postage and paypal fees, but some folks who made multiple purchases from Hornby were meanwhile offering these on eBay at grossly inflated prices. Needless to say I cancelled all my other pre-orders with Hornby and did not renew my club membership. Returning to topic, I'll give the current purple Bulleid a miss, not my cup of tea.

Buyer visited the shop yesterday and manager released eBay parcel to him and he is happy with contents. All's well that ends well.

EFE 00 gauge model bus, starting price £3, bid up and sold for £600. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284762846101?hash=item424d303395:g:T7QAAOSwUnJiQiIG

53809 is one of the harder models to find. I wanted a 53809 because I have travelled behind the full size prototype in preservation on the East Lancs Railway and the North York Moors Railway. I eventually gave up and bought a 53806 for around £100, which I then re-numbered to 53809.