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Thanks for the clarification, good to know, had number 8 on order from Day 1 so very much looking forward to it.....

Looking superb, just a small point, should the handrails on 008 be blue, i know they were as built, but this has the later longer cab door handrail? Regards Pete.

Number 5 arrived this afternoon, super impressed with it and well worth the wait, lovely quality box too, but the oversize box it was shipped in didn't have much in the way of packaging leaving plenty of room for the models box to rattle around in, hopefully something that can be looked at for future shipping. Regards Pete.

Fantastic announcement, will wait eagerly for a bog standard banger Blue /1 and an earlier /4 without headlamp etc.....they will come....

E Tickets purchased, looking forward to spending the day lineside........ get some Bar stools available and we'll be sorted!

I knew it would only be a matter of time before someone came up with a much better coupling system, i know they'd still be too low using NEM pockets, but soooooo much better than tension locks, if they come to fruition i'll be buying bag loads....

No rush for the Sets as far as I'm concerned. gives me more time to pay for all the other pre-orders that seem to be arriving on my doorstep weekly at the moment!

Seems rather ironic given all the complaints about the MASSIVE gap down the bodyside on the EP samples.......

Well its good your all being so positive, Blimey!

Very interesting and useful information, thank you very much Regards Pete...

Thank you so much Mark, your a star, very helpful and i appreciate the effort..... I'll have a drive over when I'm free and see what I can find, I'll add the pics on here if they're worth wile Regards Pete...

just to slightly resurrect this thread, I'm planning to do a site visit to the former exchange sidings just off the main line, i appreciate there wont be much trace now, but i'm hoping to photograph the road bridges etc.... could anyone provide a street name or landmark to head for Also what was the official name for the mainline junction ? Regards Pete.

This is a massive project from a major manufacturer, not to be underestimated, the amount of trouble and expense to produce all variants down to the smallest detail is incredible, we are talking different speedo drives, fuel and water taps, valves etc, things that would have been unheard of only a year or so ago... Bachmann go to the top of the class, Heljan, see me after school.....

I hope the sound is full on, the sound files i've heard so far for the 56 are rather lacking in the Bass throb of these superb machines when working hard under load, difficult to record in preservation etc... fingers crossed...

Yes!! Superb announcement, definitely getting a couple of Romanian BR Blue examples with sound when details are finalised.... Thank you Chaps...Made my Day...