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  1. Well, I for one am very relieved I didn't go in for the APT, as I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever see the light of day.

     

    Also this announcement has helped me make my mind up regarding the Class 92(s) I'm considering buying - Accurascale all the way.

     

    There goes the last bit of goodwill DJM had in the hobby...

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  2. 1 hour ago, Steadfast said:

    The delivery runs of these coaches offer modellers in other areas the chance to run them too. ROG do the moves for the Trans Pennine stuff from Portbury docks, and Freightliner do the moves for the new sleeper carriages, I believe from one of the east coast ports

     

    Jo

     

    The sleepers are delivered at Teesport, and travel to Polmadie behind an FL 66, using some former bogie coal hoppers as brake force runners/barriers.

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  3. What I like about these locos, and it's one of the 2 reasons for choosing them as a next project (liveries is the second one)

    Is where they ran.

     

    As we know, through the tunnel, so on the southern to a slightly set area.

    Then there's London to Scotland and to Liverpool, but also the east coast mainline.

    I have pictures of them on freight at Peterborough, and also special passenger excursions North through there as well.

     

    Anyone got any further routes for them? Ipswich? Norwich?

    When will the first go to Bristol when that's 'live'?

     

    Cheers

    Dave

     

    They've made it up the ECML to Scotland, they worked a car train to/from Bathgate for a while. It was a long time before they appeared north of Doncaster as they draw a lot of power and there were concerns they could overload the substations providing power to the OHL until around 2005/06. Appearances have been sporadic under GBRf, but not unheard of:

     

    92044 on a GBRf staff charter at Darlington (92010 was on the rear): https://www.flickr.com/photos/railwayscene/9258747584/in/album-72157632544834695/

     

    92033 north of Darlington en route to Scotland to start sleeper duties: https://www.flickr.com/photos/railwayscene/16286896654/in/album-72157632544834695/

  4. It's been a long, long time since I was a member of the club. Some of the club locos were useful for the kids to play with on the layout, or for fiddle-yard shunting, but it was cheaper to pick them up when Hornby were flogging the left-over ones in later years. I'm in two minds as to whether I'll join the new club.

  5. It wasn't me, honest!

    It looks like the model was stretched sideways in order to fit over the motor mount. The same thing happened to Bill and Ben.

    Hornby could do with redesigning this chassis to improve its performance and make it narrower. It gets used under enough locos to make it worth while.

     

    Same goes for the 06 - if you see a photo of an actual 06 from the front, you realise how much the Hornby model was stretched to fit!

  6. I'm sort of glad the thing never got re-released. Going on previous re-releases, Hornby probably would have charged a premium for it (I imagine somewhere near Rapidos all singing all dancing APT price bracket), it wouldn't have been updated, other than fitting one of the new type motors. So we would have been left with an expensive toy, the whole model needs a retool. In my opinion (and mine alone) the thing is best left where it belongs, in the 1980's

     

    A newly-tooled 370 means we might get the additional coaches to make a full set too, something the 80s model lacked.

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  7. Its the same chassis as all the Railroad/Freelance industrial/Thomas 0-4-0 locos, the giveaway is the can motor visible under the running plate between the wheels, and the giant fixed Triang style couplings.  It'll go like a scalded cat on full throttle.  Fixes for the gearing have been published in various magazines recently, but they all seem a bit of a faff.  Its a pity that Hornby can't do something a little more basic using a modern solution like the excellent mechanism that powers the Sentinel, rather than a chassis that first saw the light of day in the late 70's.

     

     

    Edit: General tidy up...

     

    If I get the speed just right, I can make a Class 06 go around a curve on 2 wheels. Stunt shunting!

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  8. It's only been gone 6 years, but I miss popping into C&G in Darlington for a chinwag with Cliff (and seeing how much money he'll talk me into parting with!).

     

    Going back further in time, Thornleys had a great model railway section, I loved going in there as a child.[/quote

     

    Is it really 6 years? Time flies

     

    Indeed it is :( I started my current job in May of that year, and the shop closed around that time. My spending on the hobby has noticeably decreased since (much to the relief of Mrs 58050....)

  9. It's only been gone 6 years, but I miss popping into C&G in Darlington for a chinwag with Cliff (and seeing how much money he'll talk me into parting with!).

     

    Going back further in time, Thornleys had a great model railway section, I loved going in there as a child.

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