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Any updates Maurits?

Absolutely superb, very impressive with all those trains running and certainly plenty to look at! Great work and videos!

Absolutely superb work mate! You seem to lay more track in a few days than I get laid in a month!!

The 60's look so good in COLAS livery!

Looking great! How much room do you have to play with??

I certainly want them to get it right and create a nice looking realistic model. I sometimes play Train Sim on the PC and know how infuriating it is to receive a brand new DLC that has stupid faults that should never happen!! Two years is still hard to comprehend but hey ho!

I'm not saying this to be controversial but I find it very hard to grasp how it takes 2 + years to produce a model! I'm guessing permission to produce the model and liveries was sorted before Dapol even announced they'd be making this model. With 3D scanners, 3D printers etc available now a days I'd expect they'd be able to make a pretty accurate model in a couple of months, max. I imagine it'll use an off the shelf motor and so I struggle to see why it really takes such a long time to complete. I shouldn't think the real thing took much longer to design and build from scratch.

Jim, From a drivers point of view is there much difference between the 66 and 70?

Could someone offer a little help. On doing my research I found that the masts would be fitted as long / short / long etc so the catenary lines run in a 'zig zag' pattern to prevent excessive wear on the pantograph. On a set of single masts on a double track line, would they be running as the same masts (i.e two long/short masts together on the up and down line) or would it be a long on the up and short on the down (opposite each other) along the line? I hope that makes sense??

That'd be superb Andi, if you can add a few build pics of the portals and hanging gear. Cheers Mark

Hi Clive, Thanks for the reply. I think it was yourself that pointed out to Dapol that their masts were the wrong type. My own layout is just for my own entertainment and I honestly wouldn't know the difference between a mk1 / mk2 etc etc mast. I just want something that's fairly standard and looks like it belongs in the UK and not Switzerland like I've seen on some of the HO examples I've looked at. The two portals/gantries/masts added by Dave above would be perfect for what I'm looking for at the moment just to break things up a little. There are definitely masts very similar to the Dapol ones on the line that runs through Smethwick Galton Bridge, Rolfe Street which leads to/from New Street. Thanks again.