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I did that before I came here. No response as yet. It seems nobody knows what the colour is, and those who do know like C-Rail-Intermodal dont answer emails

Yeah Ive no problem to fade the colours I need however to start off with the right colour.

Different tunnels but they count as both im afraid. The Birkenhead tunnel goes from Birkenhead to the north side of Central station The Loop tunnel leaves the Birkenhead tunnel at Mann Island Jn and re-joins it at the point the Up West Kirby becomes the Stock Interchange Line. There is no junction here, there are two tunnels joining each other. The Link Tunnel is a multi bore tunnel with single bore sections as necessary. It starts at 59 chains in the Up Direction (north) from Central station, and ends at 36 miles 17 chains in the Up direction from central (south), counting up from Southport, so in layman's terms it starts 36 miles 17 chains from Southport and ends 59 chains past Central station when travelling from Southport to Hunts cross), it intersects with the Birkenhead Tunnel at Paradise Junction which is at the 36 mile 71 chain position within the tunnel, access to the Stock Interchange Line is in the Down Direction only from Central station however both the Stock Interchange Line and the Down Southport lines are bi directional. It is at this point, 36 mile 71 chain that the tunnel was originally the Birkenhead Tunnel, as it went from Birkenhead to what is not the reversing sidings north of Central station, when the Link tunnel was made it became the "Underground section" and the Birkenhead Tunnel portal into Central Tunnel (The Link Tunnell) at Pradise Jn became the new tunnel portal for it and that is where it now ends. No passenger services are allowed to use the Stock Interchange Line, the line is 5mph only and I doubt it will ever be used for passenger services, the ground would need to be replaced to allow services to carry passengers. The Northern Line from Hunts cross to Southport has Woolton Road Tunnel Fulwood Tunnel St Michaels Tunnel Dingle Tunnel St James No 4 Tunnel St james No 3 Tunnel St James No 2 Tunnel St James No 1 Tunnel Central Tunnel (The link tunnel, "the Underground section") There are also 14 level crossings on the line. The Northern line beats most claims to fame into a cocked hat and its just the start as there are serious plans now to open the Central Tunnel up either to The Waterloo Tunnel or The Wapping Tunnel (First railway tunnel under a metropolis and just The worlds first railway tunnel) to extend services.

Hi guys. Like you guys at the minute Im interested in modelling some containers, but for a model railway but as a member here I thought the best people to ask would be you guys as they are intermodal :-) Ive got the colours I wanted so far for Evergreen RAL 6017 (Tamiya XF-71), Hapag-Lloyd RAL RAL 2000 (no colour), Maersk RAL 7037 (Hataka C249), OCL RAL 5013 (Vallejo 71090) and Tex RAL 3005 (No colour) but the one Im stuck on K-Line red, P&O Blue and MSC yellow. Can anybody help me find the correct RAL codes for these paints please? Any suggestions for the other colours would be good too as its a bit of a mine field trying to find model paints to match RAL codes, a lot of them dont seem to be made.

Oh right, I didnt realise there was a section for them, Thank you very much.

Im not really sure if this belongs in prototype or modelling related forum. Ill post it here as it is a question about the prototype in the hope you understand my mistake if it is one. Ive got the colours I wanted so far for Evergreen RAL 6017, Hapag-Lloyd RAL RAL 2000, Maersk RAL 7037, OCL RAL 7031 and Tex RAL 3005 but the one Im stuck on K-Line red, P&O Blue and MSC yellow. Can anybody help me find the correct RAL codes for these paints please?

The era you choose to model would dictate that, I just used the Seacow as an example

Im not really sure if this counts as a question or as a discussion, but Ill put it here as it has a question in it somewhere. So the other, maybe a week or so ago I was watching railcam Crewe 4 camera and I saw a Class 66 hauling a single set of intermodal wagons that had just one intermodal tank container on it, it came off Salop Goods on the Down Liverpool Independent heading towards Runcorn Folly Lane. I assumed it was carrying some raw materials for one of the industries down there. Caustic soda maybe... Seeing it made me think of wagon load freight hauling as there was just one container. But then I thought about all the trip workings we did back in what now feels like the far distant past. Would this have been a trip working from Bassford Hall to Folly Lane, I didnt think they did that kind of thing anymore as there was so little money in it for the private companies to make it pay.

Buxton has a green aspect for station approach. There are cases where a 2 aspect colour light signal can only show a yellow aspect, for instance where the route set can only be to a diverging route.

There are indeed, and to be quite frank its nice to see so many manufacturers doing so many products these days. I am probably just like you from a time when there where very few manufacturers producing hobby paints whos colours shades and hues where on the dubious side a lot of the time... Airfix and Humbrol where the mainstay of course and they are still around today. Is that what you go with today? or do you prefer something more esoteric? I wasnt expecting pedanticism when I wrote that as I was rather hoping that my use of the word oil would be taken to mean the petro chemical based oil paints such as enamels and lacquers which stink to high heaven when compared to the likes of Vallejo and Citadel paints. Tamiya while being based mostly on alcohol have a rather pungent smell and I prefer not to use them. I suppose its rather along the same lines as RailMatch thinners however I find the smell over all isnt as bad as enamels and lacquers. I started on pigment based paints, my father taught me to mix my own colours while I was still a child as he was an artist who mixed his own paints up from base materials. Not something I would want to do these days when there are so many perfectly useable offerings on the shelves of our wonderful model shops.

For me there is nothing between the one and the other in all things until you get to the smell of oil based paints, be they enamels or lacquers. I think its about time the industry completely dropped the oil based paints and focused on the acrylics as its only a matter of time before they die out anyway because they are oil based.

Is that who makes it?

I was in my local shop recently looking to get a pot of Railmatch 2255 EWS Maroon only to be told that the shopkeeper couldnt order it from his supplier as it has been discontinued! I was wondering if anybody knows if it has been discontinued by Railmatch of just my local shops supplier. Any help would be appreciated, I am only looking for the acrylic paints, I have no interest in enamels, sprays or any other kind of paints beyond acrylics.

I have RailMatch Tinners, Citadel, Tamiya and Vallejo thinners. Im more wondering if anybody has had any problems. For instance I was told not to try Mr Colour Leveling thinners because it turns Vallejo paints into a gooey mess.

Not really looking for cheap alternatives. I was just wondering if anybody had used something other than Railmatch thinner to thin Railmatch paints. Vallejo thinners for example.

Can somebody help, Im wondering if anybody has used Railmatch acrylics and if so have you thinned them with something other than Railmatch acrylic thinners? If so which ones did you find success with?

Has anyone tried Vallejo Airbrush thinner with RailMatch acrylics?

Over what time period is that?

You wont really find any intermodals on single lines. At the time the lines went to singles due to lack of use intermodal working would mean there is no lack of use. You might want to look at Navigation Road station. Its a single line but there is another track next to it used by the Manc Metro. so the platform isnt OOU. The real problem is he wants to depict two things which go against each other in the real world (or as you guys like to say in the prototype)

Why is it all split up like that? I mean why are all the china clay wagons not together?

I followed this thread a while back with interest then while looking up information about Edge hill station I came across this picture of flickr, Im sure the owner wont mind my sharing it here A class 502 EMU train with car M28354M passing through Bank Hall station.

Thank you guys, thats a nice start. I think it was a classic LNWR canopy... I think I must look earlier than what I thought... Its hard to get a grasp on what the station looked like over all though

Hello :-) Im looking for some help getting some refrence photos for a layout I would like to make of Edge hill station in the 1970s while it still had the canopy over the platforms and while the bay platform was in use. Any help in any kind of way would be very much appreciated as Im not having much luck finding enough to actually go about building something, especially the carriage shed that used to stand between the station and the Up and Down Wapping lines.

Nar that dont count, it reverses a reversal and ends up going back out the front end first :-)