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Hi team, I have just bought 31-116a standard 4 75029, and it has come with a piece loose in the packaging. Can anyone identify where it goes? Many thanks!

Hi there, I've just bought a maroon CCT with a sealed detailing bag, but with two end hoses loose in the box, and from what incan tell those parts missing from the bag. It just feels a bit curious, did anyone else have similar? Thanks!

Hi there, I've just bought a maroon CCT with a sealed detailing bag, but with two end hoses loose in the box, and from what incan tell those parts missing from the bag. It just feels a bit curious, did anyone else have similar? Thanks!

Hi everyone. After 50 years I'm leaving the hobby. The final straw came when I broke off a set of footsteps just trying to get a model out of its packaging. But the truth is I've been struggling with the idea of £30 5 planks for a while; models that are made in such limited numbers; models like the 47xx that come as a kit of parts. I miss the days when duchess of sutherland was in the catalogue for years, giving you time to save up. I've had too many "mint" second hand models arrive with detailing parts glued on to a poor standard. The second hand market is just too much of a lucky dip. Its just not for me anymore

Thanks for your help!

Hi, I understand that 73050/32-507 was made with an incorrect body and tender, and replacement supplied. How can I tell if a second hand model has the original or replacement parts? Thanks!!

Hi, I understand that 73050/32-507 was made with an incorrect body and tender, and replacement supplied. How can I tell if a second hand model has the original or replacement parts? Thanks!!

Hi, does anyone have any experience of the repaired 47xx models that Olivias trains are selling? Looking for another option after my new 47xx arrived as a kit of parts, not helped I suspect by the vendor merely wrapping a piece of card around it.

Hi, has anyone ever dealt with this retailer before. I have just had a very unpleasant experience with them, and was wondering about other people's experiences - perhaps it's just me.

Ivatt and Riddles locomotives by Haresnape ? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ivatt-Riddles-Locomotives-Brian-Haresnape/dp/0711007950/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536239548&sr=8-1&keywords=IVATT+AND+RIDDLES+LOCOMOTIVES

Still not sure why the vans only had one door - what happened if they arrived "wrong way round" ??!! Was it some kind of anti-pilfering mechanism, similar to the way some containers were loaded into Open High's rather than Conflats ?

Those wagons are BR diagram 1/214, there is a photo on page 65 of "BR wagons - the first half-million." I'm pretty sure I've also seen a picture somewhere of a grounded body in use on a farm.

It's not just engineering jobs that are in decline - IT is in trouble as well. My department has been TUPE transferred to a foreign outsourcing company. The contract says we are paid more for enhancement work, so we have extra projects dumped on us as well as our previous "wheels on the wagon" work. We also have to train up the people who will ultimately replace us, or be in breach of contract and lose 20 years redundancy. Our pay rise has just come in 2% lower than our erstwhile colleagues in our old company. You actually couldn't make it up.

Hi Everyone, and good morning. I notice that Bolster 32-825Z is listed as being in brown - were any of this built as, or modified to be, vacuum braked or piped? Many Thanks, Andy

I believe the quayside at Colchester Hythe was still in use in the early diesel period, but I have always struggled to find photographs.