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Thanks for that Ian, looks like I will get 2 then!

Now that's interesting, some of the catalogue pictures online have a different running number and are marked 'return to Eastleigh'...... https://rainbowrailways.co.uk/product/graham-farish-378-028-secr-25t-dance-hall-brake-van-br-departmental-olive-green-n-gauge/

Well wishlist remains a wishlist RF red stripe class 47 (no problem with 37s they churn out in that scheme) GW 150 green class 47 (some one must want a Brunel/Churchward/Gooch/Great Western?) RF red stripe class 31 (no doubt they will release another 37 in that scheme..) Dutch class 31 (guess what class there is several in dutch..) class 25/3 (reckon thats gonna be a real long wait..) Luckily Dapol are ticking a few boxes with their announcements... 😁

PWA Palvans as used by Shellstar/UKF/Kemira. They could be seen on all regions had a distinctive shape and has only been made RTR by Lima in 00. UKF ran them in block trains, Kemira also ran in speedlink services along with OCA and IWA vans.

yes there was some intercity aircons that popped up on Waterloo - Exeters when I worked at Andover 91/92

I worked with a guy 30 odd years ago, he was on a night shift 22.00-06.00 at Andover, the Station manager from Salisbury rocked up at Andover in the early hours but he was nowhere to be found, so the S.M drove to his house and knocked the door. The guilty party eventually opened the door in his dressing gown and invited the manager inside. The manager was shocked to see B.R carpet in the hall, a B.R mirror on the wall and the kitchen was kitted out with B.R soap dispenser, roller towel and was served a cup of tea in a travellers fare mug from the set of them on the counter top! When the manager said you know why I am here don't you? He slipped the form across the table to which my colleague asked is that a form one? That it is said the manager, the reply came back said well you can only issue that at the end of my shift. The manager said what does that mean? My colleague said I'm not due off until 06.00, its now 02.00 so come back in 4 hours! I believe he got away with it on a technicality.

Praries also worked over the Southern section of the M&WSJR from Andover Junction towards Southampton

wondering if the Hornby paint process has the blue oversprayed on the red, may explain the 'purple' undertone of the shade of blue?

Hi Robert, was just an idea for a dummy, 33 bodyshell. Have just got back into N from O after 20 odd years and dont believe Dapol made a dummy 33

Hi, can anyone tell me if the Dapol 33 chassis is the same as the 27? cheers

Just had a sort thru, this was the last train I shunted in the siding at Andover in 1991 before the track was took out for platform extensions for class 159s

I used to shunt this train at Andover, it would often arrive earlier than booked and wake me up! became a nightmare when it switched from ukf/kemira palvans to cargowaggons due to the curvature of the siding used at that time, there were a few bangs into the stop blocks in the early hours! There was a shunter there god rest his soul that would often say the groundframe detection had gone and send the lot through to gillingham, I would then have to shunt the ludgershall MOD train into the yard quickly when they sent the Andover portion back up to Andover about 08.30!

Thanks Dungrange, thats all i needed, yes its only dc for the lads layout

After having no luck on narrow gauge forum, can anybody please add where to add insulating fishplates and powerfeeds to this sketch please? no need to show me pecos instructions, just need it shown on the trackplan as electrofrog is new science to me!