Chris Gad

Darn it Chris I think we've been rumbled! Introducing the all new Model Rail coffee table. With a distinct teak finish it's the perfect table to rest your drink on whilst your operating your layout and for a limited time only it comes equipped with a magazine holder underneath in a safe area away from any potential spillages!

What I can do this morning is announce that we have sold out of the Heljan Class 128 89431 'Red Star' Express Parcels locomotive. P.S This is not the same announcement at the start of this thread just for clarity!

Yes the announcement will be soon. We will be making it when we get our copies of the magazine in the office so that hopefully we can make it to time with the subscribers getting their copies (providing the post all runs to time of course). It could be potentially the end of this week but certainly the beginning of next. Considering that Lent finished in April feel free to start frothing again!

That date is when the issue goes on shelves and subscribers will get their copies earlier than that date as they do every month. However for those who aren't subscribers that is the date that they can get the magazine. With the post being so variable in different parts of the country it was easier to put a single date than go 'maybe the 4th/5th/6th of the month.' Naturally of course that means all will be revealed before the posted date but we had to pick one to put on the post!

Well we're not saying anything but...

I've just had a look through our archive for you and the closest layout I can find that meets your criteria and is in the timeframe you suggested is St. Lukes that was in our April 2017 issue (MR 233). Does the attached picture jog any memories?

Model Rail announcement in Model Rail 249

Thanks for bringing this to our attention Sarahagain, we have recently changed the website and as a result the url for the blog got altered from new-blog to the-chris-leigh-blog and as a result its knocked out all of the urls for the individual posts, these should now all be working again. In terms of the newsletter email you received, the USA tank article is in the ‘Know Your Stuff’ section of the magazine whereas the tips cards that you were redirected to are the ones that we trialed on the inside flap for a few issues in 2017. It is one of these things where I wrote the copy for the newsletter and it has been altered to fit in the neat little square box! For those who do want to know how to put a DCC decoder into their USA tank, Chris Leigh takes them through it on page 74 of Model Rail 248. (CG)