Tramshed

What about passengers using the lav for its intended purpose? Unless the passenger fitted sets included a ticket inspector there would be no need to hide!

I know this is way off topic but I strongly recommend this operation. I have had mine done and it gave me the best vision since my childhood. In an effort to bring us back on topic, your colour vision may improve so I hope whatever is announced on 7th will have the livery details correct!

and the 'frothing' window usually opens around the last Wednesday of the preceding month!

Careful. There are some on this forum who will now want the hats supplied separately in an accessories bag. Feet and legs too probably!

92134 is listed as being paired with a BR1C in 1959 when 9Fs were still being delivered.

From the evidence available, including the learned contribution from Pint of Adnams, it appears that you have made the right decision re changing to the lower arc roof. Many thanks for your positive response to feedback on here (particularly given it is a Sunday). My order is secure and I am sure you will be rewarded with many more.

Bucoops makes an important point. Checking the Yeadon register, no.27 had it's roof lowered during a general repair at Stratford between 14/4 and 20/8/1925. The same date given for it's renumbering to 7027. It should therefore have the same cab profile as that you have already tooled for 68646, ie lower than the chimney top. Happy to wait a little longer for mine in the interests of accuracy.🙂

You may be a bit late for that. They have announced a J67/68/69 'Buckjumper'. By all means start a frothfest about their 3rd though!🙂

On the other hand the photographs posted on pages 2 and 3 of this thread of the blue and maroon liveries show the end doors in blue and black respectively. Are sure these were fibreglass? The bi-fold nature of the door design requires several hinges and one wonders how this material would perform in daily use.

Not for ages yet. What we are witnessing is history in the making. The longest ever unboxing video in freeze frame format. I'm lapping up every frame 😁

Collected mine from my local shop on Thursday. Had to return one of the brake thirds the next day as it had been supplied with the chassis from the BR green version, resulting in the boarding step appearing beneath the toilet window! Shop was able to swap for a good 'un. After Bachmann had gone to so much trouble to re-work these with the right numbering, lets hope it's an isolated case but one which intending purchasers might want to watch out for.

Off the top of my head two Jubilees were sold by BR directly into preservation, the pioneer Crab is in the NRM so too is light pacific Winston Churchill. BR Standard 5MT no 73050 went to Peterborough after withdrawal from Patricroft shed thence to the NVR. Doubtless further research would yield other examples.

If the mail order v high street retailer argument is still live can I post on behalf of the retailer? I pointed out the missing '3's to my local shop who advised me that they could fix the problem via a contact they use for weathering. In response to demand, Fox transfers have made up sheets with the correct number of 3s for a pair of brake thirds. You can order via their website and fit yourself. Enough to go round the whole production run apparently. My local shop charged a very modest fee to have them applied and matt varnished. Result, a happy Tramshed and a happy retailer who can now shift more units.

Probably not worth the effort (unless you want something to contemplate over a pint of the Sole Bay nectar) but thanks all the same.

Another question for the experts... Did the quad-arts 'pair for life' to make up the 8 car sets? The table shows 'third' and 'composite' half sets making up set 90, set 74 and so forth, but I imagine the advantage of being able to split them in the middle (rather than have an 'oct-art' so to speak) is that they could be taken out of service for repair and maintenance while keeping the 'good' half available. If 97 were built, this suggests at least one 'spare'. As this is a fairly expensive project (this is not a rant about price - I understand the reasons) some might be tempted to, for example, pair a set with a ducketted/recessed guards compartment with one without. Would this be prototypical? Presumably the ability to split up an 8-car set had advantages when it came to repainting. During transition periods, would this have extended to pairing teak with crimson or crimson with maroon?