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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275022771171?hash=item4008a273e3:g:DvAAAOSws3BhbuoF It's a case of, the seller thinks it's rare and there for will increase in value. Starting at the rock bottom price of £395. For £48.00 less you can buy something of the same shape direct from Hornby.

A paragraph that stood out to me on the Government news site, reads the following. "Local communities will work closely with GBR on designing services with local leaders given greater control over local ticketing, timetables and stations. The new model will encourage innovative bidders, such as community rail partnerships who want to bid for the GBR contract to operate their local branch lines." Could this translate into our heritage railways who have obtained class 142/3 or other mainline running stock over the last few years, to end up running extended services beyond their current limit. The likes of your Weardale, Wensleydale, Mid Norfolk, GCRN, KWVR. We'll see.....

Apologies for digging up an old thread, it would seem I wasn't the only one with a dead Hornby J15. Last November as well, hmmmm. Picking up this stunning little loco from Bure Valley Models, getting the loco home and straight onto the rolling road had no response. I thought I'd killed the loco with the journey in the back of a moped topbox. A quick call to Bure Valley Model, very helpful in testing the loco in the shop and offering a replacement due in about 2 weeks or so. Well being the practical guy that I am, I saw a challenge . So I took the loco back home being aware of the 7 day return policy. Fast forward 5 months on and one house move later I've now got round to taking the body and tender off the have a good looking inside, seeing what has been said back in November. I gave the J15 a B1 tender, nah didn't want to know about it. All of the wires from what I can see look okay, Looking at the motor nothing looks to be burnt out. For something so small it's putting up a good fight. If there were spares parts for the J15 I'd snap them up, but given the pick-ups are clean and I've a had both a B1 with a new valve gear and a 3F on the same rolling road as the J15. The photo I've uploaded is taken of the board where the DCC chip goes, this bit is upside down with the DCC chip on top in the tender. Second opinion, dose it look like there should be wires connecting to the metal plate, where I've drawn the arrows to?

Another Carlisle - Newcastle service. Sunday 11th April with 156440 about to enter Cowran cutting.

With having done the house move from North Norfolk to Cumbria. Oh boy is the landscape going to change. Here we see 156480 on Wednesday 17th March 2021 with a service bound for Newcastle, having raced through the site of How Mill station.

As I'm at a lose end with moving house at the moment and being it's grey and dull here in North Norfolk. I thought I'd share some more of my Grandad's railway photographs. While at the head a of RCTS railtour 5MT 75055 sits waits for the off. I'm not sure which station it's at. Answer on the back of a postcard please. GWR 4902 'ALDENHAM HALL' at Didcot GWR 7900 'SAINT PETER'S HALL' + 6144 Approching Drayton Green Halt, 16-02-58

Ah, what a good idea for a topic. In no perticular order. Oakworth: Has to be said if your looking for a station and goods yard that has stood the test of time and love all things Midland through and through. I could quite happily sit on the bench in all weathers watching the world go by. Weybourne: Having done many platform turns at Weybourne station, I do end up foregetting about many of the worlds probelms when volunteering at Weyboourne. Berwyn: Given it's location, there can't be many preserved station that hang over a viaduct while shosehorned between a Road and a river. Engineering at it's best.

It's a 3 car unit. The guts of the engine is a separate unit in it self, with a corridor to pass through.

An offering from the Eastern region. Friday 17th June, Greater Anglia class 755 leaving Wroxham bound for Sheringham. Seen from the footpath that runs alongside the Bure Valley Railway.

While on my all-line rover ticket last September. I had my digs for the night booked in Edale. So while walking along the footpath I could hear this East Midlands Railway service snaking through the valley floor, bound for Nottingham/ Norwich. 13th September 2019 Regards Ross

I've uploaded this photograph a few years ago on another thread. Tell you what I never get tired of looking at this photo, the subject being DMU 'Class 101' 51188/56352, owned by the National Railway Museum currently based on the North Norfolk Railway. With a service bound for Sheringham, running in between the golf course and A149. 30th September 2015. Regards Ross

Thank-you for the info. Thanks for the kind comment, it was difficult to keep ones balance while taking that photo with the heath covering the uneven ground. The end result shows the North Norfolk Coast with Weybourne peeking through, with 76084 charging up kelling heath bank with the 'Aspergers Flyer' headboard on the 19th August 2015.

A collection of photo's from my grandad's archives. The East Somerset Railway in 1987, with 9F '92203, Black Prince' on shed with LMS 3F '47493' running the service trains that day. While GWR '6634' in restoration* *Have yet to be steamed since withdrawn.

Derby station, with Class 150 keeping the HST company for a brief period, 1995 Derby station nearly 30 years ago 20th June 1990 with HST '43048' leaving Derby bound for a service to London. Regards Ross

Here are many, many photographs that use to belong to my grandad. I am sorting out and scanning while in in lockdown. First is Dean Goods '2449' at Builth Wells. Here we see Modified Hall 7914 'Lleweni Hall' Fresh from overhaul at Didcot 12th January 1957 And finally we come across GWR Bulldog 3705 'George A. Wills' Swindon Works on 27/08/36.