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  1. They retooled the Mk3 a couple of years back starting with the sliding door (GWR/Cross Country/Scotrail) ones before doing the slam door versions in at last Midland Pullman and East Midlands Trains liveries.
  2. Wondering if if the dates are just missed off the image and they are due between May and August as the GWR 802 is still showing as due in the spring on the website.
  3. Apparently the 175's are going to another TOC but it is not known where. 221's - 2 are already with Grand Central with 8 to follow, Cross Country are also getting 7 as HST replacements.
  4. 810's are 24m rather than the 26m on the rest of the 80x's due to platform length at St Pancras.
  5. Not sure how different they are but they have done 2 159's.
  6. Hopefully this will help with some of the differences in the 80x's: GWR 800/802 - no real difference as both classes now have same rated engines and work in multiple together. The 802's have roof mounted brake resistors. LNER 800/801 - 800's have 750 rather than 940BPH engines, 801's have a 'limp home' engine also have mini buffets. TPE/Hull Trains 802 - smaller kitchen, assume same as the 5 car GWR otherwise. Lumo 803 - electric with no 'limp home' engine and standard class only. Avanti 805/807 - believe has a different engine to the earlier 80x series on the 805, mini buffet and smaller kitchen. 807 - electric with no 'limp home' engine and new length of 7 coaches. EMR 810 - 24m so can fit a 10 car set into London St Pancras.
  7. Still a reasonable amount of stock I would say. Hornby has done ATW 67/mk3 set and 153's while Bachmann has done 150's and an older 158 and Realtrack have done Pacers. With the franchise finishing in 2018 you can have FGW and GWR for South Wales with GWR 800's, 158's and HST's along side Cross Country 170's so I would say all of the routes are covered.
  8. I have a end to end station layout and a few wagons. The main freight train that I have are some tankers which are used to bring the fuel to the fuel point in the carriage sidings which involves a shunt via the station.
  9. That is not good. Just checked mine which I got from rails and it looks ok to me. I have R4941 - 45001.
  10. Not much has occurred over the last month but I have now started work on the carriage sidings. The platform by the sleeper on the right is now stuck down and I have added the fuel points between the two middle sidings. The spacing is as such so multiple units as well as locos/HST can use the fuel point. Some other photos:
  11. Yes. While you could have another set of coaches you could also run with the VP power cars and 2+8 sets as well.
  12. The power cars are very nice. What's the chance of Hornby doing a buffer EMT/EMR pack.
  13. Not 100% sure but in think on one of the power cars it is a little wonky from when I have seen it parked up at Derby.
  14. Not sure. I haven't really had any problems with my set. Just one coach going a litle bit wobbly when running at high speed.
  15. It's very similar on my Cross Country ones as well.
  16. Thank you very much. Here is a line up from this morning with the 156 and 158 waiting for there respective departures while the 170 is stabled in the center road.
  17. Since the last update I have been treated to some more stuff to get one with my layout. This includes station nameboards and signage as well as some signals (ground and main) which will help progress as well as a second fuel point for the carriage sidings. I have now placed the platform numbers and nameboards on the layout with the name 'Dale End Lane' (my dads layout being Dale End Road). I have also got some new models these being a EMT 158 773 to go alongside the other EMT units and some mk3's for my HST's so I can now run a 2+6 EMT HST and a FGW mk3 to add into my GWR set's to act as a luggage vehicle in the Summer.
  18. So what have I done over the last two weeks? I have ballasted some more at the back of platform 1 where there is a drop behind the baseboard. I have put this off until now because of the drop but I found some foam which i could stick in the gap while I was doing the ballasting to close the gap. While a small areas remain overall I think its a good job. With the arrival of 6 of the 7 Cross Country Mk3's (Sliding Doors) I thought I would address the possible issue of having no room to stable 3 HST's in the carriage sidings. I did this by moving one of the points on one of the sidings from the main line connection to the other connection which now allows for 2 2+6 and 1 2+7 HST's to be stabled and up to 3 other units on the other sidings.
  19. Even though I have more time a seem to have spent this just playing around on my dads larger layout and not don that much on my own layout. Anyway I have done a little bit of ballasting around the main junction area of the station. I might have another go at the area in the bottom picture over the weekend.
  20. Yes the GWR one will be applied to a 802 train but nothing has been said about a model. The Hornby one looks like the Hornby junior set from what I have seen?
  21. Sorry: I found it though twitter early this morning. This is the website link: https://www.gwr.com/about-us/media-centre/entertrainment Not sure about the Hornby comp but the GWR one says it will be applied to a 802 on the drawings.
  22. GWR is currently running a competition (closes this friday) to design a special livery to thank NHS workers. The winning design will then be put onto a IET.
  23. Just looked at Kernow and some are showing as in stock on the website.
  24. They do look good. I think the XC ones look a little different to the slam door version (could be wrong) but I would be surprised if the GWR ones are different in terms of colours.
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