MR Chuffer

Thank you, that's what I was hoping to see. That's what I was hoping to get accessing my previous Hattons account, but can't now 😒 Hope I can find the confirmation emails.

I toyed with a random number generator to generate goods train consists, there's plenty available free on Google Play (and probs other app marketplaces). Can't remember what I tried but you could request a random number, say, in the range of 6 to 15 for the number of goods wagons, and there were lots of other capabilities.

As stated in my OP, a phone call didn't sort it out, no idea why I didn't get email, no idea - or couldn't give me any confidence - how my details would end up in Rails system, given the thousands of orders they say they have for these items. Sounds a bit like we're on a wing and a prayer. Consider, if I had a Rails account with a different email address to my Hattons account, how do you reconcile that? You don't, even less so if I didn't have a Rails account in the first place.

I sincerely hope so, it would be devastating after all this time if my order was reallocated to others through administrative clock up!

That may well be but I've gone down the route of using the Bachmann MR 1F 0-6-0T chassis, readily available as a Bachmann spare and because I have 2 and so could check for fit. I think they are a fraction of a mm out on one distance between wheels, but not enough to notice when I've done a dry run through with the Class 23 kit.

It's a Nu-Cast top to bottom white metal model

Just thought I'd check into my Hattons account to see that the Credit Card, etc. details are up to date, and now there is no login. So I phone Rails to ascertain what's happening with the Genesis preorders and the chap says I should have received an email about the account switchover process, I didn't, can anyone tell me what it said? I have reactivated my Rails account and the chap said that they will be able to cross reference my Hattons preorder with my Rails account, seems like a tall order to me, when he is talking of many thousands of preorders to pull across. Is anyone else as nervous as I am about slipping through the cracks in the process?

Won't get far, no coal in the tender! But great stuff.

I've bought one, my first white metal kit which I've started to assemble, it really is very simple to put together for a plastic person. And the Tin Tab will be along quite soon from Three Peaks.

And now onto a L&Y Tin Tab Break Van...? I'll take 2 to start with.

2 carriages built in 1911as trailers for the Hughes railmotors (photo bottom of page 10 - Railways around East Lancashire) specifically on the Rose Grove to Colne route. To compete with the expanding tram competition almost parallel to the line, the L&Y built a number of low platform halts requiring ingress and egress by vacuum operated collapsible steps.

Evostick multi-purpose Impact - instant contact adhesive.

Check out http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/longridge/, it's all in there, the Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Railway Company

Well, in the first instance, the line was planned to come off the Longridge branch at Grimsargh and head across to the south of Hurst Green where there is still the remains of a short cutting where the work was started and then quickly abandoned. I believe it then joined the Blackburn- Clitheroe just north of Whalley before branching off across country to West Yorkshire and joining the Skipton to Colne line near to Thornton in Craven and Elsack. I don't think Hellifield was part of the plan, but I'll get more details later today when I can access my books.

Perhaps, but looking forward to tackling these although I have quite a few Geen kits, L&Y Diagram 3 and L&Y Diagram 1 , though I'm a bit concerned how I might weight the Dia. 1 2-part kit, unlike the whitemetal Geens...

I think you're right, Ashlar to my mind is coarser stone setts either random, as in all over the place, or regular, laid like bricks within the limitation of rough hewn blocks. There are plenty of examples round here in the northwest with whole terraces of houses, factories and municipal buildings built with Ashlar. I have found example brick paper which I can dig out if you want more.

You wouldn't want to go ours, major hospital, wait in A&E up to 12 hours, average currently 6 hours, then 24 hours wait for admission, every corridor is jam packed with poor souls on trolleys. It's appalling, why don't ministers visit to have a look, because they're scared of what they will find - disgraceful.

Google "Allied Mills Ltd: S. Healing and Sons, flour millers, Tewkesbury: canal bargemen". Likely coal to fire the mill? Plenty of wagon images

There wasn't an "offer" option, straightforward 6-day auction. The seller is very active on eBay with mostly mediocre and/or broken model railway products. The starting price was £9, he could have got north of £25 for this although I wasn't prepared to go that far. I suspect he was approached direct and then did a deal outside of eBay, thereby avoiding their charges, except on the £9. BTW I've had this happen before with another seller in the last year. And if he sold it outside of eBay, isn't there an option "withdrawn from sale" that I've seen before?

I saw a mundane item I fancied the other day on a 6 day auction with a low starting price that I was prepared to pay twice as much for. I revisited the next day and it was SOLD at the low starting bid. How did that happen?

I've had the Vector Zero Three Crawler http://morleycontrollers.com/shopexd.asp?id=46 for over a year now, no start/stopping issues whatsoever with up to date Bachmann and v.old Hornby and Tri-ang locos - unlike with my previous Gaugemaster Combi which I binned. Very smooth and controllable at all speeds. @Pierre Le Brun The business owner retired last year but they are still shipping. I remember talking to him about shipping times and recall him saying they batch orders up and send them all out at once, mine took 7 days to get to me. V helpful if you phone or email.

Not read the rest of the thread (!), but these are rock solid DC with CDM built in and less than £100 squids http://morleycontrollers.com/. I junked my Gaugemasters.

I'm at peak wagon, I've run out of siding space, both on the layout and in the fiddle yard. 160+ wagons, incl 10 brakes, 57 MR, 34 PO coal, 23 L&Y and 33 odds and sods (LNWR, FR, G&SWR, NB, CLC, GN, NE, GW etc.). I'm broke but happy, just need some Genesis carriages and we're done.... (perhaps?)

With all this bandying around of statistics, I was reminded of this piece on The LMS Society website Goods Vehicles and Freight Marshalling (a .PDF link). Some of the statistical modelling seems a bit simplistic to me compared to previous workings upthread.

Thx, that makes sense, I hadn't accounted for that scenario