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Agreed on locos. First Generation DMU's are ripe for revisits to specific classes or manufacturers. The issue on this topic was a very broad brush.

Is it summer in NZ then Hilux? ISTR seeing a picture of the Christchurch to Greymouth line snowed out in July....

A minor point - this is the August issue and we're still in June (just)?

Ordered a D1670 Mammoth limited edition yesterday (Tuesday). Here today (Wednesday) lunchtime by Royal Mail. Delighted with the model and very impressed with the service.

Well that's another way to hide a DCC chip.....

Sarah There are 4 downloads on the page. The ''HST History... ' is 9 pages. The other three are 2 pages each. Hope this helps.

Yeah I noticed that. It just seemed a considerable leap from the masked body in picture 18 at the foot of Page 66 to the beautifully finished vehicle at the head of the article so I thought perhaps part of the article might be missing. If it has appeared as intended then apologies if I got the wrong impression.....

Enjoyed the issue - especially the Festival of Britain article as I was born in 1951 - but puzzled by the abrupt ending of GWR Bullion Van article with the vehicle unfinished. Is the end missing? (or is it an attempt to reflect the real world......)

Does she know what it cost?

Smiths in Leek, Staffordshire still had a Locomotion in this morning.....

And would maroon-liveried BR vehicles carried SYP or FYE.......?

I was curious about the tooling costs for these models - particularly any in the series that cannot 'borrow' from an existing model (if indeed that process is being used). Are the tooling costs likely to be significantly lower than those for an operating model?

I think the AC electrics acquired small yellow panels later than the diesel fleet - possibly 1965? Was a SYP applied to locos at the same time as the second pantograph was removed? My railway interest started in the summer of 1964 when I lived near the electrified WCML and I remember AC electrics without yellow panels including the early AL6s which appeared later. Rail Portfolios 'The AC Electrics' shows several 1964 dated photographs without panels. It also shows a 1961 shot with a blood and custard coach although that is a rarity and maroon stock would be the most appropriate. They might have run panel-less with the earliest blue / grey coaches though?