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  1. It's a puzzle to me that you boys haven't co-ordinated Brush Type 2 and 57ft Suburban releases. As things stand, we can soon get ER early Crimson coaches, but no early pre-warning panel Brush 2, or we can soon get a later Brush 2 with warning panel, but no later maroon ER Suburbans! The Nim.
  2. There would also be the issue that the centre wheels are, on the prototype, a smaller diameter. Though I suppose clever choice of gear sizes on the model could cope with that.
  3. What diameter are the drop-in wheelsets please? I was disappointed that the Deltic ones were not a scale size. The Nim.
  4. Did unlined Crimson livery last long enough to be paired with the forthcoming Brush Type 2 with trip-cocks in GSYP livery? The Nim.
  5. Unfortunately I was a couple of years too young to ride this branch to Luton unaccompanied, though I did make use of the option to ride WGC-Hatfield as part of my journey home from school on a couple of occasions. The demise of the part south of WGC, along with the partner Hertford branch on the east side of the ECML was due to the collapse of Wrestler's Bridge which carried the Great North Road over the line at Hatfield. This was at half-term in spring 1966, which spoiled my plans for a day's spotting outing to London with a school friend from the opposite side of the blockage. The utility services were reinstated over the line on a temporary bridge mounted on fabricated piers placed in the branches' trackbeds. The full roadway was never reinstated. There were old gravel pits off the Hertford branch too, at Holwell where the A414 crossed on a humpback bridge. I once noticed an open wagon stood in a siding as we passed. My impression was that it was longer than a 16-tonner, so may have been a Sulphate. The Nim.
  6. Bogie footsteps were lying loose on the cab floor. I had a peep, in the DPS depot. The Nim.
  7. Well, that could sort one end of the mismatch. Couldn't pull a few D5615 bodyshells before they get the yellow sprayed I s'pose? The Nim.
  8. Yes, and as the CLs were a later build, the Thompson equivalents survived in otherwise Mark1 formations. The Nim.
  9. For some reason, Accurascale seem not quite to have got their ducks in a row as far as transition-era Eastern modellers are concerned. The first release of the 57ft Suburbans will only allow the assembly of a transition-era ER Inner Suburban set in Carmine livery. However, the first release of the Brush Type 2, trip-cock fitted, such as could work these services, includes Green livery only with SYF, by which time Carmine would be becoming a rarity, with most coaches in Maroon by then. I'd hate to be stymied by inflation while waiting for subsequent production runs to solve tis conundrum! The Nim.
  10. Way upthread I expressed the hope that the 91s would stick around long enough to be re-liveried out of the calculated tweeness of the fizzy drink design. Have to say they could hardly have done it better, it looks so much more mature! Just have to phot it before it gets covered in flies. I'd hoped the 225Group Twitter feed might have daily updates on which diagram it's on. The Nim.
  11. Are we sure it's 'the evil mavens'? Could it be instead that Hornby have lost significant capacity for research in depth? The Nim.
  12. It may have been that same vehicle I photted heading into town along the Stratford Road in Hall Green one summer afternoon in 1973. This was the livery which came to mind immediately I found this thread. My main mission that day was to catch at least a couple of West Midlands' all-over advertising Fleetlines, but I was pleased to catch the National looking so smart, aware of the mandated Soviet-style drabness to come, which I'd already sampled on London Country's LN5. Did BMMO repaint these early ones, or was Workington's paint shop initially more flexible? The Nim.
  13. Pity there wasn't a soundtrack. Was that Eamonn Andrews narrating by any chance? The Nim.
  14. Was that from new, or was it just the first one to receive fatter buffers, before a neater mod to the existing buffer cowls was chosen? The Nim.
  15. Yes, it's well observed. I do believe this may have been the drawing Hornby used... The Nim.
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