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When the Salesman said "Natural Wood interior trim" that not what I had in mind...
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Also just out of interest, one of the team who did the painting was a volunteer from a Tramway Museum who has now been taken on by Heritage Painting as an apprentice.
And we're certainly proud of Miss P, Jamie, and also proud of Heritage Painting's slightly less high profile work on two of the tram fleet (with another possibly to be done this year!)
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the Supertram website said there were no trams between Meadowhall South and Meadowhall Interchange today, for works to do with the tram-train. Well I took a wander down there, and the only activity was some orange army peering at a bridge near the Interchange, nowhere near the tram-train connection. No heavy plant out at all.Maybe it's to do with inspections for clearance for the new vehicles on the existing network?
My understanding is that this and other weekend blockades in Jan/Feb are for work on existing infrastructure to allow the tram-trains to operate throughout the network; the intention being that they will run on existing services ahead of the Rotherham line opening. I can't remember the full list of locations, but the Park Square bridge was the big one on the list with two full weekends allocated.
Unconfirmed rumour is that there a few 'swept path' issues with line-side items that aren't quite where they should be...
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A Christmas gift from Ronnie...
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As are the M5000s to Manchester and the Flexities were to Blackpool.The Strasbourg trams built at York were delivered as a complete unit!
Mark Saunders
Delivery in one piece is a lower risk option. Fully assemble and wire in the factory and in some cases, test running and mileage accumulation before delivery in close proximity to the factory allowing rapid entry to service - Metrolink are currently averaging around 12 days from touchdown to carrying passengers...
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Maybe a bit out of the ordinary.
Nope... Struggling to see the two locos of the same class in that one...
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If you had been here last Thursday, you would have seen this was posted the previous Monday!
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Half of Hull Trains Adelante fleet at speed at Essendine early on Tuesday morning; consecutive numbering too.
Just celebrate that two are fit for service at the same time!
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He's pulling out to pass the BR van (which is out of era for the Metrobus) parked on the double yellows opposite the junction.
Metrobus? Looks like an Ailsa to me...
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Neck and neck at East Ham.... Taken with the use of a pole to get above the rather high fence.
Cheers,
Tim
A freightliner Class 66 66549 with a rake of empty coal hoppers from Fiddlers Ferry Power Station in Warrington travelling to Hunterston passes a southbound Virgin Pendolino service on the WCML today with DRS Carlisle Kingmoor Depot in the background.
Not seeing two locos of the same type in either of those last two posts...
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Black 5 45690 'Leander'
Nice photo,
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Just out of curiosity: why has the 'N Gauge Now magazine' subject been closed?
Probably because it is a Duplicate of a topic in the media section...
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Something unusual/unique/quirky? No...
Something that, in typical Oxford fashon, can be churned out in multiple liveries and sell by the train load to collectors? Yes...
Something where the the existing models leave room for improvement and if done right will also sell in quantity to the more descerning modeller? Absolutely...
The wagon makes a lot of sense as a basic item to establish the brand in the market, and to stay in production as a 'bread and butter' product that will continually sell...
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Dear David,
how dare you insult my friends by making such cruel comparisons?
Yours,
Thomas T Tankengine esq.
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HI there - does anyone have any idea what the bracket signals will look like? I take it that there will be 2 home signals on one central pole for the BR version. Or will they be 'handed' as with the GWR version previously shown? My friend asked at Warley and Dapol said that they would be 'early next year'
That's what they said last year...
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I'm not seeing two locos/units of the same class...92005 powers the 4M25 06:05 Mossend Euroterminal to Daventry Int Rft Recep Rfd through platform 4 at Nuneaton, 12 minutes late at 14:09, passing the 1D87 London Euston to Chester service, which is on time. Thursday 20 November 2014.
Geoff
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Under or over... :-)I see panto season is with us again and the amateur dramatics section of my local naturist club are auditioning for a Christmas carol....... I went for the part of Tiny Tim but missed it by an inch!
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Will it actually be produced internally by Oxford Diecast, or will it be in partnership with Bachmann/Kader, Dapol or DJM, and 'branded' as Oxford (as KMRC have done with Dapol/DJM)?
When it comes to commissioning models, Oxford are on the Commissionee side of the relationship like Bachmann and Dapol, not the Commissioner like Kernow, Hattons et al. So far DJM appears to be acting more as in intermediary, sitting between the two...
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Im not European, I'm English - Europeans are the people we traditionally have wars with!
I'm a Yorkshireman... Lancastrians are the people we tradiionally have wars with!
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What an utterly rubbish car!
(Someone had to say it!)
You mean that isn't an advert for the new Skoda?!?
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Nice photos, but I'd suggest the last 4 would be better in the creative photography thread...
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This Thread is getting as bad as the TV.... nothing but repeats these days....
I'm sure I've read that before...
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Would it be feasible to offer at least one unpainted, unlined, unnumbered model of each product in your range ?
Every time it has been tried in the past, they have proved to be very slow sellers, and the few that did buy 'expected' a price reduction out of proportion to the actual cost differential of production.
Tram-Trains for Sheffield to Rotherham
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Believe that so far only 201 has ventured outside the confines of the depot, and that only out of hours. They have yet to even run on trial alongside the original cars, so still a long way off carrying paying passengers...