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  1. A very big negative after the build up. Had been looking forwards to this and this is a h..u..g..e disappointment. Not interested in buses or railbuses at all.
  2. Doesn't it to some extent depends what was on your hands at the time? Using a pair of lint free gloves helps avoid marking.
  3. Actually P4 is not broad gauge, its exactly 4' 8.5" scaled down. In reality 00 is an incorrect narrow gauge for 4mm scale modelling. ~ compromise for 4mm scale to match the continental 3.5mm to the inch standard of H0. Put the two side by side and you will never look at 00 as being correct ever again with 4mm models.
  4. I know that they were still being sold through to the mid seventies, but wasn't the E Type Jag really of the 1960's, think of Patrick McNee, Bond, Rolling Stones, Beetles, Twiggy, Mary Quant, Brigitte Bardot, etc etc. I know the roots of the APT-E and HST are also rooted in that earlier era. Nevertheless, I do agree it was a golden age of British World class leading design from the UK.
  5. Yeah, but just think of the size of the sofas you could have lounged on, in a broad gauge carriage.
  6. Diesel particulates always carry more soot, whereas look at an aircraft, yes there will be staining, but it will not be anything like as extreme. Plus remember the E Train was cosseted, did relatively short runs and was well looked after, it was not really a working network train. I am sure Mr Tilt could even name the cleaners that looked after it!
  7. ......can't be at York today, but silently thinking about York and the APT-E anniversary today at 10:48
  8. Remarkably similar to the ugly ill fated Gat Ex units too.
  9. Thunderbird 1 strapped to a ZZA Independent Snowplough perhaps.....
  10. In those days BR was customer, manufacturer and researcher. As you say, the world has moved on (not necessarily for the better).
  11. How expensive would it have been to open the doors in the buffet/bar coach of the APT-P on a curve and save the country from years of pointless journalistic drivel? APT-P would now be being exported worldwide, Derby would be the centre of the UK rail transport industry and we would have to address Sir Kit, possibly as 'Your 'tilt-ness' Her Majesty would no doubt have said, 'Arise Sir Kit, but only to a 9 degree slant'
  12. But does it have a concealed tilt mechanism?
  13. Well, I suppose it is a 'high speed train', it even goes faster than a standard HST. Given that Hattons' have misdescribed/photographed a King Arthur class loco, it is forgivable I suppose.
  14. Plus Sandra might want a pay rise to be inundated with hundreds more crank enquiries. That will push the costs up significantly.
  15. I will undoubtedly do the same for the HST as I did for my 'fictional' APT-Es, so bring it on. But ensure it is as accurate as possible.
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