MRDBLUE17

October 29, 2023

The PXA covered steel carriers were a wagon I never expected to see RTR but delighted that Cavalex are doing them. I use to see them regularly during my school holidays in the 80’s/90’s setting off on the Hamworthy goods. I’m currently working through a rake of BDA’s, of which a long line could usually be found on the long siding beside Hamworthy Park. I remember the Carters of Poole branded wagons and the pair with the larger brandings are absolutely superb to see included for release. These along with a triple pack will allow so many typical workings to be created from that era.

The flex hood is a work of art with the creases and dips from the way it’s tensioned along the wagon. Definitely been worth waiting for 30 odd years for these to come along.

All the best

Mark

October 29, 2023

Hi everyone,

I was very fortunate to get a very close look and handle these box wagons back in June at DEMU showcase exhibition. I hadn’t paid much attention to them when first announced as I didn’t think I needed them on any layouts, until I realised they worked on the stone trains to Hamworthy. There are several pictures in the early 2000’s of 10 wagons hauled by a 60 which is a perfect sized train to model. They continued to run in mixed rakes with other boxes tight up to much more recent times too.

They capture the solid bulk of the real wagon in model form but are also very finely detailed all round. The bogies and underframe detail is absolutely superb, they rolled very freely and have a nice amount of weight. I will be looking forward to getting a rake of these once available.

All the best

Mark

October 22, 2023

50 minutes ago, Krieghoff said:

Thanks for the update. Ive sent Rainbow Railways an email but nothing back as yet. Its my fault for not ordering earlier.

I’ve just sent you a reply hopefully we can sort one for you.

Thanks

Mark

August 19, 2023

Hi everyone,

Sunday night is your last chance to get our Viridian Green version at the early bird price of £149 at Rainbow Railways. After that it will revert to the same price as the other versions at £159.

Thanks

Mark

August 19, 2023

20 hours ago, newbryford said:

My two FNAs arrived today. (Excellent service from Rainbow Railways @MRDBLUE17)

Whilst I was lucky enough to display/test a pre-production sample on Deadmans Lane last year, it is highly likely I shall be ordering another pair as soon as I find out what a couple of my friends have, so we don't duplicate numbers for a new wagon delivery run in a few weeks

I will have to blank out/remove the Hazchem labels though ( as @Jack374 has shown me..........)

One of the Revolution wagons comes blanked out as an empty wagon too which is nice attention to detail.

August 17, 2023

Morecambe joins the nuclear revolution!

Our shop stock arrived at Rainbow Railways today (apart from 1 number to follow) so I got my new FNA-D’s. Perfect for Morecambe and both my future Cumbrian Coast layout and Highland Mainline with a pair of Accurascale PFA’s. These flasks are very free running, fine crisp detail all round with nice pipe work underneath. The paint finish and printing captures the wagons in service condition accurately. Ideal to

mix in formations with the Bachmann model. Well done to the team at Revolution and the support of DRS to make these happen.

August 11, 2023

Hi everyone,

Our Viridian Green examples arrived with us yesterday and we got a fair number of orders out before the courier came. Colin & Mike then picked a large batch of orders that went out today so should arrive tomorrow and Monday.

We are holding our £149 price on these until next weekend and limited stock is available to order on our website now. Also available in the shop and at St Andrews exhibition.

We will have further stocks of Imperium1 decoders arriving next week too so if you require DCC fitting or decoder sending please add a note to your orders.

Thank you

Mark and team at Rainbow Railways.

All remaining orders fully paid will go out on Monday unless waiting for decoders or weathering.

August 8, 2023

My postie called yesterday with my Brunswick Green version of Caroline from Revolution Trains. I purchased Kernows 37418 specifically to recreate the Sweet Caroline Railtour, which I was very fortunate to be invited on, thanks to the team at Revolution.
It’s fitted with an ESU v5 lok pilot decoder which gives you the correct number of full power and auxiliary functions to control the impressive array of lighting functions, Head and Tail lights, large roof lights, interior lights and the two small solebar lights you can see next to the double yellow steps. It’s a stunning model with so many individual detail parts to recreate this unique coach.

Our Viridian Green exclusive version for Rainbow Railways will be arriving with us this week and we will be ready to start despatching orders as soon as they arrive. We have a limited number of decoders available and will also have the Sweet Caroline Railtour headboards on the website soon.

All the best

Mark

August 8, 2023

4 hours ago, vanbasher said:

Hello all,some wonderful pics of Caroline posted on here so far, I'm still awaiting mine from Rainbow Railways but a question to all who may know. Please can anyone advise on the best DCC chip to buy to get full functionality from her & where I may buy it from please?

Many thanks.

Hi Vanbasher,

We will have our Caroline’s from Revolution towards the end of this week and will start sending as soon as we get them. As for Decoders I got my Brunswick Green version yesterday and have tested it with a couple of decoders. Its final choice is an ESUV5 Lokpilot which gives you all the functionality the model allows. We do have those in stock although not on the website so if you require one please drop us an email at Rainbow.

Thank you

Mark

August 2, 2023

Nice to see Northern appear on the 158, will go nicely with my Realtrack 156 on Morecambe.

cheers

Mark

July 17, 2023

On 15/07/2023 at 11:57, steve1 said:

Has anyone tried an EM conversion yet?

steve

Hi Steve,

Rodders has EM’d a pre production sample and another was running on Oldshaw when it was at Glasgow so should be fairly straight forward to drop replacement wheel sets in. You will need to move brake gear to align.

Hope that helps

Thanks

Mark

July 12, 2023

Thanks for sharing those photos @Flood. It was good to chat at showcase and those have turned out superb.

Thanks

Mark

July 8, 2023

4 hours ago, McC said:

Here is the relevant bit from the leaflet:

The tail-light (part 19) is powered by two CR927 batteries that are accessed by carefully unclipping the hood assembly (parts 5 & 6).

Does this show how many parts your FNA-D explodes into when you smash a class 45 into it? 😂.

Cheers

Mark

June 28, 2023

I think it looks smart in that green livery. Will look forward to seeing the model development.

Cheers

Mark

June 22, 2023

On 21/06/2023 at 22:05, SHerr said:

Thanks Mark, there’s a hole in the solebar so looks like it should slot back in, I’ve just not had time to have a proper look.

No problem, any issues just get in touch with us directly.

thankyou

Mark

June 21, 2023

6 hours ago, SHerr said:

I too have just received one with a loose weight. Actually 3 wagons, one with loose weight and one with brake lever dropped off. They seemed well wrapped with bubble wrap etc so not sure if delivery company is being a bit heavy handed?

I’ve not had chance to look further yet at fixing so useful info, other than that they look fantastic.

Hi, sorry to hear you’ve had a couple of issues - the brake lever has a couple of locating points that should slot back in - I’ve seen one other like that which didn’t have any glue applied so a little dab should fix that back in place. As to the weight of an end cap is loose you can access it to glue back but if not it should settle in the bottom and not affect running.

Hope that helps

Mark

June 20, 2023

9 hours ago, Rhydgaled said:

The expressions of interest form mentions a Class 180 in First North Western Barbie livery (not shown), but a quick Google does nothing to dispel the notion I had that First North Western never operated the 180s. IF they did indeed run in First North Western livery, any chance of a picture?

Also, any chance of you producing models class 175s in debranded First North Western livery (as seen here - as used in the early days of ATW use), or even completely unpainted? I'm interested in having a model of a 175 but not in ATW, TfW or fully-branded FNW.

You can at least hopefully get a branded FNW unit and then remove the branding to create the model you want. It’s easier for the manufacturer to print on and then work out the best method to remove. It might work in your favour as it will help create the shiny clean paint underneath the vinyls where the lettering was?

Thanks

Mark

June 13, 2023

Great to see them Weathered up Phil. These tanks didn’t stay clean for long in any livery over there lifetimes in use.

Thanks

Mark

June 13, 2023

Hi Ben & Mike,

I’ve submitted an EOI for the 175’s in FNW livery just as I remember travelling on them. I wasn’t sure from the form if this would be a 2 or 3 car set so only put 2. If both are are offered I would have a pair of 2 car and a pair of 3 car as they really do fill a missing gap for the period I want y to I model.

Thanks

Mark

For everyone else please get your expressions of interest in so we get a 175 in FNW livery please.

June 9, 2023

On 08/06/2023 at 19:00, DropTheTap said:

Have these sold out? I was only given the option to pre-order (which I did!)

Thanks for ordering. They are all on the website and will still show as pre-order just whilst we work through all the pre-orders we have. We’ve been busy packing and sending every day this week and still have a lot of orders to get through. Thank you to everyone that has supported us with this project so far.
We are at DEMU showcase next weekend and will have all 19 versions available at the show. You can pop a note on and orders you want to collect there too.

thank you

Mark

June 7, 2023

2 hours ago, Flood said:

Right then an apology to Revolution and Rainbow Railways. It's looking like 70720, 70721 and 70725 had the ladders at one end but 70719, 70723 and 70724 (plus probably quite a few more) had them at opposing ends.

What a minefield wagons can be.

As built the ladder positions are correct. In later years after moving to Clay use some appear to have got moved but dating this accurately and on only a few wagons would have increased costs and left locating holes on the solebars. We did however model the two different manlids as the main difference seen throughout their use.

I will look out for photos once you’ve added a bit of weathering and have them running in the speedlink workings on your layout. They will look good passing through.

thanks

Mark

June 6, 2023

Congratulations Mike.

May 16, 2023

Hello everyone,

Just to update the TUA’s are on route to the UK and due into port at the end of this month.

Thanks

Mark

May 15, 2023

I wonder where we heard this type of desperation speech before? It sounds like something written by that bloke that promised everything if you gave him lots of cash. I think he was in the music business - well he called himself DJ lol!

April 19, 2023

Hello everyone,

Firstly thank you for the kind comments about our team at Rainbow Railways. Colin, Mike and I are all modellers and we try our best to make sure we can get enough models that you all want and provide a good service. Special thanks to Patrick and Stephen for sorting out our trade orders and getting them

out so quickly. All our trade order of these first three had sold out but Mike purchased a few extra via the customer side when they became available to try and ensure everyone got one at the normal price that had been after them. I think we have one 37423 left over on our website to purchase now.

I have to say I’m delighted to get my hands on 37419 with sound. I saw the real loco at Derby last year sat in the yard at Loram on a test train. What the photos don’t do justice is the depth of detail on the bogies and underframe pipe work. The full springs and brake actuators are very nicely done. The nose end detail is good and captures the modern 37/4’s under DRS well.

The lighting features are good on DCC and I do like the lit dials in the cab. The sound is very impressive, the bassy speaker just gives it a presence and even sat idling away you can’t help but smile. Morecambe is only 4ft on the scenic section but setting it off and using the drive hold feature on F7 you can open it up and the thrash is excellent. I’m very impressed with it and in my opinion it’s the best RTR sound fitted model yet.

All the best

Mark

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