The Evil Bus Driver

I'm hoping for a 2A at some point as I'm going to need a few. Maybe 3 or 4.

I think mine will be smoking after that. I've got a full rake of Airfix 2Ds though so they won't be a high priority for me.

I have sympathy for my credit card. Sort of.

There are some on there for £75 - 80! 😳

They might need hazmat suits by now though. Mind you they probably needed them back then

That looks great! Just needs a big glass dome full of BR sandwiches* and paper bags full of cups of tea on the counter, maybe a few packets of crisps and you're there. *Truly a thing of terror

Thats a great looking bit of third rail there.

Got one of these beauties on preorder

That's good to know. I'm looking for a few to complete my two West of England rakes.

Looks fantastic! What third rail did you use? It looks great!

Oh nice. I'll look forward to seeing it at GETS.

Just as a bit of whimsy, were mk2s ever portion worked? I'm kind of used to fixed rakes and mine will be running as such however I was pondering this the other day. Since I grew up on and around the Southern Region, portion working of EMUs is commonplace there. I know LHCS is a lot more complicated to shunt around and I'm told there are certain rules around reversing over pointwork with passengers on, however it's not unheard of.

I've just been comparing my solitary Bachmann 2A with the Accurascale mk2B. There was already a Hubt Magnetic coupling on the Bachmann coach and the Accurascale one has the one out of the bag and there's a decent close couple there. I haven't tried it around a curve yet though.

Now that sounds like a double whammy of goodness

That's good, since one of my 'off scene' destinations is intended to be Reading.