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I got a couple of snaps at Glasgow:

Fantastic choice! Now where's that 'buy' button... Guy

These look great Mark. I can't wait to see them at the weekend (and put an order in!). EDIT: Oh, and test EM conversion for you! Guy

AKA "Daddy Yings"...

Very nice!

How does one 'apply' to be a trial passenger? Guy

Shane, that's really nice! Just a fake bulkhead, buffers and coupling now?

You could always buy a set and put the trailers on eBay? If you sold the Driving trailer and TBF as a pair it would allow people to do a ‘nose up’ variant for drags…

Yes, that doesn’t look great. It would seem to be the connection between the development coach and the TBF. The corridor connections are obviously touching. When you turn the lights off, it’s also these two vehicles whose lights flicker on and off due to the bogies lifting. Maybe a fourth type of Hunts/Hunt/Hurst (what are they called again? ) coupling is needed? Shane, your capacitor comment is useful and will save Hornby returns department some faff. Well done #1 fanboy!

Or something clever with the buffers maybe? Pull the buffers out to reveal sockets? Guy

DC or DCC?

I checked Bachmann spares last week and the 90 pans are not available (yet) as spares.

So is that supposed to be a Brecknell Willis or a Stone Faiveley? The upper arm looks like neither I'm afraid. And the collector doesn't look right either (for either of these types). Guy

DOGA intermediate (not fine) standard for back to back is actually 14.4mm. So even worse if you are finding them to be close to 15mm! Edit: I have just taken a calliper to several vehicles straight out of the box and unrun and they are consistently 14.3mm. So If you are finding them to be 15mm maybe the wheels have moved on the axles whilst running? You can get away with wider back to backs if the flanges are narrow. I measured them at 0.6mm. This is pretty good for modern OO which is often 0.8mm. Guy

There are a number of car parks within a minute or twos walk. The railway road being the closest from what I can tell. Hopefully you can make it! Guy

The Oldshaw team are looking forward to attending. We are all double/triple vaccinated and will be wearing our masks!

I've been working on the flyer...

Hi all, The show is starting to take shape and I am keeping the Showcase Website updated as confirmations come in. So far confirmed for layouts we have: Burnroyd Works (4mm OO) Clackmannan Goods (4mm P4) Euxton Junction (4mm OO) Hinksey Yard (2mm N) Oak Road (4mm OO) Splott (4mm P4) Towcester (4mm OO) Wellpark (4mm OO) More to follow... Guy

At least the basic shape is right this time. The 1980s model had a boxy looking cab (definitely not right), over large cut outs around the bogies to accommodate tilt on train set curves and made large use of coloured plastic and crude seam lines to achieve the livery. This is so much better as a base model regarding all of these points. I agree, it’s not perfect and there is scope for further detailing but it ain’t bad! Guy

56032 gets my vote too. But 56001 would be my preference! Guy

You can be sure that if Shane had a lottery win, we'd have Hastings back on the mainline!

Could always use a 91 repainted into the APT version of exec livery at either end.... wouldn't be far wrong. Guy

That will require 3 additional vehicles tooling (SV4, FV4 and EDP3/1) so seems unlikely for something that never happened.... but we live in crazy times with all kinds of weird models now being produced RTR so never say never! Guy

I'd buy one.... might do this anyway!

Shane, I agree about the ride height and/or tilt discrepancies. And agreed, I think that is what is being shown in the pic above. I was more struck in that shot by the huge damper(?) between vehicles that I had never seen before. Regarding the vehicle at the heritage centre though, I will measure next time I am up there but the stripes look genuinely in a different position. There is so much additional detail that you can see in these shots. Personally, I'm looking forward to modelling some of this. Just look at all the pipework coming out of the axlebox! I know Hornby have modelled some of this but I think there is much scope for improvement here on what they have done. At least the basic shape is right this time so we have a good base model to start from. I think the vehicles might be able to be closely coupled with a bit of tweaking to the bogies. Guy