modelpara Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Any deadlines for paying the balance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Not long now !! Indeed. Only four vehicles. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Clarke 1980 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 kinda asked for that didn't I ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 kinda asked for that didn't I ? Sorry. Should've restrained myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyneux Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Any deadlines for paying the balance? Yes, when is this due? I was expecting to get an email or something from Locomotion asking for me to make the payment. Has anyone else heard from them? Guy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I expect it will become due when the models are ready to ship? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted July 9, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2015 Have they cut off the orders or are they still taking them? I know that they extended the order cut off date Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
experimental Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Hi All, After a time away from the forum, its nice to see that plenty of chat is still being generated about the E train model. Once I get my 3d printer sorted, I think I may have a crack at a POP train, god help me!! Paul APT-E Conservation & Support Group 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRail Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 All this talk of the model coming out I realised I hadn't received a confirmation of my deposit and order as placed at Warley so just rang Locomotion they have the order so all's good. Delivery is expected around October November, you can pay the balance at any time from the website bu they said there is no reason to pay just yet you just need to pay the balance before the models are dispatched Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
srihaggis Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 I do hope we get informed before they decide to take the funds from our accounts - the way my own finances work mean I will have to transfer the appropriate funds into my current account... they will be dissapointed if they simply just try to take the balance lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
b33fy Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 (edited) The locomotion site is listing the balance payments as products in the shop, so I guess the emphasis is on the customer to pay the balance as and when they can prior to the model arriving or being dispatched. sorry, just repeating what longrail said, after reading his post properly... Edited July 10, 2015 by b33fy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelpara Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 All this talk of the model coming out I realised I hadn't received a confirmation of my deposit and order as placed at Warley so just rang Locomotion they have the order so all's good. Delivery is expected around October November, you can pay the balance at any time from the website bu they said there is no reason to pay just yet you just need to pay the balance before the models are dispatched Perfect for me, I have funds in September to cover the cost of my order, not as easy before that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The old man Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Its not my modeling era either, but when the my newest incarnation of Rothley Station is built, when I have moved house,,,,, O my Life! There will be a new Main Line with 4th rad curves running high above poss with a through station with a central high speed passing line. Just to showcase the wonderfull concept of the Rapido APT E Wow. Cant wait. Damn Slow Conveyancers. If anyone is interested in my first Rothley attempt, unfinshed due to house move imminant, its on you tube search MY WAY I DID IT , and ROTHLEY CAMTASIA PLUS1. Its there if you search, i will find its link in a min and pist it underneath Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The old man Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Its not my modeling era either, but when my newest incarnation of Rothley Station is built, when I have moved house,,,,, O my Life! There will be a new Main Line with 4th rad curves running high above poss with a through station with a central high speed passing line. Just to showcase the wonderfull concept of the Rapido APT E Wow. Cant wait. Damn Slow Conveyancers. If anyone is interested in my first Rothley attempt, unfinshed due to house move, its on you tube I will find its link in a min and post it next Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The old man Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hBara0YMoSs Its my first real video upload so be gentle with me ! Also the opening pic / still is my first train set and the next pic is me and big sis in about 1974 when it all started. Pink shirted kids, flower wallpaper those where the days. I hope someone enjoys it. The concept was maximum railway in a 9ft x 4ft space with trains able to run into station from both up and down lines and also to have it over 3 levels. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 47137 Posted July 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 24, 2015 Welcome to the forums! This layout looks rather fun - and I think with your final caption "layout still to be finished" you will fit in well here. There is a special area of the forums for peoples's layouts. If you start a topic here for your own layout, you will probably get more readers and viewers. I think a lot of members will like the layout, and your video as well. - Richard. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mr_Tilt Posted August 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) 40 years ago today, just about now, I was trying to keep awake while sitting in the Tilt Control seat aboard TC2 while the rest of the crew were getting APT-E ready for the last day of our 3 week period of test running on the Western Region. Over the previous two weekends we'd broken the British Railway Speed Record 2-3 times, at least one of them being above 150 mph, but today we were going for broke, the maximum possible speed that the train was capable of. There would be no more chances, we only had three Sunday's of total occupations of the WR main line from Swindon to Reading, and today was the very last one. In any case we were due back in Derby that night and most of us needed a break after three weeks of such high intensity work. I'd arrived at Old Oak Common aboard one of our mini-buses earlier than usual as I needed to ensure both Trailer Cars were properly leveled and working properly and both Power Cars leveled and NOT working at all before this last series of runs. Because of potential problems with the strength of the PC tilt jack brackets, and because the Aero guys reckoned there was a very slight advantage in running the PCs tilt passive, we only ran the Trailer Cars tilt active for the high speed runs. As luck would have it all four tilt systems behaved impeccably and I needn't have got there so early, but such is life. By 2.0 am we'd got everything running and we trundled off to the fuel point to top up our tanks, and at 2.28 we left Old Oak Common for Uffington and a place in railway history. APT-E STILL holds the non-electric UK Speed Record of 152.3 mph that we reached at 10.35 this day 40 years ago. Edited August 9, 2015 by Mr_Tilt 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Why Uffington? Which way and from what locations was the record breaker run? Uffington was the site of an old GWR station and had four tracks at that point, as well as nice, clear road access. That meant we could get the vital fuel tanker there to keep us topped up as well as our mini-buses and other vehicles, plus we had clear space either side of the train for any required work. The site is still pretty much as it was, except the access is blocked by hefty gates and padlocks etc. I had hoped to organise a small reunion there today for those of us on the test team but Network Rail didn't want to know so I had to give that idea up. All the high speed runs were to the east from Uffington, and usually ended just past Goring Station. Our occupation ended just east of the bridge over the Thames and we had to stop by then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 (edited) Now then Mr Tilt. Was the testing on the WR carried out to Swindon regularly? Or was it just an opportunity to have a photo shoot with the prototype HST there? No, it was all done in a three week period in July - August 1975 leading up to the record run on August 10th. We went down to Old Oak Common, where we were going to be based for the WR runs, on July 21st, and then ran to Swindon and back a few times on the Thursdays or Fridays of each week at 'normal' speeds. Then on the Sundays we had full occupation of the main line from midnight to noon for the high speed runs. 'Normal' meant up to 125 mph as the HST was cleared for that on the same route anyway. The 252 set was in service running from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads (or maybe Weston-super-Mare, I'm not sure) during that period and was also based at Old Oak Common, quite often parked in the carriage shed right alongside us as well! The CM&EE's Dept. at Derby weren't that keen that we were photographed alongside their 'wonder machine' at the time but as they were running a timetabled service we always knew where they were going to be anyway. That photo on the cover of Modern Railways was the result of us being a 'little late due to a turbine problem' (yeah, right....) and so we were still waiting at Swindon when the HST arrived. (Oh dear, what a pity, we'll be able to take photos of them both after all...... ) Edited August 16, 2015 by Mr_Tilt 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delticfan Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Has a release date been announced yet, I can't wait! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Henriksen Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Has a release date been announced yet, I can't wait! Not yet. Explanation of what is happening can be found in the latest UK newsletter from Rapido: http://rapidotrains.com/rapidonewsuk04.html If you are interested in Rapido's UK products then you really should sign up for the newsletter which can be done from the main page of their website: http://rapidotrains.com/index.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Reference the internals for the APT-E's instrumentation car, does anybody know what computers and computer tape decks the test equipment uses? They are unusual in that the tape reels sit one over the other which might imply a DEC or HP computer tape deck. Any photos? Does anybody know if they are currently present in the APT-E at Shildon? APT-E Tape Deck.jpg Most of the instrumentation is still aboard TC2, the tape decks and UV recorders are the originals, as is the REDCOR computer on the far right hand end of the console. The instrumentation DC amplifiers are not the originals but they are of the correct vintage and do work if provided with the correct power and input signals. That odd double decker tape deck is a Sangamo-Western item and we had two of them, as well as some more conventional units sometimes. The current state of TC's internals is mainly down to the work of two guys, Barrie May and Malcolm Wilson, both of whom worked on the E-Train project during the 70s and have worked tirelessly in getting hold of some of the bits in there and re-building the rack. They persuaded Bombardier to part with the amplifiers on the grounds that the Support Group needed them for the train and Bombardier didn't! On the far right is a Teletype AR33 that we used to talk to the REDCOR and the original had been WELL trashed, so Barrie and Malcolm got in touch with the Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and they lent us one on a very long term basis. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 25, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2015 Has a release date been announced yet, I can't wait! From Locomotion's website. Rapido have advised the model has been slightly delayed and should be here in December to January. So it'll be either a Christmas or Birthday present to self whichever month it arrives in............ Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony566 Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Really looking forwrd to this .... and well done to Rapido for not rushing this out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Henriksen Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 From Locomotion's website. Rapido have advised the model has been slightly delayed and should be here in December to January. So it'll be either a Christmas or Birthday present to self whichever month it arrives in............ Cheers, Mick From Jason's post ("Lack of updates") the APT-E is undergoing final tooling revisions and should be in production when Warley comes around, with operating production samples at Warley. So December to January seems possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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