RMweb Gold Davidjsmith Posted November 2, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 2, 2022 Hope the sound chips don’t take an age to sort cannot wait to get mine !That silver no12 could tempt Me too! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_sterling Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 James, can I ask what courier the locos are getting sent out by please? Curious as much as anything. Thanks. Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Fair Oak Junction Posted November 2, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 2, 2022 (edited) Mine arrived via Royal Mail. Edit: Should also add very well packaged, plenty of bubble wrap and the loco box itself is lovely and sturdy. Edited November 2, 2022 by Obsidian Quarry 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 (edited) Mine's on its way by Royal Mail - where the Track and Trace is currently saying "An update will only be provided when we attempt to deliver your item" ....... which is pretty well useless : effectively "we'll try and deliver it when we want and if you're not in - tough" ! Maybe it means "We'll update the situation when we know our plans" - but that's not how it reads ! Well, it still said "An update will only be provided when we attempt to deliver your item" a few minutes before postie attempted to deliver .... successfully ! [ As an update for anyone who's still interested - I then got an e-mail to tell me that I'd just received the parcel that I already knew that I'd just received ................... whereas for today's ( not railway related ) parcel ) they e-mailed to tell me it had been delivered to my neighbour - which it hadn't ! ] Edited November 4, 2022 by Wickham Green too delivery attempt update update 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cornelius Posted November 2, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 2, 2022 45 minutes ago, Paul_sterling said: James, can I ask what courier the locos are getting sent out by please? Curious as much as anything. Light Railway Stores orders are being dispatched by Royal Mail. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinJames Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 I just received the dispatch email from Rails for the ROD variant, excited to finally have it once it makes the journey to the US! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 I played for a show over half term, and got a fee that would have covered a further two examples of this wonderful looking model… Curses!! 🤬 Funds already spent renewing my road tax on 1 Nov!! Damn all these necessities that impede my ability to avail myself of more mini choo choos! In other news, I think we all know which model is certainly going to be on the shortlist for “best model of the year” when it comes to the next round of awards! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cornelius Posted November 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 3, 2022 PI-001-D Lined maroon Equally at home in an industrial or light railway setting, the maroon livery is inspired by 'Francis', the Victory that was previously IW&D 12 and ran in a similar colour scheme at Manchester Collieries. This is the only loco in our run to feature red coupling and connecting rods, which gives an attractive feature below the footplate. Available NOW for £130 from Light Railway Stores and Rails of Sheffield. https://www.lightrailwaystores.co.uk/products/pi-001-d https://railsofsheffield.com/products/planet-industrials-pi-001-d-kerr-stuart-victory-0-6-0t-locomotive-in-lined-maroon 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 3 hours ago, cornelius said: PI-001-D Lined maroon Equally at home in an industrial or light railway setting, the maroon livery is inspired by 'Francis', the Victory that was previously IW&D 12 and ran in a similar colour scheme at Manchester Collieries. This is the only loco in our run to feature red coupling and connecting rods, which gives an attractive feature below the footplate. Available NOW for £130 from Light Railway Stores and Rails of Sheffield. https://www.lightrailwaystores.co.uk/products/pi-001-d https://railsofsheffield.com/products/planet-industrials-pi-001-d-kerr-stuart-victory-0-6-0t-locomotive-in-lined-maroon I ordered this and the grey version. Grey because it was the original livery and red because I liked it. Then I found out that both are the same locomotive. Problem: how do I number them for DCC? After a bit of digging around (which I wouldn’t dignify with the term research) the solution popped up. 12 will be 12 and Francis will be 3068 from the builder’s number 3068/1917. I’ll print the number in white on black paper and stick it under the chassis somewhere for ease of reference. This I usually do when dealing with industrials with no prominent number. James, I hope you’re busy painting crews so that when the decoders arrive 3068 × 2 can be sent out with the minimum of delay! 🙂 Lovely looking machine. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) Pi say . . . I was curious so I got out the test track and tried it. It appears to be quite happy down to 12 inch radius as seen here, it didn’t like 8” radius though 😆 Edited November 3, 2022 by PaulRhB 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 14 hours ago, cornelius said: PI-001-D Lined maroon What a gorgeous livery! I am so very pleased with myself for changing my pre-order from plain black to this absolute beauty! Of course, as I will leave the house at 12 noon tomorrow and not return until late Sunday afternoon, mine is bound to arrive in the afternoon post, to sit there, lonely, in the porch* … and I’ll know because my mother will have text me to say that a parcel has arrived for me!! HOURS OF ANTICIPATION! * Recovering from a hip operation, she won’t be able to pick it up to bring it inside, so I’ll be worrying all weekend that my Victory doesn’t get nicked!! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said: Recovering from a hip operation, she won’t be able to pick it up to bring it inside, so I’ll be worrying all weekend that my Victory doesn’t get nicked!! I think you need to get her a lasso to drop over it and drag it inside, c’mon get that modellers creative brain solving the problem. Gromit, fire up the mobile post receiving trolley! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cornelius Posted November 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2022 Finally in this week's tour of our Victory model's livery choices PI-001-E Black ROD 608 While the Victory class was initially ordered for the Inland Waterways & Docks department, they were swiftly reallocated to the Railway Operating Department and renumbered ROD 601 - 610. Livery was likely to be plain black, certainly shown in photos of 608 which is our subject here. After the war the loco was used in colliery service and eventually scrapped by the NCB in 1964. This model is exclusive to our friends at Rails of Sheffield, and available NOW in limited quantities for £130 https://railsofsheffield.com/products/planet-industrials-pi-001-e-kerr-stuart-victory-0-6-0t-locomotive-in-black-rod-no-608 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted November 4, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2022 Arrived back home last night after a few days away. Found a rather lonely box resting against the post box....... Just opened my plain black job. Lovely. A couple of loose lamp irons but nothing a spot of glue won't solve. Happy to report that one's Victory is a rather imposing chap with pretty good slow running straight from the box. Piccies will follow. Top stuff. Rob. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAYTHEROCK Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 My green one arrived in the pouring rain yesterday safe and dry inside its stout packing 0 more that poor Pete the Postie was! Only one question - the shade of green - reminds me of Duck from the Thomas range? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post cctransuk Posted November 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 4, 2022 (edited) United Minerals (Mines and Quarries) "VULCAN" - newly returned from overhaul - and its stablemate "HERCULES". John Isherwood. Edited November 4, 2022 by cctransuk 19 8 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cornelius Posted November 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, cctransuk said: United Minerals (Mines and Quarries) "VULCAN" - newly returned from overhaul - and its stablemate "HERCULES". First one I've seen personalised by a customer I think, nice logo too! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted November 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, cornelius said: First one I've seen personalised by a customer I think, nice logo too! Thanks - it has a certain 'no nonsense' ruggedness, I think. (It deliberately doesn't specify WHICH minerals, so that the locos are at home on a variety of mineral and heavy industrial rakes)! John Isherwood. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 6 minutes ago, cctransuk said: (It deliberately doesn't specify WHICH minerals, so that the locos are at home on a variety of mineral and heavy industrial rakes)! John Isherwood. By the same token, the ICI logo could be used for a variety of chemical products. Oh hang on, they did produce an enormous variety of chemical products! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_sterling Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Eagerly anticipating mine, think the wife might have even ordered one for me for birthday too. Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Currently sat on a coach making its way northward towards Preston along the M61 (thinking maybe a boat would have been a better form of transport, given the surface water we are splashing through!!) and what should appear in my email inbox than notification that my Victory has shipped! Oh joy! Oh rapture! Should it arrive tomorrow, I’ll have to wait another day before unwrapping it! I knew it would come when I was away on a residential weekend with work! HOURS OF FUN! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 1 hour ago, SteveyDee68 said: Currently sat on a coach making its way northward towards Preston along the M61 (thinking maybe a boat would have been a better form of transport, given the surface water we are splashing through!!) and what should appear in my email inbox than notification that my Victory has shipped! I hope it was the Inland Waterways & Docks version then ! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tim Hall Posted November 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2022 Well that's rather splendid! Now vac and steam heat fitted, as Loftshire is nominally a Heritage railway, and it'll get chance to work passenger trains occasionally. On test it managed 7 Mark 1's comfortably, though this won't be a regular occurance. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2022 There is a bit of a buzz in the NCB engine men's mess room at Frog Lane Colliery (Coalpit Heath) this morning, as the foreman had heard the Assistant Under Manager remark to his secretary that he was expecting their 0-6-0T 'Mayshill' to be returned imminently from a major overhaul at Hunslets. The engine crews were disgruntled at having had to make do with the pit's other loco, the small and less powerful 0-4-0ST 'Thunderbolt' or a hired-in ex-L&Y pug from Barrow Road shed. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVMR21 Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Just had mine arrive with me, it looks brilliant out of the box, having coupled it with a couple of MDOs it looks even better. Can’t wait to run it properly on the club layout! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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