Uk_Steve Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 @ eastwestdivide love the photos the 1 i like the most is the Ashford station photo i can see nr the end is a jaffa livery on the train in question platform where the photo is taken is my main route back from Ashford to Folkestone side nice to see the grubby trains again he!he! i know this era well on Ashford station would you mind if i save a pic of ashford photo on my computer? All the best from Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenc Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Hi everyone Just been looking on Bachmann web site and the MLV due date is for june/july steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB 34067 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Model Rail have shown a picture of the Blue/white MLV on there facebook page today at the Nuremberg Toyfair. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150531981048207&set=a.371681018206.157212.176420418206&type=1&permPage=1 Its only a side veiw but it looks brilliant, will look good with my Blue/white EPB working as an MPV. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uk_Steve Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Model Rail have shown a picture of the Blue/white MLV on there facebook page today at the Nuremberg Toyfair. http://www.facebook....pe=1&permPage=1 Its only a side veiw but it looks brilliant, will look good with my Blue/white EPB working as an MPV. i agree!!!! i cant wait myself now :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 1, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2012 From that image the model looks superb. Not that I ever expected less from the manufacturers of the 4Cep with which mine will eventually run. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB 34067 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 i agree!!!! i cant wait myself now :-) Yeah looks like they done a better job then Hornby. Cheers James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted February 2, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2012 Or you can have your MLV's towing around loco hauled stock like this! http://andygibbs.zen...da2df#h393da2df Full details at http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/860315lc.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenc Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 The blue/grey MLV looks great.The picture of the pair in jaffa livery is wicked.my kind of railtour Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 2, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2012 Ah yes - the "Flying Fourgon" railtour. 2xMLV at one end and a GLV at the other for motive power. The idea seemed outrageous at the time and no doubt if it was suggested today would be met with a sucking of teeth and a "you can't do that" attitude but it ran and is now a part of railtour folklore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB 34067 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Or you can have your MLV's towing around loco hauled stock like this! http://andygibbs.zen...da2df#h393da2df Full details at http://www.sixbellsj...0s/860315lc.htm Yeah that be the plan if a diesel fails and its too late to heat up a steam engine Get the EPB group to put two of there MLVs on the mainline get some Mk1 & Mk2 stock there you go a railtour from Ramsgate to Weymouth :-) Cheers James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uk_Steve Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Or you can have your MLV's towing around loco hauled stock like this! http://andygibbs.zen...da2df#h393da2df Full details at http://www.sixbellsj...0s/860315lc.htm Brilliant pic excellent!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 E68000 (later M68000M) was the first MLV which differed in many ways to the Southern units, not least in that it did not have batteries however it did have 4 traction motors which gave it 1000HP of power, Here is a photo of E68000 at Brighton on a test train - hauling coaches! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/23647-e68000jpg/ XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 E68000 (later M68000M) was the first MLV which differed in many ways to the Southern units, not least in that it did not have batteries however it did have 4 traction motors which gave it 1000HP of power, Here is a photo of E68000 at Brighton on a test train - hauling coaches! http://www.rmweb.co....3647-e68000jpg/ I've replied in the comments under the photo link you have provided. With the Mlv, "built" measurements . ...dt..... XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris89 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Two from the Blue and Grey example at Model Rail Scotland. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB 34067 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Looks good will be getting that , wonder if it will have directional lighting lets hopw they do other liverys & have a headlamp fitted onto the front like last days of MLVs. Cheers James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uk_Steve Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 thanks Chris89 i cant wait now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris89 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 thanks Chris89 i cant wait now Very welcome Steve. The model looked very impressive on display. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB 34067 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Do they have the blue & green one's on display as well?? Cheers James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris89 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Do they have the blue & green one's on display as well?? Cheers James I only saw the Blue and Grey one on display in the cabient sadly. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed-farms Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 These units are now being manufactured. Can't wait to see one of these in the flesh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady_Ava_Hay Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 It sounds a bit amusing to me now, but one of the reasons why I first started liking southern stuff was because they all looked the same!! How did local enthusiasts know what they were looking at?? what WERE those strange 3 letter names, and why didn't they have 'real' numbers?? That along with other things made it all very exotic to me, the follies of youth, I know, but it was still a bit more interesting than most of the fare you got up here. As if to put all of these things to bed, I ended up spending the best part of 2 months on and off in 2005 just following and trying to photograph the remaining slammers in as many different locations as possible (and about a week on the Lymington Branch last year, being at one with the ponies and never ending gorse, just before they were withdrawn). There is a definitive list of the EMU's and their lettering codes which were strictly internal anyway, on the Southern Electric Group website. They are the owners of the 4Cor at EKR and the Motor Driving car at the Bluebell. I was on the last Slamdoor Train Tour. I still have the ticket. I have a recording of the driving cab sounds from Lymington to Brockenhurst. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertcwp Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Or you can have your MLV's towing around loco hauled stock like this! http://andygibbs.zen...da2df#h393da2df Full details at http://www.sixbellsj...0s/860315lc.htm I was on that tour - 26 years ago! I think the 50 could not go from Hastings to Ashford via Rye because it was not cleared for the route. There was a late change of plan such that the same section of the train (5 vehicles) remained with the MLVs for both of their circuits via Canterbury West, with the MLVs running round at Ashford. The remaining 6 vehicles (including an RMB) went to Folkestone Harbour twice. This meant that the tour participants all had to change trains at Ashford. It also meant that the stock ended up coupled back to front and the wrong way round with the RMB on the end instead of in the middle. The stock had been borrowed from the WR - no idea how they reacted to it coming back in a shuffled state. I didn't have a camera at the time which means I was unable to photograph the other half of the tour as it passed the half I was on at Folkestone. A tour like that would be unthinkable nowadays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB 34067 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I only saw the Blue and Grey one on display in the cabient sadly. Chris Ok Chris though hopefully it be Blue & white sorry Blue & grey one out first as thats the one I am getting then hope they do jaffa cake NSE & royal mail liverys too Cheers James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris89 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Ok Chris though hopefully it be Blue & white sorry Blue & grey one out first as thats the one I am getting then hope they do jaffa cake NSE & royal mail liverys too Cheers James Could be my fault. Not terribly intrested in the 80s area of railways myself so any areas of liveries is a mistake. As more intrested into Modern haulage or GWR/ Early BR Steam haulage more then anything. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB 34067 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Could be my fault. Not terribly intrested in the 80s area of railways myself so any areas of liveries is a mistake. As more intrested into Modern haulage or GWR/ Early BR Steam haulage more then anything. Chris Hi Chris, No your not at fault its me as everyone calls it Blue/Grey livery but the only grey I see is on the roof so I call it Blue/white. Regards James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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