RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted January 25 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25 The roof took a beating didn't it! - Looking forward to the first weathering.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 (edited) 2 hours ago, Nick Gough said: That scene has changed considerably since then - it's now virtually unrecognisable! The 'arches' one the right has since gone, and huge tower blocks just beyond. Oh, and a brand new footbridge. May 2021 Google image: Edited January 25 by Coppercap image added 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 25 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25 8 minutes ago, Coppercap said: That scene has changed considerably since then - it's now virtually unrecognisable! The 'arches' one the right has since gone, and huge tower blocks just beyond. Oh, and a brand new footbridge. May 2021 Google image: Blimey - unrecognisable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted January 25 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25 2 hours ago, Nick Gough said: A couple of birds-eye views of 93's roof: NB. The chimney hadn't fallen out in the box - it was removed to allow travel over NR, within the loading gauge. And there I was thinking this was a post from the 'Prototype for everything' thread. 😀 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold brumtb Posted January 25 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25 9 hours ago, melmerby said: Mine was 30/11/22 and was processed Monday, coming today according to RM.🙂 Received my shipping email today so should be with me soon, hopefully! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 39 minutes ago, 57xx said: It's been 10 years since this was announced and people haven't got the patience to wait another week or two. Give the guys a break! Don't buy into the false narrative. There is nothing but love here for Kernow, and a little gentle humour to wile away the passing hour while we wait for this fantastic model. Turn away now if you find mixed metaphors upsetting, but, with apologies to brittle egos, let's not poison the well of goodwill with po-faced pearl clutching. Kernow, very helpfully, mentioned today that they have nearly 3,000 pre-orders. Now by my reckoning they've had less than 12 working days by this point, so they'd have to be sending 250 a day to be anywhere near close to clearing the pre-orders. I don't think anyone here would expect them to manage that or complain that they haven't! Having seen what the small Locomotion team went through shipping out Rapido's Stirling Single, I am entirely in sympathy and suspect Kernow is doing a sterling job behind the scenes. I don't imagine they are helped in these efforts by people taking unnecessary offence on their behalf. It takes all sorts, I suppose. All good things come to those who wait, so in the meantime, I'm content to be lazin' on a sunny afternoon 11 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 56 minutes ago, sjrixon said: The roof took a beating didn't it! - Looking forward to the first weathering.. As did the copper cap. A friend of mine had the job of knocking the dent out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 And they should be thankful in all probability that it was delayed long enough not to be a DJM model. 7 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted January 25 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25 2 hours ago, Edwardian said: A replacement 'bus service might be more appropriate! There was a bus service through our village in the early 1900s but I can see why the doctor preferred to use his car! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midford Halt Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 10 hours ago, Limpley Stoker said: There was a bus service through our village in the early 1900s but I can see why the doctor preferred to use his car! Is that a D2 (current bus route) going through Norton St Philip? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 16 minutes ago, Midford Halt said: Is that a D2 (current bus route) going through Norton St Philip? Spot on . No WiFi then! The shop I mentioned is next door to the Fleur de Lys facing the George Inn. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) After an extra 24 hours in delivery, No 85 has finally arrived. There was no need for me to have been worried about it being in the APC van an extra day as the packaging and box were well up to it. Not even a loose chimney. Edited January 26 by Free At Last 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 15 hours ago, 57xx said: It's been 10 years since this was announced and people haven't got the patience to wait another week or two. Give the guys a break! I agree - especially as Sherry tells me mine has just been delivered in Torquay! I shan't see it until 13th February. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 18 hours ago, Nick Gough said: A couple of birds-eye views of 93's roof: NB. The chimney hadn't fallen out in the box - it was removed to allow travel over NR, within the loading gauge. Yes, I can confirm that the Chimney cap was removed from 93 when running on NR metals (and to get it into the shed at Didcot!) as it was outside the current NR loading gauge. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 (edited) 16 hours ago, Neal Ball said: Blimey - unrecognisable. As is most of the lineside between West Drayton and Ealing Broadway, then at Old Oak. Huge numbers of tower blocks have been thrown up in those areas - presumably in order to house the country's artificially inflated population? It's as bad going into Waterloo - another near unrecognisable lineside,. The worst (sme might say best?) bit on the GWML is that you can no longer accurately position yourself between Dawley and Southall East almost entirely by the changing lineside aromas wafting into carriage windows that no longer open - the HMV/EMI record factory is now flats, the coffee factory has vanished under yet more flats, the creosoting works has vanished under warehouses (aka 'industrial units'). and the cod liver oil factory and jam factory at Southall are both long gone as is Southall shed as a busy spot, while the packaged curry factory on the former AEC London bus factory site seems to emit no aromas to penetrate the aircon systems of today's trains. Loads more housing but many fewer jobs - even the ice cream factory (with its emergency alarm system to close the railway !!) by Friars Bridge junction has gone. PS However thus far tthe track layout and signalling I specified in the early 1990s into the Doen side freight loops and yard at Southall station (and at West Junction) has survived intact. Edited January 26 by The Stationmaster 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said: As is most of the lineside between West Drayton and Ealing Broadway, then at Old Oak. Huge numbers of tower blocks have been thrown up in those areas - presumably in order to house the country's artificially inflated population? It's as bad going into Waterloo - another near unrecognisable lineside,. The approach to Kings Cross doesn't exactly resemble Copenhagen Fields these days either. Would a child of today from North London recognise where the MRC's layout was set? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said: As is most of the lineside between West Drayton and Ealing Broadway, then at Old Oak. Huge numbers of tower blocks have been thrown up in those areas - presumably in order to house the country's artificially inflated population? It's as bad going into Waterloo - another near unrecognisable lineside,. The worst (sme might say best?) bit on the GWML is that you can no longer accurately position yourself between Dawley and Southall East almost entirely by the changing lineside aromas wafting into carriage windows that no longer open - the HMV/EMI record factory is now flats, the coffee factory has vanished under yet more flats, the creosoting works has vanished under warehouses (aka 'industrial units'). and the cod liver oil factory and jam factory at Southall are both long gone as is Southall shed as a busy spot, while the packaged curry factory on the former AEC London bus factory site seems to emit no aromas to penetrate the aircon systems of today's trains. Loads more housing but many fewer jobs - even the ice cream factory (with its emergency alarm system to close the railway !!) by Friars Bridge junction has gone. PS However thus far tthe track layout and signalling I specified in the early 1990s into the Doen side freight loops and yard at Southall station (and at West Junction) has survived intact. Thanks Mike - I have photos taken many years ago of me in the old Margarine factory loading dock during the GWRPG time there. Plus of course the unloading of the 28xx from Barry! Different times. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 26 Moderators Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: in order to house the country's artificially inflated population? Our (thankfully ex) next door neighbour could be found in the garden on a dark night in his rubber suit, artificially inflated. 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 Do you live in a strange neighbourhood @AY Mod lol 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 26 Moderators Share Posted January 26 3 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said: Do you live in a strange neighbourhood @AY Mod lol 😁 He's moved to Ireland. 😇 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 7 minutes ago, AY Mod said: He's moved to Ireland. 😇 Go on, Go on, tell us, which member of the Accurascale team is he? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, AY Mod said: Our (thankfully ex) next door neighbour could be found in the garden on a dark night in his rubber suit, artificially inflated. That's just a cunning disguise. In real life he's a railway modeller but doesn't want everyone to know 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 26 Moderators Share Posted January 26 Just now, Gwiwer said: In real life he's a railway modeller He was probably ashamed that might get found out. Anyway, his replacement is a modeller and heritage volunteer; and doesn't smell of rubber. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 Getting back on topic, mine, which I ordered on 26 Nov 2014, arrived today. I havent taken it out of its inner packaging yet, although I have opened the box and had a good look at it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, Neal Ball said: Thanks Mike - I have photos taken many years ago of me in the old Margarine factory loading dock during the GWRPG time there. Plus of course the unloading of the 28xx from Barry! Different times. I've got loads of photos of 4110's journey from Barry to Southall along the A40, and then the unloading. Were you a GWRPG member back then? I was. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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