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  1. I thought I did say 'liveries' not 'firms' and I used the term GWR 'iron mink' because as far as I'm aware that's the only kind of 'iron mink' that's been offered in model form and likely to be found in PO liveries. I was under the impression that the question was a fairly basic one and required a fairly simple answer. (CJL)
  2. At least two different cement company liveries here on GWR Iron Minks. (CJL)
  3. Took this some years ago - about 2008 I guess - but only recently found it filed away on the computer. Two Southern Railway of BC switchers returning through New Westminster after taking a long train of auto-racks over to the island. The way it looks, this picture could be equally at home in the 'Street Running' section. In fact, its little more than a grade crossing on a curve.
  4. I can't think of any GWR station that was like the Airfix model. I always thought it was 'nondescript' so that it could be painted in any regional colours without looking obviously wrong. From memory (its years since I built one) it has a peculiar main door arrangement to the ticket office. (CJL)
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    KR models Shay

    Model Shays are normally driven by a worm drive to the crankshaft and by the universal jointed drive-shafts to the gears on the wheel face. In other words as close as possible to the way the real thing drives. I've never seen a model with drive direct to the wheels so I certainly wouldn't expect it on the model which is illustrated - which is pretty big by Shay standards. (CJL)
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    KR models Shay

    From memory the NWSL Shay cost me £36 in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I recall being chuffed that the postman left it without collecting the customs duty etc which would have added several more £ to the cost. (CJL)
  7. dibber25

    KR models Shay

    I bought my first 'HO' Shay in the late 1970s. Its a much smaller prototype than the KR Models or Bachmann Shays and has fully working drive mechanism. NorthWest Shoreline, Japanese-made brass. (CJL)
  8. 'A lot' might be stretching it a bit. (CJL)
  9. The re-mastered version is available on Amazon Prime and it really does lift the movie into the 21st century. I wonder how IP stands in relation to the remastered version? In books, if you produced a new edition, the clock restarted from that point. Changing the subject - and especially for Titfield aficionados (and folk who are better at maths than I am). If the inspector had timed them from 12.09 (when they wanted to be timed from) rather than 12.03 which he insisted upon, surely they would then have exceeded 25mph and failed the inspection? So they weren't 'fortunate', the Inspector was incompetent! (CJL)
  10. If the original or earlier version is deemed to be radically different from the current version then, almost certainly a complete new suite of tools would be needed, thus making both versions uneconomic to produce. The economics of these things only work when the detail changes involve little more than a different sprue of plastic parts and a few extraneous holes in the main parts. (CJL)
  11. As far as I'm aware, the clips used in Dad's Army are of the 14XX and the W&U coach not Thunderbolt. I haven't seen them for many years but IIRC they were out-takes, so probably obtained via John Huntley's archive and long before S-C acquired the rights to the movie. (CJL)
  12. In a large organisation surely it's likely that 'current' and 'archive' licences would not necessarily be handled by the same person/department so one might be unaware of what was happening with the other. (CJL)
  13. Usual newspaper carelessness. Jenny Agutter played Bobbie Waterbury not Westbury. (CJL)
  14. Maybe those who think 'Titfield' is an insignificant movie to Studio Canal should note that a digitally-enhanced version has recently been made and is sold on Amazon Prime - so presumably still of some importance to Studio Canal. Also, protecting a lucrative aspect of one's business is very important. If you sell an exclusive contract to someone and then don't enforce it, your exclusive contracts then become worthless. (CJL)
  15. The Ladykillers is another Ealing Comedy like Titfield, so it belongs to Studio Canal. (CJL)
  16. Oh, the arrogance of youth! Quite a few people seem to give a monkeys about it on here, and I'll wager that not many of them are over 85. They also seem to understand that it is about wider issues than whether one gives a monkeys about a particular movie. (CJL)
  17. Not ALL, surely? Hornby-Dublo: Class 20 and Deltic, and Co-Bo, none of which Hornby has actually staked a claim to. But the thread is about Rapido's announcement which clearly says it's a Titfield statement, so why all the discussion about new HSTs etc?
  18. It is common practice, these days, for organisations to claim the intellectual rights to items they have acquired and then to licence others who wish to make money off the back of that item. Flying Scotsman is one of the most high profile items - certainly the most high profile in the hands of the NRM. Where current rail equipment is concerned there may be multiple licences involved, for instance, say, with a locomotive made by GM carrying a livery which also requires copyright permission. Such payments can impact on the selling price of the finished model. (CJL)
  19. I don't have access to a Setrack layout at present but the J70 has a 30mm fixed wheelbase. I have tried it on a R8073 point which is the only Setrack item I have here, and it feels tight. It certainly would not run on 6in radius curves. Second radius (438mm) is the minimum recommended radius). The other problem on sharp curves is the sideways 'throw' of the tension-lock coupler. It is pivoted to allow a normal amount of sideways movement but on very sharp curves it may well not be sufficient to prevent derailment of anything coupled to the locomotive.
  20. Please, ANYTHING but a Leyland National bus! Or if you must, put sound in it to remind us all of that dreadful tin rattle-trap noise that they made. I don't think I've been on a bus since going to Shepperton on those things. They cured me of buses forever! Of course you could make it the start of an 'Awful Vehicles' range. That would give you an excuse to do a deLorean - but you'd better grab the licence for the film version first, just in case anyone else has the same idea...... (CJL)
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