StuAllen

Was able to see it in Brighton this morning

Aren’t these the ones that were announced in Jan 2022? They’ve just taken a while to get here.

Unbelievable, pedestrian didn’t seem to be aware of the train at all! https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/network-rail-cctv-man-near-miss-train-125mph/ can’t imagine how the driver must have felt

There I was reading through the pages of comments on the Class 66 announcement, and the Key Model World announcement for Calder Hall popped up on Facebook. I couldn’t resist, an Accurascale Class 31 now ordered. The only question is when is a Network Rail version going to be released?

If you don’t mind travelling a bit further Chatham Docks is good, think just over an hour from Camber Sands

Kent & East Sussex Railway is nice, and you can combine with Bodium Castle - but looks like it closed that week as well. Battle is a nice village, looks like the abbey is open - that’s always a nice walk around the battlefield. The smugglers caves in Hastings were good as well but haven’t been since before covid. if you’re in Rye, Marinios fish bar is worth a visit

Just seen the advert for series 4 - starts Tuesday 28th February o. Yesterday

I’ve got an Nespresso lattissima one machine had it 2.5 years, I like it. It’s used everyday, tbh I rarely use the frother, but when I do the parts are easily cleaned in the dishwasher. Had great customer service from Nespresso, about a year ago it stopped working their customer service desk sent descaler solution foc to try and rectify, and when that didn’t work they sent a box for return and they fixed it, again all foc.

That would be a dilemma - what would I do if they were to release a coal sector version and a network rail version?

Aren’t these in the prop shaft bag (X7745), the drive unit (X7742) already has these 2 attached. I’m assuming the piece on the metal shaft is the same size as the hole in the flywheel.

Bart the engine arrived today…

Look what’s just arrived - very nice

Well I’ve just had payment for my preorder taken, so it’s looking promising. (Bank card taking a battering today though - Trains4U also called for payment for the Cavalex CDA’s)

Ghost B17 - I’m confused… I even had an email from Hornby at 18:47 today saying that Hornby: Model world is back this evening, so very last minute decision

Judging by their colour, I’m guessing these have been working the RHTT trains (taken at Tonbridge yard today)

Saw 69001/69004 and one other (couldn’t really see it properly) at Tonbridge Yard today.

92010 should arrive tomorrow according to DHL, so very happy. I was weak on the train home and bought Charles Dickens as well after seeing a few more had been found in the warehouse. I shouldn’t have had that 2nd pint at lunch! The plan was to use some of my reward credits but couldn’t see how to do it from the order page (it’s not a problem just means I have more credits available to use on the next loco) I have found how to generate the coupon code now so will be more prepared next time.

I haven’t spoken to the garage yet, it is booked in for a service on Monday so will be asking the question, that said I’ve been monitoring how the consumption has been going since my original post - its not been as bad as my trip to Scotland. The last 3.5l bag I got from Halfords lasted 1450 miles

Royal Oak has been ordered, i do like the NSE livery. Living in Sussex it was the colour of my youth. That said I didn’t get to see 50’s earning a living until recently.

Ferrari = Frequent Errors Ruin Races As Results Indicate (I did steal it from another site but it made me smile)

I’ve posted a few pictures of it in the RHTT thread, unfortunately you couldn’t really tell the colour under all the muck. See and Broadlands was trailing both times

Originally I was thinking late 80’s so Swallow livery, rail freight sectorisation - the railways of my youth, but I like a lot of the more recent stuff like the class 68s and 70’s. So I’m going with anything goes from the late 80’s. Going to try and keep the sessions to the right era but I’m trying to ensure nothing in the landscape will date it. It will be OO, think N and the new TT would be better from a space point of view but I think it’s too small to work with

So after much procrastination, I’ve finally made a start on my layout. I’ve still got quite a bit of clearing out to do in the garage, but have made a couple of test boards to check clearances on curves and construction techniques for the base boards. Ideally i wanted to keep to 50mm centres for the track but I was worried about the APT-E and Mk3’s. I want a roundy roundy layout, and like to see movement, so have taken inspiration from one of the layouts at Pecorama and from Pete Watermans ‘Making Tracks’ layout and am going to for 4 running lines, the smallest radius on the corners is 24” and the largest 30”. I’ve drawn it out in AnyRail and am mostly using code 75 track, although the mtd will be code 100 at I have some spare point work from a previous attempt at a layout. I know there are a few clichés like the tunnel and the viaduct and I’m going to have to put a bus on a bridge somewhere. The orange block on the top edge is a brick column on the garage wall. I’ve attached the plan and some pictures of my tests. I think I can get away with 50mm centres, I just need to keep the APT-E to the outer 2 lines. So for the base board tests I made one with 12mm plywood for the board and the frame, the other is 18mm ply CLS stud-work for the frame, think in reality I’m going to go with 9mm ply and CLS stud-work for the frame. You can see from the photos that the 50mm centres look better, think the gap’s too big with 67mm. Now I’m happy with the spacing, my next action is to start on making the viaduct.

From Haywards Heath this morning

Can’t believe I’ve only just noticed with 2 and a bit races left to the season, that they’ve got rid of the rule that those that make it through to Q3 have to start the race on the tyres they set their Q2 time on.