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Hello mdvle Thanks for this and it partly says what I would have said a day or so ago but ran out of time. We do our best to reflect outline differences in classes - such as B16/1, B16/2, B16/3 and D49/1 and D49/2 etc - but that's about as far as we can go. If we really went into detail we would have a separate listing for S&D 7F No,53807, which had a unique smoke-box saddle after rebuilding. Merl Evans told me it would be a massive cost to tool up for that one loco. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Hello Kat Thanks for writing. If there isn't one already, why not consider starting your own thread about catenary? That would be an ideal place to discuss different types and perhaps narrow the field. As noted, this Poll Team is concentrating on 'core content'. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Thanks Phil We always get one or two will exclaim such as: "The LSDCRR Ventilated Donut Van got 30 more votes than last year - it must be a fiddle!" There are numerous reasons why individual votes will fluctuate - to a modest degree - and I will allude to all those factors when we publish the results. We put more store by whether items stay in High, Medium or Low over the years...and there is clear consistency. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Hello 34C Many thanks for writing and for your continued support. I'll have to keep you waiting for the results but I can say that the Category 21 venture was exactly as we expected to be. As you know, we ran plenty of similar - but smaller - exercises on the old MREmag. The way Andy can present the data to me - and I have already seen results up to a certain point in time - is very clear and won't take me very long to put into result presentation format. I'm already 90% done - unless we get several thousand more votes today! With the 'new style' of the voting pages, I have been able to follow votes literally as they happen. This has enabled me to prepare 'dummy results' as if we had closed at various points over the last three weeks and they are consistent. Brian

Hello everyone This is the FINAL CALL for your votes in The 00 Wishlist Poll 2019 - we close this evening. We will set up a new thread entitled Results - The 00 Wishlist Poll 2019 sometime during the week. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Hello Andy I'm always happy to take 'content' emails from you. As we note in the Q&A, we request pollsters to only contact you with technical queries. The post above was suggesting we had left items out...the post below (which is verbatim and exactly as received on a specialist email group) suggests we have too much! The upshot was that I had a very supportive email from another member of the same email group which confirmed our feeling that we have it 'about right'. However, we will continue to review all reasonable suggestions through our agenda process. All the best Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team) Way over complicated! You’ve got to wade your way through so much guff it puts people off voting. Needs to be much less complicated and fewer choices.

Thanks Andy We went into the new - but 'experimental' - Category 21 with 'eyes wide open'' having had much experience in the past particularly back in the old MREmag days. My task there has been made really easy by the way you will be able to present the data to me and I much appreciate it. It may look a bit daunting at first as 'raw data' but patterns soon emerge. A reminder to all...get your votes in before it's too late! Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Hello 4firstimes Many thanks for writing. You have noted the (quote) 'omission' of the D21. As we say in the Q&A at the start of this thread, we could list 30,000+ items so we have to draw a line somewhere. The D21 is not an 'omission' per se - it is just 'not listed'. Back in 2011/2012, we 'rationalised' the content of a Poll that had been run on the old, original MREmag and that has provided a basis to work on ever since. The D21 - and many others - would have been taken out for good reason of very, very low or non-existent votes. You are right that there is a need for more rolling stock. Within the 112 new items listed this year, 23 are steam era hauled passenger types. I hope that helps. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Hello Jerry I fully concur with you again there. Bath (Green Park) on Summer Saturdays has much to commend it, but the weekday service is every bit as interesting, albeit in a different way. You have fewer express passenger light engine movements between shed and station but that is more than compensated by freight locos to and from the yards. And you still have to change locos on the through trains, even though those locos might be more 'local' in nature as opposed to coming from distant sheds. The Pines still runs and there is no reason why you can't have a pre-Bank Holiday Special or a pigeon train. The Leicester Parcels and 2.40am Down Freight & Mail run and you have the Co-op Sidings trip. Add that to a Midsomer Norton and return coal train, the Binegar local and the 8.25pm Templecombe-Derby Perisher, you have more than a wide variety of stock to match with operational planning and interest. Brian

Hello Jerry I fully concur with you there! If you run to the timetables of Mon-Fri and then Summer Saturday, they are almost 'chalk & cheese' in flavour. Even a Sunday timetable could have merits - if only to rest the nerves after a Saturday. All the best for the project. Brian

Hello gpplumy We explained our valid reasoning last year. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Hello Dunsignalling That is perfectly within the spirit of The Poll, too. As long as they are items that voters would realistically wish to buy at sometime in the future, we are happy to accept the votes. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team).

Hello Anglian Many thanks for the kind comments and for taking part in the spirit in which it is intended. Indeed, The Poll is many days in the making. We first started The Poll in its current format in 2012, although we had been working on it for some time before that. The Team is in touch most weeks throughout the year but we have a full review of every item and link over a 10-week period between June and early September. We then 'close for press' and the data goes to Andy York to construct the very clear pages you voted upon. At that time, we open an agenda for the following year. It could be described as hard work, but we enjoy the process and learn as we go. And part of the overall plan is for voters to learn from The Guide. If anyone reading this hasn't yet voted you only have until Saturday! Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)

Hello centraltrains You have made your point and The 00 Poll Team has accepted it. Can we please leave it at that? Thank you. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)

Hello Jeff I agree that Bachmann coaches don't need weights. They are very difficult to remove from Mk1s. Hornby are a lot easier! Brian

Hello everyone A reminder that you have just one week left to vote in The 00 Wishlist Poll 2019. Voting closes on Saturday 2 November. We hope to publish the results within a week. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)

Hello Tom Many thanks for the kind comments - much appreciated! Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)

Hello Sturminster Newton We used to have an Underground category but deleted it (and the Industrial category) this year to concentrate on 'core content'. Our reasons have been given in many past postings. If you wish to vote, please see the link at the bottom of the first post of this thread (but please read the Q&A first). The Class 230 Vivarail is listed as the last item under Category 7 Railbuses, Railcars & DMUs. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)

Hello David Many thanks for the comments which are much appreciated. The Metropolitan E Class was in The Top 50 in 2014; was High Polling in 2015; and went back into The Top 50 for both 2016 and 2018. (The Poll didn't run in 2017.) We have spoken with LURS - they have a 'Modelling Officer' - and have offered our Guide notes 'free, gratis and for nothing' with an offer to assist in as helpful a way as possible if any 'Undergrounders' wanted to set up their own Poll, but nothing has materialised that we are aware of. May I suggest you contact LURS direct? Their link is: http://www.lurs.org.uk/index.htm . If you don't get any joy there, I will happily put you in direct contact with the Modelling Officer. The magazine editor is also interested, I believe. If you search the home page of RMweb, I feel sure there is a dedicated forum for Underground. I hope that helps. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)

Hello again centraltrains As promised, The 00 Team has been looking into this matter since my 'holding response'. Although we can't - with the best will in the world - give you a specific reason for the non-listing, we believe that this may date back to c.2011/2012 when we were tasked with 'rationalising' the Poll content and it all rather depends on how we saw things then. We were dealing with over 1400 items placed against a potential listing of over 30,000 items. There are many locos, coaches, wagons, EMUs, DMUs etc that share 'family likenesses' and we often have to list items combined. We often have to take a view that if one family member has been made it might follow that the others get made in due course (or not!). The upshot is that we believe there is a case for the Class 172 to be considered on the Agenda and we will do that without any further notes as we have some of our own. And that brings me onto the subject of 'notes with suggestions'... Can I make a small clarification? If a pollster suggests something like an LNER A4, BR Clan Pacific or Drummond's Bug - in other words, something very clear and unambiguous - we wouldn't expect to receive notes and links etc. It is where someone says "Why not list Ore Wagons" that we need to fully understand where they are coming from. We could work our keyboard fingers to the bone in listing every known 'ore wagon' only to be told "Ah, but you haven't listed the one that I was really meaning". (Paul, above, has shown a good example of how to avoid any confusion and our thanks have gone to him for that.) We work on the basis that our 'core list' has been there for many years and evidence shows that many 'new entries' end up towards the bottom of the results - so, we need to take care with new listings lest we simply 'gum up the works'. We are always happy to help. A quick email to us at The Poll Team email address setting out your general ideas will be met with suggestions of how best to proceed. We don't bite! All you need to do is ask. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team) thepollteam(at)gmail.com

Thanks Paul We will certainly be reviewing your welcomed notes and links on the Agenda. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)

Hello everyone I had to go to Heathrow early this morning so thought you might like to see this (mobile phone) photo. No wing condensation here, but it kicked in very nicely as they 'went over the fence' (over my left shoulder). Although my photo might appear to show a take-off, it is actually on short final to 27L at 0800. The visit was rounded off nicely with a view of BA's A319 in BEA retro livery departing to Dublin and superb wing condensation of larger planes at around 200ft. Sadly, too far away to photograph with the phone! Brian

Hello Paul Many thanks for the notes. Please give me a few days to look into this as I am temporarily chasing my tail on a family matter which is taking me away from the computer. I can say that the Dapol model is listed as new tooling in 2005 in the Pat Hammond Ramsay's British Model Trains Catalogue. Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

Hello Andy I had enough detail from you to work on what we need...in any case, I can't 'upset you' otherwise we wouldn't get a Poll!! Brian

Hello Paul Thanks for writing. We don't list the current Ore Hopper model as that was made by Dapol in 2005 (and is therefore outside our cut-off date). We list Tippler Wagon - Slope-sided 16-ton Stewarts & Lloyds (1939) under Category 16 Freight Stock: 1923-1947. As mentioned in the Advance Notice thread, we are happy to accept suggestions but request that they be made in The Guide format: * a clear heading, with an idea of the relevant Diagram Numbers; * about 200 words of text; * and a couple of links. Note to all: Despite there having been a number of new listing requests and I have replied similarly to above, we have yet to receive any in the requested format. If they are not in the format, they are unlikley to be considered. (That does not affect the Class 172 as we are looking into some relevant matters there.) Brian (on behalf of The 00 Wishlist Poll Team)