BMacdermott

Hello Metadyneman I'm sure many of us feel very sad about the demise of 'the old MREmag' - but I'll be keeping an open mind about the 'new one' for the time being. The overwhelming majority of people who have been in touch with me wanted to keep the edited version of 'Have Your Say', so it remains to be seen as to whether yet another forum will actually work. To my mind, it had a unique quality that many appreciated. The eMag is an entirely different subject, although the two will no doubt be inextricably linked. Fingers crossed! Brian

Hello Black Hat The LMS Stanier Mogul was in The Top 50 in 2012; the Coal Tank was the second most-wanted LMS type. In 2013, the top LMS loco became the Caprotti Black 5, with the Coal Tank remaining second. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello 34 Speaking personally, mine has been on actual order since 17.15 on 20 January 2012. Speaking with my Poll Team hat on, we don't have any 'set policy' on such matters, only that The Guide gets reviewed totally every year. There is a similar situation with Heljan with the announced Wickham Railbus. A response by Heljan to an email from The Team in August 2015 said that it was planned for delivery in 2016. We have a note 'in our diary' for early January 2017 to check that if one has not arrived this year. Brian

Hello Crepello The V2 isn't listed as it was made in 2004. We exclude items post-2000. Otherwise - as noted in the Q&A - we would be making 'quality judgements' as to what goes in or out. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello 34 The Class 21/29 is not in the 00 Poll as it has been announced by Dapol. Hattons has it on their website for pre-order, but with no delivery date. They show a CAD. The two classes are still in the N Poll. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Ventnor An Industrial Crane Tank has been in The Wishlist Poll since 2014. In this year's Results published yesterday, the type made it into The Top 50 of 00 and was High Polling in N. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Note for HMRS Paul #32 Would you kindly email me at The Poll Team email address as below? I can't PM you for some reason. Thanks Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team) thepollteam(at)gmail(dot)com

Hello Legend Sorry to hear that. There are two CR locos in the LMS High Polling segment. The NBR J36 was High Polling last year but has just (by a small margin) slipped back into the Middle Polling segment - despite getting ten more votes. Looking at the year-on-year results, 'Scottish' types are coming up slowly but surely, so don't lose heart! The NER has seen not one but two manufacturers look at the Q7, for example, and many thought that such a loco would never be made. We sent out Press Releases to many Scottish societies, but we missed getting into at least three as their publication dates were too early for us to be included. And we did supply a Poll Poster on the earlier Poll thread for readers to put up at clubs or send to their friends. The Bulleid Leader was Middle Polling in 2012 but has gone higher ever since. The Dreadnoughts have been steadily climbing over the years also. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Paul We elected long ago to term the Polls N and 00 for ease of understanding by most voters. The Carflat is listed as 'various Diagrams from 1959'. The Oxford version is later (1964). We are not aware of a Bachmann version. Did you mean the NGS one in N? We list the Sole to give a variant for the LMS (and I have feeling it was suggested by Ozexpatriate many moons ago). We say in The Guide text they had long lives. It would be 'doubling up' if we listed under BR also. We have had a 7mm (0) Poll on the Agenda since we started running in 2012 and it is on the 2017 Agenda again already. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Oz I have just found that myself! (Good job it wasn't the one headed "Draft Poll Team Plans For World Domination"!!) I'll try to get that removed next year. I don't want to risk damaging the results PDFs this year. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Raised on Steam The J26/J27 has been in the Top 7 of the LNER list since 2012 and was actually top of that category last year. Although it has slipped from top-spot, it is now in the overall Top 50. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Oz Industrial list sent from the Poll Team email address to you. Brian (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Oz I have no idea how that header got there and can't see it myself. We did run a survey with Robert Carroll's BRCS Yahoo Group some years ago - but that would have nothing to do with these results whatsoever. The F16 and F24 Slip Coaches are both High Polling, so not too bad. Brian (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Phil Many thanks for the kind comments - much appreciated as usual. We always give the voter totals at the end of the 'Most Wanted' results (as they are the most downloaded). 00 - 2473 (up from 2178 in 2015) N - 552 (up from 528 in 2015) Brian (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Johnny I guess you mean the 78xxx. This is how it has fared since 2012. 2012 - 9th overall. All eight ahead of it (apart from the Class 120) have been made or announced. 2013 - 2nd 2014 - 2nd 2015 - 2nd 2016 - 1st. It had been second in previous years to the Gated Level Crossing. Brian (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Hello Pete I'm not sure that I understand your posting. Brian (on behalf of The Poll Team)

Results - The Wishlist Poll 2016 Hello everyone Very many thanks to all who voted! The results in the usual three formats are attached for N and 00. Once again, The Poll Team would like to thank Andy York for his help with 'the computerised bits'. As ever, it has been a great pleasure to work with him on this project. We also send our regards and best wishes to Phil Parker. Many of you will know that MREmag was 'derailed' last month, so we are unable to thank him there. All the best, Phil, and many thanks for your support of our work over the years! OK... we hope you all enjoy reading the results. One thing to take into account is that we deleted the 'Lineside' category this year as we couldn't do the subject justice. That, together with the deletion of the announced items, has freed up 19 spaces in The Top 50. Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team) 1. 2016 00 Most Wanted.pdf 2. 2016 00 Results by Category.pdf 3. 2016 00 Results Top-to-Bottom.pdf 4. 2016 N Most Wanted.pdf 5. 2016 N Results By Category.pdf 6. 2016 N Results Top-to-Bottom.pdf

Hello Bernard Very many thanks for your kind words - they will be passed to The Poll Team. I have always valued your postings and look forward to being able to keep in touch. Kind regards Brian

Hello Grahame There was no attempt by me to change your mind - rather I was trying to state the facts so that readers had a balanced view. I am fully aware of the saying 'perception is reality'. I can say categorically that when similar comments arose on MREmag ("There are too many letters on subject x" or "... comments like that seem to be the norm now", as reported by Malcolm in #43), my thorough evaluations proved otherwise. Perceptually...yes; factually...no. There were people on MREmag who were 'quick off the mark' to castigate forums such as RMweb, but - when I delved deeper into the matter - I could show conclusively that the facts spoke for themselves. Let's keep our fingers crossed that whatever MREmag becomes will be a worthy replacement. One thing's for sure... it won't please all of the people all of the time. Brian

Hello Grahame If you felt some postings were dismissive of the BR Blue era, I'm sure Phil would have welcomed your input. I'm not a BR Blue era modeller myself so cannot give you a factual answer as to what was dismissive or negative. I can see that you quoted 'as it came across to you'. If we were able to go back to the archive, I'm sure a thorough evaluation would have shown that - on balance - there was more good than irrelevant. All part of freedom of speech. Brian

Hello Grahame I think you are dismissing the 'old MREmag' without due cause. I'll give you an example... Just before 'the derailment', a correspondent posed a question about Mixed Trains as he was uncertain of the definition or content for his model railway. Over the next couple of issues, his question was answered by a number of people. One of those was a long-term very good friend of mine who has often given freely of his hard-earned operational knowledge. I suspect it might have come under your heading of 'long-winded'. Another long-term contributor also gave a good insight into the subject which came from a slightly different angle, but which all added up to a comprehensive reply, for which the OP was most grateful. Along with those full accounts came one from another contributor that was inadvertently 'off the mark'. Phil (the editor) could not have reasonably been expected to have recognised it as a problem and the matter was corrected in the very next issue. During the mag's last few days, I sent in a long list of all the wide-ranging topics that had been covered in the previous three issues - and commented that it was a content that any editor would have been proud to have produced. Brian

Hello Mike The proposals from the DRM ePublishing Board were for a new eMag (of unspecified page quantity, page size or any general outline of intended content) to appear every two months. There was a hope to increasing frequency in due course. That was to be 'free to user' and paid for by advertising, similar to the way at least one US on-line magazine is published (as noted above).. The other proposal was to move the 'Have Your Say' letters to a connected 'moderated forum'. Que sera? Brian

Hello everyone What a great shame that MREmag has been derailed in the middle of nowhere rather than having the 'ceremonial goodbye' that it truly deserved. When Pat Hammond told me he was handing over to Phil, and having been a contributor since almost day one, I was - naturally - somewhat apprehensive. Would he view my postings in the same light as Pat? Would he work with me on various 'surveys' etc in the same way? Would he support The Wishlist Poll? All this and more was spinning round my mind as I saw Phil for the first time at a Bachmann Open Day. I introduced myself, he beamed a massive smile, we shook hands - and we have worked closely, effectively and without a single cross word together ever since, despite the 'turbulence' that any working partnership will encounter at some point. As noted, he never missed an issue despite being 'on temporary loan' to Australia and other places closer to home. And he was still giving pleasure to many via his attendance at shows with his many layouts. I already miss the Monday/Wednesday/Friday 'fix' of nostalgia, debate, exchange of information and occasional foray into the world of humour that has been a keynote of the MREmag ethos. Phil has played his part with total success and he can walk away with head held high. My heartfelt thanks go to him. I wish him all the very best in whatever comes next. He is a talent waiting to be snapped up. They say the only thing likely to remain constant is change. MREmag is changing... but into what remains to be seen. Fingers crossed! Brian Macdermott

Hello Hilux Whilst not a complete list, the category entitled Coaches: BR & Pullman Cars in The Wishlist Poll 2016 (link below or at the head of each RMweb page) will give you some idea. Have a look down the list of PDFs to Category 13. Brian Macdermott http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/page/wishlist_2016.html

The BSO has been in the Top 50 of The Wishlist Poll every year since 2012 and has been the most wanted Mk1 passenger-carrying type since 2013. The FO was in the High Polling segment between 2012 and 2014 and moved into the Top 50 in 2015. These announcements bring the total of 00 items announced since publication of the Results of The Wishlist Poll 2015 to: 16 High Polling (with 8 of those in the Top 50) 8 Middle Polling (4 are above the ‘half way point’; the others only just below.) 0 Low Polling Brian Macdermott (on behalf of The Poll Team)