WILLIAM

Yes please.

Anyone fancy putting their 86416 into 1999 condition?

Drax Biomass Hoppers available to pre-order now at 'Model Railways Direct'.

No connection just trying to help those looking.

27 minutes ago, TomScrut said:

 

I have had word back from Kernow on the Drax wagons. They sold their allocation, apparently they didn't get chance of many themselves.

 

The thing is, who else actually is selling them? Unless they have all sold out via phone/walk in everywhere else (I haven't seen them for sale with anyone else online).

'Model Railways Direct' have them on their website. They are currently showing as sold out but there is a note on the main page saying they will show this until their allocation is confirmed by Hornby.

Think it is a matter of patience while websites and allocations get updated/confirmed but they did go rather quick at Kernows so suggest you don't hang around when you do see them.

3 hours ago, Banger Blue said:

I remember ‘“Bertie the Brakevan” from my teenage TrainSpotting days around Chester, happy to see this, I’ll definitely have one of these!

 

Yes, definately on my list.

Shouldn't the duckets be black however as per the picture in this thread?

Any idea when this brake van was withdrawn other than early/mid 80s?

On 11/11/2021 at 16:15, Pint of Adnams said:

Perhaps the greatest loss is that of the contents listings for BRILL and Bylines from the Irwell website...

Agreed. Are they available anywhere on the net now or did anyone have the foresight to copy them before they went? Looking for BRILL volumes 26 to 28 in particular.

32 minutes ago, Ian_B said:

And the tankers?

 

Front tank is a Carless TUA - Design Code TU020A. Not sure about the other two.

31 minutes ago, DanielP said:

 

Do you happen to know the date of this photo?

2nd June 2004 at Lower Hatton.

Searching through some old photographs and I've found the perfect prototypical train to go with my pre-ordered 92003 :-)

12 hours ago, rob D2 said:

Looks nice , but these seem to have disappeared from mod trains about a year before my chosen period starts - 1994

You might just scrape in according to the excellent ITSV resource.

http://www.ltsv.com/w_profile_028.php

On 05/11/2021 at 16:28, No Decorum said:

I’ve been slavering over Beethoven, which is the one I’ve ordered. Perhaps not the most exciting of liveries but I like to get models as close to original liveries as possible. The blue roof lifts the livery quite a bit, especially as I’ll see that on the model rather more than on the real thing.

I believe 92022 was more or less released in its Railfreight Distribution livery too. I was toying for ages between it and 92003 for the same reasons as you but when I saw the latest samples I crumbled and ordered both!

Cannot justify a full coal rake but could these still have been MDVs on a scrap metal working in 1988 or would these wagons have been converted to MDWs by then? (picture credit Gray Callaway from Flickr).

A couple of quick questions if I may. I've just received 5028 from the latest batch of these wagons. The weight is clearly loose inside the wagon and is sliding around. Is it supposed to be like that and, if not, does anyone know how to remove the body so I can sort it out? Thanks.

20 hours ago, adb968008 said:

Theres a few different yellows there too.

 

The dark on 20118 is closer to what I remember in the 1980’s, the shade on 20132 looks too light for 1980’s.

It's funny, I think the opposite. Maybe there was just a lot of variation on the real things.

Ex-works appears much lighter although I appreciate you cannot trust just one picture. I'm happy to live with it the way it is however. Love the yellow fan.

My 20227 arrived today. I wondered what other owners of this model thought about the shade a railfreight grey used? Looks a bit too dark to me. Lovely model in all other aspects.

35 minutes ago, TomScrut said:

 

Ah so the model is only relevant for a couple of years then!

If that. It entered service in April 1990 and was renumbered in July 1991.

On 28/06/2021 at 15:46, TomScrut said:

 

90037 came out of RFD in 2001, although it wasn't in great condition in 1998 (i.e. not like the model anyway)

 

90037 was numbered 90137 from 1991 to 1999. This is what it looked like in August 1998.

Great news, love these wagons.

Transition from old to new Castle livery actually started as early as 1998 as this great picture on Flickr by Bill Atkinson shows.

Sounds like these wagon conversions were a bit of a white elephant in the real world - trialled a lot but never settling down on a single flow for any length of time.

I note they are still in the current Bachmann catalogue however.

Nice one. Anyone know when the BBAs received Railfreight Metals livery?

1 hour ago, ColinK said:

Looks great. Hope you tell us how he made them.

Bachmann TTA chassis and scratch built body.

By the way, here is one of the Liquid Chlorine TTAs my Step-Father has converted for the same train. I'm well happy.

My Step-Father is kindly building me some tank wagons to form a typical Almwch to Ellemere Port chemical train from the 80s & 90s. We need to choose the barrel colour for the Ethylene Dibromide TTA/Bs as per Paul Bartlett's excellent photos below:

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/associatedocteltankwagon/hbd14942#hbd14942

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/associatedocteltankwagon/h15788f76#h15788f76

Anyone any idea what the name of this grey was? Was it a standard colour?

Many thanks.

On 14/03/2021 at 03:07, DBC90024 said:

 

@adb968008 I think its safe to say there will be a big clamour for 86259 for sure, its one I would want definitely, with it being classic and current all at the same time. Although I never saw it, i also fancy one of the EWS Class 86s eventually, maybe 424 ...

 

From memory there were only three 86s put into EWS livery; 261, 401 & 426.

Here's a minty 401 at Crewe in May 1998.