GordonC

..... but they dont have the working marker lights

are you sure it was a 37? I'd think a Class 40 might be more common on ECML services or possibly even a 45 or 46 while looking similar

you've just doubled the price 🤔

I'd think a Class 08/09 could be a good shout - loads of variations and liveries, seen for decades all over the country. That sounds right up Accurascales street to me. As much as the Bachmann and Hornby models aren't bad, they're both getting pretty expensive for what they are and there's loads of oddball one-off depot pet liveries we've not seen produced RTR yet. Classes 81-84 would be great, something not produced yet (or for a very long time in the case of the Class 81) I'm also surprised that no first generation Cross-country DMUs seem to have been produced yet - Classes 119, 120, 123, 124 and 126 would seem a bit of a gap

3 out of those 5 example liveries shown have working marker lights. I think that really needs tooling to do a lot of the older liveries properly

The comments say 'The Queen Mary is DS56232'

Bearing in mind the most common gauge here is OO rather than HO, there's no guarantee what Europe likes will be successful here.

I'm pretty sure I remember at carstairs watching a single BG van being brought over from Edinburgh by a class 87 for attaching onto a southbound TPO postal. Bearing in mind it'd be post electrification to Edinburgh that must've been towards early 1990s. In earlier years I'm sure a TPO portion was added from certainly Perth, but possibly Aberdeen to a southbound TPO from Glasgow at carstairs

I think it was probably meaning the 37114 limited edition in Large Logo livery which was done without any headlight https://railsofsheffield.com/products/pre-owned-class-37-0-37114-dunrobin-castle-br-blue-large-logo-diesel-locomotive-dcc-fitted-exclusive-edition?variant=42454299607231&currency=GBP&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=google+shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9MCnBhCYARIsAB1WQVVeDaYDaD9fb29xUSQsFVdAp8ZVURMla6lEbZPU38Xq-_azQBrBwy0aAvRaEALw_wcB

Pretty selfish to expect a complete range for the southern region before anywhere else gets any

permanently withdraw? would they not have a leasing contract on them so unless they could find another use then they'd be stuck with them?

3 has a note of it being taken on 9th June 1990 and this photo looks the same day and loco so looks like a charter The caption on 4 describes it as 'Class 91 No 91005 waits departure from York leading a 0805 additional service to London Kings Cross formed of Mk2 stock' 6 certainly looks a test train rather than a normal service

Its always tempting fate when you say statements like that, some smart ar$e comes up with a picture ..... 😂 I was actually looking for photos of the Mallard 50th Anniversary charter which involved 89001 and I'd seen photos of a Class 91 nearby at Doncaster, but I think it was just there on display rather than involved in doing any haulage with Mk1s.

Knowing Hornby they wont so that they can sell more updated coaches rather than just a lighting strip

Why first? There's already quite a few Southern EMUs. None from the rest of the country

I'd think pretty unlikely. Bear in mind the prototype rarely ran with a matching set of coaches that you can probably get away with renumbering driving ends

As much as I absolutely love APT's I think you're probably right. The quantity of coaches left over from the first batch and available at up to 50% off would suggest that the market for those wasn't as strong as they expected - perhaps more people just bought a train pack and left it at that, but the coaches aren't really any use for anything else. To then add another production run of everything so soon is surprising.

I love the SLW products, but they really dont give regular and reliable updates of progress. It'd be good if they'd say when production is complete or when they're being shipped.

wishful thinking too! ... 😉

where was that leaked? I've not seen an announcement

was the dive-under the WCML not electrified from Arpley Yard up to Bank Quay?

Pretty sure that will have taken place fairly frequently where there was a fault on a running power car so could have been swapped at places like Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Doncaster, Kings Cross on the ECML. It would never be planned in advance to take place though and a reaction to a running fault during the day

I really like the Hornby 08 and think its a lovely looking model, performs really smoothly and despite its age I dont really think there's all that much needed to bring it up to 'modern standards' other than adding lighting which wouldnt' be visible most of the time anyway ... but I really wonder how many of them they'll sell with the price they're at now. I just dont see a 20 year old tooling for a small shunter being worth £185

I was pretty sure I'd seen at Model Rail Scotland 2023 a stall with laser cut kits of Scottish stations and I thought one of them was Kyle of Lochalsh and it looked very impressive. But the only thing similar I can find looks like it might have been Fort William. https://www.popupdesigns.co.uk/product-category/railway-scale-models/

must be easier to swap over bogie frames than a repaint if required