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  1. GordonC
    no, not at all, but I know it was highlighted as something before like it added a lot to the cost of a model, when I would have expected it to have been a minimal cost
  2. GordonC
    Les Ross - if you own the loco you can put whatever name you like on it - even your own name!
  3. GordonC
    Is there any obvious reason that makes sprung buffers significantly more expensive than unsprung? I know it has been mentioned before as an example of the kind of thing driving prices up now, but I would have thought it to be a relatively minor cost compared to all the individual handrails and details being added separately now.
  4. GordonC
    Not sure, it seems a strange to be related to the transfer. Are staff T's and C's not just transferred and maintained regardless of who the operating company is? I wouldn't have expected any changes to be implemented overnight when it transferred back to the DfT
  5. GordonC
    37037 looked a match other than no car headlight
  6. GordonC
    Hornby produced 50027 in the light blue, revised livery
  7. GordonC
    I must admit I'd love a definitive Class 86 and 87 from Accurascale. On seeing what they do with the Deltics, 37s and 92s they could really cater for the variations and get them looking and sounding spot on!
  8. GordonC
    Its probably pretty niche whichever set of stock you picked. If you bear in mind how few models of London Underground stock have been produced I'd expect the market for those to be much greater - at least some of those lines do go above-ground as well and not just buried underground for the full circles
  9. GordonC
    I thought it was later before the Class 38 was dropped because were the 37/9s not trialling a couple of potential engines to use in a Class 38?
  10. GordonC
    Dont say things like that ........ the Russians will start buying them up to fire around as shells!!
  11. GordonC
    While it was a terminus, it was on one side of a triangle so trains could bypass the station between the 'north' and 'south' lines. was there ever any passenger services which used the 'north' lines and went to or from St Enoch though? I thought only parcels used that side
  12. GordonC
    Its probably easier to go straight to sound if you're buying for immediate dispatch. If you're committing to a purchase many months in advance not being quite sure how prepared the wallet is when they come into stock, its not always easy to commit to full fat sound!
  13. GordonC
    and all the iron ore and coal MGRs thundering through for Ravenscraig too
  14. GordonC
    I think silver fox makes a kit of those
  15. GordonC
    The signals operate independently, its not a repeater of the advanced one and the line of sight is straight.
  16. GordonC
    On the subject of Manchester Oxford Road, why does the regular platform towards Piccadilly have 2 signals on it? One is at the end of the platform, but the earlier one is about a coach length along the platform. There really cant be enough distance to hold a complete train at the platform end signal with another queued behind
  17. GordonC
    So with a 3 car 331 being 71.4m and a 4 car 331 being 94.75m then a 6 car would fit in the longest platforms, but 7 car would overhang the platforms.
  18. GordonC
    Not sure, but I think I saw Blackpool North services being a pair of Class 331s recently, if that was 7 or 8 coaches they'd probably be too long for Oxford road, not sure about whether 6 coaches would fit
  19. GordonC
    I'm not really sure why Network Rail were describing the Piccadilly plans as hugely disruptive - building extra platforms alongside should be a lot less disruptive than the changes at Oxford Road cutting down to 3 platforms
  20. GordonC
    are the TLG letters meant to be showing through the yellow logo on the left under TRL?
  21. GordonC
    Think its down to whether it needs money - 'they' dont want us to use our cars, but aren't prepared to come up with the money to invest to make the improvements that are needed to make public transport more attractive.
  22. GordonC
    with the context of Holyhead to Birmingham trains, BNS is perfectly understandable.
  23. GordonC
    Who said anything about BNS being a CRS code? Dont expect everyone to use unique station codes that the vast majority of people would need to look up when a basic station name abbreviation gets the meaning across clearly to the vast majority of people
  24. GordonC
    I can't think of there being a release of the 117 tooling since Lima days, possibly the regional railways or NSE ones being last. With how ex-lima tooling has been reintroduced, if it was available I'd have thought we'd have seen it in a red box by now in at least one livery.
  25. GordonC
    Post away, we're not at page 262 yet either so go for it! I'm pretty partial to Motherwell locos myself!
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