GordonC

A good announcement, but I think I'm perhaps a bit young to consider the Prototype HST as iconic. If it develops into full-spec Mk3 coaches (HST and loco-hauled) then I'd certainly be interested in those!!! APT-P next!!!

Haymarket depot repainted a 5 or 6 in unusual liveries, I always liked the provincial one

they might be basing that on a wrong Hornby price too minus a standard percentage

Sorry so you did ... I just noticed the 'Currently the Mk3 DVT retails for £56.75 (the Mk.4 DVT will be similar).' and thought you meant the current Mk4 not a re-tooled one! I hadn't seen you included the RRP above it

the picture did only show the Class 91 and DVT ... if they could mock that up and always intended including coaches I'd have thought there would have been a mention of them in the text or them being shown in the picture its a bit of a puzzle The Mk4 DVT RRP must be an awful lot lower RRP than the Mk3 ... far older tooling, far less detail, no directional lights and I'd suspect far less separate components/parts

.... but that price will need a lot of justifying if it is indeed the old tooling

I ended up thinking the same thing after pondering that price tag for a while, being similar money to the excellent HST power cars, then that pack would have to be of comparable quality. I just cant see how the railroad Class 91 + DVT could possibly justify that price tag otherwise. If it really is the old one then it'll be ending up in the Black Friday bargain bin next year for an awful lot less than £210 because I just cant see it selling for that price. ..... but I wouldn't expect new tooling and only one catalogue release either. If Warley is going to bring a Class 91, I wouldn't have expected the East Coast pack to be announced today

The Class 50s (e.g. 50046) is also TEC as is the Class 56s (e.g. 56084)

Transrail Class 60 60005 is TEC

I really cant see this current 'dash for gas' doing much for our energy security either ... what happens if the Russians decides to turn off the tap of the big pipe??? Coal must give much more security

Hurst Models do or did etched sides for the Mk3 BFO coaches

thats the 3 BFO coaches

I've had Yodel chucking stuff over the fence into the back garden before now ... fortunately it wasn't a model on that occasion but I'd never use them again

If we haven't seen any Engineering Prototypes yet or anything beyond CAD for one of them I'd think it'd be more than a year away. Next July or September would be ambitious

I've recently found a Working Timetable for 1984-1985 and there was a service from Mayfield which stood out as being a bit odd. There's a listing for a 3O12 service in the heading from Manchester Mayfield at 00:00 to Crawley, but the timetable only seems to show times from Manchester Piccadilly at 00:15. There doesn't seem to be a listing showing it shunting from Mayfield to Piccadilly in the opposite (Down) timetable direction. Does anyone know how this service would have operated?

ECML and WCML dont really compete other than for passengers travelling the full way between London and Edinburgh, which I would suspect would be a small proportion of the total number of passengers

I think he means the Parcels Red and Grey livery that was pre-RES

No, it was the Mk2 brakes and 2 of the other Mk3s 2918 and 2919 I think it was (the only others in stock!)

They're very much still in business, I ordered some Royal Train etched sides that had come back into stock and they were delivered last week ... very happy!!

Is there any news of whats next in the Class 143/144 pipeline Charlie?

..... and photographic evidence!!!

Were any of the blue and grey coaches that worked these services ever branded with the Trans-pennine lettering, presumably in white? Think I've only ever seen them lettered with Intercity or latterly a few with scotrail as they were transferred south when sprinters ousted them north of the border

Had I been starting from scratch with the quality of N gauge models now I would have ... but having collected all I have over the past 30+ years in OO its not something I could ever imagine doing

Would you consider doing these in 00 gauge too? Normally it's the other way round and something gets done in 00 first before getting shrunk! I'd love a couple of 320s and possibly an NSE 321 but I don't model in N gauge unfortunately

Ah right, I'd just assumed there would have been more 100mph sections. I happened to be watching a Railscene video from 1984 recently with a cabride from Perth to Inverness and it was mentioning a section of line which had been upgraded for 100mph for the HSTs. I'd expected lower speeds on that line than the lines to Aberdeen for example.