Pint of Adnams

Bill, If you select all items tagged 'LNER' the first to appear in the results is an SECR 54' underframe, whilst there are no results for items tagged 'GER' but you offer in NPCS the GER Milk Van. On the 4mm home page the various product categories note the number of products available in each, however roofs suggest 1 product but none are returned, while underframes suggest 2 products but only 1 is returned. HTH ...

So is it true what they say about reading too many top shelf magazines?

BD to Z Victor 1 territory?

The colours were sponsored by the British Colour Council in celebration of the Coronation of King George VI. Unfortunately, the specifications are not precise and that for Marlborough blue is elusive, but see below. The text of the general Directory and descriptions is available on the web here: Full text of "The British Colour Council Dictionary Of Colours For Interior Decoration Vol-iii" (archive.org) and Garter Blue is described as: GARTER BLUE CC. 136. Pagein, Vol. 1 B.C.C. standardised this colour in 1934 from a piece of ribbon presented for that purpose by a Royal member of that Most Noble Order. Chief in importance in rank of all orders in the world, it was founded by Edward III in 1384. Electric Blue Garter Blue b.c.c. 132 cf. Traffic Blue b.s.i. [BS381c] 169 The additional Coronation colours were defined and described in a separate directory, with descriptions and colour samples, these obtained via the wayback machine and sale descriptions of copies: Clearly there were accurate colour specifications for the paints to be manufactured.

Works train in siding at Corte, 12 June 2015.

Transferred my pre-order from Hattons to Rails (I hope), but the latter has a rather indefinite means of booking it. Real reason for this post is today I looked for a potential delivery date as we're going away and don't want to miss the mail from Rails requesting payment (not taking a phone with me to get ripped off with roaming charges). Rapido site is most unhelpful in that the OB fails to rate a mention in the production schedule, on the dedicated product page, and any newsletter beyond April - the last one available on the website. An update would be much appreciated, please?

The running numbers will depend on the period you are modelling; pre-1924 (Area suffix letter), pre-1943 renumbering (Area prefix number), post-1943 (totally different numbers); early BR (E or Sc prefix), later BR (and E suffix). After a certain date (July 1940) the 3rd signage was omitted. 51ft 1.5in non-vestibuled stock (first diagram given is for those originally built 3in narrower over body): 7-compartment first diagrams 47 and 48 8-compartment third diagrams 56 and 57 4-compartment brake composite diagrams 54 and 53 (not sure Ian produced this?)

But the absence of month/date on MRC pages was just that, during a certain period ISTR, and not for any page layout reasons...

And not forgetting the incomplete but nevertheless useful lists/indexes created by: The British Railway Modellers of North America (BRMNA)

As I recall, one of the problems with MRC was that issue details (month and year) and/or page numbers were not always printed on individual pages. When I 'filleted' my collection some years ago I made sure to retain both the covers and contents pages so that I could index/cross reference the material.

It may not apply here but there was for a time at least a convention that a locomotive on reboilering received a new cast numberplate recording its 'rebuild', as described here on the GERS website: [penultimate paragraph] Boilers (gersociety.org.uk)

Yes - you simply need to check on the Ellis Clark Trains website - doh! Ellis Clark Trains Sharks

Thank you both. I'm going for one of Ellis Clark's in 0 gauge and ideally then to be finished as a black liveried one based at Ipswich.

Curiously David Larkin's Civil Engineers Wagons Volume 1 BR: 1948-1967 omits the build, numbering and allocation information for these although that information is provided for all of the preceding wagon types. An oversight perhaps? Is anyone either able to provide these or to point me in the direction of finding them? TIA...

There were four sets, not just one (set 101 was the Silver Jubilee), sets 102 and 103 were the two Coronation sets, 104 the West Riding set, and 105 the spare, which did not have any name on the lower body sides. I'm not sure where Sam's four iterations of each came from but could be: as built; crimson and cream with fairings and the stainless steel lettering removed; maroon; and maroon with additional inner doors for those twins that did receive them (it's not confirmed that they all did). So far Hornby has only used renders of the Observation Car numbered 1729, which is the second one. No information has been released yet as to the numbering of the first production, but the numbers need to be consistent within the sets, such that set 102 would be 1711-9, set 103 1721-9, both including the Observation cars, set 105 (spare) 1731-8, whilst the West Riding set 104 was numbered in the GN series rather than as East Coast stock, so 45801/2, 45811/2, 45821/2, 45831/2. Post-war, the West Riding used six of the eight carriages and that was probably the longest formation. Spare set BTO/TO Twin 1737/8 was involved in a fire (stray coal thrown up and trapped underneath) at Huntingdon on 14 July 1951. Difficulty in escaping led to the requirement to insert the additional inner doors.