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  1. As already mentioned the liveries on the 50s is to help make the individual locos stand put from the crowd. They are liveries which can be argued could have been carried on the locos had they stayed in service. If you want some truly fictitious liveries then look at the liveries carried by the 2 KWVR locos used for the film The railway children.
  2. Have you tried contacting Romford as the wheels are not manufactured by DJH.
  3. Cheers Phil they look good, I will keep an eye on your website for future use.
  4. Hi Phil do you do full side adds (as in full body wraps) or just standard sized adds?
  5. Have you tried contacting Walthers, they may be able to order in items from the UK for you. You may also be able to find some useful items from wargaming sites and stores, such as Warhammer. If all else fails you could always order from several UK model shops and have it despatched back to you. Hope this is of some help, Ian.
  6. How about a YBO sturgeon bogie rail/ sleeper wagon.
  7. 47475 BR provincial livery Model rail magazine Bachmann 31-650R
  8. Sandsend would be nice but would really need much more room to fit it all in and there were 2 viaducts. You could look along the same line such as Ravenscar.
  9. At the end of BR ploughs were kept at depots where they could be quickly put together with a pair of spare locos and sent where needed. Now under privatisation the ploughs are kept in sidings under the control of Network rail, who in the event of them being needed will then have to find an OC who can supply a pair of locos and crew at an agreed cost. They will then have to bring those locos to collect the ploughs before going on to plough where required. And this is progress ?
  10. The biggest problem for most clubs is lack of space to build and store layouts that support everyones personal interests. When I was a club member they where lucky enough to have room for an O gauge, a OO gauge and an N gauge layout to be up and running all at the same time. On a club night any era stock was fine and no members were made to feel unwelcome, we would all share ideas and advice. When a layout went to a show it would be kept to the designed era with relavent stock provided by the members who had the correct stock. The simple thing is to each there own, clubs should generally welcome all.
  11. I would say the best chassis to fit under the Vitrains 47 body would be the Hornby TTS or Railroad chassis ( being redesigned from the Lima chassis). The Bachmann chassis may fit with a little work, but the Heljan chassis will be to wide to fit anything but a Heljan shell.
  12. Have you tried Shapeways for something or you could even design your own and get a company like Shapeways to make them.
  13. In the photos by Mel H the LL loco on the right is a more accurate version of the livery, if you look carefully the yellow continues above the black window surrounds.
  14. The basic Bachmann 66 still stands up reasonably well today, especially at the side of the Hornby Toy, which company will do this one first.
  15. Steamport Southport, as I live on the edge of the pennines in West Yorkshire I can tell when its rain. You tend to find as rain is fluid, it moves and eventually dries out but that is definatley some sort of crud, its been there a few days, could possibly be the inside of the camera dome fogging up after the snow and damp weather but it certainly distorts the picture
  16. The webcam could do with a little cleaning, there is a little blurring in the foreground at the moment.
  17. If you look on ebay at JB Models/Airfix you may find some items you are after. S & M models do kits for mk1 and mk2 Alvis Stalwarts. Oxford models do diecast models of Landrover Defenders, Lightweights and 101s. For other vehicles check kit manufacturers like, Trumpeter, Dragon, Revel, Academy, Matchbox, Matador, Kingfisher. My advice would be to get a pad and build up a list of required vehicles then check each manufacturers catalog or website and create your own reference list. Once you do that you could try the military modelling mags for kit reviews or articles. I hope this is of some help. Ian
  18. The NSE snowtrain (snowblower and 2 support coaches) where moved to York for overhaul and then went north. I believe both snow blowers are now based in Scotland.
  19. To some extent they are another victim of the modern technology as many of us turn to online sales, we sit at home watching tv nice and warm and plan our next project then look up the pieces we need on line and order them. Only a few of us bother to go into the stores for a look around, and sometimes buy the extras. Another issue these days is the fact that modern technology is much more reliable and fewer people need repairs and parts.
  20. The tracks in the photo appear to be at the same level as the rest of the yard, thus unlikely to be a traverser. More likely to be wagon turntables.
  21. Some British military trucks from 1970s onwards would be very nice, Bedfords, Scammels, Fodens, DAFs and MANs, several sizes possible plus some could be loaded onto the warwell wagons.
  22. While I can see where your coming from bearing in mind that it is now 50 years since the "end" of steam, however even as a diesel modeller I still find some articles based in the pre diesel eras useful for my modelling after all the vast majority of lines were built pre diesels.
  23. I totally agree, to some extent Hornby, and certain other manufacturers seem to be forgetting where there roots are, they seem to be more interested in the "collector" market than the good old "modeller" market. Another issue is with the 3 figure prices of modern models it puts prospective new modellers off, design clever would possibly give those new modellers a starting point. When I started modelling if you wanted super detail you went out and bought detail kits and parts and created your own model, whereas now you just buy a model and stick it on your track or in a cabinet, no personality
  24. Its not so much finding the technology to get the loco moving, that's just down to the gearing on the electric motor (even diesel locos use electric traction motors). Its finding a good, viable, sustainable non pollutant source of the power or power unit.
  25. Just tried this site and as you say the links are dead, however it was showing "maintenance" as the web address, so they may just be redoing the website.
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