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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.

Have you tried contacting Romford as the wheels are not manufactured by DJH.

Cheers Phil they look good, I will keep an eye on your website for future use.

Hi Phil do you do full side adds (as in full body wraps) or just standard sized adds?

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.

How about a YBO sturgeon bogie rail/ sleeper wagon.

47475 BR provincial livery Model rail magazine Bachmann 31-650R

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.

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 ?

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.

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.

Have you tried Shapeways for something or you could even design your own and get a company like Shapeways to make them.

Could be the staff you dealt with may have just received there £1.50 meal voucher as a thank you for struggling into work during all the recent winter snow storms.

I dare say if that was the only thanks I got for battling into work during red weather warnings Id be a little peed off.

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.

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.

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

The webcam could do with a little cleaning, there is a little blurring in the foreground at the moment.

When I was learning to drive my driving instructor always drilled into me to anticipate what other drivers were going to do, read the road, conditions, and positioning of other users and also be aware of vehicles behind and beside as they are the ones you can't see.

By the way as a driver, there's always more I can learn. I've driven various types of vehicle  both for fun and professionally.

So in the updated driving test you now have to know how to follow a satnav, however there is no thought given about teaching new drivers just how to control 1.5 ton plus of vehicle in servere weather.

I'm sorry officer my satnav said go straight on at the junction, I hit my brakes but with all this snow and ice I never thought it wouldn't stop, I thought my ABS would work.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.