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You can tell Stanley Gibbons Ltd. that, then. They've even got a sample of it on their colour card, so you can be sure you've got the right colour.

Mine arrived last week, but I've only just got around to unboxing it and putting it on my rolling road (it's an anonymous one that I've had for ages, and not a DCC Concepts one like everyone else's). I've only run it for fifteen minutes, as half-past ten at night is not the time for running it in, etc. It runs wonderfully; there is no sign of excessive wobble/waddle, and I now need to order a decoder for it. Incidentally, whilst reading the manual on fitting the decoder, I noticed this gem in the caption to picture 4 on page 8, where it is talking about the blanking plate: "Use a cocktail to remove". I think I'll leave the cocktail until after I have installed the decoder.

... And we need some 4Subs to provide the commuter trains to go along with them.

Steerage?

Because what there is already is incomplete. We need some 4-car commuter EMUs (4Sub and 4EPB) to complete the scene. Once we have them, then you can do the rest of the country. Especially as some of the BR design EMU elsewhere are similar to their Southern-Region cousins.

Forget stinking diesels. What's wrong with Electric Multiple Units? I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who could use an EMU or six.

Apologies to Accurascale for this: How do you know that A/S aren't going to screw up as well?

Instead of asking for something that has already been made by another manufacturer to be remade, why not ask for something that nobody has already made? There are plenty of things that fall into that category. I suggest a 4Sub, or even the units from the 4Cor family.

Piko did a 4-wheel wagon that records speed, distance travelled, and things like that, data available in imperial or metric, and it could be downloaded to your PC. The measurement device was a wheel painted black and white quarters on the inside, being read by some sort of electronic device.

New models: I wouldn't mind a post-war all-steel 4SUB or four.

So you could buy both of them.

You don't have to miss out. You could buy one, and hang on to it until you know it is all right. If it's not then it should be a simple matter to sell it to one of those that did miss out, while turning a huge small profit at the same time.

That suggests they don't know whether they're coming or going. I'll get my coat.

When will someone produce opening doors on models? Not hinged doors, but sliding doors. Here's a model sold in France by REE Modèles with operating sliding doors: https://www.facebook.com/little.spigaou/videos/600543195549635?idorvanity=1695643574040417

Where I live (south-east London) there are very few plane trees; the largest number of trees are horse chestnuts (conkers) with white flowers, then there is the horse-chestnut hybrid (smaller tree, red flowers) then there are sycamores.

Not only undignified, it could be downright dangerous. What happened it you tripped while running?

Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Tell them it's your railway and rule 1 applies. If they don't like it, they can fix it for you, but you're not paying them anything.

Those signals were made by Crescent Toys, and you can find them on Ebay.

Instead of just making single examples of private owner wagons, especially those owned by collieries, why not make packs of multiple differently-numbered wagons. The same applies to the old faithful 16-ton mineral wagon. I got fed up trying to renumber so many of them so I could run a prototypical 45-wagon train, and I suppose nobody will notice the block of five over there that have all been renumbered with the same running number, just because it's different from the number that was on the wagons when I bought them.

Is anyone ever going to make a RTR 4Sub?

It might do that the first time, but when it's every time ...

From the way people are talking about how these models were very cheap, but now they are very expensive, maybe somebody ought to start building time machines so we can all go back into the past and snap up all the models at the cheap prices and bring them back to the present.

And how much is that going to cost? I suppose you could tell the companies who will be paying for the first-gear interlock that it's their fault for not ensuring their drivers drive safely at all times.

What I would like to see in OO is some 4-car EMUS, for the post-war period, particularly suburban non-gangwayed types. It's all very well producing 2-car units (like the 2Bil, 2Hal, 2EPB and 2HAP), but if I want to run the trains I went to school on, then the trains I commuted to work on, on my layout I've got to find 4Sub, 4EPB (two types), Networkers, ... none of which is available RTR.