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14 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

Surely non-gangwayed crimson and gangwayed carmine are exactly the same thing?

 

Carmine is just a made up name for crimson?

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.

4 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Apart from the 2BIL and 5BEL, I can't think of any earlier Brighton Line Electrics available RTR ( CEPs weren't major players ) ..... no LAV, PUL or PAN sets - prior to 1933 Atlantics and small-tender 'Arthurs' are available. 

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

On 05/09/2023 at 10:54, Compound2632 said:

 

Which prompts the thought, if third class had not been rebranded second class in 1956, what would now be the class designation?

Steerage?

14 hours ago, GordonC said:

 

Why first? There's already quite a few Southern EMUs. None from the rest of the country

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.

Just now, rob D2 said:

Anything not steam.

You've had your little laugh with the Manor, now get back to the serious business of diesels 

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. 

8 hours ago, Super-Sloth said:

 

From personal experience, the Bachmann 9F’s are anything but “quality”. I ordered a pair. After multiple replacements I gave up. Issues with faulty decoders, a brand new model arriving with snapped detailed parts and all 4 of them had faulty motion on the LH side. 
That was almost enough to tempt me to spend money with Hornby, but I decided I wasn’t that desperate…

If A/S do decide to get around to a 9f I’ll certainly take a couple. Appreciate that’s not neccesarily a business case, but there must be others who aren’t impressed with the Bachmann effort and don’t spend money with Hornby? 

Cheers, 

Apologies to Accurascale for this:

How do you know that A/S aren't going to screw up as well?

16 minutes ago, atom3624 said:

Again Heljan did them - some say they were flawed, but I've never had one to confirm ... but they were built in series and make excellent model railways project locomotives ....

EM1

EM2

How about it?

Al.

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.

13 hours ago, reddragon said:

I had an idea. What about a track measurement coach that actually records data and images? Maybe have tiny cameras or measurement devices? Data uploading via Bluetooth or a data socket. Some DCC systems already have live camera options.

 

This would be a first?

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.

30 minutes ago, NZRedBaron said:

Ugh..... I'm undecided now; both 'Wallace' and 'Efficient' look like good choices for me, but I can't choose between them.

So you could buy both of them.

On 03/07/2023 at 13:08, MikeParkin65 said:

if I miss out so be it as this is a nice to have rather than essential for my layout  setting in any case. 

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.

31 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said:

Headlights  and tail light both lit in this NIR picture.

 

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

22 hours ago, The Johnster said:

My street is tree-lined, and I assume the trees to be London Plane, as most inner-city urban street trees are.  About this time every year they shed what are the remains of either katkins or flowers, which collect in drifts on the ground as a yellow-green flock, which got the better of me today, so I went outside with a dustpan and brush to collect some for the layout.  It looks a bit like flowering gorse, and may go brown over time, but that would not be a disaster!

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. 

On 18/06/2023 at 07:17, The Johnster said:

 No point in him going faster, he’d only have to wait for you to catch up; running was considered undignified!

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

Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

On 04/06/2023 at 11:50, ianathompson said:

Don't know what the Sighting Committee would have to say about that!

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.

8 hours ago, Matloughe said:

 

If I may ask, what are the origin of your signals shown here?
I am trying to sort out a starter & shunt for my own layout and I am trying to ascertain what others have used to represent LBSCR Signals.
The layout is fantastic - I always enjoy a trip here.

Kind Regards,
Gary

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.

13 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Some of the things I really want aren't likely ever to come along .................. though I'm happy to be surprised ! 😊

Is anyone ever going to make a RTR 4Sub?

6 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

No, it's just done to give us a laugh.

Jonathan

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.

7 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

As Hobby said - you limit the speed at which the thing can move with the tipper tipped ........... somehow restricting the thing to first gear may be adequate ??!?

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.