Not Captain Kernow

1 hour ago, bingley hall said:

My cash is already lined up

 

Sonic's 0-6-2T

Revolution's Class 128 and A tanks

Rapido's Metrovick

Dapol's high window Maunsells

 

Sorry Bachfar, you'll have to go to the back of the queue.

As a matter of interest, how many of those are due in the next three months?

5 hours ago, 313201 said:

As it went passed the camera I noticed it is fitted with 3rd rail shoes on the 2 driving coaches but unlike on the original class 319 set up where the shoes were on the outer and inner bogies, in the video they are only fitted on the inner bogies of the driving coaches

319s have only ever had shoes on the leading bogie

14 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

My point being they aren't going to announce brand new models to arrive in the three month period. They are going to give you something like a year to save up.

 

Seriously. People expect them to announce something like an LMS 8F and say "It'll be here next week! That's X hundred pounds please."

 

Not happening. It's different if it's a new version of an existing model. But you can't expect people to just drop everything and spend hundreds of pounds on new models like that.

 

And anyone expecting that to happen just aren't living in reality....

That is exactly how it will work.  Bachmann were very clear they would only announce items due within 3 months at each quarterly announcement, and that includes new tooling items.

They are Class 108s, a two and a three car attached.

I was constantly asked at exhibitions if I was Captain Kernow.  I got so used to saying I was not Captain Kernow it seemed a very logical user name when I joined here!

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I've just looked at Hornby's site and Hatton's site and both have 47712 Lady Dianna Spencer TTS and 47593 Galloway Princess for sale.

 

Both also have the Rail Charter services coaches, so not sure where this can only be ordered from Hornby.com is coming from.

Because they are Hornby Website Exclusives.  Hornby failed to provide the information that these were exclusive to the Hornby website on the information provided in the slides that Andy has posted at the start of this thread.  Several retailers added these to their sites assuming Hornby had missed them from their order forms (errors are not unknown in the early days of the new announcement) but then subsequently removed them again once they were advised they could not order them.  You will have to ask Hattons why they continue to list them.

7 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

Less than 25 years because it was definitely still 1X00 for a Royal Train in the late 1990s,.  A Special Train (i.e. one not conveying the Monarch) has been numbered as 1Zxx for many years so this current one would be using a 1Zxx number or numbers in any case.

Definitely - it was 1X00 when we conveyed HM from Moorgate to Luton Airport and that was in 1999.

Gaugemaster have sold out of these models so I am sure they are devastated by your cancellation!

Paddington to Penzance Night Riviera was the only WR usage by this time, generally just a single GUV as well.

Not WR, but they were also used on the Scottish overnights, image below shows them being shunted at Euston after working in overnight.

6 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

I seem to remember that the buffet area was converted for carrying luggage, or have I got that wrong?

Correct, best image I have is this

When on our training scheme back in the 1980s, we were sent out on our free pass from Waterloo to have a day of discovery and report back the next day.  One of the lads came back saying they had travelled on a train with strange bunk beds, which we worked out meant he travelled from Guildford to Gatwick on a Class 119 in the former buffet coach!

20 hours ago, fiftyfour fiftyfour said:

Indeed there is, and none at all that pick up in Birmingham or Leeds. How much of a market there is from Barrow and stations to Hebden Bridge, or from Perth and stations to Carstairs via Cumbernauld remains to be seen. To be clear, I'm not advocating a purely London centric pick-up policy, I'm just challenging the notion that there is a market for such a thing in tiny /less affluent small towns.

When I travelled on the Cumbrian Coast Statesman in September it picked up at Derby, Long Eaton, Attenborough, Beeston, Illkeston, Alfreton, Chesterfield, Chinley, New Mills Central and Manchester Victoria.

A good number picked up at every one of those stations, so perhaps they have a good idea about where their market is!

10 hours ago, fiftyfour fiftyfour said:

Well, its his money to sink into whatever flight of fancy he likes I suppose! Pullman dining is (or was pre Covid) still available on GWR but the notion of running an all First Class, all dining service train was abandoned by the mid 1980's almost certainly never to return. The product is designed to appeal to the general public and in that respect its starting from scratch as very people alive today were regular travellers on high end Pullman trains back in the day, its beyond the pockets of most enthusiasts even non-dining where a pair of us would have to pay £880 for one of the three day trips without even a morsel of food or any overnight accommodation. 

Yet he already operates a regular Statesman service which is always virtually sold out.  This will be just an extension of that but will allow 125mph running so be much easier to path on the modern railway.  I have already booked a couple of trips on it  - no better way to see the Central Wales line!

They are however mentioned in the video as expected in December or January from memory, so probably just an error that they have come off the website.

41 minutes ago, Torn-on-the-platform said:

Does anyone know the lineage of the Lucston buildings? Google isn't telling me where it is. A generic line of buildings perhaps?

Is it not a pun on Luxton from On the Buses?  Probably avoids licence issues?

1 hour ago, brianusa said:

It's going to be a long winter for some of the smaller railways especially those that go to nowhere and back again.  The larger ones are having their own problems so where does that leave the small ones, those with little resources?  There is always the problem of built on ROW and it will take a lot more to reach Grampound road if ever that was possible and suppose they did, whereabouts do they terminate and is there room for facilities there supposing planning permission could be granted.  Same at Helston, they can't stop in someone's ploughed field!

     Good luck to them, but we'll see what the situation is when summer comes and whether covid lets up enough to enable normal service.  The moneys got to come from somewhere!

    Brian.

If they reach Grampound Road it will be nothing short of a miracle!  Let alone Gwinear Road!

However the funding they have received is nothing to do with this and is actually related to the COVID situation, which Bodmin and the West Somerset have also been successful in receiving a grant.

On 06/10/2020 at 19:17, Oldddudders said:

An NSE 159 arrived in my mailbox the other day. Still awaiting a Plux 22 decoder before unboxing it. I have always enjoyed the Waterloo-Exeter route, right back to Atlantic Coast Express days. Of course an 80x from Padlington gets you there sooner, but the SWR service is more relaxing. And I recall colleagues at NSE HQ anxiously awaiting progress with the units 30 years ago, while a surly civil engineer was busy managing the construction of the depot at Salisbury. Why would I not want one of these? 

I was also involved in the commissioning of these units.  As part of this I had to time mileage accumulation and driver training trips.  This involved three round trips from Salisbury to Waterloo, commencing after the morning peak.  The fourth and final trip of the day was Salisbury to Basingstoke and return, because it would otherwise arrive at Waterloo slap bang in the middle of the peak with no platform or return path available.
 

On the first day that this commenced the first three trips went well, then the fourth trip reached Basingstoke but instead of reversing carried on up the fast.  Basingstoke Panel didn't think to tell anyone this, so the unit carried on through Woking (who also observed it running like a stag up the fast but again ignored it), Surbiton who also left it run, before it appeared on the Waterloo panel who had nowhere to put it!  The result was it ended up stuck in a platform at Waterloo in the middle of the peak and totally blew the service for the rest of the evening, which gave the Evening Standard the chance to drag out their "Chaos at Waterloo" headline once again!
 

I also have one of these Bachmann units for no other reason than to remind me of my time working with these.

That was North Crofty Junction Bill, start of the North Crofty branch.  Dolcoath siding was next to Dolcoath level crossing.

More about it here

http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/the-north-crofty-branch.html

8 hours ago, The Black Hat said:

Its noted how the price of the Mk. 2Ds isnt announced yet. That's a sure sign of massive price hike coming. 

How can there be a massive price hike on something without a price?

4 hours ago, adb968008 said:

Bachmanns hasnt announced it, and their published delivery schedules goes out through 2021, so assuming they did announce it next year, there still could be a long wait.

That is not the way Bachmann work now though.  They will only announce things which are due in the next 3 months.  So it could be announced in November for example, and be here by February or sooner.  

Yes this film must be relatively old.  The platform at St Erth is pre-rebuild and the timetable has since been amended so that most trains call at Carbis Bay and more call at Lelant, whereas Lelant Saltings now has  the bare minimum service.

Just now, Jeff Smith said:

Why oh why do people moan about rtr prices, either you can afford it or not!  If not find something that you can afford or believe is better value.  Moaning or trying to understand pricing justification does not further the hobby.

I think it is the RMweb version of Godwin's law - every discussion on products ends up with someone wittering on about the price!

3 hours ago, micklner said:

From £81 a pop as well.

True, but the five versions available were the least popular liveries, and not one of those liveries is in the new releases.

43 minutes ago, Grovenor said:

Going to plastic packaging at this environmentally sensitive time is not IMHO the way to go.

And the modeller should be building them not storing them, and the built item won't fit in the box.

 

The built item never fitted into the previous boxes either?

56 minutes ago, rembrow said:

I'm interested to see the heavily weathered JIAs in the open, to see how the pattern is applied, in case they are using a standard pattern. When these were originally produced for Kernow by Dapol, they developed a number of different weathering patterns which were printed on to the models. Each differently numbered version had a different weathering pattern, allowing a short rake of heavily weathered models to look more accurate. At the time they were introduced this was considered innovative, and I bought most of the weathered versions. It's not been stated how the weathering will be applied for these versions. I may just go for the ones with lighter weathering.

They were not printed on. The base livery was applied as normal and weathering was applied over this, so each model was slightly different.  The new versions applied are exactly the same, the images of the new models are on the press release and websites already showing this,

You can see them on the Kernow website for example

http://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/pg/115/JIA-NACCO-Wagon

2 hours ago, TomScrut said:

 

 

To these? Other than the Imerys logo and the handrails at one end I can't tell the difference TBH! Even the printing at the end looks the same other than legal address. Either way I would say closer than "similar ish"

 

 

 A Class 59 is similar ish to a Class 66, but you would not really get away with just painting one up as the other.

They may look similar to you, they are different wagons.  They were built by the same builder, three years apart.  The brake equipment on the ends are different, the walkways are different, the hopper cover is different, the opening and closing equipment on the ends are different and the bodyside pipe work is different.  You can of course run what you like if you are not worried about it, but you cannot argue that they are the same wagon, they are not.