Butler Henderson

The value for money factor typically seems to be the one that skews the overall mark, maybe it ought to be left out of what otherwise is a rating of how accurate a model is.

The Layout in a suitcase article was reprinted in Model Trains International No.83 July/Aug 2009. Back issues are available from Kristall Productions 4 Surbiton Hall Close Kingston Surrey KT1 2JX. Cover price was £3.10 but back numbers are, according to the current issue, £2.80 post paid.

Still at £160, and is slightly below Kernows new price reasonable for a used item?

Thats £104 per annum spent just in postage!!!!!!

Its a cause of the ebay listing choices new or used, or unspecified. Maybe it time for a preowned unopened like BNIB listing choice.

Dapol QC on liveries has left a lot to be desired for years, for example the whole lot of BR lined green 4575s sold as NQP due to lining errors (leaving aside any mechanical faults), the wholly wrong lettering style on LMS Ivatts, lining of the Halls, and the constant churning out of maroon SR CCTs while never producing a crimson one.

A green 3H is required for Warmington if its to appear in its mid 60s format as I do not know what else to replace the Maunsell push-pull set with from its c 1960 format, unless anyone can suggest someother diesel unit that is available and was common at Southampton.

They do however have stock of ones with a stayalive http://www.ehattons.com/67146/Hattons_Model_Railways_Ltd_DCR_8PINSA_01_8_pin_harness_4_function_1_1Amp_decoder_with_back_EMF_with_Stay_Alive_see_descr/StockDetail.aspx

Theres a message on the front page referring to changes in US postal rates and they are asking for non US customers to email them or phone. http://estore.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=index

Amusing comments from a spokesman from Stop HS2 on FiveLIve this morning compaining about people wanting to get to Derby would have to take a bike with them to use from Toton, which typically was pronounced wrong (should be Toe-ton). Shows how well he had read the whole scheme. Suppose it would be right to include the cost of extending Nottinghams tram system and the provision of shuttle trains from Toton to Derby/ Nottingham / Leicester in the overall cost, and still think in order of travel time saved they really ought to start building south from Leeds.

How much did the the $12.50 price of the wheelset turn out to be with postage and presumaby import tax from the USA?

And at least two commentators this weekend credited Sheffield United as being a founder member of the Football League, um... Stoke, West Brom,Villa, Accrington, Wolves, Everton, Notts, Derby, Bolton,Burnley,Preston,Blackburn

Defies logic or could it be that one of the vehicles is an rarity. Certainily describing it as OO is questionable given the variable scales of the Matchbox vehicles.

Or simply remove the socket and hard wire whatever decoder you like.

Kernows latest newsletter shows the decoder for the Sentinel as being released at £9.99 from them, looks to a unique plug socket arrangment that Hornby have come up with http://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/images/prod_39834.jpg

Going off thread I know but thats a big disappointment. There was a scheme drawn up to link the Cotgrave branch to the test track that was the Midland mainline to Melton in order in quicken up Nottingham-East Anglian cross country trains.

Sprinter substitutions were also pretty common ignoring the 155 problems. There was a Sunday 1806 (IIRC) Nottingham - Sheffield which whilst shown in the timetables as being a Sprinter was, for a period at least, a 47 on a 4 coach rake and which usually tore the timetable apart requiring lengthy waits en route and a early arrival at Sheffield.

Re Bob Denny, he probably stayed in business simply on the strength of the ott prices he charged for tatty second hand spare parts judging by the only time I ever bought anythng from him.

Aside from the Nottingham area stores already mentioned the sheer number of stores where some stock could be found was amazing in the 1970s. Remember the release of Triang-Hornbys 9F and was bought one from the model section of the huge Co-Op store only to find it was faulty and then it turned out so was their entire stock of them which proves a shop having a dud batch of locos is nothing new. Then there was Skills toy shop which held a huge quantity of spare parts until went in one day for a tender chassis frame only to find they has sold the entire spars stock to "some block" the previous day. There was a hardware store in East Leake which had a model shop at its rear, similarly recall a petrol station just outside Scarborough on the A64 which also had a model section. A trip to Millholme was always a chance to peer with more hope than expectation at the contents in the glass cabinets.

You can find the instructions posted in the fifth reply in this thread http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/5766-relco-wiring-help/

The instructions also referred to fitting a switch across the output terminals to bypass the unit. What I always did was to use a DPDT switch to switch it off and bypass it at the same time, useful to able to switch it off whilst investigating a track problem as it can otherise decide that you need cleaning!

Used them with none the problems that others claim, on the otherhand I always made certain all stock was clean in the first place and if the light lit investigated why.

Pictures of the actual NRM model (as well as Hornbys stock image) on Modelzones web site http://www.modelzone.co.uk/Hornby-br-2-bil-2-car-electric-multiple-unit-train-pack-nrm.html Also the SR version - more pictures than the NRM one http://www.modelzone.co.uk/Hornby-sr-2-bil-2-car-electric-multiple-unit-train-pack.html Amd the normal BR one http://www.modelzone.co.uk/Hornby-br-2-bil-2-car-electric-multiple-unit-train-pack.html

The join between the side sheet and the cab can be seen in this photo, note the stagger in lining http://vads.ac.uk/diad/bres/pub/COID/233/046.jpg

Amusing coverage on East Midlands Today last night describing how HS2 would be on a huge viaduct across the M1 and pass Ratcliffe on Soar power station as if they were works of art. Tonight they revealed why it would not go through Derby, Nottingham or Leicester almost as if it was breaking news.