RichardT

Except that the RMWeb classified sales section is still not functioning after a couple of months now.

Just wistfully remembering those days of yore when all mail order adverts used to say “allow 28 days for delivery” and people just got on with their lives… You rather implied that you’d selected some kind of premium delivery option by saying that you’d “paid for 48 hour delivery” when in fact as is clear from their web ordering process you’ve simply paid Locomotion Models’ standard flat rate delivery charge, which they advise as being normally two days. “Two days delivery” actually means from when the package enters the postal system - it’s how long the courier commits to take. If it takes two or three days for the retailer to retrieve, pack, address and dispatch the package (which is quite feasible for a part-time staffed operation at peak summer holiday times) then you have to add those days to the two in-transit delivery days. Thanks for supporting the NRM with your purchase. I’d suggest that, for your blood pressure’s sake, you don’t plan to renumber the model by ordering transfers from Modelmaster…😉

And my experience of Royal Mail is exactly the opposite to yours, and most of the courier companies who deliver locally to me are utter carp. Which only shows that the plural of “anecdote” isn’t “data”.

Oh I dunno, J36, J38, K3, D30, D49...... Never satisfied, although the new V2 will be most welcome I entirely agree, but I felt that pushing for shrinkage of actually-existing non-Hornby locos was an achievable first step! (I forget - was the 4mm N2 Hornby?)

Well, if the IT systems are down, then they won’t be able to issue or validate paper tickets either - they’re not pre-printed and stored in wooden racks in the ticket office any more! FWIW, the mega-outage (there’s now another thread on this) seems to be having absolutely no effect on the ECML this morning and the two QR codes on the e-tickets on my phone worked the optical readers on the barriers at Darlington fine. And amazingly the air-con on the Azuma is working. Working almost too well in fact.

Well, as he lived centuries before the terms “left” and “right” were invented in their political sense, and similarly many many years before the concepts that they represent had anything like their modern meanings and resonances, your quotation - or rather attribution - isn’t really pertinent in this context. None of which has anything to do with QI.

Point of info - the old model pictured behind Sandi isn’t from the L&YR layout (which is mainly coarse scale third rail EMUs) - I suspect that it’s a generic “old model train” photo the researchers googled. But rewatching it to check I was also struck by the straightforward non-sneering way Sandi described Rod Stewart’s railway and how he models on tour. Of course, in a sense she’s there to be the “straight man” feed to the panellists, but even so kudos for resisting the cheap shots.

Fantastic - please let me know who stocks the rtr LBSC overhead electric emus, NER Tyneside Electrics emus and Newport-Shildon locos, the LNER-trialled Armstrong-Whitworth diesel, the Midland Morecambe-Heysham emus, the Hellingly Hospital and York Gasworks OHL locos, the C&SLR, CLR and early Met Rly fourth rail locos…. At least the NER Quayside branch and the 1920s Met Rly City to Harrow trains are (almost) modellable rtr! Yes, I’m teasing. But “diesel and electric modelling” shouldn’t just be a synonym for “post-1968 British Rail”. Need to keep pushing those manufacturers… Oh gosh - sorry, really OT. -)

I would have hoped that RMWebbers might have watched the clip before coming out with knee-jerk reactions. Yes, it’s been given a clickbaity title, but the content had some interest: in a) good to hear the L&YR Signalling School training layout getting a mention and a short but serious explanation (although given it’s also on working public display at the NRM a mention of that and a photo/some film would have been good - but no, let’s show something in London that no-one can visit instead 🤨 /rant); b) Sandi Toksvig mentioning that she liked model railways and had a loco running round her office, which rather nicely took the wind out of the sails of some of the smartarse patronising from the guests…

Excellent! Please take my money Farish. (Now, how about completing the set and shrinking the V1/V3 as well? If Sonic did an N2 or shrink their A5 then late LNER/early BR becomes a doddle in N #neversatisfied)

They had a stand at this Easter’s York show, so they are still active in some capacity.

There do seem to be a lot of people who need jokes and references spelling out to them. Perhaps we need more historic re-enactments to educate people… Over and out. (FWIW I agree that this thread has run its course, and then some.)

Amazingly enough, a GWR “King” class. 😆 6010.

I thought it was nineteen....n n n n nineteen.... If you listen to the lyrics that’s the point @Wheatley was making…

You are not alone in your irritation… The Daily Mash on non-checking of tickets (warning - a bit of strong language) Sorry, going OT.