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Anyone heard why the delivery date has been put back. Surely if we were look at a delivery date for February then the loco must of been in production or about to start production.
CNY is 19/20 Feb. Possibly if they are getting marginal* on finishing production and getting it on the boat before then, then even a small delay becomes a big one. It's that time of year.
* or someone with more clout is getting marginal and is pushing Dapol back.
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Blanks filled in and next verse added
More planks on my wagon
And I'm still rolling along
Them Cherokees are after me
Flaming spears
Burn my ears
But I'm singing a happy song!-
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The extra * in the first verse has also been removed.
Looks like extra bits are going to be added until we have a complete wagon. Presumably an anouncement of a wagon to go with the Adams will follow. If it has planks then not a tank wagon or steel/iron body.
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Count the *
Possibly to become
New wheels on my wagon
So I'm now rolling along
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Does this version come with mince pies and sherry propping the door open instead of the infamous sandwich?
Surely the availability of mince pies and sherry would guarantee it was a sandwich proping open the door.
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Just found a pic on John Evans FLICKR site (tried to put link up but wont let me copy and paste) of what is said to be E5003 at Crewe south shed in Feb 67 with a hefty chunk out of its side. Its still in plain green with no body side stripe and no yellow end. it also says when released it was a Cl 74 E6107 .
There is also a shot on Transport Photographs (also on FLICKR) showing 3 class 71 one of which is said to be E5003 still in light green but with red? body side stripe and no yellow end apparently in October 63
This is being released OOS71-001 E5003 BR GREEN SMALL YELLOW WARNING PANEL
Just a little confused!!!!!!!
Any clarification on what livery variation it carried would be gratefull as my knowledge of these classes is pretty much non existent
Muchos Gracias
Trailrage
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Tower models have pictures of the first 5 liveries for the milk tanks. This is the first time details of what the actual liveries will look like for 3 of them. The St Ivel is to be produced later.
Note the United Dairies is the same shot we have already seen, complete with typos, whether they have been corrected on production versions remains to be seen. The remainder have no markings on the chassis at all, one hopes this is an expedient to display the tank liveries and production versions will be marked (sans typos). Unigate Creameries is much as the samples displayed some time ago, silver. Express Dairies and Milk Marketing Board are blue, CWS is brown(red).
Buffers will need changing for longer ones if curves allow, rivets and brake gear issues seem still to be there, but they do have screw couplings.
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Then the said same person could well have been responsible for the SR brake van and POW wagons ?
Time will tell, but my reading between the lines suggests a fair degree of 'interesting times' in the chineses sense (how appropriate!) and maybe a bit of one hand tied.
The jump from the frying pan has now been well and truely made, and the forging in the fire well underway, but not complete, with a whole new set of challenges to meet. Current occupants of the frying pan have yet to show any clean run product (8 wagons announced with a statement that CAD/ prototypes be shown would be shown early 2014 - we are well beyond that!) however delays are endemic for all the manufacturers so it's hardly a total surprise, and in the end what does appear is what counts. The jury is still out.
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O over oo
Think it's something to do with freedom of choice.
or eyesight, or as was pointed out previously, prefering the 'presence' of the larger scale.
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Years ago when Percy first came out I found that the performance cound be tamed ( to the extent that it would run in a more compatible way with other locos) by the simple expedient of fitting a 27ohm 1 watt resistor in series with the motor. It would still pull scale loads too. Don't know if current ones are still the same.
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You are going to give details of how and when to sign up I trust, could not find you on Kickstart.
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It hasn't been lost on us that the GRC will be pretty much the same length as the Test Track, and it's Berne Gauge too....
It's not all that far from the Old Dalby site either.
As for running the train again it would cost OODLES of money, but it's such a large amount we haven't even thought about it seriously, there really isn't a way of calculating it. But the biggest problem is lack of expertise in most of the areas of the train, apart from tilt and instrumentation that is. We'd also need lots more drawings and schematics than we have to hand at present, even though the NRM have vast quantities of them stashed away somewhere, but no-one seems to know where.
The fact that they still exist is due to my wife, who when told to destroy them put the whole lot in boxes in the RTC basement and wrote 'NRM York' on the boxes before getting them all shipped up there back in 1977 or so.
That has to be a big 'Hooray' for Mrs Tilt, thank you.
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New liveries for some of the po wagons now on Lionheart trains website in news section.
Baldwin 8plank+ coke rails
Baldwin 7plank + coke rails
Bedwas coke 8plank + coke rails
Lambert & cox 7plank
possibly for Telford
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Good news! (I hope) I found an e-mail from Hatton's in my in-box today letting me know that, and I quote:
"Dapol 4D-014-003 Class 29 diesel locomotive D6123 in BR green with small yellow warning panel £104.00
Our latest information from the supplier suggests this item will arrive with us December 2014
Whilst we are hopeful this information is accurate, manufacturer lead times are frequently prone to be delayed. This information is to be used as a guide only."
So, light at the end of the tunnel?
Cheers,
David
Edited for punctuation
In this case surely the 'oncoming train' is the prefered option!
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I look foward to the livery announcements in due course.
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I observe from a couple of vendors websites that there is a 7th livery listed for the tank wagon - Esso with the logo, but without the white lettering. What the difference in the two Carringtons liveries is, is still unclear, as Kernow have the same image for both.
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OK I'm going to put head on the line,
How about .............. a ............."O" gauge
:mosking: 309 Clacton set in Maroon 
:yes: :yes:Door open and running.
Well I am looking at building one, the rule generally seems to be only when I have finished does the rtr one appear, it happened a few times in my oo days. Unfortunately with the smaller 7mm market Dave would probably have chose other, more commercial MUs first - like an HST - if ever MUs do become viable. Shunting planks can't accommodate them which leaves larger layouts and garden railways as the target market - a smaller slice of a small market, so it may be a while! Still we can dream.
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Judging by what he said at Warley I believe that Mr Webster 'has plans for the future' of the Dapol 0 gauge range (and judging by what I saw on a stand at Reading he could make a good start on those peculiar brake handles!).
I think I'm in far too deep in the 00 world to start even thinking about 0 gauge although that nice Mr Klein showed me his little diesel at Warley and it made a big impression - it\'s basically that I can't really think in 7mm terms so I left the Reading trade show (excellent as ever) with no big boxes likely to disturb domestic bliss.
The 'peculiar brake handles' were revised to more standard ones on the P O wagons for Tower Models delivered at the beginning of October and production samples before that, - that's a DJ tweak. I do not doubt RW's commitment to O gauge in the slightest ( the Peco kits still speak volumes in his favour, as well as the Lionheart range), it is Dapol's commitment in the face of real world problems that is on test. I hope they can stick with it.
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Dapol have gone quiet on everything O gauge it seems
R W has put out some views of cad cams for the new Lionheart wagons (GWR LMS LNER) (supposed to be working on partnership with Dapol), announcements on the coke raves suggest these will take a while before they are available and presumably the wagons will be after that. But that's ok, that's being frank - at least we know where we stand.
Dapol rather nailed their colours to the mast with these new (8) wagons as being produced by the new team (design starting end Sept and displaying engineering prototypes early in the new year) So we would hope to see something at Kettering, whether that is 3D prints on show or just pictures of the same doesn't matter too much (they are produced as part of the working design process not just for display) Just as long as there's something - even if it's not all of them.
Note that they have not yet given a firm production date, and would be well advised not to at this stage, it may well be a way off given the problems that all the companies seem to be facing, by their own admission quite possibly into 2015. Also these models may be given a higher priority than some of the previously announced models - the new team will naturally want to make their mark. However Kettering is not that far away and if they don't manage to show at least some progress by then, then the RTR future begins to look Heljan (with maybe a smattering of DJM)
One hopes that they can.
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It has arrived (GWR No1) and it's a lovely model. If ever there is a batch in the LMS livery (No2) I'd have one of those too, though since that had the starter engine on the other side that may not be easy to do.
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All diesels are ugly.
But they do have their fans... (
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Hi everyone,
I've just had through the cad/cam of the disc headcode version of the class 23 in N gauge that I can show here for the first time.
Please note this model is not announced yet, but the version here will be built into the tooling for the centre head code version by using slides to allow this model at a later date which will be announced in due course.
Comments appreciated as usual.
cheers
Dave
Good, a step underpinning the 'maybe later' disc version of the 7mm class 23. I realise there are many hurdles to negotiate before you get to that, including the quite significant one of staying in business, but that's the one of those you've announced or hinted at so far that would tempt me.
Kipper on standby.
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Problem is that it would be up against what looks as if it could be a good 64XX (and autocoach) which is coming from Bachmann. I know the geographical distribution of the two types leaves room for both - but does the model railway purchasing market?
The Lionheart 64xx and autocoach are very good, though I'm sure DJM could come in at a slightly lower price. I imagine that quite a few of those interested in one would also be interested in the other.
Oh! Sigh. It seems that you might have been talking of 4mm. Perhaps we all need to state which scale we are talking about and not assume ours is the only one that matters. (7mm)
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A new verse has been added
Seven planks on my wagon
I�ve got to get big and strong �
Them Cherokees won�t stop me
I'm all in flames
At the reins
But I'm singing a happy song!