Colin_McLeod

12 hours ago, rob D2 said:

As someone else pointed out , it’s an easy reference to when people were born.

Or we could just use the Bachmann era system 😁

On 08/02/2024 at 15:51, KingEdwardII said:

until I worked out that the floor of the railway room had a slope of almost an inch from one side to the other, which I'd faithfully reproduced on the layout by building all the baseboard supports the same height. Cue some extra woodwork...

I suspect many others have made the same mistake.  I know I did once (but I think I got away with it 😉)

Purchased from e bay recently.

There are two Triang on   e bay at the moment.

Accurascale:  Glasgow Blue emu.

Irish Railway Models: Mk2b coaches in original blue and maroon livery.

Oh, and matching Hunslet and 80 class.

45 minutes ago, Chris M said:

I don't know where the £35 came from...

From the second post

20 hours ago, CloggyDog said:

... our layout lead has found us a Premier Inn in the area for just under the allowance (£35 per bed night - 4 operators for 2 nights means our allowance is £280 total). 

 

What kind of room can you get for only £35??

16 hours ago, Not Jeremy said:

perhaps we’ll see Dave Jones back on the scene again, arf arf…

Pleaseform an orderly queue. 😁

It's popular to put up a post of one's last parcel from Hattons so here's mine. 

By the way I had two 'last parcels' before this, but this really is the last. 😥

@wombatofludham I agree that the Caribbean Blue and Morocco Maroon livery is classic.  I once had a set of Lima coaches repainted in that livery but  sold them.

There is some useful information in a thread called "NIR Mk2 Loco Hauled Stock" in the "Irish Railways Group" in "Continental amd Overseas" section of this forum.

The 80 class are based on mk2b bodies so are a natural candidate for another batch of mk2b coaches. They ran in a number of liveries.

Also a re-run of the mk2b FO, TSO, driving trailer and dining car in the original NIR blue/maroon 1970 livery would give a rake of coaches for the Hunslet hauled Belfast-Dublin train for our MIR Hunslets to haul.

The TSO ex FO ran for a number of years in the NIR blue/grey livery as side corridor second class (is that SK?) before reconfigured as open coaches.  Does IRM plan to produce this version?  It would be a change of internal arrangement only.

3 hours ago, 57xx said:

 

There's also the superfluous holes in the front of the cab.

Windows 😁😁

It could be kept open as a vehicle for some other venture.  Or it could be closed.

If non trading or dormant then no auditor or accounts . Registered office can be your home address at no cost.

2 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Return label doesn't seem to work for overseas orders, but I have no doubt it will be sorted via e-mail. Import fees due again though.

There is a procedure/form filling for warranty returns without having to pay import fees again.  Your post office or Kernow themselves should be able to advise/assist.

Why assume that the company will be wound up? It may or may not be the plan.

What you are describing sounds like it would be very impressive to view rather than be hidden.

These examples do not exactly match your situation but they do demonstrate that it is prototypical to model whatever you need to solve the problem.

16 hours ago, 4630 said:

Ain’t that the truth. 👍

 

The older you get the greater the awareness of time passing more rapidly.   And since I reached retirement I’m busier than ever now too.

 

 

It's a bit like toilet paper.  The closer you get to the end of the roll, the faster you seem to be using it. 😁

2 hours ago, br-nse-fan said:

I've begun to receive my final order from Hattons.. and this is where I am having to... shall we say... question how things were being done?

 

Granted, this order was over 100 items, but thus far I have received five(!) parcels from Hattons over the past week, but have only received a little more than a third of the items ordered.

The first parcel had 4 EFE buses.  The 2nd parcel had 8(?) Oxford cars and a Base Toys BR lorry.  The next three parcels arrived yesterday, and again..  they were all small/medium sized packages having only a smallish number of items... 5 more EFE buses, ten 4 wheel Bachmann wagons and the last one with some Oxford buses and some packages of Bachmann NEM couplers.

 

A couple weeks ago I received a single package from Kernow, weighing less than the package with 5 buses, and it cost me £45 to ship.  There is no way Hattons could be shipping the volume they have been to me for the £38 that I paid.

Were these all separate orders or did you use the trunk facility?

On 24/01/2024 at 11:20, Michael Hodgson said:

 

You can't have Duette-style controls for speed and direction on DCC, because the direction cannot be aligned to the direction of the centre-off knob because forward/reverse are relative to the loco rather than relative to the track.  Turn the loco to face the other way and it will move in the opposite direction.

It works for Hornby Dublo three rail where the forward/reverse are relative to the loco rather than relative to the track.