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Nice to see the Well Tanks back and in new liveries, I think last time round they only ever did unlined black. And a re-run of Gate Stock. This EFE thing is quite good - who expected 58s to make a re-appearence. Sharks and Mermaids - another big tick. This page has all the good announcements!!

and ironically it is the one whose pricepoint is at the lower end that actually turns out the more accurate models.

Nice ending "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose"

@paulr1949 but thank you for resurrecting the thread even if it was to announce the end. Nice to go back over the images in the thread, such a lovely model.

There is a simple black and white explanation - there is either a worldwide conspiracy amongst the top 1% of people to enrich themselves even more by creating a panic about a fake virus OR there is actually a virus with the potential to overwhelm health services and leave medical people who general oath is to keep people alive to have to make unpalatable decisions about who lives and who is on their own. There are people in this world who truly believe the Earth is flat with a giant glass dome sealing it, the sun and moon are massive objects spinning around a pivot and all the other stars are projected onto the dome. They believe that a small number of people (including ALL scientists) protect this secret from the rest of the population except for the flat Earthers who believe they are the enlightened and the rest of us are fools. What vested interest would there need to be to lie that the Earth is round, spinning in an infinite space along with a lot of other celestial bodies? In the same way, why would every Government (and opposition parties), medical agency and scientist insist Covid is real if it really was a conspiracy to make very rich people even richer. They may not all agree on the best way to manage the pandemic but I think they are all fairly agreed it is a real and present danger. Some of the people saying that civil liberties are being pushed to the brink perhaps have vested interest in taking that point of view, you do hear of people being fined, but it doesn't appear to me that we've turned into a police state. This lockdown is different than the first with more things staying open, perhaps a sign that the Government is adapting and trying to keep businesses running when there isn't a lot of social mixing involved. My company is going back to home working but those with mental health problems or a lack of IT at home are being allowed to work from our offices, people can still go outside when they want to. I don't like not being free to travel anywhere I want to when I want to, but look where that has gotten us back to since August - first with foreign travel, then the eat out scheme before the big mixing of people in schools and universities which to me was the final straw for transmission control and we are back where we began in March.

Online training is quite common within the health service. Want to deliver the vaccines but you don't have enough clinicians? Just run an e-Learning course on administering an injection, problem solved. And no, this is not a joke.

I had heard mention of this, fingers crossed it leads to a new 0-4-2T chassis as well then onto the 2-6-2s again. Dapol have a chance to build an excellent range in all three scales, the fact they are looking at retooling old models of their own is good sign of intentions.

So last night Youtube served this as a suggestion, as most of my feed it Drum and Bass, trains or coding it took my eye. Listen to the typical attire these gents wore for an 8 hour mission, this was the Yanks and the way he describes it, it still wasn't enough, I wonder what the RAF had to make do with.

The smaller pack at £129 looks very good value, though the bigger pack I think would make a very good Christmas present and it is clever marketing by Hornby, it's a trainset plus. Can that lady take over on the Signal Box videos, she appears a lot more comfortable in front of a camera than the usual chap. The cynic in me can easily say, well it's just stock they have spare, but if you were a 5 year old would you care if the coach was chocolate and cream and not some sort of Gresley - in fact I'd be a bit worried if a five year old was demanding scale models to suit the locomotive and questioning where the brake van or brake coach was.

There has been some stock movement, a few coaches recently appeared in the sidings at Minehead but the Quantock stock had been sat in the station at Williton being added to as each coach was re-painted, wonder where it is now. Given the time out of service I wonder if the drivers all need refreshers, the 09 was out yesterday for driver and signalling training - the Santa specials start soon so everyone will need to be up to spec on their licences. There was a complete ghost service on the NYMR just before it re--opened.

I guess now it will be with all electric services between Liverpool and Manchester via Chat Moss and the 319s on other routes but even before that it seemed to have lost character. It's certainly not short on diesels - 150, 153, 156, 158, 175, 185 & 195s. Throw in the 142s and you could do a good representation of early 1990s Oxford Rd in N with the last of the 108s and 101s. Maybe I just liked the smoky first gen units with all their rattles whilst idling.

First train runs on new socially distanced West Somerset

I used to use Oxford Road a lot for travel as it is the terminus of the local Liverpool stoppers that go via Warrington. I remember in the 1990s standing there watching the last of the first generation DMUs and thinking this would be a great layout - very intense running and freightliners to boot. Maybe this is why I cannot part with my N gauge DMUs because I've got this deep set memory. It's not quite the same these days, it even seems quieter though it won't be.

I think the term Covidiot is not aimed at those who support the Government but at people with the mentality that put themselves selfishly first and drain supplies at supermarkets creating panic where there doesn't need to be, or those who openly flout the law in a manner likely to cause upset or put others at risk of transmission. A lot of young people have also been defined as Covidiots for going to parties, raves and such like, I think we need to apply a little slack on these people who are in the prime of their life and having it destroyed by policies and restrictions where the natural tendency is to go against tradition and rebel - we've all been that age and all in our own way rebelled. We could all see another national lockdown coming, it was telegraphed weeks ago with rising infection rates though the Government for whatever reason appeared to be doing anything to avoid calling it such and trying to slowly put all us there through the tiering system which collapsed into acrimonious argument. I wish they would drop the cr*p about a normal Christmas, why dangle a carrot when it is dangling on a bit of spiders web waiting to break as the lockdown or tiering continues into winter. Consistent, honest and planned out strategy is what people want, they want to be able to plan - two weeks ago the Government said you can fly again to the Canaries, people book holidays and then boom we're all in lockdown and no leisure travel. If people know it's three months of lockdown then they can accept it, but if the extensions are drip fed then people get angry and confused. I am just pleased that there was a window of tranquility that allowed my mother in law to fall ill, get a diagnosis and have a life saving operation just two weeks ago as she can now carry on shielding as she was in March and continue her recovery.

I would think this will be cancelled after yesterdays announcement, I cannot see how a luxury dining experience counts as work travel unless all the passengers are journalists.

I never thought the buffer fitted HSTs looked anything but ungainly, it would not have made this set look any more like a proper Blue Pullman. I wasn't sure about the livery when I saw some of the early press releases but now having seen the videos I think it looks quite accomplished.

If you are to copy Clive @rapidoandy, what you need to introduce is a Mk1 coach chassis and then a series of bits of coach sides in various liveries that can be stitched together - plus some under gubbins for all the stuff to hang under the coach.

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Just watched the Dapol TV announcement for the GWR Railcar. No-one does marketing like Rapido do they?

Well far from any froth, all I see here is tumbleweed - either we've very low expectations of the announcements or Boris has placed froth as a danger to life and everyone is self distancing from it.

I rather like the high level headlight

Still more likely though than a rake of Toplights

Whilst I would not suggest this approach to Rapido who I would only expect scale models from. Would a Toplightish generic coach be something Hattons might approach if the generic 4 and 6 wheelers prove to be the success they may be? If no-one can agree on a respectable prototype then perhaps for the masses the only option is something in the theme of. Back to Rapido.... a Black 5 - lots of them

I think it is just threads begun my a mod that can have ignore switched off, that would be a powerful tool in the hands of a troll.

Whilst not as bad your experience, my local tyre place told me my brakes were shot. I knew I was on warning for the pads from the previous service but I declined their offer of replacement as the car was soon to be in the Ford garage for the next service. Mentioned it to Ford, they said, still on amber no need to worry, it was another 12 months before I had to replace them. I barely trust tyre shops to change my tyres let alone be let loose on brakes and suspension.