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He'd waited a long time for a N class 17 and was really dissappointed when he realised it was 1.3mm too high

Watched and wrote up on a video on Rapid Application Development and listened to a guru of Test Driven Development

I am wondering if this topic should be restarted now you have something physical to show. This thread is rather tainted by it's OP and some people may believe he still has a hand in it with him being the OP. Now you have your own official account (I know there are others) perhaps a new topic beginning with the samples we can drool over to kickstart the project.

Oh how I wish I could still eat fresh crusty bread - years of grinding have left me with brittle teeth and now I can only look at the loaves of bakery bread on sale at Sainsburys each week. Even a spot of delicious cheese on toast today with plain old white bread was a risk (worth taking I am glad to report) not without being fraught with worry as I bit into the crusts.

Run a drain alongside the track

Big enough I think to wear out a track rubber on a single cleaning run

A return to the 70s? Some people seem to have short memories what the 1970s looked like in N Lima Deltic, class 31 or even it's attempt at a class 17 - a German bo-bo in a BR livery. Minitrix engines - the Britannia and 9f - same body different chassis, the squat looking 47 and the 2mts. Then we had Farish with it's single mould bodies plus generic suburban and express coaches. This model is not a return to the 70s.

So much for one stop shopping with the big box shifters. This is regrettable, I am sure neither Rails nor Hornby are happy that whatever has happened has resulted in this.

So there are two takeaways from that comment: The road van will have the correct livery There will be a road van Excellent, even if I am back in N at the moment. Oh, and now it's 'our' roadvan, you've crossed the threshold now.

Car in the garage for a few hours, I have decamped to the Costa local to the garage as it more fun than sitting in a waiting area. Mask off, enjoying a half price coffee and bacon bap. Perhaps it's time to take some risks, the bacon bap at my age may be more detrimental to my health than Covid, not to mention those lovely looking chocolate muffins. Of course I've only been here 5 minutes, ask me again in 2-3 hours. One thing annoying me today, if it is so important to get the schools back, why did the government re-open the shops, pubs and anything else that generates revenue and left the schools pretty much shut. If they had focused on children at the beginning perhaps the farce that is the GCSE and further education results wouldn't have happened. And perhaps all those people who had childcare problems but were being asked to work again may have been more inclined to leave their houses to commute to work.

It could be worse, many years ago now C&M commissioned a run of Scottish and ScotRail liveried Mk3s (March 2013) in anticipation of Farish releasing the 47/7 and DBSO, those wanting a Scottish Push Pull must have been in their element. They've had the Mk3s, they got their 47/7s something like late 2016 (2 years later than planned) and then waited and waited and are still waiting for the DBSO to arrive - though they are now close....

Which must come as quite a shock when they go to get the Royal Scot and find that not only is the train now a set of coaches with no visible smoking beast but also the Doric Arch has gone. Or their trip from Farringdon to Kings Cross to pick up the Flying Scotsman is purely undergroud now. But at least they still have the completely original Flying Scotsman to see on the mainline although sometimes they see an A1 that has a number that isn't in their Ian Allan 1959

I reckon it was in response to the Stirling Single - Hornby had something in their back catalogue that they could churn out cheaply, along with the older Clerestory coaches. That way grandchild can play with a model similar to the Single with some coaches to haul without risking grandad's expensive NRM collectible. Throw in the people who collect anything Hornby, people with a penchant for Triang style models and anyone who wants to run a quirky engine on their layout and you have a winner.

A P4 modeller who would like a generic coach. You must be an EM modeller, surely

TC was unpowered, just happened to have cabs at either end to control the emu. So if anything they were unique - could control an EMU, a 33, a 74 and a 74.

All depends who owns the IP at the moment, does it still rest with Olivias (who still have original merchandise to clear) or with Heljan. Then there is the small matter as to whether there is demand for more of them - did the notoriety of the shop put off purchasers of the original run or is it simply the market for 76s has run it's course. The Class 35 seems like a model that would be on a staples list like a 47, a black 5 or a Pannier. And people will know the models that do continue to sell even though for many modellers they may feel they have enough of them all ready.

Or the WCML, ECML and GEML DVT sets. if two class 27s top and tailing is push pull then every HST service is the same as well. Push pull has never really stopped, it has just moved with the times and of course the latest incarnation is a class 68 and MK5 combo with TPE.

All the better then, as that means another factory to supply N gauge items.

But maybe in a shop with both Heljan and EFE, the proprietor will simply not stock the EFE version but still have a J94, a class 17, an underground train and a selection of wagons.

Regardless there must be a market and with Heljan focussed on other new developments it lets them use capacity at their factories to turn out older toolings as a nice little earner with the other party also doing all the distribution and marketing. For Heljan it is money for old rope that will also raise their profile with people who may have not given them a second thought in the past.

The only negative I see is that perhaps Kernow's gain is Hornby's loss. As a freelance consultant to the Model industry Graham could help ensure Hornby kept it's Southern models honest, like Tony W does with his assistance to them. Would we have seen the ghastly livery on the ex LSWR brake van Hornby released earlier this year had they had Graham on a retainer. Anyway, back on track, having Graham on board does show a intent by Kernow to build a brand and that can only be good for us modellers.

As soon as Graham mentioned he had a new job about a month ago I figured it would be Kernow, it's an obvious coming together. The other one burnt his bridges with the Class 74 fiasco let alone anything he did afterwards.

A clever train set would include 2 sidings or a passing loop - then you have somewhere to put another train, if you only have the one train in the trainset then you need to buy another train for the other siding. If the train set is only big enough to hold one loco in a siding then a one loco railway it shall stay.

So it comes as a shock to all when I found out about Graham's enthusiasm for the sea ports of Anglia and the east coast on his own site. Not sure Chris Trerise is ready for the first models out of this new stable - a set of Great Yarmouth low relief warehousing

Kernow have sold their own limited editions through other retailers, the 02s which weren't selling at the end have turned up at a number of retailers including Hattons. But this EFE collaboration does offer Kernow a new route to market and with Graham Muz now on board it really does give them impetus to get on with other niche models that they can now retail through Bachmann's network. The GWR Railmotor and the LSWR Roadvans spring to mind as items that perhaps needed something extra to get them to the top of the pile for production. There is also Sonic Rail - Whilst the 56xx has been supported by RevolutioN it was clear this was to help them into the market, perhaps here too a link up with EFE Rail / Kernow would really help the N market. I assume that it wasn't Mr Sonic who did the Class 17 for DJ, if it was then he has already begun this link.