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So this is a commission off the Dapol production run?

Not disagreeing with you but I'd like to see you telling some members of the Scalefour society that they are modelling OO gauge

How disappointing, I meant to purchase some recordings myself but didn't get around to it. Although he did do diesels (changing trains) nothing obvious for 18000 on any Great Western themed recordings.

Isn't that what is on offer for Gold members Andy? What's the point in a club if there is no jelly, ice cream, cake and bubbles* *which sounds like a nickname that would suit Capt Kernow for some obscure reason.

Careful, looks like you're trying to throw us off the scent by claiming it is too much to build but then put 37001 into the same message. 37001 / 370001 coincidence........

Surely that will be KR Models not Accurascale

And the top of a skateboard affixed to the wall?

If you go back to page 15 you can see when credit cards were replaced by Paypal - website problems was the reason given. I would ask KR Models why the website issue hasn't been resolved and why it was that Paypal was then enabled and is now the only option.

No that will be Hornby with all manner of wrong nose ends versus livery application.

It's a bit worrying, they didn't do anything for me at all

This grimy layout and Bradfield are my types of layout - so how the hell have I ended up with all the GW and Southern stuff. Really need to sort my head out and build something Northern. As others have said, this model is stunning.

I thought my long string of issues would indicate jest, maybe it didn't - must learn words don't always convey true meaning. Our time on this planet is too short to really worry about all the types of people that may or may not visit this one tiny place in the universe on this one specific day - I just go, enjoy my day and get home again - my only extravagance on the day is first class travel on the way home as it will be busier and it guarantees me a seat and a cuppa. Please bookmark this post so you can shoot me down on the 24th when I moan about my day out as I will surely forget what i said today

HS2 will connect London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds and places inbetween, then some services will head north up the WCML for example which is less congested but still at 125. HS2 is to relieve pressure on the southern half of the WCML and offer faster journeys from Manchester and Birmingham. XC does offer journeys to Birmingham which is very good, but as I've alluded to elsewhere, it is a very poor service for the passenger, it needs lifting like TPE has done with it's services. Careful with the quotes you've merged your words with mine.

I think the pressure is different - Helmut Marko is a known challenge when it comes to his drivers and Albon is expected at the moment to prove his own ability, the pressure was not on him to be world champion, also deliver a constructors championship and be an ambassador for Ferrari. Max Verstappen suffered in his early days because he was being touted as the second coming and it was too much expectation too soon. It's possible that having Red Bull have an off year last year allowed him time to find himself and now the team have the car again be fully competitive he has the grounding to handle it and is delivering the early promise. I thought he was an overconfident so and so at the beginning but I like him more now and think he will be pushing on the Schumacher/Hamilton title numbers one day unless of course Leclerc, Albon and maybe even Lando Norris all have opportunities - it may be that Hamilton is the last champion with a long list of championships if 2021 delivers more competitiveness across the grid. Sadly smiley Ricciardo may have missed his boat, which is a pity as he was a fresh face once.

And soon the latest 3d baggage scanners will be implemented that do away with the separated liquids in small bottles - this will make a massive shift towards making the security issues of today a memory whilst still retaining a very high level of vigilance.

£500m buys a lot of consultancy that leads to 'no case to re-open' Lets not forget the first Beeching program involved a lot of biased consultancy and fact collection.

Most of us are too polite to tell the 50 stone gentleman of pensionable age who smells of urine that his two large rucksacks hanging off the sides of his electric mini-bike and his Pentax telephoto lens out front that he is at the wrong exhibition and this isn't the Cosplay show.

What we don't know behind this are the pressures the drivers feel from within the team, the fans and the financiers. Vettel is under pressure, at the moment he has a lot to prove and things are not going his way so the pressure is getting to him. It's easy to look statesmanlike when it's all going well, but when things are not going so well no-one will tell him 'it's ok you came third cos you're a nice guy', it will be completely the opposite. If you want to know how cut throat it is, just look at Red Bull - as soon as things begin going awry you get swapped for another driver who gets his chance. F1 isn't a sport, it's an industry and it's always on the lookout for the next product. I got looked at very strangely when I suggested that the area of the business I was working in was making sufficient profit as I could see the strain on the managers who were trying to achieve massive performance improvements on contracts that had very little leeway and even less of a flexible profit margin. I simply got disinvited to management meetings, imagine how Ferrari owners and financiers might feel if it was suggested that second or third place on the F1 World Championship was acceptable.

No XC journey is comfortable, hence on Saturday i am travelling to Birmingham NEC from Warrington not Manchester - a Virgin Voyager will be preferential to an XC Voyager, in fact it is more likely to be a Pendolino now and still preferable. It is pretty sad that what was always the ultimate journey on the railways a service from the top of Scotland down the East Coast and through to the South West has been reduced to what it is now - a cramped, uncomfortable endurance experience - you'd think they would want to do something special when they hold on to passengers potentially so long (I know not many do the whole length, but i have witnessed them and the expression on the guards face when he/she realises how long they have been sat in that seat). Things are changing, looking at how TPE have addressed overcrowding with it's CAF stock and IEPs, you'd hope that the next incarnation of XC will reflect the experience TPE customers get and not be the Ryan Air of the railways any longer.

They are all petulant children otherwise you wouldn't see them in an open cockpit racing machine that could kill them in a moment. The difference between Vettel and Hamilton is down to how the dice is rolling I believe - Hamilton has a car he can trust to deliver, has a long history of winning and he is in a good place over all. Vettel in comparison has not seen Ferrari deliver a car as good as Mercedes so he has had to work it harder. It looks like they have had to blur the lines a little recently with regards rules in order to get more power out of the car and he has been on the backfoot for several seasons now, throw in a rookie who everyone will probably agree is a future world champion and soon to be arch rival of Verstappen over the next decade and you can see why Vettel is making mistakes. Hamilton is an excellent driver, he himself can throw some wobblers when things don't go his way, his team though work wonders to deliver him a car he can rely on, Vettel in a similar situation would probably make less mistakes.

I could see Ian McShane as he was in Battle of Britain with a big jumper and superimposing that onto that picture, if it is Dirk Bogarde then that explains why it is black and white. I am too young to remember B/W films at the cinema. I am trying to figure out why some of the signs are in English - because its meant to be an alternate reality Britain or cheap/lazy filming of a what would have been a fleeting view of the station in a film and they thought no-one would notice.

What and have the general public in 'our' show. Good gracious man, do you know how dangerous it is letting them in, they don't know the dangers of being sideswiped by a rucksack, that no polite queuing laws apply at the Dapol and Bachmann stands and that they don't appreciate that when someone gets their big lens out on their camera it is ok to stick it right in front of other peoples gaze.

What film is that actually from, looks like a young Ian McShane.

When asked if Brexit will change anything at the border, the Uk Government answered "Nein".

Time to ban doors in F1 I think, that and half width cars which seem to plague corners