woodenhead

The finish on the pacers looks to be much improved, these are definitely different to the hand finished samples seen previously. Hope they are production spec, they look great!

As long as they come with wheels

Hi Andy,

 

Mark has done a good job there mate.

 

As you say he is qualified, I was around my neighbour's the other day and he has a builder and a sparky in at the moment and they both drank black coffee with two sugars. :yes:

But could your neighbour's sparky wire DCC or the builder lay track?

Safari on iPad shows that the RRP £150

Even more enthralling than one of Charlie Dymock's.

Either of them!

This link shows the liveries, scroll down to 1982 to see colour pics of the wraparound yellow ends in departmental use

http://www.locofile.website/search.php?loco=252001%2041001%2041002%20ADB%20975812%20ADB975813%2043000%2043001&type=*%20diesel%20hst

the working estuary tide on the guest layout was a bit beyond special.

Never have I spent so long looking at a water feature.

The first link is for when the HST was operating with the Derby Reasearch centre on its trains and the APT-P

The second link is the HST in its prototype livery reversed blue grey

Annual pilgrimage to Partington (normally I get through as quick as the speed limit will let me).

Very good selection as always including a real tide on the 7mm guest layout.

This is Tollesbury Quay

Hartburn

Rolleston on Dove

Waterloo Street

Easingwold East

Whithorn

Croft Depot

Kinmundy

Leeman Road

Glaisden

Three Score Vale

Picked up a few kits and got some inspiration, also was shown that scratch building doesn't have to be hard, although I suspect the chap who built Croft is rather modest about his skill.

All I can say is wow.

A couple of chaps once asked about the viability of a Pendolino in N and now it's going mainstream with shop sold wagons.

And I am interested in the 128, I want to do something Northwest based in N and I remember these trundling around Victoria

Flipping heck, it's non stop from Revolution.

Do I need to rethink my scales again

And with promises of more, so the HUO looks on too.

And they said N Gauge was dead, actually that might have been me once

Not my sort of IPA but nice.

Fingers in ears and eyes covered.

Not listening Andy 

I'll admit I did start measuring up my room this morning until I realised a third or more of the scenic was on board 2, Trebudoc this ain't.

Don't have the space

The SD40 is back, it was there when I began watching then it got replaced by something more modern.

As the revised hourly service only works for arrivals in one direction and as the majority come via Manchester I choose to meet the trains arriving from Manchester.

 

Then again it will all be irrelevant if there are no trains!

The 255 bus comes all the way from Manchester Piccadilly bus station if there are no trains and you arrive by TPE, Cross Country, East Midlands or Virgin.

Interesting location, it is a pit stop for trains - lines 1-4 are refuelling roads for loaded trains, they arrive, fuel and carry on.

in the background there is fly shunting going on, chap running alongside the train letting wagons go, just seen a couple of tanks going off.

 

They are there now, but without images or supporting info.  (SL-112 as well)

However, phoning through will get you a cheaper P+P rate on such a small pack.

That's a new one - in the business world I inhabit our drive is away from phones and onto the web - here you are encouraging the opposite with a carrot.

It's nice to see there is still a personal contact element in the world.

The bus timetable seems to only cater for people who are travelling from manchester. Those using the WCML, on a train TO manchester have to wait for about 35 minutes each end?

With the strike, I can only travel from Warrington Central having to walk from Warrington Bank Quay. Is there any other way to get there from Urmston?

Thanks

Ian in Blackpool

The 255 bus from outside the Manchester bound platform goes to Partington, you can also pick up the 255 from Flixton station.

https://www.tfgm.com/public-transport/bus/routes/255-manchester

Gratuitous Selnec link https://www.flickr.com/photos/23207961@N07/albums/72157622616858411 

Partington is the location because the more motorway friendly location of George H Carnall is a politcal football which is either staying open/being demolished or turned into a basketball (netball for boys) hall.

If you stick with Partington then one day the road will be improved as it's to home to hundreds of new homes as Shell slowly give up their land.

I'll be there tomorrow for my regular visit to my local show. 

Well I can sleep now that I know.

Just look at the changes:

1. Third rail lifted

2. OHLE installed

3. Olympic stadia build

4. High security fencing

When you think about Lev2 - maybe someone in BR got the wrong end of the stick in a conversation.

The Transport Secretary (or whatever it was called back then) was talking about replacing trains with buses and maybe even guided busways and Derby came up with LEV2.

I use to know a chap who was a Carlisle driver. He said that driving a Coronation on a nice sunny day was quite nice, but on a cold frosty morning going up Shap sitting in the warm cab of an 87 doing 100 was better.

But still better than being a banker driver heading tender first back down.

You're quite right, and I fully see your point (pun). But, we're talking about commercial sale, and the latest 'must MUST have'. I will respectfully illustrate our business model, the mobile device. Sooner or later, someone will latch onto the sales volume for model trains, and money talks....

Not quite sure what you mean?

It's not so much that Peco couldn't produce a P4 track system, they could, but who would buy it?

Part of the allure of P4 is to build your own track as you get a prototypical flow especially in complex track arrangements, something that no RTR manufacturer can replicate unless.......you submit a track template to PECO via the interweb and they have a machine that can build it.