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Hi Charlie. Deffo a Skipper for me please. Preferably 015 or 023 with WR destinations pre transfer.

Too new for me, but that blue Scotrail one does look nice.

A new model Mk1 coach range including the travelling college.....

Accurascale have announced the HAA and Mk2B which I would love too see shrunk down.

Hi. I have this book on my Christmas list also, so can't directly answer but Pip Dunn on his Twitter feed said some very complimentary things about it - best I can offer you.

That 117 looks absolutely superb.

Hi Ben & Mike. I have a N gauge blue/grey Caroline on order and was just wondering about the thorny subject of colour shades - specifically rail blue. Do you know if you are heading along the same shades as Bachmann or Dapol or going in your own direction? Steve

Yes, I saw that aswell. I was a bit disappointed.

Hi Kevin. You said earlier in the week you were going to publish a list of your own forthcoming titles. Is this still goingvto happen?

Hi Robert. Are the images in this book colour or black & white or rough mix? Also, does it cover the full working lives of DMUs or just to a certain point please. Steve

I can remember in the late eighties being taken to Scotland on the train. We were somewhere north of Berwick and all of a sudden there was a class 26 on its side covered up with a tarpaulin in the middle of nowhere. It was on the upside so I have no idea how far south it was intending to go. It was at the the time the ECML was being electrified so it could have been engineers train. It was my first ever class 26 for sight.

4TC. Certain that'll fit.

Perfect, thank you.

Hi chaps. Could you confirm if the NSE liveried coaches are the earlier light blue or later dark blue please. The artwork seems to be the earlier blue which would be good - particularly the models 5455 & 5462, also on 5455 it appears to have a depot sticker? on the red stripe beneath the number - what depot is it please. Steve

I noted a van body on the back of a low loader in Andover this morning heading in a westerly direction. Didn't look in bad nick really. No number visible, but it had no venting on the ends. A303 shut at the time which is why it may have been in Andover.

Well, actually I'm pushing the boat out and hoping for a Mk2a BFK - I think it's the same bodyshell.

I'm hoping that Farish will be sensible and add blue/grey Mk2a TSO when the Regional Railways liveried versions come along, it can't be that hard can it?

BoB/WC Rebuilt.

Only read the Turbot construction article so far and flicked through the rest, but looks like a very good magazine. Worth the money. Thanks

Yep, definately darker blue.

I don't agree that the blue on the image of 004 is the later dark blue, the image is also dated 87 when the unit was brand new, hence the comment about 006 in lighter blue dated 88. No way did NSE go light blue (images of 002 when new appear to be lighter blue) dark blue and back to light blue. Interestingly the image you've posted of 025 at STP does appear to be darker blue with angled upsweeps. Your image of 004 at WFJ is a much later image (appears to have a Connex logo halfway down the first vehicle - hence no NSE logo on the front) so probably between 6 to 8 years later than the first image. Cleary has had a repaint because it does have the later curved upsweeps. On the subject of NSE logo on the front, the grey on the model is too dark, should be lighter, but thats no biggie. Sorry if you disagree.

I have just been digging and I'm not convinced Bachmann have got this right. Darker blue with curved upsweeps certainly but with the angled upsweeps I think it was original lighter blue. One of the books I have shows 319006 in July 88 (so when practically new) (photo linked on the previous page taken '87) and the author even mentions the variation in shades of blue and earlier shade on 319006 in the book (with angled upsweeps).

Hopefully the link below will take you to images now available on the Bachmann site for livery samples of the 319 - I think it looks good, but.....I'm not sure of the livery on the NSE 319. It was always advertised as revised NSE so darker blue but the upsweeps on the cab sides look like they are the original style. Is this right? https://www.Bachmann.co.uk/product/category/189/class-319-4-car-emu-319004-br-network-southeast-(revised)/372-875 Edit:NSE is tempting me.

Hi Ben & Mike. Just checking the status of the 2nd run. The website says out of stock, but I don't recall this run ever having been on sale. Have I missed them or are they still to be made available for sale please. Many thanks Steve

55992 Red for me.