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Looking good Andi! The point work looks especially exquisite!! looking forward to seeing more progress. Cheers. Bill.

Congratulations Nick!! Will make sure I pick a copy up. Looking forward to reading the article. Cheers. Bill.

Looking good. The new lighting makes a big difference!!

Received my copy today (early Christmas present from my better half) Have to say the Scotrail Express volume is an absolute must for anyone modelling the Class 47 Push Pull rakes. The level of information on the 47/7 fleet and associated coaching stock is 2nd to none! I have learnt so much in the last couple of hours reading. Huge thanks to Andrew Donnelly and everyone involved with this series of books. Looking forward to the next volume. Regards. Bill.

Looking forward to seeing these up close at the DEFine Modellers day on the 7th Jan at Risley. Regards. Bill.

Hi @young37215. I logged on to my Accurascale account, my invoice for the outstanding balance was under “My orders” Hope that helps. Regards. Bill.

Oh. Thanks. I did ask on the stand at Warley and was told they would be sent out soon. How are the invoices sent out? Is it by email? kind regards. Bill. Huge thanks to @McC very quick response on the Accurascale support page. Invoice sorted and paid. Let’s just hope the wife is not working from home the day a large parcel from Accurascale arrives!!

Oh. Thanks. I did ask on the stand at Warley and was told they would be sent out soon. How are the invoices sent out? Is it by email? kind regards. Bill.

Have invoices been sent out for batch 1 orders? Not seen an email? kind regards Bill.

Have a great weekend Mick, hope all goes well! Cheers, Bill.

The 2nd to last photo looks particularly effective with the rake of grain flow wagons snaking into the background!

Looking great!! Fingers crossed for an earlier guise Spartan to go on my PFB’s Cheers. Bill.

Early Exec livery HST power cars and coaches get my vote as well!!

Hi Rob. The rock faces look really effective. What do you use for painting them? Regards. Bill.

From when I was researching 47/7 PP formations for GQS 4 coach (plus DBSO) were quite common. Regards. Bill.

Any ideas what caused the heat? I would be amazed if the pinpoints generated that much heat to cause so much damage? Looking at the deformation at the centre of the bogie frame, could that have been caused by a bad contact on the pick ups between the bogie and coach chassis? That would also explain the jammed coupling. The coach must have been running for quite a while?

Great video! Well worth sitting down with a brew to watch.

I’m getting the same Digitrains banner as well. It makes the forum unusable as it is covering the notifications and view latest thread buttons Trying to view on iphone12

Great to hear Fort William is operational again!! The DCC Concepts ground signals look the part. Regards. Bill

Thanks for the additional info on how the operation changed while the ETHELs were in service and apologies for the ETHEL hijack. Some really useful information and photos though. Photo below of my ETHEL built by Dave Roome from the spares after his class 25 conversion projects. I haven’t dared to convert this back to OO (yet)

I’ve also just gone through the Flickr photos after clicking on the image. Lots of formation info there as well as the interesting snippet of class 20’s being used as heating units before the ETHELs arrived. I have been struggling to work out what to do since taking the decision to mothball the P4 Glasgow Queen Street project. I have now converted all the stock back to OO. From the great inspiration on this thread and @mallaig1983 I can see a West Highland based project appearing next year so I can use the stock I have accumulated for GQS.

Hi Rob. All makes sense now! Did’t know the day coaches added at GQS then went on to Mallaig. That explains the slightly more complicated shunt Thanks for taking the time to find and share the photos to help show how the shunt was completed. On the 2nd to last photo. I think that formation is correct. Looks to me like the service has not long arrived and the loco is running round. The day coaches would be behind the ETHEL, then the sleepers at the rear. Thanks again. Regards. Bill.

Hi Rob. Interesting top photo of 37027. Sadly undated on Flickr. I am assuming could be summer 1984. Does anyone know when 027 lost its white body side stripe? By May ‘85 the loco was in large logo. (I’m sure the upcoming SDEG 37/0 book will have all the info) Another question, was there a shunt maneuver to reposition the ETHEL at the opposite end of the train prior to working back to Glasgow? All the photos I have of the sleeper service at Glasgow QS ready to head up the WHL show the ETHEL between the loco and day coaches. All the photos I have seen of the rake at FW show the ETHEL between the sleeper coaches and loco. Glad to read you are now making progress with the electrical issues and at the point where the layout can be run fully again. Regards, Bill.

Apologies if this has been mentioned or asked before. Will the Class 37 sound decoders be available to pre-order? Regards, Bill.

I don’t normally get drawn into these discussions but….. Another vote for a 120. A run of Polybulks would be appreciated. I guess we will find out tomorrow!!