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I listed an item under last week's 80% offer at start price of 99p, plus postage. Somebody put in multiple bids. Another person with a feedback score of just 4 tested those bids and it looked like the item was about to go to him for 12.50. I received a buy-it-now offer of 30 pounds. As there were already these two bidders, to accept the offer I needed to cancel and relist as a buy-it-now, so obviously lost the 80% bonus. However in addition to the buy it now fee of 4.55, eBay also charged an additional 1.60, full fee on the original listing based on the highest offer, total 6.15 fees off a 30 pound transaction, more than 20%. Checking the "small print" terms and conditions of the now expired 80% offer, I see that auction listings ended early are not eligible for the discount. Lesson learned and I will be less open to considering offers in future.

Me too, though looks like will be waiting a little longer. I already have the Realtrack 144 in Northern Rail livery which is far superior to my pair of 1989 Hornby 142s, one of which is still in its original Provincial two tone blue and the other was re-bodied to Northern Spirit. Though I significantly improved the running of the Hornby ones by cross wiring between coaches so that pick up to serve both motors comes from all wheels. Now that I am involved with ex-Northern 142s in preservation, a 142 in Northern livery is a must have though I refuse to pay the inflated prices which second hand Hornby ones in this livery now fetch.

If I recall correctly there was very little stock in the shop and it closed soon afterwards. His model shop had a very short life span, from start up advert in the Railway Modeller offering to buy second hand till closure was probably no more than a few months.

I would be prepared to take items in person into a model shop and ask the owner if he was willing to take them in part payment for something I wanted to buy. I have done this a few times. Some shops will agree. My nearest model shop only accepts second hand stock from his regular customers where he can be confident that the items were legitimately owned. What I will not do, due to past experience, is send stock by post to a trader in expectation of cash. I did this once with Hattons, a good number of years ago, when they were still in Liverpool. After they received the items they claimed that they were "all broken" and refused to pay out any of the agreed sum. If I wanted the items back I would require to notify them and send them their return costs of postage and re-packing. Seeing as it was a reputable company like Hattons I took their word for it that the goods were damaged in transit and I let them keep the stock for free. Not long afterwards, I also had a similar experience with another trader who claimed the items I had sent were broken and refused to pay. I visited his shop and recognised the items for sale on a display shelf, undamaged. I wanted to challenge the proprietor but my wife was with me and didn't want me to make a fuss in the shop. So I walked out quietly and wrote to trading standards but they were not interested in getting involved. Nowadays if I want to dispose of stock I generally use eBay auctions. I have also sold rolling stock on Facebook Marketplace on three occasions, which is free, but it is unregulated and is not an auction, and judging from the very quick sales each time I probably priced the stock too cheap.

After the Captain Tom debacle where thankfully a friendly retailer had kept one aside for me or I would have missed out, I cancelled all my other pre-orders with Hornby. I have also had pre-orders with retailers cancelled. Placing pre-orders for Hornby whether direct or through a retailer is a gamble which I am no longer prepared to take and I no longer have any Hornby items on pre-order.

Almost the same here - 80%, 70% and then 80% again all on consecutive weekends. Great opportunity to clear out unwanted items to make space for Accurascale items on order!

Logged on this morning to find someone had cancelled bids on two of my auction listings which were due to end tomorrow. In one case the high bid price is not significantly altered. The other listing had already gone way beyond my expectations as early as Tuesday, which would have deterred other viewers from bidding over the past four days. I asked eBay customer service if I could cancel the auction and relist under these circumstances. Got no answer so I have gone ahead, cancelled and relisted and blocked the culprit.

So, City of Truro arrived today, and Wow what a beauty! When Truro was first announced in April 2017 this was on my nice to have but rather expensive list. My layout is based on a mythical location somewhere in the south of Scotland or north of England. Truro's real life travels took her to Sprouston shed in the 1940s, to Glasgow for the Scottish Industries Exhibition in 1959, to the Strathspey Railway in 2006 and to York and Shildon in recent years so is entirely appropriate here under rule 1. The detail is fantastic and there are numerous add on parts such as the brake gear, support posts for cab sheeting and brass name, number and works plates, all of which I shall wait for a day when there is good light and I have a steadier hand before affixing. With the original price being held, at today's going rates for 00 locos this now represents very good value for money. Pulls four Bachmann coaches happily on the level. The footplate looks quite narrow for fitting a crew so I will need to give this some thought. Earlier today there were just six left on Locomotion website. One happy customer and grateful to RMWeb for the Heads Up.

So I have bit the bullet, or pulled the trigger, or whatever, and placed my order. Wanted this model since it was first announced but at that time the price seemed a bit steep. Still, it is a drop in the bucket compared to how much I spent on chasing the full size loco while she was back in steam for the centenary of her record breaking run. York Railfest 2004 for a ride behind City of Truro on the goods lines. Locomotion in 2006 for some photos of City of Truro in steam. Strathspey Railway 2006 where she was tucked away on the day of my visit. Bluebell Railway, 25th October 2006 - that was some day out, up at 4am, drove to Newcastle Airport for a day return trip to Stansted on Easyjet, train to London, train to East Grinstead, bus to Kingscote, train to Sheffield Park for some shots of City of Truro which was stopped for boiler washout on the day of my visit, back home here in Scotland same day just before midnight!

Maybe ask on here if there are two others in the same boat then buy one pack and split it? Placing an HUO and an MDV side by side, the interior sizes into which the loads fit are very near identical so it should be relatively easy to modify an HUO load to fit an MDV. I already have the single Jenny Kirk MDV and have pre-ordered the bauxite HUO, and am thinking a three pack of HUO loads and keep one spare for a future single HUO or MDV issue. On a separate issue, I had always remembered unfitted wagons being painted grey and vacuum fitted ones painted bauxite. Would a bauxite painted hopper not be an HUV?

To achieve the variety of containers which I would wish, it looks like I will end up with two wagons with the same number, which seems pointless as I won't run them both at the same time. There could be a potential market here for one-for-one swops with other forum members.

From I was 5 till I was 15 I lived in a prefab near the "joint" line between Glasgow and Paisley Gilmour Street, and often train spotted from the long Gallowhill footbridge which at that time spanned eight tracks. Ex-LMS and BR Standard types were standard fare, with the last of the Caley 0-6-0s being no longer seen after about 1962. The highlight was a long mid morning parcels train hauled by one of Polmaide's Coronation Pacifics. I believe this came from Carlisle via the Kilmarnock-Dalry link. Polmadie's Britannias were normally only seen on summer extras such as Starlight Specials and boat trains to Ardrossan for the Isle of Man sailings. Ex LNER types were almost unheard of until Ayr received a small allocation of B1s about 1963. Before that I had only once seen a B1 on this stretch of line, on a special one Saturday morning when unusually there were a few adults with cameras also at the footbridge. The only other LNER loco I can recall seeing here was 60038 Firdaussi which was substituted one summer Friday evening on an Ardrossan boat train.

I am surprised none of the exhibition organisers have posted an update yet, but as a member of one of the clubs which is exhibiting I received an e-mail update yesterday from our club secretary that ALL persons attending the show, INCLUDING exhibitors and stewards will now be required by the SECC to exhibit a Covid passport, either as a QR code or a printout, or evidence of a negative test within the previous 24 hours. Checks will be made at the east and west entances to the SECC and not inside the SECC at the entrance to the hall in which the show is being held. Masks must be worn at all times within the SECC unless medically exempt. Perhaps one of the organisers would be able to confirm whether this information is correct.

Any chance of 142 019 or 142 020 in Northern Rail livery?

The link is telling me it is out of stock. Probably just as well as I could have been tempted - City of Truro is a loco I have travelled behind in preservation.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393336188494?epid=12011263584&hash=item5b94a9ee4e:g:sLsAAOSwKdZgpoRP I guess they wanted to imply that assembly of this Parkside kit would be as easy as a piece of cake.

9 x PFA 6 x PCA 5 x PTA 4 x PCV 3 x HUO 3 x MDV 2 x JSA On order 4 x HYA I only have a small fiddle yard to branch terminus heritage railway layout which would justify none of those, but under rule 1 my imaginary scenario is a triangular junction with the main line. When the main leg of that triangle is closed, short rakes of anything and everything can be diverted onto the branch, necessitating a run round at the branch terminus.

In theory, yes. Some years back I had someone from Canada kept winning bids on all my listings and said he would pay for them all and have them sent together once he had finished bidding. After he had won everything I had listed and I invoiced him for the total payment he went silent. So I was left with a number of items on which I sent second chance offers to the next highest bidder. Not one of them responded and I eventually had to relist everything (was about half a dozen separate items if I recall correctly).

My nearest model shops are C & M in Carlisle (45 miles) and Harburn Hobbies in Edinburgh (55 miles), both of which I occasionally visit. However I believe my next closest would be Durham Trains of Stanley which is about 80 miles from where I live and although I have bought stuff from their stalls at shows over the years I have to admit that I have never visited their shop in Stanley.

There are long gaps between my visits to Monk Bar model shop as I do not visit York often. Last time was November 2014. I have never been to B & H in Lincoln. Due to the covid I went over a year from March 2020 without visiting my nearest model shop, C & M Models in Carlisle. Definitely suffered withdrawal symptoms and glad to have been back a few times more recently!

My first attendance at Model Rail Scotland was 1969, following which I joined Clydeside MRC. I left the Glasgow area in 1989, but retained my club membership and therefore still affiliated to AMRSS. It has been a few years since I last did any stewarding or layout operating at the show but I have continued to attend every year to meet up with old friends and acquaintances. Having broke the habit by being forced to miss 2021 I make no promises for this year. The rail fare from Carlisle has gone up significantly and I need to find out about how the covid pass will work as although fully vaccinated and boosted I don't currently have a mobile phone. I do hope to be able to attend again this year, either on the Friday or the Saturday.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284604598139? Second hand Hornby Thomas rolling stock is becoming more expensive.

You could have a "living museum" in one corner of a larger modern layout, where you could run something like the Pockerley Waggonway, set in 1825, as seen here at Beamish.

I have to wonder why the release blurb refers to the Titfield Thunderbolt train as Era 1 when the film was made in early BR days and set in that era. Lion, if modelled in original condition and not as seen in the film, would qualify as era 1. The ex GWR toad and the Loriot with Dan's house mounted on it would surely not?

I had not noticed this until you mentioned it, thanks for drawing it to my attention. I tested the loco again and yes, current collection is only via the wheels of the tender. The two little wires barely protrude from the chassis while the solder tags on the baseplate are on its inner side. The baseplate would need to be held very close to the chassis and even for an experienced solderer it would be extremely difficult to solder within the very narrow gap. I am assuming the wires would have been soldered to the baseplate before assembly and then the wires fed through the chassis to the PCB, another delicate part which would call for skilful soldering. Having finally eliminated the surging and noisy running, the loco runs much smoother and quieter but with the sacrifice of pick up on all wheels, so it isn't too happy to crawl through dead frog points at very slow speeds.