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Is the line which runs from Forchheim to Behringsmühle? My wife is originally from Nürnberg and we have travelled the preserved section between Ebermannstadt and Behringsmühle a few times behind steam and diesel, a very scenic route. So far I have not managed a ride on DB Regio between Forchheim and Ebermannstadt as this section was subject to long term bustitution with Schmetterling Reisen buses serving the villages along the route due to construction works on the parallel ICE line through Forchheim.

The Cadbury depot at Potterhill was on the site of an old coal yard. In my early childhood I lived on Lothian Crescent Paisley and a steam engine hauling a few coal wagons would trundle along behind the houses most weekday mornings. Occasionally it went beyond Potterhill, possibly to serve coal supply for Glenfield Works. At some time after 1957 the coal yard closed and the line was later re-opened to serve Cadburys. The Cadbury trains typically comprised around eight to ten twelve ton vans. These wagons carried BR numbers. They were tripped from some goods yard in the Glasgow area by a Class 08 and I often saw this train on the Paisley Canal line once I started commuting to Glasgow University. The line closed in February 1970 when Cadburys traffic to Potterhill ceased. BR sold most of the trackbed to Paisley Corporation for a footpath and cycleway, but following local government changes and neighbouring property owners objections to the footpath, the land was fenced off and sold by Strathclyde Regional Council in the 1980s. Some of the trackbed became incorporated into private gardens while other parts were eventually swallowed up by housing development. I don't think there would have been any Cadburys owned internal user vans at Potterhill. Certainly I never saw any, and I would have thought the layout was too small, just a run round loop and a siding running from one end of the loop into the warehouse.

Reminds me of an experience on a quiet autumn night on the M6 a few years back. Car some distance ahead pulled out into fast lane then slowed down, just as I pulled into fast lane behind him to pass slower traffic. He eventually slowed to 38mph. I flashed my headlights and he responded by putting on his fog lights. It was a clear night, with no traffic up ahead in the fast lane but traffic now passing on the inside. This went on for a couple of miles, then he suddenly speeded up, dabbed his brakes and then sped up again. I regained my 70mph but lost him as he raced away, now at an excessive speed. I assume he must have been drunk and I regretted not getting his number and notifying the police.

Late 1950s. Could see some tall signals and rising locomotive smoke from the window and it was just a short walk to Arkleston Junction on the "joint" G&SW and Caley line between Glasgow and Paisley. Further along Gallowhill Road was a footbridge spanning all eight tracks, up and down Renfrew, up and down slow, up and down fast and two long relief loops. Standard fare was ex-LMS and BR standard types, though once I recall seeing a B1 heading a special, and soon afterwards (early 1960s) the B1s became more common once Ayr (67C) received an allocation. There is still a footbridge at this location, though now fewer tracks and bridge and its parapets were raised for the 1967 electrification.

Good suggestion, but I can also see there are pros and cons. In the past we have block booked local hotel rooms for our exhibitors. This year we are reviving our formerly annual show for the first time since 2019. Our Exhibition Manager will have an opportunity to sound out guest exhibitors as to which method they might prefer.

Me too. 1 x BR Dynamometer Car (yes it has the sticker on the box to confirm new PCB) 1 x Rapido Iron Mink 2 x different SR open wagons 5 x different OAA wagons 1 x GWR toad 1 x SECR 6-wheel brake plus the Calender, APT book, coasters, pens, badge and leaflets. Absolutely delighted. Great value.

Me too, for my single Warwell pre-order. That was indeed very quick. Well done, Accurascale!

For many years Hawick and District Railway Society ran a local show here in Hawick, annually on the English August Bank Holiday Weekend, which brought in local families and also visitors from the Carlisle/Newcastle catchment areas. Our most recent show had been in 2019, which was a lot of hard work, and given our age profile, we are mostly now over 70, we were minded that 2020 could be our last show. The pandemic put paid to that idea, leaving a feeling of unfinished business and we have constantly been asked when we will have another show. Tentative discussion began late last summer, but I have not posted until now, as it has only recently become apparent that the 2024 show will be on. So, the dates are restored to the diary. Saturday 24th August, 10am till 5pm and Sunday 25th August 10am till 4pm, in the Auld Baths, Bath Street, Hawick.

I am puzzled as to the reference on the Iron Mink to "established 2018". My first dealings with Rapido were indeed 2018 when I ordered Via Rail Budd RDC #6148 in HO. I don't normally do North American outline HO but this model represented the last RDC to run in passenger service in Vancouver Island, and on which I had a ride a few days before closure of the service in 2012. However I see from old threads on BRMWeb that others had already heard of Rapido by as early as 2013 and that the APT-E pre-dates 2018. So far my only other Rapido order had been for a Jones Goods via Rails of Sheffield, but then I got tempted when others posted their Mystery Box contents in this thread and I ordered a £250 box, which I have just been notified will arrive tomorrow.

My experience too. Before the deadline last week I had placed two small orders for scenic materials, one of which I had expected to be a small enough order to come in a jiffy bag or large letter. Both orders came separately in large boxes, just inside the maximum 45 x 35 x 16cm for small parcels and the excess space in the boxes filled with copious amounts of bubble wrap. Thanks, Hattons, this will come in very useful for my future eBay sales.

I just happened to take a look at their 00 products page earlier this evening and I notice that all the commissioned items for pre-order (Barclay 0-4-0ST, SECR P class, Genesis coaches and Warwells) are now showing as "Sold out on pre-order". It looks to me as though they have now closed their pre-order books and will only supply those items which are already pre-ordered. https://www.hattons.co.uk/stocklist/siteresults?search/scales/OO/product-types/Coaches%2CSteam locos%2CWagons/brands/Hattons Originals

The end of an era. I have been dealing with Hattons since 1974 and although I only visited the original shop at 180 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, I have dealt with them mail order through the years since, and have spoken to a few of the staff either on the telephone or when Hattons have taken a stall at shows to promote Hattons Originals. It has been difficult to let go. Last week I ordered two pre-owned Dapol wagons, then earlier this week I placed two small orders for various scenic items. Finally this afternoon, my final final order, I pre-ordered a Warwell wagon (I already have one from the first batch). As I have no other pre-orders with them, that will be the end when the Warwell arrives later in the year. Sad to see Hattons closing and I sincerely hope that their ever helpful staff will quickly find satisfying new employment.

My 70% offer arrived right on the stroke of midnight last Thursday evening just as soon as Thursday turned to Friday. I actually happened to be on eBay at that moment when the offer appeared.

When this was posted I was already awaiting an order for two boxed Dapol wagons described as "musty smell" on the basis that the price was good for wagons which I had been looking out for, that I have almost no sense of smell nowadays and that if the wife complains I can always keep them in the summer house and bring them outdoors on dry days until any smell dissipates. I had already received an acknowledgement of my order but as of now still no picked and packed message or tracking information, so I assume Hattons dispatch department is inundated and that I will hear from them eventually.

Looking forward to the show. I usually visit on the Friday but other commitments this year mean changing my day to Saturday. I have booked advance saver on Avanti from Carlisle for the Saturday so should be at the show if the train actually runs (can no longer rely on Avanti, sadly). I would recommend avoiding Edinburgh-Glasgow trains on the Saturday. Will be very busy with rugby fans travelling to and from Murrayfield for the Six Nations,, and Hearts supporters travelling the opposite way for their away game at Ibrox against Rangers.

70% in my case. I guess eBay have some sort of AI formula which decides who receives which offers, depending on your individual recent sales history.

Sad news indeed. I thought my wife was winding me up when she said that she had seen on Facebook that Hattons were closing down. I go back just a few months short of 50 years, summer of 1974 in fact when the West Coast electrification north of Crewe began and there was a promotional offer, Glasgow to Liverpool in 3 hours each way for £3 return. A few times that summer I was up early to catch the train, then one of Liverpool's green Leyland Atlanteans from Lime Street station to 180 Smithdown Road, where the late Norman Hatton would be behind the counter. I would buy a boxload of stuff, from obsolete Hornby-Dublo to contemporary new and second hand rolling stock. i vividly recall carting big cardboard boxes of stuff back onto the train in the evening. Around 90% of my purchases were quickly sold on to clubmates or at swapmeets but many of the items I still have to this day. Since 1974, I have been buying rolling stock for my personal collection from them occasionally, though now by mail order (never got round to visiting their new Widnes outlet). Really shocked and sorry to see the end of an era.

It would have been a Friday morning in April 2002 , because some lines were closed due to a signalling control centre fault, and after a wait of around 20 to 30 minutes at Kensington Olympia we went via Nunhead and Catford, somewhat slowly and following a stopping service, resulting in a Paris arrival 2 hours late and missing the TGV to Lausanne on which we had reservations. We travelled on a later TGV which was packed with workers going home for the weekend. We stood in the vestibule as far as Dijon where a lot of passengers alighted and we were able to find seats for the remainder of the journey.

My thoughts entirely. People stranded in the run up to Christmas due to a strike of Channel Tunnel staff and again in the run up to New Year due to a tunnel under the Thames being flooded, and with no alternative transport offered by Eurostar to their customers. I have used Eurostar a few times in the past when it left from Waterloo so it never needed to cross the Thames (although it did so on one trip, via Chelsea Bridge, to do a reversal at Kensington Olympia) and it had a choice of several routes to reach Ashford. I no longer use Eurostar, it has become unreliable, as have the trains to London from the north, and I prefer to fly nowadays which is cheaper and quicker, with Newcastle Airport just an hour's drive from home.

I wasn't planning on eBaying over the New Year holiday period, but when I read your post I checked in on eBay and I also found that I have no discounted fees offer for this weekend. Like yourself, I had been receiving these offers every second week for a while now, although they had been less generous lately, having changed from 80% discount to 70% discount a few months ago.

Or a smelly restaurant car. The story may be apocryphal but I recall hearing on the railway modelling circuit some years ago of someone installing in a 00 dining car a coil of thin wire which would heat when current was picked up through the wheels, and was capable of burning a tiny piece of bacon placed against it..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276220910663?hash=item40500c9c47:g:ZxcAAOSwKNVlWMfr&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwPjSqwMK%2F44Ym3uus13JhdZuzdcNxR6xMebkvOs9q7ybc6IGIM8U%2F4iplck9C8aitAQ1gmlgudBkuaH%2BwK2%2BzpAa%2FcTfKJmgXf1kBuEbAXxgLSXTNRKJLvyb2FomRUIP9eWA5H2DGVt8F%2FFauqEh6Gy%2FOOsFh3oR2288FP9C5sk2ccABm5%2Bk3atwNpaby03TAT9iblLH9mJGzM%2FctX31eRSDJaw0ykSQlMAKxdKnMccXOUGC4FEZ0ZfrD1Z3l8cEoA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5aIj-CKYw "ITEM IS IN GOOD CONDITION. ITEM HAS NO DAMAGES." I wonder where all the wheels went.

I once had a friend who had a hobby of firing up old aeroplane engines. Sadly no longer with us, but it wasn't his aero engines which killed him.

This is an odd looking Jaguar Mk VII - Roadrailer with 6 rail wheels? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394837464597?hash=item5bee259615%3Ag%3AHZgAAOSwZwtk6N45&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwFMnvuAWbFmXrF1E%2FUt2o06uDyJOxm6xHFDLF1Px05p4FZoXLE6wUhLatjUYYscj36z78%2FT3kKcSQC%2BjPAqDEykDGxGA93CtYRRnFWEE9teg23mYysc4UFTq%2BJ4hie2Ho8XXFRfUWWudMkNOyklCzKkz%2Bhoct%2FyliraGYnBIBP1N2wM1RA5QIz897qlP%2FHXfvKWLG2w9OOySAjGrqe4fWGML2ocK%2B4P6GDISDvhxdWiorxW%2Fca4p%2BCEo5fxmirwSlw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7awnq6JYw&LH_BIN=1

For my most recent eBay sales I have been sending by Royal Mail Tracked 48. Postman comes and collects and brings a pre-printed label. £3.29 each time for a small parcel, including insurance, though so far I have not had any problems with the service.