cessna152towser

I'm in a similar situation. For some years I have been buying and selling on eBay.uk while using a German e-mail address for Paypal. Neither eBay nor Paypal have as yet advised me of any issues which might arise from brexit.

On Rails website this morning:- Hornby J15 65477 for £69.50 (plus £4 postage) - last few left. Shaves another £4.49 over Hornby's own already discounted price. I would have gone for this if I hadn't bought one already from Bure Valley at £60 plus £5 postage. https://railsofsheffield.com/products/29939/Hornby-r3415-oo-gauge-class-j15-br-black-early-0-6-0-steam-locomotive-no-65477

Are Bachmann DBSOs that rare or expensive? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-39-725DC-BR-Blue-Grey-InterCity-Mk2F-DBSO-Driving-Brake-Renumbered/353287055764?hash=item52418ca994:g:Pc4AAOSwk-BfZQhp and https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-39-725DC-BR-Blue-Grey-InterCity-Mk2F-DBSO-Driving-Brake-OO-Gauge/353290246135?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dff10f20a1a49428cbe9b758df86def1c%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D353287055764%26itm%3D353290246135%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26brand%3DBachmann&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A612d1c19-3b2f-11eb-bd9a-520cfbb4c77e|parentrq%3A4e92fc631760a9bdee33c7f3fffe4930|iid%3A1 Two listed, each £129.95, plus postage. At that price I won't be having one.

An update:- My wagons from Keighley arrived at lunchtime today - 22 days in the post. All's well that ends well. However one Bachmann coach which I posted to Walsall on 27th November appears to be still undelivered to the purchaser.

Pros and cons to that. I'd planned to buy the Heljan model of the Dalmellington-Kilmarnock railbus as soon as it was released as my mother was born in Kilmarnock, and I often saw the real railbus while it was still in service and I've been down the Dalmellington branch on railtours a few times after it became freight only. I somehow missed its release and only found out on RMWeb recently that it had already been released five years ago. It was out of stock at all the usual box shifters but Olivia's still had three in stock, due to their pricing policy. I was very grateful to be able to buy one, even though I had to pay full price. If it still been in mint condition I may have approached Olivia's about a possible replacement but as I have damaged the steps and got glue on the bodywork I cannot reasonably expect them to take it back and replace it. I'll see what Heljan, whom failing Gaugemaster or Peters Spares have to say and if there are no spares available it may need to became a static item.

Thanks for your responses. My reasoning in choosing to approach Heljan rather than Olivia's is that the instruction sheet gives an e-mail contact for spare parts. I would want to pay for replacement steps (which I broke) but to have the motor repaired or replaced at maker's expense since a new mechanism should not fail after a few short runs.

I seem to have been unlucky with the Park Royal Railbus. Purchased brand new from Olivia's Trains and received by parcel post on 31st October. It has only been up and down my small end to end layout a few times. The running was a bit sluggish and surging, which I assumed would loosen up once it had been run in. On Sunday I damaged the steps on one side when removing it from the box. Attempts to repair turned into an utter frustration with the hooks on both sets of spare plastic steps where they should slide onto the metal strips becoming broken. I eventually managed to re-assemble the steps with super glue which was rather messy. Today I took it out to clean off the excess glue and give it another run. It ran a short distance then ground to a stop and filled with smoke. I'm minded to raise the matter with Heljan but concerned that although I have never removed the bodywork from the chassis, I may have invalidated the warranty by doing a botched DIY job on the steps repair. I'll e-mail Heljan and see what they say. Any thoughts?

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*** price will be amended shortly ** Up or down, we wonder.

I am wondering how long is reasonable given the current state of the post before going down the route of Item Not Received and refund? A job lot of 00 which I purchased on eBay was posted second class signed for at Keighley, Yorkshire on 17th November and still hasn't arrived. When I enquired at our local post office this morning I was told it has not arrived yet and that there are delays all over. I got the distinct impression the post office official probably thought I was being impatient. Reported on eBay as Item not Received and seller has replied "hi,its a nightmare at the moment, please give it a bit longer and hopefully it will arrive" Equally there are a couple of items of rolling stock which I sold during the second half of November, and sent second class signed for and still showing as in transit to the buyers.

After videoing the flashing tail lamp on the PTA wagons last week, the idea occurred to me that the PFAs would also be a suitable video subject. Can you spot the Cemflo in the siding? https://www.flickr.com/photos/cessna152towser/50675355252/in/dateposted-public/

A year or so ago I bought the Rapido Budd RDC as Via Rail #6148 as a memento of my trips on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway during past visits. I had occasion to run it in the darkened room this evening. I noted that the four headlights (two up top near the horns and two lower down towards the sides) illuminate in the direction of travel only but the other lights (the white lights of the illuminated number panels and the red lights alongside them) light up at both ends in both directions. This differs from European practice in having red lights visible in the direction of travel. Is this correct?

Oh my poor wallet! I bought the single APCM8594 some while back and it has only ever run with a rake of vintage Triang-Hornby PCVs in a mixed livery of yellow and two shades of grey and it really puts the rest of the rake to shame. It was crying out for some more Accurascale partners so I have yielded to temptation and bought a three pack. Great value with this generous discount, thanks Accurascale.

I added a flat wagon as a spacer between the tail lighted wagon and the Branor Camtruck and videod the PTAs in action. File is 60Mb so too big to upload here but I have embedded a link to my Flickr:-

Yippee! Result! In the natural daylight of this morning I was able to move the switch with a small Marklin screwdriver. Tail light works! With or without the tail light these are super wagons.

A Hornby advert for versions of the J15 at £77.99 kept popping up when I was browsing non-railway links. Thought I would shop around a bit and I got myelf a Hornby early crest 65477 from Bure Valley for £60 plus £5 postage. They still had two left at that price as I typed this. http://www.burevalleymodels.com/p/8742/R3415---BR-Class-J15-65477-BR-Black-Early

Difficult to illustrate as my pocket camera lacks a macro setting, but there is no switch flush with the surface of the slot on the underside of the wagon. Otherwise I am very pleased with the wagons. They run well and the knuckle couplings even accept being propelled through Peco Setrack curved point (second radius 17.25 inch). Much more detail than the Lima set which I sold over thirty years ago when I moved here.

Thanks for the heads up. I tried to reach the microswitch through the slot but even the smallest Marklin screwdriver can't reach in far enough to operate the switch. I then tried a narrow probe but all that did was push upwards the little black box next to the battery. I can't get the tail light to work at all. My wife, who has over 20 years model railway experience with Markin products also tried it, and was unsuccessful, she says this is Chinese crap. I hope you can prove her wrong as Accurascale has never disappointed me previously.

Glasgow City Council active heritage fleet as seen in 2010. Left to right, L163 (SGD65) a 1958 Leyland PD2/24, L446 (SGD448) a 1961 Leyland PD3, D217 (FYS999) a 1958 Daimler CVD6-50, and L108 (FYS8) a 1958 Leyland PD2/24 converted to open top configuration.

The Glasgow City Council heritage buses weren't out for Model Rail in February this year. This privately owned AEC Regent with identical bodywork was operating shuttles to and from Model Rail on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday

My wife at Clitheroe services on the A59 during summer 2018,, with a 1988 Volvo B10M Van Hool Alizee SH which she used to own. Originally owned by Burrell, trading as Barnard Castle coaches. First registered as F644VPY. She has since sold it to a young enthusiast who has restored it to original livery, regained original registration, and is in the process of restoring the interior as near as possible to original.

Me and my wife at Glasgow Riverside Museum in 2012 with one of Glasgow City Council's heritage fleet, a 1961 Leyland PD3. I was driving that day and my wife was clippie.

That's a Leyland L1 Leopard. One of a batch of 30 introduced in 1960, for the Glasgow-London service, registered OCS725 to OCS744. Withdrawn and sold by Western in 1966 when superseded by newer vehicles. Western had many coaches with this style of coachwork by Alexander but what we can see of the headlight/radiator intake arrangement identifies this as one of the small batch of Leylands.

Tracking showing mine have reached Warrington Parcels Sorting Centre. Should be here Monday or Tuesday. Eager anticipation!

Our local Lidl had the Hornby Paddington junior sets for sale yesterday. I think these will sell well around here as this is the first time in 31 years here that I have seen the Hornby brand on sale locally (other than vintage second hand items in the local antique shop). New opportunity for Hornby to make inroads in a new area of the country. Our nearest Hornby stockist model shop btw is 45 miles away.