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So I got fed up and frustrated of waiting for my first Accurascale 37 to arrive and after Friday evening wine I bought a second hand Lima 37 184 in Railfreight petroleum grey on eBay for 33 quid. It arrived on Monday and by Lima standards is a good runner and has been running up and down my layout all day Monday and Tuesday but will probably be sidelined once my Accurascale 37 423 Spirit of the Lakes arrives later this week.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115752042063?hash=item1af35bfe4f:g:J1YAAOSwu75kJxh6&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4E5YcD7fr2v949jfmABO3i6%2F79GPj3uxN3To9MrangGX9PHZcTT9D55lxpFZlAfkonhX99HJPC9iQen5h171IggQ63xQIxusI3lknRfJIGihnG71KgDOruoqzsY3E1PAh40jR1%2B4agWQ8bpGPUhhLW7h3JmC%2BeOkcRW%2B4i3javmxGP5r5NJUA0JvRExpwqbfs7fPHhtaqiJbtZqDi63%2BdOhGEumWh1gAhk2Kequ7UD5VcUwMTGD86k4swI6LJcu7%2BzRGtmH3p412Uiu9dr6QZv3xZtwTzmeA2Pgvk0D0tYgl|tkp%3ABk9SR9qovYP2YQ From the same seller as offered us:- This one is equally disgusting. Looks like it has lost its glazing, also it is Playcraft HO although described as Hornby-Dublo.

My thoughts entirely. All this week I have been visiting this thread several times per day hoping for clues as to when I might receive my analogue 37423 Spirit of the Lakes. Every day I have waded through comments on sound function and references to different types of decoders/speakers which I as a luddite can never comprehend. Just as another week seemed about to end with no news, the retailer phoned me after 5 o'clock this evening to confirm he had just received my loco and requested me to pay the balance. I am promised it will be posted on Monday so hopefully next week I will at last have the opportunity to compare the new Accurascale model with my older Lima and Bachmann 37s.

The pandemic, almost immediately followed by the increased cost of living has certainly deterred retired people such as myself from travelling as much as before. I'm now at home a lot more extracting better value from running my model trains and running the household heating, compared to 2019 and previous. My car mileage between the April 2022 to April 2023 MoT tests was just 1,260 miles and during that period I have made probably about only a dozen train or bus journeys.

37 411 ran in Scotland as Ty Hafan from April 1999 till March 2001 before name change to Scottish Railway Preservation Society. 37 428 ran in Scotland as David Lloyd George from May 1991 till June 1997 before name change to The Royal Scotsman. 37 430 ran in Scotland as Cwmbran from August 1992 till March 2000. I recall seeing all of those on West Highland line operations during the 1990s. Dates information from Class 37 loco group fleet histories database. https://www.class37.co.uk/history.aspx

Me too. I still have ten Lima 37s, mostly certificated limited editions. Might as well take them out of their boxes and give them a run from time to time.

Looks like it. All this seller's listings would appear to be now gone.

I travelled in and out of Queen Street fairly often from starting my studies at Glasgow Uni in 1969 till I moved away from the Glasgow area in 1989. From 1969 until the early 70's I often travelled to Stirling on a Sunday to visit friends. In those days there was no local Sunday service on that route so I was dependent on the Dundee and Aberdeen trains. The 10:10 ex Queen Street was always worked by a type 2 (class 26 or 27). On one occasion it stalled on Cowlairs incline and a class 29 was sent down light from Eastfield to provide banking assistance. Returning home I would catch a train at Stirling around 8:30pm which had originated at Aberdeen and was worked by a class 40. I made a few trips on the Swindon Inter-City DMUs on the Glasgow-Edinburgh route but I best remember the top and tail 27/1s on Mark 2 stock, and the push-pull 47s on Mark 3s which came later. Type 2s hauled the few Oban and Fort William trains which I travelled on during the 1970s. In 1974 I travelled from Queen Street to Aberdeen on a Sunday afternoon on a Freedom of Scotland weekly ticket. I remember vividly that the train left Glasgow behind a class 47 because the loco caught fire on Larbert Viaduct. Coaching stock in 1969/70 included a few Mark 1s still in maroon but gradually blue and grey prevailed at Queen Street and the last maroon stock which I can recall was in the rake used for testing and crew training between Shields Depot and Wemyss Bay in 1973/74 immediately prior to the introduction of WCML electrification over Beattock. The Scottish Region also had a pair of Thomson buffet cars, in blue and grey livery, which were withdrawn in the early 1970s, and these were occasionally seen included in rakes which operated in and out of Queen Street.

There is a BR23 available to haul the five coach Rheingold set, but as this rake is too long to run round at the terminus it typically is worked back to the fiddle yard by a British outline loco.

The Lilliput Rheingold is a beautiful set. My wife is German and she has this set of coaches which occasionally get a run on my British 00 layout.

Just received a strange e-mail this afternoon. Supposedly from Wordpress and titled "Wallet Updating Notification" with a reply address of sales@rainbowrailways.co.uk The e-mail says "Merchant has credited your wallet byGBP 1". I have bought from Rainbow Railways in the past but have no record of having a "wallet" with them, nor can I think of any reason why they would gift me one pound. Have they been hacked?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234931840101?hash=item36b3076465:g:N6sAAOSwAjpj~S~n From the same seller, described as "Fernella" and as an O gauge model in LMS Corporate livery black. The photo shows the correctly spelled nameplate Fenella of a maroon liveried Manx loco.

Yes indeed. This morning I have been visiting the websites of all the usual online retailers, Hattons, Rails, Kernow, Hampshire, Derails etc and all sold out of 37 423 on pre-order. Found 37 423 was still available at Colletts, but last analogue one, so I got in quick and spent my Paypal refund. I even saved 4.50 as Colletts were offering free postage. For anyone else still searching for 37 423, Colletts still have one DCC version available for pre-order as of now.

I ordered 409 from a retailer who accepted payment and confirmed my order. A few days later I placed an order with the same retailer for 423. I had no acknowledgment of this second order and been trying without success to contact them via e-mail and Facebook to confirm that my order was accepted. Just received a message from Paypal this morning that my payment for 423 has been cancelled. I messaged the Paypal rep and got a reply that they can't say why it has been cancelled as "the decision was automated". Since I ordered 423 a couple of unexpected bills have come in so I now have an opportunity to scramble back from the brink. Though I had been looking forward to this one as I have taken a few photos of the full size loco at Carlisle and Whitehaven, so if I don't hear back from the retailer within the next few days I will probably re-order from elsewhere.

Described as "Spacers Repairs", how much space for the werewolf?

Great Central had a few BR Suburbans still in blue in the late 1970s. I was a regular visitor there from 1976. Travelled between Loughborough and Quorn in a rake of blue and grey Mark 1s with a Gresley buffet/griddle in blue/grey but the all blue suburbans were never in use any time I was there. I rode once in a blue liveried set on the Weardale Railway when they first re-opened at Stanhope, early 2000s, hauled by the Maerdy Monster industrial steam tank loco which was only there for a short time. Three coaches, compartment second, compartment brake 2nd, and one composite with the side corridor access to a toilet. I think the set was on loan from the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway at the time. Never saw this set again since. If only I had taken a camera with me that day. Other than that, living in Scotland, I can only recall the BR suburbans in maroon or crimson. The last of them finished in Scottish region in 1967 with none repainted in blue so far as I can recall. In preservation I have seen maroon suburbans on the Keighley and Worth Valley and the North Norfolk.

Could be the controller. I have the blue Bagnall, "Satellite" which was split from an iTraveller set. I run it on an H+M 2000 and find it is a nice slow crawler. Only limitation is the short wheelbase so it needs a bit more speed when negotiating pointwork.

Just received my first purchase from Zetland. One Hornby coach, an R4886 Bulleid Composite at a very fair price, ordered Thursday, posted Friday, delivered this morning Saturday. Nice friendly personal touch to e-mails. Will be happy to give more business to this dealer.

I am loving those pictures, keep them coming. Having travelled in Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and France during my student years in the 1970s, I recognise many of the trains in your pictures, which bring back my own personal happy memories. In those days I was also using a Kodak Instamatic but sadly was not a prolific photographer so have very few railway photos of that era from the European mainland.

Me too. Items arrived quickly and well packed. He had 100% positive feedback at that time. Checking his feedback again this evening, he now has two negatives, both from the same buyer.

Interesting that when I contacted Hornby in January of this year regarding my pre-order from 2020 for R3836, Standard 2MT 78047, the reply which I received was:- "Thank you for contacting us, unfortunately this item is completely sold out, your order most likely got cancelled if the payment method failed, you should have had received an email back then, but I am unsure of what has happened." Completely Sold Out, they said, just a few weeks ago, yet now it is showing on their website as available for pre-order - but for a price of 217.99 compared to the 179.99 originally quoted.

Me too, more than doubled my Accurascale collection since I posted a little over a year ago. Now 84 assorted wagons, plus an MDW 3-pack on order. 4 Mk5 Caledonian Sleeper coaches, plus a Mk2b on order. 1 Class 37 409 Lord Hinton on order which will be my first Accurascale loco.

I had a Lima Western many years ago. At an auction four weeks ago, nostalgia got the better of me and I bought a second hand Lima D1016 Western Gladiator in maroon for 15 pounds. It's a nice runner.

Full shelves with plenty of packs of Moroccan tomatoes in several sizes, in our local Morrisons this morning. Yet the lady on the checkout says they are still being told to ration them to two packs per customer.

It was great to meet you guys in Glasgow. We had a nice discussion about the very large boxes full of airbags necessary to protect the contents from the vagaries of DHL, and about the little national flags next to our reviews, my apologies for drifting into politics at that point.