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Under the bridge at Cross Wynd Hawick a section of rail buried at a shallow depth was still visible as recently as 2008, either part of the original Waverley Route track which was lifted in 1972 or a discarded rail from the adjacent wagon workshop siding.

Netherdale Siding, Galashiels, Scotland. Accessed from the Selkirk branch which ran on the embankment to the left, this short section of line closed in the 1960s. Sleepers were still in situ in 2019.

East Branch and Lincoln Railroad in 2010. A logging railroad in New Hampshire USA closed shortly after World War 2, which followed the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River into the hills above Lincoln. A three mile section now forms part of the walk from the nearest road towards the Franconia Falls. The rails are gone but the ties have been left in situ, some still complete with their spikes, The first four miles out of Lincoln has been subsumed into highway, with one of the locomotives preserved alongside the highway at the entrance to Loon Mountain Ski Resort. At Lincoln the line made an end on connection with the Boston and Maine Railroad. After the B & M closed the route in the 1970s, the State of New Hampshire took over the tracks and heritage tourist trains continued to run down the valley as well as very occasional freight. However on my visit to the freight yard in 2010 it looked as though there had been no activity there for some time.

Closed in 1913, some track of the four mile long three foot gauge Skye Marble Railway was still in situ at Broadford in 2016.

I can second that. A German friend of ours recommended them. My wife and I go to Glasgow two or three times a year and now usually stay in Motel One next to Glasgow Central Station. Rooms are smaller than you would find in a luxury hotel and breakfasts are continental style, but prices are very reasonable, especially in low season. Last summer we travelled to Würzburg, using Lufthansa to Frankfurt and ICE train from there. If you have time to go to Franconia, the Deutsches Dampflok Museum at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, and the Dampfbahn Frankische Schweiz from Ebermannstadt to Behringsmüle are both well worth visiting.

Looks like it is eBay funded. I bought an item of rolling stock this morning. Just checked my Purchase History and Nectar points record on eBay. Both showing full price before discount, and basic Nectar points awarded on basis of full price. A separate purchase from another seller, which was not discounted, gained 10x Nectar points as an eligible transaction under the current Nectar offer.

Just a heads-up for anyone else who was too late to order the Fort William pack and ordered one of the alternative packs containing the 2 sleepers plus club car and seated/guard. The photos on the website are for illustration only and do not necessarily correspond with the pack contents. McC posted here on Wednesday that photos of the production items were now on the web which prompted me to look. It was unclear to me at first because I was viewing the items which I believed I had ordered but the pack contents were described differently as 4 x sleeping cars. It was eventually established that I had ordered wrongly and it looked like I would need to cancel as all packs had meantime gone out of stock. Happily Patrick found me a cancellation and facilitated changing my order to the correct pack. Top class customer service!

I am assuming this current limited release was Hornby testing the market and now that these are fetching a premium on eBay there will be a further release announced shortly, probably at a higher price than 49.95 for a pair but still less than the eBay rip off merchants want to charge.

When I tried to place a pre-order on my account with Gaugemaster their response was "These Hornby items have already been and gone and are showing as discontinued from the information we have. Unless they plan to do a re-run, they launch their new items for 2023 next Monday so might be on that, that is it for the moment."

On the back of the claim that the HM2000 was incompatible with coreless motors I almost cancelled my Bachmann Caledonian 812 which has a coreless motor. Then I discovered that I already had a coreless motor in my Wickman Trolley which runs perfectly happily with the HM2000. As I understand it, the problem with the HM2000 is the pulse power tends to heat up electric motors, and in a coreless motor there is nowhere for the heat to dissipate so the motor will overheat and burn out. I only have a short end to end layout on which my 812 and Wickham both run perfectly happily on the HM2000, but they are never run at full power and only run for short periods as my layout is not a continuous circuit. In my opinion it is OK to run a coreless motor on the HM2000 so long as you don't give it full power or run it continuously for several minutes.

Just had a look at my order for pack ACC2222IN1 in eager anticipation. Delighted to see the coach destinations Fort William as this would be my preferred option rather than having to change them from Inverness. Concerned though that the pack description refers to four sleeping cars with different numbers from those illustrated, rather than two sleepers plus club car and seated/guards. Will message Accurascale to clarify.

I agree the box is ridiculously large. I already have DB990092 from the first batch and currently awaiting my pre-order for DB990099 from the second batch. I prefer to keep my wagons in their original boxes while not on the layout, but running out of storage space, and was pondering just the other day whether I would find a safe alternative means of storage for these wagons while sparing the space taken up by their oversize boxes. Will maybe discard the inner plastic and replace it with some bubble wrap so that both can go in the one box.

A general release of the Drax Biomass wagons would probably be a good seller for Hornby, given how the Tier 1 exclusives flew off the shelves. Considering the Accurascale IIA biomass wagons retail for 74.95 for a pair, this would be around the price I would be prepared to pay for two, but no way will I pay the rip off prices currently being asked on eBay for Hattons or Tier 1 exclusives. I'm expecting Hornby to announce the Drax Biomass wagon on general release next week, with different running numbers. The price will be higher than the Tier 1 exclusives, more likely around the 35 to 45 pounds range for a single wagon.

Today the local estate agent has commissioned the Accurascale Research Team to survey the local pub which is about to be put on the market. Two of the team are hard at work in the beer garden while the third has found a vantage point on the roof of a platelayer's hut on the adjacent railway, from which to survey the upper level. After completing the survey they will no doubt stay for a few refreshments.

Today I received three out of the five eBay items which I ordered at the start of Christmas week. Now only two eBay purchases still to come.

Me too. An eBay purchase for my wife, ordered on Monday, delivered today, Christmas Eve, by Royal Mail, just in time for Christmas.

Couriers have been catching up here today. Regular postie came with Christmas cards, then Evri courier with 2 eBay purchases, then a lady postie with 3 parcels, including one sent on 12th December and my RM48 which was sent on Thursday 15th and had been sat in Edinburgh.

Yes indeed. A Royal Mail tracked 48 sent to me from Kent last Thursday gets scanned daily in Edinburgh, still hasn't arrived here. One parcel sent by DHL and one by Yodel each arrived here the following day. Christmas cards are arriving here daily but never the long awaited parcels. I am awaiting several eBay purchases from Royal Mail and Evri from earlier this month. Have had no Evri deliveries since last month and the only Royal Mail parcel so far this month arrived on 5th December - one which had already been refunded by eBay and for which I then had to resend payment to the seller.

I ordered an HMA pack from Accurascale on Saturday. When I arrived home from the supermarket this morning (Tuesday) the parcel was waiting for me outside my back door, having been dropped off by DHL half an hour earlier. Well done Accurascale, top service, at a time when everything else from other sellers seems to be delayed in transit.

Happy ending. Buyer has now received the Hornby coach at lunchtime today.

Don't get me started. We have Morrisons, Sainsburys, Aldi and Lidl supermakets in town, the first two of which offer home delivery. Yet all too often I see Tesco and Aldi home delivery vans in this town, which must have come at least a 36 mile round trip from their nearest possible depot.

Long extinct from Network Rail tracks, the Lord Westwood class locomotive was inspired by the designs of the Great Western Railway. The Accurascale Research Team paid a visit to a heritage railway near the Anglo-Scottish border to survey a preserved example with a view to producing a scale model.

I suppose in theory you could, but why would you want to if you are located within uk? From my location here in Scotland, most of my eBay sales are exported to England and a few to Wales. As I use eBay Global Shipping Programme for anything outwith uk these are the same as sales to England as far as I am concerned, since my responsibility ends when the item arrives at the eBay distribution depot at Lichfield, just the same as if delivered to a buyer's home address in England. Given the current mess with deliveries though, I have two eBay sales ending next week and probably won't be doing any more listings for the foreseeable future.

Me too. 1) Sold an item on eBay at the end of October, buyer wrote back after three weeks saying no sign of item. Tracking confirmed that post office had accepted it but no record of delivery. I refunded him and claimed from Royal Mail. I thought the 4.45 second class recorded delivery would provide adequate coverage. Initially Royal Mail asked me for proof of value and I sent them a screenshot of the eBay page showing the sale price. Then they came back and said they needed proof of what I originally paid for the item, which being a fairly rare Hornby Dublo coach I had bought years ago and no longer had the receipt. So the only compensation they gave me was 8 x first class stamps. I wrote to the buyer and said that I would trust his honesty to let me know if the coach ever turned up. Heard nothing further. 2) I had another buyer complain yesterday of non-delivery of a Hornby Mk3 which I posted two weeks ago, but he has agreed to wait another week. 3) On the other hand as a buyer, last month I had cause to contact a seller re 2 x Hornby wagons which I had bought for 13 pounds and which never arrived. When I had no response from him I got eBay involved and they refunded me in full. Two days after I received the refund, the wagons arrived. I messaged the seller to say I wanted to remove the negative feedback I had given and to re-send him the 13 pounds. He apologised that he had not responded previously as he had been in hospital since he posted the items. I arranged to send the money direct to his Paypal address, he thanked me for my honesty and eBay removed the feedback.

Considering Scotland holds most of Great Britain's natural resources, in my opinion England would be more likely to become a third world needy country. The constitutional argument is best left for Facebook rather than here, all I will say is let us all hope that none of our British Nations ever become third world and needy. Back on topic the 230s could have potential for some of Scotland's lightly used lines, to Stranraer, Kyle of Lochalsh, for example so it is unfortunate that the project appears to be floundering. Worrying times for the Vivarail staff and their families.