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  1. stewartingram
    I think that brown livery must represent an ex-works loco straight out of the paintshop, matching the coaches. But I'm sure that in service it would b much darker. The loco would never be spotlessly clean, with ingrained dirt on wooden planks. It is a steam loco, with soot and smoke after all.
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    Do you have a link for the 3D print?
  3. stewartingram
    "Not for me", "Too Expensive", "Can't wait for 3 years for it", etc....
  4. stewartingram
    The rule also applies to furry dice hanging on the mirror. But try to find specifically that in print, though people have been charged for it./
  5. stewartingram
    It is the position that matters, not its use. To put it simply, nothing should block your vision within the arc of the windscreen wipers.
  6. stewartingram
    Seems to be a good "how-to" there, but he still has his phone illegally placed on the windscreen!
  7. stewartingram
    Any idea of individual id's of these, and roughly how long they have been there?
  8. stewartingram
    I purchased one of these when they were first produced
  9. stewartingram
    Regarding no communication to passengers with updates - when the batteries go flat I assume the train is completely dead. So 1) how could the driver get updates from control with no radio? and 2) even if he somehow got an update, how could he tell the passengers - no PA? I doubt very much that he would wander off through the train (if indeed he is allowed to leave his cab?
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    Are the Replica mu chassis still available? I have one in my Wickham 109.
  11. stewartingram
    Plrnty of aftermarket ones (usually better anyay) online. Try Wizard for starters?
  12. stewartingram
    Online Preserved stocklist site: Preserved Railway Stocklist - Preserved & Private Coaches, Wagons and More (ukprsl.uk)
  13. stewartingram
    Given the choice, I won't use couriers. Mainly on principal, I like to support our national (now partly privatised) Royal Mail service. Incoming mail I don't usually have the choice (I'm not sending), but outgoing I do. By choice I certainly wouldn't use Evri or Yodel under any circumstances. RM has always been good for me without exception in all cases over many years. All the couriers have given trouble at one time or another. As stated above, there are many options with RM, don't take the 1st offer as the best.
  14. stewartingram
    Why would a Lincoln bus be in Peterborough?
  15. stewartingram
    Ah D6704. I have an electrification flash from this loco. which apparently fell off the loco (I was NOT involved!) during a strike day in the early `1960s. Don't ask.
  16. stewartingram
    I remember being taken to one in the Cambridge Corn Exchange when I was knee high to a grasshopper. Possibly I went to 2 there? Must have been the early 1950s, perhaps setting me on the path of modelling.
  17. stewartingram
    That pic has been on here before. An export order being trialled on BR tracks as I remember it, but I have no more details.
  18. stewartingram
    I have one I converted from a Hornby 110 when they were introduced. No added bits from anyone, all my own work. I picked up an etched 104 cab conversion in recent times to improve it, but I'm tempted by the Heljan version. (Never had a problem with Heljan, despite what others say). An absolute must for my Cambridge collection, green with one blue car; added to my Bachmann 101 converted to a 3-car from 2 x 2-car + a Lima centre car (again 2x green + the blue centre car). But I'm bauking at the price at the moment.
  19. stewartingram
    If you get a replacement psu with the wrong plug, chop it off. Cut a length of cable (a few iches) off your defective one, and join it with a choc block. If you want it really fancy, put the chock block in a plastic box. Just make sure you get the polarities correct!
  20. stewartingram
    Needs one after travelling from Cambridge 😀
  21. stewartingram
    Not a problem if you want a remag, just pm me.
  22. stewartingram
    That may have been a glorious typo! When I was working for Pye/Philips, I acquired a stash of tubing which I used for point control (& still have some). I typed polythene without thinking - just substitute PTFE! Used as wire insulation at work, that fact is also useful if you wish to feed it between the sleepers to cross tracks.
  23. stewartingram
    Try electronics suppliers for polythene tubing. The likes of RS Components, Farnell, etc.
  24. stewartingram
    Looks like Amanda Holden...
  25. stewartingram
    I mremember riding on the old emus from Lancaster to Morecambe, with the hand operated sliding doors fully open. It seemed that most people used them like that.
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