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18 minutes ago, class37418stag said:

Hello please excuse my English 

 

i has seen photo of class 47461 scotrail hauled single brake coach

 

how many people on seat inside brake coach

 

http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_zoom_v3.php?img=0925010284000

ive not seen many 1 coach trains in the 1980’s, more than likely this is a stock move such as recovering a failed or repaired vehicle.

Just been watching Charwelton..

What a great idea, Great Central in the 1980’s !
 

competition entries are in.

2 minutes ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

The great irony is that with a heavy centre motor all wheel drive mechanism inside, it has the potential to be the best performing RTR OO UK steam model on the market.

Wouldn’t that be ironic... an M7 replacement steam loco with better haulage than a Hattons 66 or a Heljan DPU !

Think we’re getting warmed up to these puzzles...

this time done in 30 minutes !

Maybe we need a KR models wish list thread ?

Save this for DHP1 ?

1 hour ago, 'CHARD said:

Definitely in the market for D7400-9 in a combination of Two-Tone Green with Small Yellow Panels (as built), Green with Full Yellow Ends (D7400/1/3/9) as painted at St Rollox during 1967), and the rather scarcer Blue with Full Yellow Ends (D7404*/6 repainted Inverurie 1967, and 7407 repainted St Rollox August 1968).  

 

* D7404 fitted with prototype ETS equipment for working Dundee - Blackpool Summer SO formed of Mk2 stock.

 

Brilliant announcement, fantastic news for Border Union Railway Co. modellers.  If you need access to the BURCo. company logo, I can provide it.

you mean the lesser spotted class 32 ?

48 minutes ago, BrushVeteran said:

Here we go.........................................................!!!!

You said it...

I think Engineers Dutch livery would suit it well.

14 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

That rush rail livery looks like it was designed....on a Friday.....by someone with a hangover !

It’s faded to what it was in Sweden, it was a burning flame effect on the writing, the flames.

Quite of lot of bits have been removed, from the roof, front, including snow ploughs, roof mounted horns and hand rails etc.

11 hours ago, russ p said:

Whilst I admire KR models for doing  DHP1 can't help thinking it could be a financial disaster for them 

Hardly any one has heard of it and it ran literally a handful of times on the mainline 

Surely a better return on investment would be do a high quality model of something like a 31 a loco that has a reasonable model on the market but has issues the same as Phil sutton has done with 24s and 25s

Actually I think the inverse is true and they are doing the right thing...

Anyone doing a class 31 is asking for trouble, Hornby can turn two taps on overnight, with a Railroad and a Full Fat range of liveries, toolings are ready to go... more impactful than the class 66 or a Terrier.

I very much doubt anyone else will do DHP1... 

Heljan was successful with Lion, Falcon and Kestrel, and now 18000 and 89001.

Hornbys done the P2, Duke and are doing W1 and those stranger A2’s...
Bachmann and Dapol did 10000/1, Bachmann - Deltic.

KR.. GT3, Fell..

There’s clearly interest in  prototypes.

After DHP1, that’s pretty much it, 10800 remains..

Without DHP1.. there’s a gap in the set, just that it didn’t run much, hasn’t stopped Hornby making Rocket... its not as if that loco fits on everyone’s layout...unless your modelling Rainhill in 1980 or 1829.

D0260 Lion entered service in May 1962 -September 1962, and March 1963 - Jan 1964.. that’s Only 13 months.. it was scrapped years before DHP1.

Prototypes generally exist to be a prototype.. if its unsuccessful.. in the bin it goes... that’s what makes them interesting..., the mystery of what might have been...
 

A DHP1 will be a head turner on a layout.. a lot won’t be even prior aware of it, which is what drives the craving to know more about it..

Looking closely at Rockets tender....

Should I assume it rolled as smooth as silk, or that coal was such abundance no one cared how much spilled into the 4ft ?

Its loaded right up to the edge of the tender, with not so much as a wooden board to hold it back ?

just for fun and sizing, here is Rocket posing inside a class 45 bogie...

FYI the correct link is

https://krmodels.co.uk/collections/oo-gauge/products/clayton-dhp1

ive put an EOI in, it might have only accumulated marginally more miles than 37419 in DBS livery, But it is the final gap in diesel prototypes to a full house.

After this its shunters / electrics and units...

But DHP1 is the missing gap.

2 hours ago, SHMD said:

I spent ages counting fishplates*, 3rd rail lengths and even checking MU coupling codes before spotting the foliage being darker/longer in the bottom-left of the first pic.

I even gave up and watched a couple of the very excellent vids, made available during today's virtual exhibitions, before returning and the grass just 'jumping' out at me.

 

(* = I've drawn the line at counting bricks on RMweb!)

 

 

Kev.

My one counted 14 sleepers from the aws box in front of the DMU at one point...

but it was the bush that was hiding the longest from being spotted.
 

here’s my little ones scorecard.

So for sound, we’re looking at something like this ?

A few years back the authenticated plates for 36002 and 36003 were auctioned off.

36002 was very much a nearly finished locomotive.

Theres pictures of both 36002 and 36003 here

http://www.bulleidlocos.org.uk/_ldr/ldrClass.aspx

if we’re being creative, some accurate versions of 36001 would be a must, but an artists mock up Liveries featuring 36002 /3 might be interesting.

It’s definitely at the different, end of the scale.

I see this as being weirdly interesting, interesting enough to want one. It seemed to be on a number of localised freight workings for a couple of years.

Oh boy...

a Clayton DHP1 ? And an EP body already !

aye yai yai !

and a Leader ! In 2 liveries ?

i wonder if 36002 / 3 could conceptually be produced.. they did exist, albeit not complete.

from KR..

Another cool video to watch..... indeed it’s a good honest and open interview.. I think some in the KR models thread should watch this.

This is a very cool idea today...

I’m so jealous ...

I’d love the chance to walk through Liverpool lime street in the 1940’s.... That’s a brilliant video of a fantastic layout... very cool idea to superimpose the interview  on the layout camera angles.

Is 2nd place in the competition a chance to compare EP sample pictures to real world models ?

1 hour ago, AY Mod said:

 

 

I don't like to insult people's intelligence by making 'em easy.

my little one just cracked it, but gosh that kept her quiet for an hour, she’s learned a few more technical terms too.

I collect models from several eras, and several countries. 
I own more locos than some shops.

But like everything, family, work, means I buy it now, and it awaits the day to be used.

That means using them once or twice in a number of years.

maybe its a waste, but my alternative is to sell them after once use, and maybe buy it back again someday in the future, or to do without.

Until recently I was buying “fleets in an era”, but its resulting in too many duplicates, and that “era” or “theme” is getting stretched.

With price rises, duplications and varying quality, I am buying less than I used to. 3 years back i’d have bought all 3x 61xx’s, no question.. now Ive not even ordered one, nice as they are, and the 3x older ones i’ll just reduce to two, or perhaps one... I need space for what I want moving forwards.

I accept at some point i’m going to thin out and focus my collection. I have started latterly by selling locos that just don't perform well, but the big job is coming... which means many locos that are barely used...

maybe I am just doing the same as several others before me.

Small world 66775 was around my neck of the woods earlier this week...
 

66775 seen here on tuesday at Wimbledon delivering 701004, in miserable weather..

(picture credits to my 9 year old, I operated the video camera).

5 hours ago, Northmoor said:

 

If not careful, railway preservation could wipe out an entire coach type without noticing.

Mk4’s will probably dissapear first.
the remaining mk1 sleepers will rot away indefinitely as it costs money to get rid of them.

16 hours ago, scumcat said:

I personally think lion and these coaches would have been for 2021 but rails have forced their hand.

Not if theyve been tooled, sampled and due here in 8 weeks, 6 of those being on a boat... of course Hornbys dates have been known to slip, not that i’m cynically suggesting anything.

Ive decided to hold off buying this for now, see what transpires.

ironic in that I’m just about to pick up some 60’s now Bowfell has been sorted, i hope they get the GBRF 50’s right.

9 hours ago, daz9284 said:

we are going off topic. but the 73's had not moved in ages and were sent with the 66 for a run out

I think the driver was too.

 lots of horns, and for enthusiasts too, I think some,myself included, hadnt been out for a while.