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Tad optimistic to think they will get from Bluebell to Birmingham between 9am and 12 though. I pretty much live at the start of this route and i’d Be lucky to get from the M23 round the M25 to the M40 in less than 2 hours at 9am, let alone to nec in 3.. and that’s without a H class on my back. A typical M25 morning rush hour (between 5 and 11) consists of traffic jams at M25/23, redhill, leatherhead, cobham, A3, M3, Heathrow...then add the 40mph speed limit. M25 and M42 can be really bad, twice in the last 2 weeks I’ve driven Croydon to Brum at an average speed of 25mph (5 hours) outside rush hour due to things going bump on the M40 in between the mess that is the M25 and M42. East Grinstead to Gatwick’s not much fun either, nor is the M23 at that hour. If they leave at 9, i’d Reckon they’ll reach the M25 by 10, M40 by 11.30, M42 by 130pm, nec by 230pm, it won’t be going at 70, even if the road is clear. Still nice to have the H at Warley.

Having removed more cat hair from loco axles than a cat could possibly produce in a lifetime, I see it as relevant, especially when the motors burning out and the whole thing is underperforming as the wheels can barely turn for furr.If the loco has been in a house as long as the cat has, the furr gets to every part of a loco you could think possible. After an hour or so of removing tabby from the train, the loco sprang back into life. Still it’s better than a loco turned yellow and stinking of fags.

I’m sure someone would have eaten their butties off of it :-)

Who knows they may put the bath tub body on the new chassis too.

Your comparing the wrong price. That price quoted is the end user. It’s the price sold by Hornby to retailer that matters, the retailer is Hornby’s customer. Isn’t Hornby offering a special Warley 50th ltd edition of 1450 ?Maybe it’s an outlet for that ?

Yes but usually the handbrake wheel in a DMU is to the right of the driver https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Class_108_driver%27s_cab.JPG With the driver only having 1 (left window) of space to work with, that’s a pretty cramped working environment... then stick in a wide handbrake wheel, emergency brake and I suppose shove the Aws warning up the glass somewhere somewhere within the confines .. It wouldn’t be pleasant for the driver, though as I said management have their own two seated (note armchairs) front window with seated views, dining table, kitchen, bathrooms.... guard can always have standing room in the back single window cab and keep his bag over his shoulder the entire journey, no pie warmer for him. Whilst i’m No fan of unions, on this occasion i’d side with the crew, No wonder this one didn’t appear The second single railcar looks better, with full cabs, but then it feels more of a management jolly train, there doesn’t look to be much space for “academic work” beyond a dinner table and the kitchen. With a full cab the benefit of forward view is lost, beyond the benefit of a regular DMU. Sticking with an inspection saloon was probably the more practical option. The two car looks the more practical solution, but restricted view still. I guess the two car was rejected on cost, there could have been a fourth way forwards that could have worked... The DMBS looks like any other, so why not borrow one on demand, they could then have just built a trailer with a kitchen, dinner table, toilet and open plan viewing gallery to use as needed, no need to even have it motorised and it could have either hauled, added to a DMU consist or with a DMBS, just like the trailers built for class 121’s.

Wouldn’t it need a Bachmann WD tender though ?, which means compatibility between tender/loco connector and the plug, not to mention liability and warranty issues between competing vendors. Given how 34006 Bude sold, and how many seemed to be parted out or saw the tender sold off is probably an indicator it wasn’t a selling match made in heaven.

3 months, 2 projects and 1 failure on the bench and and your already zeroed out ? Some of my modelling projects take decades, indeed I have a couple of projects I’ve not given up on that I started when I was a teenager, and i’m In my forties teaching my daughter to do it now. I have one project, a Trix BR52 conversion from a Russian T3 to a Mav 520 (quite a simple one), that I started 5500 miles away when I lived In The West Coast US, in 2001 which has outlived dozens of ex girlfriends, 4 countries, and 6 changes of address, at one point the model was in dozens of bits, some in Hong Kong, some in Manchester and the rest in San Francisco, but is now sitting on my desk fully assembled in London awaiting a smoke box part and painting for me to finish it...as models go it is probably a candidate for the most geographically dispersed overhaul of any rtr model, it doesn’t have an end date as I need the smoke box door.. to date no right sized spare has appeared for some years and the model is long out of production, somewhere in a dark corner of the garage I might have it, I’ve learned a little German so someday a rauchkammertur for a soviet t3 trix 22515 may appear on ebay,de.. My next project is even older than me, my father started a two rail conversion of Duchess of Atholl circa 1972, his first train as a kid in the 1950’s.. I expect and hope to have it working for the 1st anniversary of his death next April... along with a dozen other projects between now and then too... including a full time job which sees me Flying abroad, a family, Christmas etc.. he always wanted to see it work again, even in his last few weeks in hospital he asked me to look at it, now I’ve got the chance to make it happen, with the remit of using only the original material (repair not replace) as this one is important to me... 46 years to complete. Don’t give up before you’ve started, if Hornby don’t have the part, ebay will prevail, but in the meantime, put it on the shelf and work the next one. I’ve had several failures over the years many due to the desire to rush it, though now my problem is the opposite.. I’ve too many projects started, but unlike real life, modelling projects have no end date.. if it annoys you.. leave it, it’s a hobby, start another or pick up on a project where you left off.. there no better feeling than finally completing a project from years ago, and the last 2 years I’ve had plenty of those. Persistence.

Not much space for the driver in that first single car example, and no space for the guard either, indeed Brakes (hand brake, guards brake) seem to have been secondary to the kitchen, maybe it was designed by ikea ?

So if I get this right.. if I order all 4 packs of 4, plus the individual, I will have 17 uniquely different wagons.. rtr ? Fantastic. So my preorder would represent 0.55% of the preorders to make this happen. Finding another 181 other people wanting an eqivaltant 6 coach trainlength load can’t be that hard to make this happen ? Looks like a 24.5 toner here at Rawtenstall when it was a coal concentration depot (on the left), note the full length stanchions. On the right a vac braked 21t.. https://photos.smugmug.com/History/Rawtenstall/i-QZq3jRD/1/f465d50b/L/Rawtenstall%20Coal%20Yard%20JD%201-L.jpg Just add a 40 or a 25, and a brake van.

Its very Bluebell though, just add Golden Arrow logos. :-)

Or you could just buy a plain black one, and renumber it at will... http://www.hattons.co.uk/94512/DJ_Models_Dave_Jones_H1410_Class_58xx_0_4_2T_5819_in_BR_Unlined_black_with_early_emblem/StockDetail.aspx Number plates available from fox, bit of double sided tape and jobs a goodun.

Photo of the actual BR owned Andrew Barclay.. https://photos.smugmug.com/Misc/Archive-Photos/i-cDfXRQn/2/f3cbd881/L/1140-L.jpg

Oh no..It’s going to be painted Hornby Orange/Red with a Huge H on the side and yellow lining. On the bunker ends will be some of those letter wheels, to collect for an 86414 model. It’ll have catalogue number R3537 as a running number on the bunker side. Limited edition of 1, for the first club member to sign up, but will need to arrange their own shipping out of the NEC.

I remember seeing these once completely unexpectedly at Bangkok’s main station. They are a cheapened down version, it felt like, with foot steps and manual doors. Railmatch colours I would venture (unless anyone else disagrees).. 200 Executive light grey 201 executive dark grey 202 warning panel yellow 203 Rail white 208 Provincial light blue* 209 Provincial dark blue* And of course you always need some black. * this set of transfers would be a must have.. it voids the need for 208 & 209, gives you the Numbers, Windows surrounds and even some additional markings. https://fox-transfers.co.uk/transfers/express-class-158-complete-livery-pack Full size Picture of the sheet here.. https://fox-transfers.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/2dfba82ca589aca4258937695a19c66a/f/4/f4245.jpg Good luck with the Thai Railways text and font !

Somewhere, I have a picture of a Pacer in Inverness, around the time the 37/4s were coming off the far north lines, and the bridge collapse. I took it at lochgorm workshops, where the shed master poetically said “never fear over my dead body will it be running round here”. It was there for workshop repairs, apparently around this time sheds could “bid” for repair work from other areas.

Carlisle is one of them stations that just never seems to change. If a large logo blue 47, or 87 on blue grey stock rolled in now, and you took a picture of it.. you’d be hard pressed to guess when it was taken.

My only gripe with the Grange is it doesn’t like point work (4 way or curved pointwork) or moderate curves.. I have nothing worse than a 2nd radius but for the most part I have 3rd & 4th, what tends to happen is the front bogie jumping the track, or riding up and trapping itself under the cylinders, occasionally shorting out too. I only have 1 Hornby hall but haven’t run it, but i’m Assuming that’s the same. My Bachmann Manor & Halls (old and new) are fine with it. I’ve got 3 of them and they are all a bit quarrelsome with my track (my track is no WCML, but most other stuff tends to be ok with it). I’ve got 6803, 6862 & 6879 so cover several years of production, Someday I might dig deeper but they aren’t my favourite engines, so for now they tend to be shedware.

That means one day people will like Pacers too.

I’m thinking i’ll Use a black one, rather than the SECR one, then paint it unlined black when finished. R1’s aren’t as glamorous, but one in preservation would have been very nice, maybe one day the Bluebell might turn that spare R1 boiler they have (3 boilers, 2 locos) into something more, until then it’ll be a bit of modelling. I’ve got a while before I start this one so i’ll be doing a bit more research first.

Driver got took short and isn’t going to use the loo when standing in the station ?

I used to put big descriptions, but no one bothered, though one person did email me to correct my opinions, I did use the auction description to slate the LNER A1’s as being rubbish a little ;-) Now I just put a disclaimer and refer to the pictures, and highlight the known issues I find it makes no difference other than giving me minutes of my life back I otherwise would have lost.

I posed it with an Airfix 4f 0-6-0 chassis, as that’s just what was to hand (and the wheelsize is the same). Not sure what i’d use for a real conversion yet, got a Z to finish first, and an L& Y Baltic, oh and a Q, and there’s a PKP Ty2 lurking, a motor for a HO class 81, I’ve a liliput 81 needing a motor, and a Scot to swap it’s split axles and in my spare time a Bury Class 504. That’s before my wife finds me to do trivial stuff. But the intention is there, now I’ve seen it can be done :-) I’ve got a spare 02 0-4-4T (I have 3) and thinking whether to put an 0-6-0 chassis under that too. (I do get occasionally get stuff done though.. finished two L&Y aspinall 0-6-0st, an LNWR cauliflower and an L&Y A Class recently)