2750Papyrus

I haven't followed this topic all the way through. Has there been any news on the V2?

J27.....

So you are about to make your re-entry?

Do you use the word "rubber" with the UK or US meaning?

Some years ago we combined a trip on the "Rocky Mountaineer" with an Alaskan cruise. Disappointing overall - a freight derailment meant we had to take the bus replacement for the RM and the cruise ship was a cross between Maplins Holiday camp and the Pride of Dover cross channel ferry. However, the Alaskan scenery is spectacular and I did earn the Whitepass and Yukon teeshirt. MP makes Alaska look most attractive but the Indian narrow gauge and some of the South American steam tours are ahead on the list, if I could ever persuade Mrs 2750.

I have an old set (solid chassis?), which I could scan if you pm me your email address.

From which side of the barrier?

What can I say?

This I hope to see - mountains in Lincolnshire!

A decent British outline electric turntable would be welcome from any manufacturer.

A decent British outline powered turntable would be good from whatever source.

Tried to upload the availability link above but got a message to the effect that Bachmann UK was unable to load due to a long running script. Seemed apt, somehow.

Could have been HMS Enterprise, a light cruiser designed towards the end of WW1, which had the heaviest torpedo armament of nay British cruiser (4 triples).

I visited this railway some years ago - a fascinating and little known prototype. I will be very interested to see how the model version develops.

I was advised not to use HF track cleaning with the motorised Dapol track cleaner. Do I also remember concerns re: Hornby Pullman coach lighting?

Weren't Wrenn from Basildon? The original TOWIE?

Could be back soon, then!

In view of the delay in release of the updated Bachmann V2, I would love Hornby to produce such a model to modern standards. I believe it was considered back in HD days, so this might fit the 60 year commemorative theme suggested above.

A suggestion I have made to Bachmann is a D11/1 in LNER lined black livery. As far as I am aware, only the Scottish Director has been released in this scheme.

Somewhere on my bookshelves I have a book by Dick Hardy suggesting that Beeching was the saviour of the railway.

Amen to that - apple, of course!

I am so jealous - roll on the J3 or J6......

The latest copy of the Great Northern Railway Society new letter contains a 2 page article on Little Bytham, reprinted from the Eastern Region Magazine of April 1962. Apparently, the church of St Medard is uniquely dedicated to the 6th Century Bishop of Noyon.

I'd just like them to state categorically whether or not previously announced models such as the revised J72 and V2 will ever actually be made.

Not to mention the new set for East Enders!