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Looks like I've missed the train on the 47 issue - none of my local pushers have had it, and deny all knowledge of it. Oh well, its only a toy loco!

Probably be best to stick a Black Beetle motor bogie in the chaldron wagon and wheel the rest for "push along", making a working motion for Locomotion would be fun! Many years ago, I remember a Stockton and Darlington layout in Railway Modeller (early 70s it would be and on the front cover too), with approximations of Locomotion and Black Diamond. Perhaps that could be revisited... No 47s locally, I'll just have to check my usual suspects with fingers crossed through the next few days!

Up to '63, I suppose I'd consider myself 6F or 6C finallyy 6A before TOPing myself to BD.... Hmmmm... Almost time to start preparation, oiling around the motion, etc before booking off shed for Sainsbugs!

Yes indeedy. Then again, perhaps he was thinking of BR shed codes; Bletchley, Nuneaton or Wolverhampton Oxley....... Yes Officer, I'll come quietly.....

To be, or not to be..... Yep - I feel all gloomy Dane today!

Same here. I was just hoping (fingers, etc crossed) that I'd caught the lazy buggins on the hop (there were no staff to ask when I was there, though baskets of kiddymags were around the display stand ready to be put out), so I'd resigned myself to looking in later in the day to see if they'd got their backsides into gear. Hmmmmmmmmmm......

Nahhhh.... I've got some black bags to drop off at a charity shop, so I'll be drifting through Sainsbugs entrance 10ish, fingers crossed that a. there's two and b. they're okish. I might make a bit more of an effort for "Locomotion", though I'd have liked to see "Lion" too - they could have used the "Rocket" coach with that too..... deep breathing exercises......

Thats ok, I was just being simplified-broad-brush! Its the "is this number/livery suitable for the area/date being represented" question that brings out the frothing at the mouth pedants. Luckily, that question has not been asked yet! Never mind, I'm sure I can find a suitable excuse for running a rake of blood'n'custard Mk1 stock behind a FYP Green livery exanple!

As noted above, its not possible to see the number on the cover image, but as its an example with two tone green and a SYP, its got to be anywhere between D1500 - D1999. Sorry thats not much help.... otoh, for Locomotion, its quite easy to spot the running number.....

I know, but I'm trying to make only one critical observation per post! There's so much to note on the "new layout" that its like shooting fish in a barrel.....

New Engine Shed blog up! Decorated J50s, LNER, Early Totem and Late Totem BR - the LNER example is very pretty! And the "final signed sample" of the S15, with delivery "very soon now"..... Looks good too! There's a movie of the S15 running on the new Hornby layout. I'm just a bit worried about that as it appears to be running wrong line AND seems to have divided its train...

Knowing our luck, the GBL product might have been removed to allow more of the s***m to fit in.....

Ay-Ay... Its when you see no signals that the problems arise!

Its the Lord Nelson effect..... They're probably getting end-of-term-itis at the publishers!

I tried not to mention the Fab 4 connections with the area. Its bad enough getting on a ferry and being assulted with Gerry Marsden!

Stirred my stumps and visited the local Sainsbugs (where they usually have at least ONE) and NOTHING Apart from a stack of new kiddy things with a lion on it. Oh and a Thomas offering with a pair of odd Class 08s that looked to be TTish in scale. Staff had the usual glazed halibut expression when asked, I almost asked why they weren't on the fish counter.... Its BR so its late again, I suppose!

To hell with Asda - I'm hoping to get to my local Sainsburys whilst they've got two of them, if they do..... As for the Hornby ATP, we can but fantasise!

And now, there's a breathless hush as the spectators wait with bated breath to see how the Brush Type 4/Class 47 turns out. Is it a copy of a Lima body? Will the waist green be so bright? Will it fit on any of the current chassis? And how much butchery will be involved? We wait for the morrow.....

Hmmmmm.... How about adding a Giesl ejector and German style smoke deflectors? muttermuttermutter SPELLING....

Late last year, Hornby issued a model of the West Country Pacific "Exeter", which was keenly anticipated. However, it turned out that relatively few models had been produced ( see posts in the Exeter thread: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/92855-Hornby-exeter/) and things boiled over when examples appeared on a famed auction site, offered at vastly increased prices. The inference is that the vendor is trying to whip up some excitement over the Crosti 9F model to justify his asking price. The only other "Exeter situation" I can recall occurred off the mouth of the River Plate in 1939..... I'm off to play trains.......

Like the shiny wheelrims! My GBL Mallard is running on an old Triang-Hornby "Flying Scotsman" chassis and tender, the one with the "glowing firebox" effect. Sadly, its not very happy on modern track, but it means that I've got an A4 for my Super 4 track layout.....

There you go. Its interesting about the missing "Authentic OO Scale Model", I should imagine the spiders web of valve gear between the pistons would be difficult to reproduce with any degree of realism and that a larger scale might do the trick. We'll just have to wait and see! Alpha and Omega or even vice versa? I was trying to think of something incorporating "The Big Bang", but thats not a thing to consider in proximity to loco boilers, especially primitive ones! Sooooooooooooooooo.... What are we going to talk about once the series finishes? Edited for egregrious spelling mistake....

Been once on the bus. Smithdown Road is a depressing journey - with the train and the bus it cost just as much as going by car through the tunnel and back, and using the car its easier to get things home, once you've lugged your mountain of purchases from the shop to the car.... Of course, 4 quid post is cheaper than either, but you don't get to browse! Ordered some Bachmann weathered conflats, a weathered 23 and some 8 pin decoders over the weekend. Royal Mail delivered this morning. Quick enough for me!

No offence, as well as that, we also used to call it "The Mersey Funnel"! As for the grot, it was a fact of life in those days and even when people stopped burning coal, there wasn't the money about to clean it off. Took some riots to get things started...

On the occasions when I've visited the shop by car, I've found it appropriate to leave a passenger in the car casually holding a camera with a telephoto lens. Seems to work...... In the past, I've worked in parts of Liverpool where the environs were more akin to a war zone. Hattons location otoh is almost gentrified!