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Just a quick snap from Ruddington SB yesterday... https://youtu.be/MyDxUEWPxwo

Speaking to some of the founding people at the north about 3-4 years ago, when they started running past East Leake station, or was about to when the residents started to kick off due to the solicitor problem, somewhere along the lines a noise survey had to be undertaken by an independent organisation (funded by the railway) and they found the noise of a plane passing their house was louder than the train passing by. I notice at the south end of East Leake somebody is doing some sort of development, not sure if housing or other purpose? Its a shame potential housing development plots nearby heritage lines can't be protected from such development, there won't be much of a view for the paying passengers in say 20-30 years time at the current rate of property development, which would probably put me off visiting such a railway for a general day out (except galas for example), however if you listen to anything the people promoting the bridge project I guess this is the idea of an inter-city heritage railway isn't it? Take a train from any city to any city and its very developed. I suppose we're quite fortunate that the current amount of properties along the whole GCR/GCRN formation is very few in comparison, at the moment anyway.

Just asked someone in the industry who is familiar with 156s and apparently Aglia and ScotRail currently have retention tanks or are in process of being fitted. Other TOC's to follow. Also just dawned on me I can't include them pacers in my assumed list as they don't have bogies!

What a topic this has turned into! If my memory of retention tanks are correct this only means the 1xx fits the bill of: 142, 143, 144, 150, 155, 156, 158. 159's have retention tanks, unsure if from new or later. Edit: Removed 153 from list as single unit.

We've covered this already. Read the beginning of the thread again.

I think one of the back to backs are out as it keeps derailing on certain points but yet to buy a gauge to check, other than that I have an intermittant fault whereby the directional lights seemly die every now and then, they will work, pack in then it could be a couple of hours of standing still for them to work again. Contacted rapido but no responce on any occasion. Not overly impressed with their customer service, but that aside it's ran no problem.

Thanks for clarifying. I was a bit shocked when I read the initial post as I thought the models were being made on the basis of the number not being printed at all. I'm not too fussed about buying any extra transfers personally, it's a nice touch for the purists though.

Are these renumbering sheets in addition to the model or included with?

Just like paying for a holiday... it doesn't exist till its all over, but you have to pay up front.

The day was intended to be 47292 & 47765 top/tail and load 4 (with SK 25695) but 47765 is currently marooned on the ECML near Peterborough along with a 2 other heritage locos, so day limited to just 292 & load 3 (max permitted when push/pull mode). Some work is hopefully going to start on the RMB (1811) after 16168 (currently in the shed) is completed. I would think at this stage it won't see use again till 2018 at the earliest.

if it was a vinyl cab the line would be straight as that section of red would have been pre-cut. If 'somebody' makes a pair, I would like them to be made wonky; true to prototype as daft as it sounds!

Painted cabs and vinyl sides. Tell tail sign is in certain light you can see the 'sections' of vinyl. VTEC power cars are the same; theres a video online of them painting the cab end. The IC Swallow one is most evident for these lines, shows up at most angles from the photos i've seen online.

Remember APT-P had a diesel gen set for 'something'. There was a video of it in Crewe Heritage doing an engine start (Old footage), just spent an hour trying to find it but seems to have dissapeared.

Got my invoice this evening & just paid it. Look forward to seeing this develop, but don't want another bill for a couple of months haha!

Pleased to see no mention of the 00 TEA's being in focus, need more time to get pennies together Liking the packaging of these N models. Are the 00 ones being packaged the same way?

The price is excellent. I asked Rapido a rough guess on price if they made them (which i dont think they are any more) and they came back with roughly 50per vehicle, so this price really is competitive and ill be taking some when funds permit.

Looking good! Are the air-pipes being factory fitted as per the photo? Any rough indication of when you'll be requesting balance payments?

For anyone mad enough... http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/R00989/2016-09-21 http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R00989/2016/09/21/advanced

Thanks for the info chaps; appreciated!

I decided to buy one of these in the end in Maroon. What hauled these does anyone know? Can only find reference to blue/grey ones but im thinking it'd look good on the end of a rake of maroon mk1s anyway.

Looks better but i'd like to see a photo of it in natural lighy as im not convinced about the logos looking right on the model.

Liking the crafty Minion! Don't recall seeing that at Derby last time I visited.

Mine has visited 2 different layouts so far; one being one based on a fictional Scottish and the other being prototypical GCR, none of which are where APT-E has been in reality. The layout I'm building, APT-E never ran/went through the location, although it did run under power on 2 separate lines nearby to where I am modelling approx. 3.82mi & 3.79mi away, one being Old Dalby & the other being the Midland Main Line, so I'm using modellers licence. I was going to originally model a bit of MML but there was no operating potential for my area of interests that I could fit into the space I had available; I could have done just a bit of double-track mainline but I feel there ought to be a bit more to 'play with'.