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Posted 6 hours ago On 31/01/2024 at 11:42, melmerby said: I always think those tenders look as though the designer was worried about the train being in a head-on or hitting an immovable object, and the wedge shaped of the tender is so that the rest of the train will be deflected upwards. I still wouldn't fancy the crew's chances though. That reminded me of when an NER snowplough with Wilson Worsdell and a friend inside ran into the train they were rescuing. Worsdell got a broken leg and the friend was killed

Rails of Sheffield have the L&MR "Lion" set available at £129.95. Hornby had also reduced it but they have sold out.

The last 30 built at Crewe went to the Southern Region when new

I see from Ade's picture that 82029 has the same "water capacity" plate at the front as 82030 on the Dapol website. This is correct on the back of the bunker but the front should have works plates reading "Built 1954 Swindon". These are all pre-production locos. I hope it is corrected on the production models.

Hello. Hattons have just sent me an e-mail advising that the release date is now expected to be March.

I'm very keen as well. Darlington had 82028 and 82029 from new in 1954 to 1958. 82026 and 82027 started at Kirkby Stephen and these four were all at Scarborough for a time. I remember very clearly being in the upstairs front of a double decker in North Road, Darlington, on my way either to prep school or the grammar school when 82028 crossed the bridge, probably on its way to Stainmore. I was intrigued by the way its number was the same either way. I will have to buy the unnumbered one and put the numbers on myself. Not a problem as I've just changed a D20 4-4-0 from plain black BR to fully lined original NER livery!

My A4 had a lot of extra parts to fit in packets but no fall plate, coal load or couplings. Hattons say they unfortunately haven't got any and they are altering their site to say so, but they are all things that I can easily add myself, like the cab handrail. Fortunately, all the obscure little parts are present.

The Hattons A4s already have "A4" at the front, which is all you really need. Fox have 34A shed plates but it took me a bit finding them. I eventually found them by just putting in "34A"!

Yes. Black is the background you want and that transfer sheet is the right one. I am doing one as "Silver Fox" in that period at the moment. They used to pass very near to my house in Darlington when I was young. Make sure your background is smooth before using waterslide transfers as the Hattons finish is rather matt. I am using HMRS transfers.

It's most annoying. Some book dealers will list the same book on say ABE, Alibris, Biblio and eBay and when it sells they don't immediately remove it from the other sites. In my house I am running out of space and the books are having to fight with the locomotives!

Biblio have a copy at £22.50

And another one from Ellis Clark. There were two but I bought one.

For downhill braking, the video in an earlier post is excellent, at 9.38 (1) Seaham Harbour Coal derails, runaways, gravity & steam shunts 1963 - YouTube

I accidentally came across this recent legal case when looking for Pullmans. It is long and complicated but may explain some things:- https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/610924b92c94e0239c457f2c

My 65817 with late crest is on its way from Derails today. 2 shown in stock as I write

My payment has been taken today for my D5094.

It's certainly a mystery. Is smokebox door swapping beyond the bounds of possibility? I used to send my 5/- postal order to York for these number plates and then take the receipt down the road to North Road Shops to choose one. Those were the days! I wonder how the BR livery models are coming on. At least the "Ever Given" should be on its way again soon with, I believe, some Dapol models on, although it's still in the Great Bitter Lake as I write. I'm also looking forward to Bachmann's D5094, Darlington Works' first main line diesel, but they will both come eventually. I only hope I'm still alive! I got sick of Hornby putting the Hush-Hush date forward so treated myself to a superb hand-built O gauge model by Nick Dunhill. I used to gaze at the large model in the erstwhile Darlington museum when I was little.

Possibly 65869. A North Blyth loco at the time. Compare the first and fourth numbers.

Today the "Coming Soon" section of the Hornby website is showing R3840-2 October R3843-4 November R3978-80 December All are showing, inconsistently, "Pre-order for Autumn"

More slippage! The originals are now showing as October and the rebuilds as November on the Hornby site.

I've cracked it. It's only me! You have to click on "Summer 2021" and a green bar moves to the right and all the June items appear. The "coming soon" is at the bottom when you choose "catalogue" at the top.

Most peculiar. The monthly list for June in "Coming Soon" now only shows R3841. Quite different to yesterday!

The new website out today shows availability as June, with R3841 and R3842 out of stock.

They're slipping again! Hornby Shop is now showing them all as Summer - still all available for pre-order.

Hornby's site is showing Spring for the originals and Summer for the rebuilds. All available for pre-order.