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So KR expect people to pay up front for something they’ve already changed, but aren’t actually going to show you in what way? The renditions they *have* shown are wildly inaccurate. Who in their right minds would actually be tempted to order on this basis?

There is some evidence of these features on the real loco.

The latest Bachmann 2023 releases have some useful improvements, but the bogies are still rather lacking in detail and depth. On the KR renders I can't tell what I'm looking at on the bogies - there's something very odd going on with the springs...

I won't be ordering on the basis of those renders...... it looks like another half-A job is in the offing.

Another one here - 1987

The Rail Enthusiast magazine article was in issue 3 - Aug/Sep 1981. It refers to the wagon repair business being operational then, through the New Found Out underpass. It commonly dealt with the cripples arriving at Arpley and Walton Old Junction Yards, with repaired wagons being tripped back to the main yard at the time of the visit - a UKF pallet van with a new wheelset, a chemical tanker with new brake shoes and springs, and several MGR hoppers with new air brake hoses.

There was an article on Arpley Yard in Rail Enthusiast in the mid-1980s which referred to the 'New Found Out' - I have it somewhere. These screenshots from NLS may help with locating the features in the modern day.

The diesel shed opened in Feb 1966, but does look to be the same shape as that OS plan - with the exception of the part sticking out to the left. I've a feeling the reprints of On Shed magazine don't include the fold-out pages the original run did. Certainly that is the case with LMR issue 1 I ordered recently. In the original edition - the dimensions of the 1966 diesel shed (excluding offices) are given as 98ft long by 62ft wide, based on a 60ft wide portal frame to standard ER design. There are drawing elevations showing the building from all four sides including the offices.

Yes an ex-blue spot d801 fish van. After passing through the NPCCS fleet as SPVs, a number later became tool vans and barrier vehicles.

It was a Cowley - Middlesbrough train and it seems Westerns worked it regularly for a week with also D1052 reported, but that could have beeen a typo I suppose. Dec 1974 also had D1016 working through to Stratford/Temple Mills on a mixed freight on the 20th. Hymeks made a few trips off-region in the middle 1960s - with Derby, Crewe, Ipswich, Stockport and Colwick all visited, again with on car trains from Cowley, but also on general freight and parcels work.

It's worth noting that the blue EFE ones appear to be all TOPS coded NVX, which dates them to 1978 onwards.

There were around 156 of the 1/800 diagram vans which went into the 'Vanfit' fleet - these were the examples that hadn't been converted with roller bearing axles. None of the 1/801 diagram vans became vanfits as far as I'm aware - all remained in the fish fleet, or became SPV/NRV parcels vans. Many of the ex-fish vans later became RBV barrier wagons, the roller bearing axles being a useful attribute for this work. I think the ex-fish vanfits were possibly labelled VFW, and would have been bauxite, if they had been bothered to repaint them. Photos are scarce however. I think a preserved fish van has been painted in red and grey, so maybe that is where the idea came from?

There may be legal ways around it, but that’s what the Gov.uk website says. Search for ! ’State Pension if you retire abroad’. I had reason to look for what happens in the EU recently (inflation is paid), but noticed it was not true everywhere else.

Be aware that the UK state pension is not increased by inflation each year in Canada, or New Zealand. The value remains fixed at the point when you leave the UK.

It was only the first five vehicles that had 'offset' roof windows - E96286-90E. The remaining nine had the windows centred in the panel.

Like this one.

But only if KRM actually listens to the CFPS. Some of their direct mailings are frankly bizarre - the latest about the last run-out GT3s has had the effect of reducing the liklehood of my spending any money with them. They don't seem to know how to read the room; it's all misplaced belligerance and attempted controversy where none exists. No thanks.

1967 to 1974, so 7 years. A significant part of the life of a number of first gen diesels that Bachmann produce - 24, 25, 40, 45, 46. Of these, I think only the 24 and the 46 have had a single pre-TOPS blue example in the main range. The people who remember this period are likely to be recently retired, so they are possibly missing a trick. I like this period for its mix of modernisation and steam age infrastructure.

Of the 15 green TOPS disk headcode locos, 40039 was actually one of the longest serving - despite it's early withdrawal. With the obvious exception of 106, most others went blue sometime in 1974/5. The fineness of the frost grill mesh actually isn't too bad, but the thickness of the surround really stands out. 40097 lost the grills in Spring 1978. As as Scottish loco, 40063 would have had the inner sand boxes and multiple working gear removed. More model photos here: https://www.themodelcentre.com/32-490

1E01 was TThSo 13.25 Newton Abbot - Sheffield They were only diagrammed into Olympia for the 1969 timetable.

Not strictly true, as Kernow have some B&G Bachmann Mk2f BSOs, and Hornby Mk2F FOs, and that was the first place I looked. Hornby MK2f BSOs are available elsewhere such as TMC. The TSOs have always been scarce however, but it's at least a start... I guess you must have got a good price for the ones you sold - they are always in demand. Accurascale have some Mk2cs coming out next year. The Mk2bs are coming much sooner but are sold out - no doubt there will be a few left over from unfulfilled orders if you are quick.

Someone already mentioned the 24/26 combination on the Inverness trains, it was much less commonly two of the same class. There were two loco hauled morning commuter services from Perth/Dundee which were often 25 hauled. There was also an early morning newspaper service from Edinburgh which was diagrammed for a 37 in the days when they were uncommon at Queen St. I think the 10:10 departure to Dundee was used for many years to test locos out of St Rollox Works, so you would see 20s in combination with 27s occasionally, as well as 26s. There are some ScR WTTs for this era on the Timetable World website btw.

Still with the axle lubricator drive behind the cab steps, and the un-strengthened fuel/water tanks.

Well, April Fool is Poisson d'Avril in French, so maybe we are looking at a Fishkind of some sort....?

Interesting photo of 37292, still sporting it's cabside arrows into the TOPS era. Cardiff July 1975.