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Some standard split-box Peaks might be a better bet first. Or maybe TMC have an exclusivity period for their special editions?

I don't think it is a great comparison to be honest. The Titanic disaster has a 50 year headstart on the Great Train Robbery, and it was only since the mid-1990s, as the last survivors passed away, that the rampant commercialisation has taken off and the associated developments have materialised in Belfast. I guess the same point will come in the GTR story, but perhaps we all not there yet? Hypothetical question - Would it be ok for a manufacturer to produce the locos from the Quintinshill rail disaster, and market it as such?

Yes and me! But is it a commission? And if so, where do we get it?

Duplicate.

Any chance of some photos of the Heljan 104 from Warley? Some great photos posted of the TCVs and 47s, so I know it's there on the stand....

D1960 in the early style BFYE - who's that being made for? It's hasn't been announced AFAIK?

So, as the CFPS link has been confirmed, why are they doing it? Is there any element of fund raising for the society? Or do the members just want specific preservation era models to buy for themselves? As usual with KR Models there are more questions than answers, and the whole announcement seems rushed, with marketing copy not even properly proof read.

Who says it’s not? Previously you had to pay in part before the model was produced, I assume this is the case here too.

Is this in association with the CFPS? The advert seems to indicate that, but the website makes no mention of it. They do seem to be making 40135 twice, all with duel speakers as mentioned above, and no they weren’t all built by EE. Great start KR! It’s not like any of these details matter for a crowd funded project, that you can buy a Bachmann version of right now, My bargepole is to hand.

Both actually, as well as Newcastle and Edinburgh to Newton Abbot over the years.

And here at Kensington Olympia with a Western, arriving from Newton Abbot. https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p138684853/h7e54f8aa#h7e54f8aa https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p708567963/h3ee5d87e#h3ee5d87e

It seems some of the late surviving examples e.g. 99294/5/9 had blue roofs again towards the end of service, underneath all the grime. They were worked pretty hard over the years, with it seems all 14 diagrammed during the summer period in 1969. This was the only year they worked in and out of Kensington Olympia on Fridays and Saturdays from Newton Abbot.

Excellent choice. I was wondering why a number of Southern Pride kits were finding their way onto ebay....

Until about Nov/Dec 1980 it seems, so 12 months since overhaul. The were others with blanked off headlight for a period too.

50006 was LLB by Feb 1984. So the range for this model is from late 1979 to then. By and large I think the MUs were fitted en-masse over the winter of 1969 leading up to the spring 1970 ready for the timetable change. In many cases the D prefix was dropped at the same time.

Now Jan 2023 *next year* if I heard correctly on today’s Bachmann update. https://youtu.be/3BUnmU1aiWc?t=339

Frost grilles were an English Electric thing, Sulzer’s didn’t have them.

I believe the Honiton BCK, detached at Salisbury went forward to Exeter Central in combination with an L set and a PMV, some 10-15 minutes after the ACE. From Exeter it then worked with the L-set (and an additional SK) to Torrington around 4.20pm.

The comments on that photo are worth a read too, particularly for this website which I wasn't aware of before https://peakdieselarchive.co.uk/first-to-last-liveries And from this website it appears only D50-57, built at Crewe, had the grab rails painted yellow, which they entered service with.

Probably based on this photo or era. I don't think it was universal, but there seems to have been several like this around the period the yellow panel was applied.

Also D7661 in BSYP at Euston in April 1970 is the contents page photo of the 1971 Combined Volume. Data panel is visible and probably readable on a larger photo, which was taken by Derek Percival. E3145 is in the background if anyone has seen it elsewhere?

Just been watching some of the reviews that have appeared on YT over the last few days, which have afforded some closer views. Sadly the list of mistakes keeps rising - new ones spotted are nameplates fixed too high on D65 (Rails LE), and on all models, the sloping angle of the small grille/panel on the lower bodyside is different than the angle of the bodyside framing behind the long grille - which makes no sense at all when you think about it, or if you have seen photos of them being constructed. It seems no-one had a really critical look over a Peak before signing the CAD off. The model does have some nice features though, compared to the alternative - but it just isn't screaming 'buy me', more's the pity.

Yes for use on Euston ECS work with the new stock ordered, if not yet delivered, was how I understood it too. Found my IA Combined Volume for 1970, 'accurate' to Dec 1969, which has the only dual braked 25s as 7568, 7571/72, 7586, 7593 and 7596. Whilst these locos were likely featured in the works reports at the time when converted, the original 10 (or 11) from new it seems were missed or simply not known about by IA.

Thanks for that. Your note caused me to look up the 1952 CWN, and I spotted that Bulleid 'L' 3-set 788 is noted as carrying Plum and Spilt Milk livery. An interesting future option for Bachmann perhaps... I believe 788 worked with the other P&SM liveried set - Bulleid 'G' Set 299, but this included the RF and Kitchen vehicle, which have not been tooled.

I have my doubts about the accuracy of Ian Allan's volume on this subject at this time. There is a BR document on Barrowmore MRG's website - MT25 Main Line Diesel locos, dated March 1973, which lists 7660-7669, and 7674 as Diagram No. DE/2000/12, which translates as dual braked locos. 7675 is listed as DE/2000/11 - a regular vacuum braked example.