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Unfortunately, I am in the a shame is it not better camp. Having seen samples at shows I was not expecting much. I was hoping for much better. Very disappointing. It just looks wrong from many angles. I believe the shape of the old Bachmann model is better.

Many thanks for the coach numbers and formations. That will be very useful.

I would be wary of doing the 50 in LMS Coronation livery, it is probably a war crime.

In fairness to GWR modellers I will concede that Panniers do not look like 4-6-0s. However I still do not subscribe to the theory that there was more than one type of 4-6-0 or indeed more than one type of Pannier. Crazy talk🤪

For what it's worth I always believed that the bang plate was the grid and this was a long time ago. It was much later in the 90s when I heard people saying the horn grille was the inspiration for the name. The bang plate always made more sense as it was actually a grid.

Looking at notes here I have one example was 17097 which is a 2A. There were not that many 2B BFKs so I would guess that 2As were more common. There were 48 x 2A BFKs but just 9 x 2Bs. Edit: Just seen apollo 079's post above, so no 2B BFKs.

TSO, TSO, TSO, BFK, TSOT, BFK, TSO, TSO, TSO, was indeed the most common configuration. Occasionally an FK could replace a BFK but it was generally as you mentioned. I believe there were 5 such rakes.

They are for destination boards on the Western region.

You can probably still get them from an Accurascale stockists.

Mine arrived this morning 😀

That is pretty well know. At the time it was the heaviest item ever carried by air. It was later beaten by a generator of some sort. That is not an A cliass as you no doubt know.

2Ds would be great, they have not been done in many, many years. That would only leave the Es to be done to a high standard.

Other manufacturers have the same issue too. Just go with the manufacturers recommendation. High end DCC models are very complex with lots of extra features. Beyond the standard functionality of the DCC standard you cannot expect manufacturers to try every permutation of chip availabe to in order to access extended bespoke features of every given model.

We have not had HTVs

You are not alone. I cannot see what it does apart from being able to say "I nailed it" if it does work.

I take it you are referring to the dark grey ones

I did not release both locos had the old magnatesion system fitted. It seems very powerful.

I can see the merit in that approach alright. I suppose people will debate what is "basic"

It is not the case that any 21 function decoder should work for all features of every model, it can only work as far as the DCC standards go and the DCC standards only go so far. With all the extra features the market is demanding and the innovations that model manufactures are implementing, the standard has to be extended. There is allowance in the standard for this but individual DCC manufactures (ESU, Zimo etc) can implement their own enhancements. It is stated by the model manufacturers what system that are using - ESU (Accurascale, Cavalex). Zimo (SLW). People might have preferences for one over the other. However swapping an ESU chip into an enhanced system advertised as designed for Zimo and vice versa, and expecting everything to work identically and out of the box is unrealistic. In many cases it can be made to work but it requires a lot of effort. If someone wants to do that it is up to them. Personally, I am quite happy leaving the chip in the loco it was designed for. You would not buy a car from Ford and put a Renault engine in it.

The new colour scheme on 37418 is not great at all. It was in the much superior Large Logo paint scheme when I was lucky enough to be propelled by it.

That does not sound like a denial to me 😁

I would love to be wrong.

Unfortunately I think that is the Hornby RailAdventure HST.

Purely for Bachmann and low hanging fruit as they have much of the tooling: Class 116 Class 205 -3 car - 3H Mk 2E

Considering the website says Q3, 2024, I would not get my hopes up. They are not in Production yet and judging by the picture on the website there seems to be some unannounced ones hiding in plain sight.