Keith J

I notice this is being offered with the option of factory fitted DCC sound, is this a first for Heljan as I don't recall it ever being available in the past, at least not in O gauge?

Would you believe it! Now found Trebudoc in the October 2013 issue of Railway Modeller! 

I travelled from Stowmarket to Bury St Edmunds the other day and noticed that Anglia turquoise was evident at both Elmswell and Thurston.

Rather O/T but probably no more so than all this talk of breakfasts!

In anticipation of a house move I've been doing a bit of de-cluttering some of which involves going through some old model railway magazines to decide which articles I want to keep and I've just found the November 2013 edition of Model Rail that features Glen Roy by a chap called Andy Peters. Talk about a blast from the past!

On 13/07/2023 at 18:19, RJS1977 said:

 

Or indeed by the TV company - as has been noted, Simon and Montana were two personable individuals who worked well on screen. Their replacements may not work as well.

Possibly, but the programme wasn't just about Simon and Montana, I thought some of the young designers came across very well.

Thanks for your reply. I did wonder if it could be something to do with the fact that originally it was only the brake coaches that were fitted with brakes. My initial thinking was around cooling in that spoked wheels would cool quicker if the brakes overheated but I then thought with the speeds involved and the materials that the brakes were made of back then would they really get that hot? Your explanation seems far more plausible.

I've just noticed that the brake coaches have spoked wheels whilst other coaches have solid wheels, does anyone know the reason for this? Thanks.

Wow, with this and the Hornby B17 is turning into quite a year for Great Eastern fans.

18 hours ago, 6990WitherslackHall said:

Someone modelled Harworth engine sheds on the Keighley Worth Valley Railway and it looks spot on! There is a lot of detail.

 

If that picture had been posted later on this year I would imagine there would be quite a bit of discussion around if that Pacer was the Realtrack or EFE version! 

I have a copy of the October 2018 edition of Railway Modeller which features an article by Chris Ford where he explains how he went about creating this layout. Coincidentally the same issue features Euxton Junction as Railway of the Month which is also in the latest edition of BRM.

Have you checked the YouChoos website as there is a guide on there.

https://www.youchoos.co.uk/Index-Resource.php?L1=Guides&Item=OCL31

On 25/11/2022 at 15:50, adb968008 said:

 

Theres 7 in that list that I am after…

I’ll have to see how that pans out.

 

Faiveley or Brecknell-Willis? 

18 minutes ago, LNERandBR said:

 

The tickets I have were posted to me. Therefore it looks like they are paper tickets.

OK, thanks.

On 21/11/2022 at 07:13, Chris M said:

So long as the Ticket Factory sales are open it will be fine. The last minute ones are usually picked up from an agent at the NEC rather than posted.

Does this mean that Ticket Factory issue paper tickets as opposed to sending out electronic ones?

Thanks.

3 hours ago, John R Smith said:

 And what do you do about the driver on a bubble car (or railbus)? For 50% of the time he will be gazing out of the wrong (rear) cab - or do we have a driver in both cabs, which almost seems worse?

 

I know what you mean, it's about time we had a DCC function to pop up a driver facing the direction of travel and not just to change the lights. Maybe one day.

Yes you do need to trim the legs to get passengers to fit properly and if you intend to fit a driver that involves even more drastic surgery! There was an article in the Model Rail magazine earlier this year that explained how to dismantle the model in order to fit passengers and removal of cab interior to fit the driver and the amount of surgery required.

Apologies if this has already been posted, couldn't see it anywhere. A friend of mine pointed this out to me yesterday which I thought may be of interest.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/model-railway-retailer-rails-of-sheffield-to-create-20-new-jobs-3642594

Thanks Ray & Two Tone Green, that's really helpful.

Ray - that headcode looks fab.

On 12/02/2022 at 08:42, norman said:

Congratulations to Dapol.  They have learnt lessons from the class 122 and applied them to the 121.  I fitted a Zimo decoder and this time there was no need to modify the wiring, all lights worked and with a bit of  function remapping I am well pleased.  Also, the slow running is certainly better no need to switch off back EMF, runs very smoothly.

 

Please could someone clarify my understanding of the issue with the interior lighting of the 122 & 121.

As I understand it if you fit a Zimo decoder to a 122 the interior lights won't work without a wiring modification however the lights will work without any modification if you use a Loksound V5 decoder. Is this correct?

Looking at the info that Norman has posted it seems that with the 121 the lights will work without any modification when using a Zimo decoder. So, does this now mean a wiring modification will be necessary for a Loksound V5?

Thanks in advance of someone clearing this up.

On 13/02/2022 at 15:18, norman said:

Well I have never noticed these additional steps. Did they fold automatically when the door was opened and closed?

Assuming it's refering to the same thing, the railcar.co.uk website mentions that these plates were a secondary door locking mechanism fitted to units that remained in passenger use in the 2000's. You can see them quite clearly on the Chiltern railways liveried unit on this Wikipedia page:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_121

On 07/02/2022 at 18:58, Hal Nail said:

If someone receiving a green one can please confirm if the whiskers meet in the middle or are spaced either side of the non-existent headcode, as in the sample, that will influence whether I go green or blue.

 

Thanks!

Here's your answer. The odd thing for me is that they managed to get the speed whiskers correct on the 00 model so why not this one? Apart from that, beautiful model.

13 hours ago, stonojnr said:

 

Bachmann never did any 86s did they in 00 ?

 

No but Hornby produced 4 different versions in Anglia livery. Heljan also produced 47714 many years before Bachmann and I think they also released an 86 in Anglia livery as part of the original run.

1 hour ago, Pete the Elaner said:

 

I've got a Hurst conversion kit somewhere. That was whitemetal so you may well have used the same.

I never saw a Hornby 8 window TSO, which were the more common. Hornby re-used their 7 window FO model. Anglia had some declassified FOs which had been rebuilt with high density seating, but they only had 2 of these in each rake, with 3 or 4 of the more common 8 window TSOs.
Hornby's was also the older Dapol Mk2D tooling. Most (possibly all?) of Anglia's Mk2s were 2Fs.

I think it is highly likely that Bachmann will release these in the not too distant future.

Could well have been Hurst, I think I've a spare one knocking about somewhere I'll see if I can find it to check.

Thanks for the info about the windows, I'd never noticed that before. I've just dug out my Hornby coaches and it's so obvious now!

On 02/02/2022 at 19:00, adb968008 said:

Need some Anglia coaches for that Anglia dbso.

Hornby produced some Anglia livered MK2's a number of years ago, I have enough for 2 full rakes. I have pre ordered a couple of Bachmann dbso's so it will be interesting to see how they look alongside the Hornby ones, I suspect it will really make them show their age.

When I originally bought the Hornby coaches I also converted a couple of Airfix Mk2 brakes to dbso's as, at the time, you could buy a whitemetal dbso cab - can't remember the manufacturer. They looked OK to me at the time, it was my first attempt at this sort of thing, but they will no doubt look rather primitive compared to the Bachmann models.  

I don't know about the 05 but on the 03 I'm pretty sure the top headlight, together with the lower centre lights, are dummy's. I think it's only the lower outer lights at each end that actually work.