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  1. rogerzilla
    The 58 isn't coming now but they probably had too much stuff to run on the same day anyway. I like a diesel gala but prefer the old 50s/60s stuff. Wouldn't mind seeing the Warship but it's my least favourite livery of anything they carried. AIUI it's the "last in service" livery to mark the anniversary, so there is a reason for it.
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    Not sure why there us such a shortage of drivers. It seems like a very attractive job to me. I would certainly apply if I could pass the eyesight requirement, which I can't (any history of corneal surgery disqualifies you, as I understand it).
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65555262 Just as good models in the livery (which I think is one of the best) are introduced.
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    I wonder what Euro emission standard that 37 is? About -5?
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    Condensing was also used on desert railways, for the same reason as on steamships (no fresh water supply). There was usually some kind of radiator in a tender to cool the exhaust steam sufficiently. They would need to get the oil out of it too, or the boiler would prime horribly.
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    The Italians seemed to make it work better. There's a fine example in "Von Ryan's Express", used by the SS troops chasing Frank Sinatra and his fellow escapees. Edit: an FS Class 743, apparently.
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    The original Class 70s didn't clag. That's progress for you 😄
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    You couldn't get an heavy oil burner going from cold at all - you had to have steam to heat the fuel and make it fluid. Some locos used coal to get things going but a static steam supply would work too.
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    Oil burning coats the tubes with a nasty tar which has to periodically be removed by the fireman, using sand. The pollution thus caused is quite horrendous (and visible as an enormous black cloud).
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    If they were only used on the WR, they COULD have been taller, I suppose.
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    I think they're all like this, but can anyone else confirm there is only one red tail light and one white headlight when running? I took the body off and there really does only seem to be one red LED at each end. The few online photos I've found look like my loco does.
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    Are the sleeper 73/9s still sick?
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    You can have them for the cost of postage.
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    Swindon is just about equidistant from the Oxford and Mendip transmitters, so aerials point different ways depending upon which signal is better in that part of town. Generally, they are all very weak so aerials are huge, with amplifiers as well. I gave up and fitted a Freesat dish.
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    Do Freightliner still use D1645, or is it a kind of gate guardian? I wouldn't have thought a very old 47 would be dependable or powerful enough for their usual work.
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    I thought too long about one of the Model Rail USA tanks in SR sunshine black. Unusually for a Big Four model, it was one of the first to sell out. Maybe they made far fewer in that livery. They still have loads in other liveries, including the Marmite K&WVR brown and silver.
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    Nearly £50 for a Mk1 coach! I think all my Farish Mk1s were about a tenner each from eBay and I can't tell the difference at this scale.
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    We got a cup of tea at 0930, when there was no-one else in the café! There is some kind of burger van outside that probably does drinks too.
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    DP2. Imagine if all the Class 50s had been like that.
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    Which bits do you need? I bought a complete pack a couple of months ago but I only needed one metal brake rod. As you may have noticed, they fall off easily. I added a spot of superglue.
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    There is a set on eBay right now. Be quick. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304919023811?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jVOV8e3ZTfK&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=NtG1_XQcQXK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY If postage is ludicrous I can buy them and send them by a basic Royal Mail service, at your risk (but you can ruin my reputation here if I rip you off!).
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    One purpose of a bus is to overcome resistance in oxidised fishplates so, unless you replace the bus and droppers with soldered jumper wires between each track section, this will remain a potential (no pun intended) problem. It very much depends on environmental factors, though.
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    It's not another term for moving block, is it? Moving block should allow more capacity but needs in-cab signalling.
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    The guy leaning against the wall (behind the orange car) on Bunkers Lane is definitely up to something.
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    To follow GWR precedent, the preservationists should rename King Edward I (6024) as King Charles III, since Edward I is the king that came first out of the three remaining.
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