Nodrog1826

A sort of APT-S mock up then. https://www.apt-p.com/APTConfigurations.htm

I potentially have one for £480.00, having had an e mail from my supplier confirming my order is still valid at the price and my position in the queue of pre orders. It's all down to how many they get and if they have enough to get my pre order position filled. Have to say i was expecting to be notified of a price increase prior to dispatch.

I can sort of see Hornby's thinking on this. If DCC allows you to control the internal lights in just the driving trailers and not the rest of the set, then it will look odd. Just a thought on the matter.

The release date was 31-12-21 on this retailers web site, not mine may i add, but is now this:- https://cheltenhammodelcentre.com/train-packs/Hornby-r3874-oo-gauge-br-class-370-apt-set-370-001-370-002-7-car-pack/p-r3874

I don't want to burst peoples bubbles, but the UK delivery date is now looking to be late February/March. Makes you wonder how their retailers keep faith with them, let alone the general public. Just for the record I have the 7 car set on order, and have had the new anticipated delivery confirmed by my retailer and via another source on the web, not Hornby.

The "Ship" has been extended, now serves Thai food, as well as traditional fayre. Although it's just along the road, never been in since the "Garbutt" family ran it so that has to be the late 70's. The farm buildings in that picture have now all gone as well. proves nothing stays the same. As for the sand drag, well this is what you could have seen in 1980, for a few weeks at least....note the second to last pic shows the arm of the retarder, in the debris.

Earlier post (Page 8.) shows part of this.. The installed and little used, because it was too successful Black Fell retarder, put in to prevent over running of a set landing from Blackham's Hill. Too successful, because it worked, the only trouble was it was difficult to release it to get the wagons to move again, so it was decommissioned. Equally useless was the sand drag on the left, put in the early days of preservation, should stop a 125, or so the experts said, but no one told the six hopper wagons that ran straight through it in 1980!! On the right was a loco shed to test underground loco brakes, added prior to closure by the N.C.B., the test track ran down (Behind the camera.) to Long Acre, under the ECML at Tyne Yard, and is now part of a foot/cycle way. The shed was dismantled in the 1980's and the metalwork recovered by a rope hauled train, during a "Schools Open Day" by first dropping off two flat wagons on the right to be loaded with girders slid across and lowered onto the wagons, whilst normal running was going on, but stopping short, then during the lunch break, between the morning and afternoon visits, these were then hauled partially up and dropped back to collect other pieces, then the whole lot hauled up to Blackham's Hill. All shunting done by indicator alone, as the driver can not see the Incline, from the Hauler at Blackham's. Now before anyone asks, yes the driver did get his lunch, as the hauler can be driven whilst eating a sandwich, or having a brew as well, trust me it can.