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Not all, the narrow gauge Zillertalbahn in Austria are converting to hydrogen after ruling out electric for several reasons. Re the above I assume they'll be using hydro electric power to make it?

Thought that might be the case. So how does the swap work in China?

Perhaps, I'd put their bottled stuff on a par with any of the ones you mentioned, and better than many as they are bottle conditioned! Mind you I have some dire Saltaire beers in pubs before now.

Are they of a standard design or is every car got a different shape/size?

If they do then they deserve to fail. The team needs pruning of the deadwood before they even think of getting rid of the manager.

Perhaps you need to tell Bertie! ;) I don't get this, surely the owners of the charging point could put a limit on the time and if the car owner does that charge them a fortune for doing it. It's just the same as overstaying in a car park, you get penalised for doing so. Or is that beyond their capabilities?

Lucky you! I came back from a holiday up there with a case of their bottle conditioned beers, very nice!

That sort of comment, as I've said before, completely puts me off an EV, there is no way, in this heat, that I'd consider doing that, Climate Control is on and running and doesn't go off until I leave the car. I'm not going back to my early motoring days of sticky and uncomfortable motoring thanks. We've come a long way since those days i see no reason to turn the clock back. I'm with you on the increased range but 400 would do me if it was realistic and not the manufacturers/Gov test figures.

Just round the corner from the Khyber Pass! ;)

Ours has always liked the cheapest Sainsburys brand, sachets with jelly, not gravy! When I am cooking meat, doesn't matter which, I leave some raw meat with the juices in the plastic container and she spends the next ten minutes pushing it round the kitchen to make sure she's had every drop!

I remember last season when several United fans came on here when Ronaldo signed as if it was the new dawn. Several of us warned about relying on one player and now the chickens are roosting. Time for him to go and you can use his wages to pay some decent players who want to play for the team not themselves.

14.2mm? 🤣

We've had this discussion already several times, it was brought up initially by finescale modellers on why TT 1:120 couldn't do British models. Look at it from a different angle, RTR models are full of compromises, they are not 100% scale models like those produced by finescale modellers. For 99% of us what they make is fine, they look the part, are reasonably robust and reliable. As such I am sure that they will find ways to make models with splashers, they will probably have to compromise somewhere, I'm not an expert on the manufacturing to RTR models so couldn't say where, but I'm sure the finished results will be acceptable to most of us. We'll just have to wait and see, eh! However in that list you've listed the steam locos I want so I'm quite happy!

Let's hope so, it should liven up the second half of the season. https://www.gpblog.com/en/amp/124213/mercedes-has-done-it-we-ve-finally-got-rid-of-it.html

Yes that's all they do, I had to do it with the Golf when the PIP review overran due to Covid, I just booked it in and took it along and they sorted it with Motability on the day. No hassles at all and a pleasant walk down the canal whilst they did it!

Thinking about this logically it's pretty obvious what to do when working from drawings. If the drawing is in feet and inches it'll be easier to convert using Hal Joyce's original scale of 1/10 inch to the foot rather than faffing round trying to use mm. Time to forget the peculiarly British obsession of mm to the foot!! Obviously if your drawing is metric then just divide by 120. Simples.

You can change the title easily Keith, just open the first post and go onto edit and it allows you as the thread author to change it!

Peco have already said it's 2.54mm in their launch, its just our great leader who put 2.5mm in the section header and welcome thread title just to confuse everyone and won't change it! ;)

Ah! Having raced using them and rebuilt two of them (having never, ever, even taken the top off any engine before or since!) I suppose I've a bit of a soft spot for them!

Why?

Am I right in thinking that the track is Tillig TT? I'm judging by the depth of the rail which is the only give-away, code 83? If so I think Peco's decision to use the code "55" rail is a very good move. It would be interesting to see them alongside each other.

I think you'll find that it's the anti TT 1:120 people that are doing that (whether you put yourself in that category is up to you), those of us with open minds and a genuine interest in it have been saying all along let's wait and see. Hence I don't see any point in speculating and trying to talk something down, which seems to be a trend by some people - sadly. Time will tell. I'd suggest they are a very different kettle of fish, 00 is, historically, regarded as the British equivalent of H0, so much so that many accessories, and even stock, has been and is marketed as H0/00. So asking someone to accept a British outline model that runs on the same track as their 00 models but is a tad smaller was always doomed to failure, there was simply no need to do it, 00 was far too well established by then. This is not the same scenario, it uses a different scale and gauge to any existing British scale/gauge combo, current or past, for the UK it is effectively a new scale just like Z and T. I would say, though, that had Triang launched their range as H0 scale back in the 50s, 00 may not even exist these days... Rather similar to Triang using 3mm/ft back then as well.

Why? Is it against some unwritten rule, perhaps?

Something that some recent contributors to the thread seem unaware of. I've been following SG TT from the old Eastern Bloc for several decades, and since the fall of the wall it's taken off in a big way, the old BTTB stuff was acceptable but rather dated but the stuff that is produced now is superb quality and there's a lot of it, someone did a list of current manufacturers earlier in one of the threads and it was quite extensive. A fact that Peco will have known about as Mr B is a regular visitor to those parts and the trade shows, so they have decided now is the time for them to enter the market for scale TT track and that's what they've done. At the moment the British side is more of an add-on, but if successful will also add sales.

Peco use code 75 for their H0m track. I know that Bemo H0e track uses code 83 and is just about compatible with Peco H0e (code 80), but I'm not sure what Bemo use for their H0m track and I haven't any to check. I'd be very surprised if it was code 100 that would look far too heavy, the chances are it'll be code 83 like the H0e. But don't quote me on that!