Simon Bendall

The line from Oxford was that another company (not necessarily in model railways) had abused the Virgin image rights and as a consequence Virgin was completely reviewing its granting of licences. That was something like two and a half years ago though.

Its often said they are welded on.

Will be one of 31146/147/166 as they were the only 31s fitted with RETB. Should be able to work it out as 31146 was named, 31147 was named with a large white crest over the plate and 31166 was un-named.

By 1992, 97650 was preserved at Lincoln, 97652 had been scrapped in 1990 and 97653 was withdrawn at Reading. 97651 was working at Radyr then Cathays around this time and 97654 was based at Reading and later Old Oak Common where it was used on works trains for the Paddington remodelling/electrification scheme circa 1994. For anyone interested in their allocation history, this book is well worth getting https://irsshop.co.uk/epages/c06e4627-fbe4-483c-833b-6f5529d3cffe.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/c06e4627-fbe4-483c-833b-6f5529d3cffe/Products/0128S

Painted 05/84, to IC Executive 12/84.

From what I can recall, it was all units of both sub-classes. The seating area behind the cab could be secured and the adjacent set of doors isolated from the rest and put under staff control.

Unfortunately, GW Models has withdrawn from Scaleforum this weekend due to a combination of health and transport issues.

Traders Scaleforum probably has the best trade section for the finescale and scratchbuilder of any exhibition in the South East, covering everything from electrical components to the finest scenic details and everything in between. Those booked to attend are: 247 Developments Acc+Ess Protocab Limited Alan Gibson (Workshop) Ambis Engineering Attwood Aggregates Bill Hudson Transport Books Branchlines Brassmasters Scale Models C&L Finescale Track Building Systems Dart Castings Dave Bradwell Eileen’s Emporium Extreme Etchings/Shawplan GW Models High Level Kits Hobby Holidays Isinglass Drawings Judith Edge Kits London Road Models Model Railway Developments Mousa Models Penbits Model Railways Phoenix Precision Paints Prickley Pear Products, Powerbond Adhesives Rumney Models Roger Carpenter Roxey Mouldings RT Models South Eastern Finecast Stoneybridge Structures Tim Horn Baseboards Wild Swan Books Wizard Models

A few more details Layouts Burntisland 1883 - Presented by the East of Scotland 4mm Group The year is 1883 and the railways of Fife are largely isolated from the national network by the Firths of Forth and Tay. They will remain so until the Forth Bridge is completed in 1890 and the Tay Bridge is rebuilt. All passenger and goods traffic must transfer from railway to shipping at Burntisland for the onward journey to Edinburgh and the South. The model shows the passenger station, the nearby train ferry and the infrastructure of the immediate area as it was in 1883. Given the period, the majority of the locos and stock have been scratchbuilt. Clackmannan Goods - Presented by David Furmage Clackmannan Goods is a new iteration from David of the principles behind his first layout Longcarse West. The scene is set in the twilight months of wagonload traffic in a small yard during the mid 1970s. The yard is fictional but is imagined to be on the site of the Caledonian Railway good yard in Alloa. Some liberties taken with the history of other freight yards in the area mean that Clackmannan Goods handles more traffic than might otherwise be the case but the precarious nature of them means that the threat of closure is very real. Glenmutchkin - Presented by Mark Tatlow At the time of the 1840s railway mania, the Glenmutchkin story was a lampoon about the promotion of a line to the depths of the Scottish highlands but for Mark, the story is merely an excuse to have an unexplained town in the otherwise sparsely populated part of the Scottish Highlands that deserved a fair-sized railway connection! Its trackplan is a cross between the Highland Railway’s station at Wick and the engine shed area from Kyle of Lochalsh. The layout is presented very much as a work in progress but there will be a fully operational layout including a substantial set of signals but with only limited amounts of scenery complete. London Road - Presented by the Friends of London Road Originally built as a terminus station, London Road has now been modified to create through platform lines, carriage sidings and a head shunt to an offstage loco shed. The layout is set in 1907 during the elegant Edwardian era which allows the operation of the later Webb locomotives as well as the new Whale engines and the earlier elliptical roof carriages. Although the LNWR was the largest of the pre-group railways, there are very few RTR locos or stock available and everything that moves on London Road (apart from the operators) is kit or scratchbuilt. Ouse Valley Viaduct and Balcombe - Presented Rod Cameron and John Farmer The viaduct is a model of the famous structure on the Brighton main line, designed by engineer John Urpeth Rastrick in association with LBSCR architect David Mocatta. The 37-arch structure reaches a maximum height above the valley floor of 96ft (29m), and overall is 1475ft (450m) long. Balcombe station is just north of the viaduct. Some signature workings are the Brighton Belle and Newhaven boat trains. Some of the traffic might indicate that there are some Oxted line diversions operating today! P76 Engineering – Sentinel Street - Presented by Brian Harrap It's a layout but probably not as most would know it. It's been an exercise in breaking away from the conventional presentation as so often seen. Most of the buildings have been deliberately set facing in toward the industrial scene presenting, at first, a blank wall to the viewer all around the layout necessitating looking over their roofs to view the scene opposite and walking around the layout to see the rest which was under the viewer’s nose. More difficult to describe than to see. Pulborough - Presented by the Mid-Sussex 18.83 Group Pulborough is a model of the station of that name located in rural West Sussex on the former LBSC main line from Horsham to Ford Junction with the model representing the station as it would have been around 1910. At that time, the station had extensive facilities with up and down goods yards, cattle pens and coal staiths. The branchline to Midhurst and Chichester joined the main line at Hardham Junction, a few miles south of Pulborough and the model shows branch line trains running into the up loop platform. The period modelled allows the operation of locomotives and trains featuring both Stroudley and Marsh liveries. Splott - Presented by Paul Spencer Set in the late 1980s, Splott depicts a small transfer yard located between Cardiff Tidal Sidings and Tremorfa Steelworks. Whilst it is fictional in location, the layout aims to showcase the variety of freight stock and locomotives seen in the South Wales area around that time. Locomotives have been detailed using parts from the Extreme Etchings range and much of the stock is either scratchbuilt or heavily modified kits and ready to run items. All the stock has been weathered to varying degrees. Waterloo Street - Presented by James Dickie Waterloo Street is an exhibition layout inspired by the real-life Waterloo Goods branch in Aberdeen. Originally opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway in 1856, the branch is still in use and has recently been upgraded. Where it was once possible to see little Manning Wardle tank engines steaming around the docks, Class 66s now deliver block trains of calcium carbonate slurry. The layout represents what traffic might have been like on the Waterloo branch from the 1950s to the present day. Please note that this year's special guest layout Shelfie2 by Paul Marshall-Potter will unfortunately no longer be attending due to personal reasons. Demonstrations The demonstrations and workshops at Scaleforum are an essential part of what the exhibition is all about and this year we have will have a special focus on aspects of track construction as well as the usual range of demonstration. Track construction workshops Turnout construction workshops will take place on both days at Scaleforum and will be run by Phil Tattershall and Tony Wilkins. Two workshops will take place on each day. Turnout kit construction A workshop covering the construction of an Exactoscale A5 turnout kit will take place on both days at Scaleforum and will be run by Tony Sullivan. Getting started in P4 An introduction to what is involved in modelling to P4 standards by Gavin Clark. Locomotive construction, suspension and continuous springy beams Will Litchfield will be giving a demonstration of loco building from both cast and etched brass kits with a particular emphasis on the chassis. Carriage construction Keith Bradbury is an acknowledge expert in the art of carriage construction and will be showing the techniques he uses. Improving and detailing models Experienced model makers Phil Eames and Jim Smith-Wright will be showing how models and kits of different types and ages can be improved with the aid of some simple techniques and detailing parts available from the trade Using a laser cutter to produce buildings Back in April 2018, Ralph Robertson started a series on the Society’s web forum on the construction of Alpha Mill, a model of a traditional Lancashire cotton mill that would be used on Slattocks, the P4 layout being constructed by members of the Manchester Model Railway Society. At Scaleforum the model itself, now substantially finished, will be on display and Ralph will explain the techniques used in its construction. Resistance soldering David Brandreth will be demonstrating resistance soldering and soldering of small parts made from nickel silver, brass and white metal. Painting and weathering using acrylic paints Mike Cubberley and Mark Lambert will be showing how to paint and weather diesel and electric era wagons using acrylic paints Battery power and radio control options for model railways Ted Scannell has been investigating the possibilities of using battery power for locomotives with radio control and will be showing what he has found out.

Burngullow flow uses the 45 wagons in the 70 5500 333-377 batch.

Take you pick really - other suggestions would be cement, scrap, fertiliser, petroleum, metals, chemicals, china clay, timber and commercial explosives. Also vans carrying any number of palletised goods. Treat then as trip workings and can justify most things in the 1980s.

These might help http://www.carlswatson.com/Trains/Galleries 2019/Galleries 201905/20190514ArlingtonEastleighWorks/index.html and other galleries from around the same time. Its worth mentioning that the saloon was completely re-skinned as part of the work but presumably without any significant dimensional changes. Here's how it looked back in 2013 while this was taking place.

Its still as clear as mud though despite the FB comments. As stated above, the CAD isn't right for the IQAs and these have barely seen any use with DRS, certainly not on the MoD workings.

The 20/3 EPs arrived at the end of May but this was their first public appearance. Deliberately held back for the collectors' club event.

MODA95770/771 are quite significantly different from the CAD. From comments elsewhere, it appears that mistake has already been realised.

Would appear the CAD is actually closer to MODA95782 and MODA95783 then http://www.flickr.com/photos/35663521@N04/4251684773, which is fine but they should be described as KXA. I'm pretty sure these two were out of service before DRS got involved with this traffic.

October 1986 to March 1990.

From what I remember, this one was brought back to the UK for evaluation for use by BNFL, the move was from Dollands Moor to Crewe Coal Sidings. Its sister also turned up at some point and both were stored at Crewe. Both went to Booths in 2014.

Its not particularly clear but the website says they are a Bombardier design so its either KXA MODA95782/83 of 1994 or KYA 83 70 9985 001/002 of 1992 (later 33 87 9985 008/009). The first pair were used for the Devonport and Rosyth reactor traffic but were replaced by the present (and visually different) pair of MODA95770/71 in the mid 2000s IIRC. Don't think the other pair are in the UK anymore but one was around in 2011 https://gingespotting.smugmug.com/Wagons/I-TOPSCode/IQA/i-qzHNc42

As the author of that article, you recall correctly. RFS painted the 13 Stanlow pool Class 47s at Hull Dairycoates between July and September 1988, all but 47010 receiving their nameplates immediately afterwards, Recorded fates are: July – 47010/085/119/125/190/194 August – 47193/195 September – 47196/233/276/324/368.

Its Rannoch.

Norwich end of Ipswich Yard, ID is 93975 (internal user 042154).

2011/12 for wagon repairs, DRS are still there.

It's been used as a venue for emergency exercises recently, at least one each in 2017 and 2018 http://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/yorkshire-news/dramatic-pictures-show-emergency-services-14868188 There's still two CTA tanks and three Super GUV/BG in there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEyOlcK1EcA

And hopefully corrects the assorted colour issues so the paintwork matches the coaches