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Back to the original topic, does this mean there are/were 4 tunnels? -York Curve -Hotel Curve -Maiden Lane Curve -One feeding the current new Thameslink Station under St Pancras?

Oh wow, awesome diagram! I know about the Met -> GNER tunnel (where the Signal Box is now) but what are the purple lines to the right, going under the middle of LS? Is that a second tunnel?

Thank you for all the replies, this is very interesting!

Alex/Cav, slight oddity with the packaging. For some reason the plastic which "seats" the right bogey is a different depth to the left side. It's slightly shallower and forces the bogey upwards, to sit at a bit of an awkward angle. It's minor but should be easy to fix. Lovely model though!!!!!! Given how similar they are to the BBA, could you please produce these 13x BWA which Baz mentioned a few years ago:

I did a quick search and couldn't find an existing thread on here. If you look at Shoeburyness on Google maps you will see a huge complex heading towards the North East with a very extensive rail system. It was used by the MoD for munitions testing. Does anyone have more information? I'm particularly interested what sectorisation locomotives served/were based here during the late 80s/early 90s.

Any update/luck with this?

This is what I just don't get. Surely the more-produced, the more they can spread the fixed costs (design etc) over? Then the model ends up on Ebay and goes for silly amounts.

I really don't see how there can be a future for this hobby, given the prices. Most young people can't even buy cars without credit, let alone a £300 plastic model. It wouldn't be so bad if they were diecast

So they've retooled the HST but there's no Intercity Swallow livery???

Never realised Kadee are actually HO gauge. Does this make much difference for OO?

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Cavalex have not released a 56 (yet). The Hornby 56 has been the standard for years. And you required clarification?

And it really never crossed your mind I may be referring to Hornby's "current offering"? You seriously couldn't join that dot?

Forgive the blunt question but what are the tooling/motor differences between this and the current offering?

That's a rather good reason!