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Excellent news I thought i`d missed the deadline too Gives me chance to save some pennies for a few triple packs

Or even your sisters brothers uncle twice removed

My wallet has just let out a scream Just under £370 for what would be a 7 car set

And ordered Thanks for the heads up

POP stands for Power 0 Power And was the test bed of a sort of coach rake for the various components of the APT-E before the actual APT-E was built Kit can shed more light on it`s actual use

Aye with benefit of hindsight I should of ordered 2 extra cars If they did do a run of the trailer cars I think i`d be very tempted

All this talk of a second run and what needs/should/would have to be changed makes me laugh The only thing that Rapido/Shildon NCIM would have to change would be the certificate And that would only have to say that "The model is x of y of the second production run" To those that have missed out for whatever reason "Move on" as not owning one is not the end of the world Or try Ebay and pay double what you would of paid had you bothered to take the risk at the beginning

I would of thought the decoder would be at it`s default setting of 03

And another one lands Set number 1520 DCC Sound has arrived Currently sat looking at the outer box in a shall I shan`t I kind of mood Na lets get it out in the open Many thanks to Sandra and the team at locomotion and all those countless others involved in this project Roll on the HSDT as i`ll deffo be having one of those And I think the APT-P should also be a contender for a future model

Indeed it shouldn`t happen However mine was "Deposit paid awaiting Balance payment" which has now been paid (Bank holidays and monthly pay don`t always work) And my appologies if I've rained on your parade

Hopefully it wasn`t mine as i`m still awaiting it`s arrival

All the debate about the NRM made me have a look at the NRM`s website Quite interesting what it says about the APT-E now residing at shildon APT-E (Advanced Passenger Train) Collection Building Paving the way for high speed rail travel in the UK as we know it today, the APT-E was an experimental tilting train developed by British Rail during the 1970's and early 1980's. Powered by gas turbines, the APT-E achieved a new British railway speed record when on 1975 it hit 152.3 mph (245 km/h). After several delays, funding its entry into service became increasingly difficult and the project was eventually moth-balled. Unless I've entirely missed the boat and correct me if i`m wrong Kit but was the APT-E ever going to enter revenue earning service as that's what the blurb above states

If you read back a few posts you will find a reply from Sandra regarding shipping of the APT`s They have had 2000 sets to ship out and there is a limit on how many they can ship per day that is set by the courier themselves If you have paid then it will eventually arrive Mine hasn`t arrived yet either but i`m not going to start panicking or worrying till the end of April at the earliest

It will negotiate radius 2 curves and upwards However due to the overhang of the nose it will be outside the loading gauge on all the standard gauged track i:e both Hornby and Peco standard curve ranges from 2 nd radius up to 4 th radius at standard track centres of iirc 50 mm for Peco and 67 mm for Hornby I`d suggest having at least a double straight before entering any station area as that will at least allow the train to straighten up and come back into gauge for the platforms

Right next question then lol Shame there isn`t some form of chat window on here to make things quicker Are the decoders brand new un-used or have they come from and been used in other loco`s Edit: I`ll send you a PM