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I think the latest engineering sample look great! Can't wait for this model

Hi folks, Do any of you have a (home) insurance company you recommend for insuring the contents of your railway shed. I am using RIAS, who insure shed (outbuildings) as standard for up to £5000 of contents. Of course, I have tried to keep most of my valuable items inside my house, and of course I have heavily fortified the shed to reduce the likelihood of a break in. However, it would still be good to know if any of you recommend a particular insurance company. Thank you! Moderators if this post should be somewhere else please say so and I'll delete and repost.

Does anyone know Triang and Lima models with larger flanges / thicker wheels cope with Peco Bullhead track? Sorry if this has already been covered elsewhere, I did search but couldn't see anything. Many thanks

Oh thank you so much, that would be amazing!!

Thanks Jason. I think they're designed for the old Triang version which has a different shaped window...but I'll email them to check!

Hi folks, I got an Hornby M7 in LSWR lined green, the NRM edition, off eBay recently, but it was very poorly packaged so the chimney, dome, whistle and cab roof all came apart. The seller gave me a partial refund and I've managed to put it all back together. However, I can only find 1 front cab window, when there should be 2. They are meant to be stuck to the cab roof. Hornby say they don't have any spares. So my question is, does anyone else sell replacement cab windows? Either custom made, or generic sizes? In this case, they'd need to be 5-6mm wide and circular. Thanks in advance...

You made the right call, very jealous!!

Fantastic loco which I've just paid an insane amount for on eBay. If only I could've turned back time and gone for the SDJR one but still looks splendid in MR maroon. Only issue I had was with the rear bogie pickups. Turned out the issue was glue marks inside the body where the copper contacts from the bogie met the copper plates inside the body. Seems like they put too much glue on in the factory and it smeared onto the copper plates, but this was easily rectified with a light bit of wet and dry paper. I pushed the pickups out a bit more as well for good measure to ensure they always touch the wheels. Now it works well even over express points.

Sorry to be tedious...but has anyone heard any updates? Especially re the samples that were due in January? Thanks in advance :)

Not sure why it took my so long to post a photo but here's mine alongside a Metropolitan Bo-Bo. Am I right that this ran, in this livery as opposed to LNER, out of Marylebone towards Aylesbury?

Here's my in-Accurascale one. Printed some headcodes for it and painted a few more details. Original Railfreight for comparison.

Still a few on ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255894233516

Me too! I found the LNER lettering rubs off quite easily. I made some Metropolitan decals for mine, if anyone wants there here's a link to download (the whole image is A5, so you can print 2 to a A4 page): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByGv4aFrRaOxYkZPaEJMdk5NVGM/view?usp=share_link&resourcekey=0-8da7Slb3b8Csy-_9IYcOSg

LNWR Oerlikons would be sweet. After Gladstone though please! :)

Thanks Brian, I only voted for it once each time, honest...!

I don't think I've ever literally punched the air in delight in response to a model release, but I have done when you announced the Jones Goods and now this! Have been wanting Met 1 for ages, so thank you. Just need to choose which livery!

Yes you're right it doesn't look like it did operate out of Euston. I dig a bit of digging and the model I'm wanting headcodes for is actually for an old Hornby model (I just thought this would be a more active thread!). It's the first one my parents got me, from the 1989 Railfreight set, which I painted BR green as a teenager (this set http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=758). The model from that set is 37063, and I had a look to see if it operatated on the WCML: https://www.class37.co.uk/fleet.aspx?strnumber=37063. However, I see it did pull the Inverness to Euston service between Inverness and Edinburgh a bunch of times so I might go for 1M16...and just imagine it used to go to Euston for the purposes of my layout, rule 1 and all that, unless someone does know of a Class 37 operating out of Euston in real life! I did a good job of the repaint but I do kinda miss the original railfreight livery. Am tempted to get that body shell as a spare and swap it over from time to time! (easily done as it's just 4 clips)

Hello, could anyone help me choose the right split headcodes please? Ideally, it would be from a) the era it was in a BR green (no yellow panels) livery, and/or b) when it was operating out of Euston. Ofc I can just pick something up from Google but if I can use a code the relates to one or both of the above that would be ideal. Thanks very much !

Nice! Do you have any pictures of that? I might be tempted to modify my Dean Single...

Yeah will have to see I guess. My outer loop is R3 so hopefully it's OK for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcGf-c1E3ec new video of the EP sample, in todays email. "This video shows that the bogie wheels are not rotating properly. This was one of a number of faults, which we have fed back to the factory. They are now hard at work making revised samples, which we hope to be able to show off very soon. You can also see that the front frames with the prominent guard irons are causing problems (not to mention that they’re positioned too wide). Based on our assessment of the EPs, we’ve decided to make these an optional part, so you can choose to fit them or not, depending on how generous the curves are on your layout."

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I would love it to be Gladstone but guessing it'll be a Scottish locomotive

I'd love a Metropolitan No.1 E Class but that requires a completely new tooling (though maybe the LNSR M7 could be modified) so probs not likely

I buy a lot of Kato for a n gauge layout I have so see their promotional posters, and this loco has been promoted to Japanese modellers too, so my guess would be the inclusion of an N gauge coupler is so they can use it with n gauge wagons as they have no oo9 stock to run it with? Seems to be popular with modellers who make custom diorama track sections (can't remember the proper term) which is big in Japan