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  1. Wickham Green
    Yep ! ........ mine are on their way too - THANKS GUYS ( It'll be quite a SEC-fest next week with the malachite birdcages on their way too .......... but THESE should be a doddle to convert to EM ! )
  2. Wickham Green
    If the sides are bruised an' rusted it'll be typical - structurally, there were so many variants that virtually anything's acceptable ................... I'd love to see how those ally-bodied ones looked - new or battered - definitely NOT typical tho'.
  3. Wickham Green
    The railmotors were, indeed, SECR vehicles - but they were de-motored and converted for P/P use ( two sets ) or articulated ( for some reason ) twins for hauled use on Sheppey in Southern days.
  4. Wickham Green
    Shed doors are open .......
  5. Wickham Green
    Distribution's already started ........ understand mine'll be here Monday. ( So I really MUST have another go at my EM gauge 'fix' ! )
  6. Wickham Green
    Not half as strange looking as the 'Krugers' ........ definitely 'design-by-committee' !
  7. Wickham Green
    I'd hesitate to call the current colour 'rich' - I think 'drab' would be more appropriate : just like the old GNER colour - probably fine when fresh out of the paintshop but not for very long after. ( I say paint, it might be sticky-backed plastic for all I know.)
  8. Wickham Green
    ..... apart from the square panelling and unusual vents 'n' louvres ...... and the luggage rack ............................
  9. Wickham Green
    I think what Andy's trying to say is "Shortages of pigments and manpower" were "adding to the cost pressures" so a less expensive unlined livery with cheaper materials was more or less inevitable. SECR blue : I know the Southern experimented with S.& D.J.R. blue on a few coaches ( sets ? ) but - without sources in front of me - I'm not sure any 'Chatham' vehicles were involved.
  10. Wickham Green
    .......... and don't forget it won't ONLY be goods vans like that which'll need access : locomotives may well be banned because of the fire risk but the doorway is probably large enough to take one - which is probably taller than an LNER van and definitely taller than a GNSR goods van ..... but passenger vans might require access too. Width, wise there's probably space for 'yer-average-shunter' to squeeze past any vehicle parked in the doorway : maybe a little more on the left side if there's a loading bank inside accessed by steps.
  11. Wickham Green
    ... or self contained buffers of umpteen different varieties.
  12. Wickham Green
    .... and the 377s now operating on SouthEastern aren't compatible with the existing 375 fleet due to some minor wiring difference ...... etc. etc.
  13. Wickham Green
    Hopefully Rails will get through their "large amount of new Hornby and Bachmann arrivals and the Rapido bus" shortly and get the final vans on the road : my order's still 'pending' too.
  14. Wickham Green
    Took them a good while to get rid of the non-blue square fleets though.
  15. Wickham Green
    ....... though a Doncaster emigre designed the roof ! ........................................ Oops, are we still allowed to mention GNR roofs on this thread ?
  16. Wickham Green
    ......... at the expense of someone else' history.
  17. Wickham Green
    I suspect some people might be swapping the Gibson wheels on their Rails SECR box vans for something more appropriate for - shall we say - trainset pointwork ................ but that'll be a rarity.
  18. Wickham Green
    ......... well, he'd get my vote for PM any day !
  19. Wickham Green
    Glad to hear it is, indeed, a 'when' rather than 'if' .......... Mike had me worried there !
  20. Wickham Green
    Have you tried miniature end cutters ? ..... I use an old pair for chomping bits of plastic off like this and keep a sharper pair for removing etched bits from their frets.
  21. Wickham Green
    No doubt mentioned a few times over these pages but these 60' trio sets only had one dynamo - later two - to supply lighting to the whole set which couldn't, therefore, be split. Yes, that sample at Warley looked good : still shown as November delivery last time I looked - but that's obviously slipped.
  22. Wickham Green
    NO ........ so long as you don't look on it with the blinkered vision of what a locomotive 'SHOULD' look like ! : if the first loco you ever saw was a SECR 'D' in grubby black, it's excessive splashers and the totally pointless flares on its tender would't compare well with the simplicity & functionality of the Q1. ( Thank God we have them BOTH in the National Collection ...... until the next round of de-acquisitioning anyway. )
  23. Wickham Green
    That was only about a quarter of the UK population voted either way, of course ........................... an' I know that's too political so will get deleted PDQ.
  24. Wickham Green
    Does this mean ALL UK products are 'paused' and up for grabs ?
  25. Wickham Green
    I guess this week has turned out rather too busy in the run-up to Warley ?
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