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Not sure why people are laughing - it was the 8 times daily Express Milk. A very important train hence the Deltic haulage. If it didn't run, you could hear the end customers screaming from miles away.

To misquote a Stock Aitken and Waterman song... He should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky...

Can we have 8O08 please?

It was a very tongue in cheek comment - I enjoyed the challenge. I still have no idea what train they are intended for. I assume ECML and that's way outside my (limited) knowledge

Oh, so you make me trawl all sorts of resources to try and find what diagram the Restaurant is in Facebook but just tell everyone on here Fantastic work and hard to believe it's all in N.

They are only as good as their weakest link and with so many horror stories on the internet, and personal experience, they have weak links and a fair few missing links. Several times I have had to use CCTV to try and work out where a parcel has been LAUNCHED. The company doesn't give a monkeys - I have offered the CCTV to show exactly what their couriers get up to and they aren't remotely interested.

The second (well first!) of my two orders arrived today, again well wrapped. Anthony P. Sayer's book on the Clayton type 1 and his new book on the BTH and North British type 1s. Peppercorn - his life and locomotives All have annoying dust jackets - all published by Pen & Sword Think I have enough reading material to last be until next Christmas now

Fixed

The j50 looks fantastic but I would have to remove the transfers and re-do them and I haven't the heart to undo such a well applied set of transfers.

Glad that's settled, you could cut the tension with a (lock)knife

Missed parcelforce today (ironically the same driver does work and I saw him there at a distance but didn't know he had it). So will hopefully get it (and the Clayton one Monday.

I may just be continuing a falsehood but there was a rumour that many so called CE marks were spaced slightly further apart than they should be and actually meant Chinese Export.

Looks like there will be plenty of demand for spare bodies... oh...

It looks like the Worsley etched replacement roof?

I don't buy many new books as firstly I find them outside my budget (I'm not saying they are expensive, the author will have put a lot of work in so needs to get a reasonable return, plus production costs etc). but secondly as most of the subject material I am interested in is so long ago there is little that hasn't already been written. But I was sucked in by Strathwood's 3 for 2 offer and the first of two ordered arrived today, very well packaged so in perfect condition. One thing I was pleased to find with the books I bought is that only one has a dust jacket. I don't see the point of these and they get torn very easily. A glossy hardcover is in my opinion much better. The first one that arrived today is by David Maidment entitled "LNER 4-6-0 locomotives - their design, operation and performance" (Pen & Sword). My area of interest is the former GER line in the 1930s so plenty of "B" classifications there. At 380 pages it's going to take a long time to get through. Next up is Simon AC Martin's "Edward Thompson Wartime CME" (Strathwood). I first came across Simon in "The Biggest Little Railway" program (an interesting watch). Then I saw some of his Youtube videos and then of course The Great Model Railway Challenge. My interest is purely pre-war LNER so Thompson in theory is outside of this. However, he was in charge of Stratford for a while which IS my area, and I have also read one or two other books which put him down. For the LNER to select him as CME there must have been something, so when I saw that Simon was researching a new book it was a must for me. Finally David Larkin's "The Acquired Wagons of British Railways" volumes 1-3 (Crecy). Again in theory outside my area of interest but the whole subject is pre-nationalisation wagons so should be a good reference for me. These three books were a combined set with a very healthy discount. Curiously the order that arrived today was placed 9 days after the first one which is still showing as awaiting despatch. Not worried, it's a busy time of year and I'm in no great rush. It's great to see that new books are being written in this age of the internet, and they are being supported by publishers such as Strathwood.

That's all very well, but what have accurascale ever done for us?

I singled out the roof equipment because of how exposed it is - it may be that it was something else that is also vulnerable but something is certainly not dawlish proof.

Not particularly surprising with all that equipment on the roof - the UK coastline can be brutal.

First time I disposed of a loco (a little industrial, not mainline) I inhaled so much crud I was puking it up for a couple of days. Learned by lesson though.

I've seen Simon's youtube videos, didn't know they had been turned into books now. Although one thing - grow out of Thomas? I'm in my forties and still love Thomas

Whereas here, everyone is legless.

As the OP says, the casting masters need to be produced, so that sounds like a full kit will be forthcoming?

It's only been a month since the last one

The Flying Scotsman was non-stop at a little over 390 miles I think. Coal capacity was ok but it needed water troughs and a crew change to make it. The longest ever non-stop run for a steam locomotive was set in Australia. 422 miles. The loco? Our very own Flying Scotsman.

And what's wrong with the BBC Micro?!