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Out of curiosity I lined up 3 of my DRS 47's to see if there are any differences in livery application and authenticity between the different brands.

Starting from the top down as follows from the earliest to the latest releases, all of them are brand new.

 

ViTrains Standard Release DRS 47501

ViTrains Rail Exclusive Ltd. Edition DRS 47813

Bachmann Rep Special Ltd. Edition DRS 47805

 

As you can probably see the liveries between the 3 are quite different thus let's play spot the difference and wouldn't mind knowing who thinks which one has got it right, yes this is very subjective depending on how you view the images.

I have googled images of these prototypes but it is difficult to judge based on camera angles and lighting but personally I think the ViTrains 47813 comes out on top with better colour depth and the light aqua hue within the Compass logo and the Bachmann 47805 a close second but not sure about the whiteness within the Compass logo and general colour depth, the ViTrains 47501 for me is all over the place with general detailing, shading/colouring and the shape of the Compass logo.

 

DRS 47.jpg

If we are just looking at the livery, I have to agree, 47813 looks best.

However, the overall shape of the loco and around the cab windows, looks odd to me.

Last lot of 47's

47627 passes Totnes 26th February 1990

47628 at Reading 24th February 1987

47632 departs Salisbury on a Portsmouth service 28th November 1987

47809 at Totnes 25th February 1990

47826 Plymouth 25th February 1990

47826 Taunton 21st August 1989

47827 Exeter St Davids 21st August 1989

47901 at Merehead 25th June 1989

Iain

Some more 47's this morning

47525 waits to depart Blackpool North with a London Euston service, Sunday 20th September 1991. The 47 worked to Crewe, via Preston, Warrington and Chester, where the train was propelled around the triangle of lines, West of the station.

47535 at Salisbury with a Cardiff to Portsmouth train. 23rd September 1987

47536 on a weekday ballast train, Bristol Temple Meads, 8th August 1986

47569 prior to its naming at Gloucester Open Day. 1st July 1990. Later that day, England would lose a famous penalty shoot-out, in the World Cup semi final.

47580 at London Liverpool St. 7th March 1987

47581 at Basingstoke rail event 23rd September 1987

47585 on a Bristol to Weymouth train at Westbury. 25th June 1989

47592 passes Penleigh on the Westbury avoider, with an Up West of England train. August 1988.

47605 moves onto the loco holding sidings at Liverpool St. 7th March 1987

47620 at Merehead open day. 25th June 1989

Iain

Are you trying to throw 2 points simultaneously because a few years ago when I was in a workshop building layouts we tried the Peco PL35 and found it was incapable of firing 2 at the same time. Power supply mades no difference the only solution was a better CDU

I was, at first, trying to fire the points in pairs, but soon realised this wasnt going to happen, so now fire each individually.

I think I will try another cdu.

Good evening. Tonight we will start on the class 47's.

47118 at Salisbury 23rd February 1990

47202 dumped at Westbury depot 11th April 1987

47322 at Waterloo on an additional service to Salisbury Sunday 24th May 1992

47324 at March TMD 23rd August 1986

47462 passing Somerford, on the approach to Christchurch, with a cross country working. November 1989

47466 races through Culham with a cross country working. 20th July 1988

47478 passes Bratton with a Paddington bound train from the West Country. 30th May 1989.

47479 & 47829 inside the HST shed at Laira. 15th September 1991

47487 at Liverpool St. 26th February 1987

47490 working the lunchtime Dover Marine to Liverpool Lime St at Tonbridge. 30th October 1986

Iain

Ive looked through a few threads on here with questions regarding Peco point motors, but not found the answers im looking for. Ive also checked out Brian Lambert's Flashbang website.

On Baker Wood Bunker, ive only got 4 turnouts and have gone down the road of fitting them with Peco PL-11 side mounted point motors. These are switched using the Peco sliding contact levers, with power supplied by the aux output on my Hornby Elite controller, through a Peco PL-35 CDU.

The problem I have is that only 2 of the motors throw the turnouts correctly. The other 2 tend to bounce, meaning the points don't throw. I tried a fair amount of adjusting to put the situation right, but to no avail. I contacted Peco technical department about the problem. They suggested the Elite' power output isn't enough to power these motors, which I thought odd, as when tested, it showed up as being 15.8V.

So, I am now looking at using an alternative transformer and am drawn to the Gaugemaster, cased, transformers. But which one should I use? 16V or 24V - Im leaning toward the latter, but will this be too much for the cdu?

Mission accomplished - loco enroute!

I am looking for the following Dapol Limited Edition wagons:

Wessex Wagons:

31 "Ministry of Munitions" gunpowder van, no.4159

168 "Ushers" Trowbridge vent van, no.83

245 "LMR" vent van, no.WD1902

247 "F" Radstock 4plk open, no.158

248 "H" Radstock 4plk open, no.289

Burnham & DMRC:

"Wilts United Dairies" Melksham vent van, no.2

"Wilts United Dairies" Melksham, 6w Milk Tank, no.21 or 25

"The Earl of Waldergraves Collieries" 4plk open, no.563

I am keeping an eye on the usual internet websites.

Reasonable! prices paid

Isn't that the area that just has the internal user Army van instead of a loco?  Not seen much excitement about that on here!!!

Don't we have 47625 "City of Truro" too?

http://news.Bachmann.co.uk/2018/02/city-truro-class-47-sales-area-exclusive/

Unfortunately, I dont seem to have taken many images of class 40 to 46 on slide film, so here are a very few that I did.

40012 is seen at Carlisle, whilst being towed to a new life in preservation. 7th September 1988

D200 / 40122 is seen in the next 2 pictures, at Basingstoke. 23rd September 1987

45125 arrives at York 7th February 1987

45135 is seen (whilst in preservation) at Laira Open Day. 15th September 1991

45140 backs onto a Cardiff bound train at Bristol Temple Meads. 8th August 1986

Next up, the 47's.

Iain

Great to see this layout on Saturday at FEBEX.

Its been a while since I saw it in the flesh, so it was great to catch up with it, in all its beautiful splendour.

If you've never seen, get to a show where its appearing - you wont be disappointed!

Thanks chaps!

I've been lucky enough to have seen both of these layouts in the flesh and have to agree that they are really superb examples of what can be achieved in 2mm.

Railways in South London are more interesting than North of the river   and the time frames are right up my street!

Many thanks for posting.

Seems a bargain and have been browsing a copy this morning. It is a shame there are some real howlers in the photo captions - it always makes me a bit wary of such a publications usefulness, as a source of reliable research material, when this happens.

3 car Class 166' have been working a few diagrams on the GWR Weymouth line for the past 5/6 days - 2O98 has been stabling at Weymouth for the next mornings 2D05 - as well as a few forays to Salisbury - 2O01 from Westbury / 2E16 from Salisbury, to name a few.

And, no doubt, there are probably hefty penalty payments, if you stray into the red.

This evening we will have a look at some of the refurbished freight machines.

37350 blasts out of Bradford on Avon with a Bristol to Weymouth train. 2nd June 1989

37350 at Merehead 25th June 1989

37354 at Merehead 25th June 1989

A pair of unidentified 37/3 storm through Twyford April 1990

37673 at Par 4th May 1991

37674 (& 37417) at Laira open day 15th September 1991

37703 & 37897 at Appleby 25th May 1992

thats all folks

next time we will move onto some type 4's.

Iain

That "Keith Lemon" heap of Eartha Kitt is another over the top, unfunny act that seems to be a bit of an "Emperor's New Clothes" celebrity. My aunt and my cousin love him, but I'm sat there thinking "he's not wearing any talent, can't you see it?"

He is marginally worse than the bloke who is "Mrs Brown" - a show that gets load of laughs for gutter comedy.   

How about doing a bit of double tracking rather than extending?

It may not be that exciting for many, but I think, as someone has already commented, its quite a long railway and I just think it would add something to it, having the opportunity to have trains passing each other - just as at the Great Central.  

With the potential increase in passenger loadings, thanks to the Broadway extension, could a portion of double track, somewhere between Winchcombe and Cheltenham, allow for a slight increase in the number of train services? 

Any extension at the Cheltenham end, would be a winner, if a little more difficult to achieve.

Tom Kerridge - another poncy foodie trying to make simple food too pretentious and over the top.

Keith Floyd was the best TV cook - well, other than Nigella at her sauciest best

I used to work with another guy who would join me in crewing up a one way trip into space for musicians - but that's probably best left to another thread!

Lets get the ETH cable connected and look at some 37/4'.

37406 waiting to depart Oban 5th September 1988

37406 on the blocks at Oban 5th September 1988

37409 on the blocks at Mallaig 1st September 1988

37416 waits departure time from Kyle of Lochalsh 4th September 1988

37416 at Wick 2nd September 1988

37418 & 37416 wait departure from Inverness with the first train of the day for the Far North lines 2nd September 1988

37418 waits departure from Thurso 2nd September 1988

37425 stabled at Sheffield Midland 1992

37430 Cardiff Central 14th May 1988

Next up, the refurbished freight 37'.

have a good evening

Iain

Ok, some 37/0'.

37038 Gloucester Open day 1st July 1990.

37065 Carlisle 25th May 1992

37089, 37239 & 37242 March depot yard 23rd August 1986

37116 Basingstoke 23rd September 1987

37216 Ipswich June 1992

37271 Carlisle 25th May 1992

All the best, Iain

A very small selection of 33/2 "Slim Jims".

33207 in the bay at Tonbridge. 30th October 1986

33208 storms out of Oxford with a parcels / mail train. August 1988.

33209 in the sidings at Redhill. 24th February 1987

Class 37' up next

Iain

Welcome to my thread.

Baker Wood Bunker is a small shunting layout set on an internal military railway. It features a standard gauge line that serves a transfer shed, where ammunition is transferred to a narrow gauge system, for storage in an underground bunker. The inspiration came from the systems that used to be in place at Dean Hill, Chilmark and Trecwn. The layout is being built to fill those Winter evenings when running my garden railway, Summer Hampton, isnt practical. I also miss doing a bit of modelling, as the garden railway doesnt really give me the opportunity - so Baker Wood Bunker scratches an itch! Its not meant to be a complete and perfect rep. of a military railway, just a bit of fun. For example, the standard gauge railway will be utilising borrowed Longmoor locos and rolling stock hijacked from a whole host of other places.

The layout is 5ft long and 33" at its widest end. Its built on mdf, framed with lightweight timber. Control is dcc for the standard gauge and analogue for the OO9.

Construcion started in January 2017 and is about 3/4 finished. Here are a few photos of where the layout is currently and links to the very first video I did for YT and the latest one (I wont clog up the thread with loads of links to the others).

Maintenance shed for the narrow gauge stock

The transfer shed

The staff halt

Test fit for trees, over the bunker mound

First video:

Latest video:

Iain

Some "Bagpipes" this morning.

33103 at Hamworthy Quay on 7th May 1988

33102 & 33002 at Exeter St Davids, 24th May 1992

33103 again, this time at the old Fawley station. 7th May 1988.

33109 at the back of Westbury depot, 3rd July 1990

33112 at Cardiff Central on 14th May 1988

Next time, we move onto some "Slim Jims"

Iain

Some 33' this morning - starting with the 0's.

33011 & 33039 arrive at Trowbridge on the last Sunday of loco hauled services on the Cardiff to Portsmouth route. 15th May 1988

33023 at Westbury Depot. 17th October 1987

33031 & 33033 at Penzance. 29th October 1988

33031 at Westbury. 29th October 1988

33033 at Truro. 29th October 1988

33050 & 33051 at Merehead. 25th June 1989.

33058 at Ramsgate. 31st October 1986

I have previously posted a few in the class 33 photo thread, so wont repeat them here.

All the best, Iain.