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White Horse Lane or Holmesdale Road sound better

Yes pls!! I will take 2 or 3 PAA's and a couple of the slurry tanks, if offered.

Bizarrely, this line from Mount Gould Jn to Lipson Jn, is signalled for this direction movement only! The line behind the trains, is bi-directionally signalled.

A bit of sleeper and mgr action!

An old 110 instamatic image that has been cropped - 56124 at Westbury. Im not sure of the date, but the wagons will limit the period, as they were a bit of a disaster!

With some gorgeous weather and few of the noisy kids about, a few big steam locos came out to play today!

Take that photo today and you'd probably get arrested

A couple of videos of the first OO gauge running sessions at Summer Hampton. The first one has a definite Southern Region feel to it - with a small supporting cast. The second film has a mix of freight and NPCCS action

Its been a while since I posted on this thread, so here goes! A lot has happened in the last 12 months. The railway was removed from the garden, when a house move was happening. Unfortunately, this didn't complete and the move shelved, So Ive been redeveloping the railway - plenty of time in lock-down! It is a lot simpler this time around and the trackbed is solid concrete - the recycled plastic boards didn't work as well as hoped, so have been done away with. The railway is now a combination of both O and OO gauges. Ive had to utilise Peco setrack on the O gauge which isn't ideal, but I can live with the compromise. Each scale has a single line with loop. The OO loop is huge, mainly to comfortably accommodate my representation of 1S19 Bristol to Glasgow / Edinburgh sleeper train. Control is now provided by a Powercab system with 5amp booster. Here is a short video featuring my only dcc sound fitted O gauge loco to date, D1010 "Western Campaigner". I have a Hymek which is waiting a sound chip - something that will get sorted as soon as lock-down is over, along with a shopping trip to the garden centre for plants. The next locos on the shopping list are a 31 and a 25.

6M60 must be running late for you to be seeing it in daylight

Any late news on whether this show is still going ahead?

The prices for a lot of the locos are eye watering - who in their right mind can put the words Hornby, 58, unboxed, £75, in the same sentence!!

Nothing a bit of t-cut couldn't rectify

Not locos, but Mk2a coaching stock

Highly amusing, the power unit in 37673 is bigger than the loco!

I pre-ordered 68032, with Hattons, as soon as the announcement was made.

Thats right. The Western used Willesden Brent allocated vehicles - there were ecs moves between Willesden Brent and Paddington. Internal Scottish trains carried on running until much later - IIRC they didnt stop until loco hauled services went over to 158 traction. I certainly used the EDB/GLC - INV service during the Summer of 1988.

How about a range of O gauge items?

Sorry OP, idk if you are incapacitated or cant leave your house, but like one or 2 others here, I find it incredible that you have a model shop only 3 miles from your home and you wont go and shop there, but instead send an email. Add to this, youve also got Rails plus others in the same City. I must say, I often look at pre-owned items on the Hattons website which have contradictory info re spec and price and I dont recall others making a song and dance on here about it. I also wouldnt go to a butchers to buy fruit and veg. If this shop doesnt sell what you want, you shop somewhere else - simples. Personally, I dont get involved if there is any confusion. As ive said on previous threads about this supplier, they are quite marmite. If I need their services or products, I make a 300 mile round trip to get them. Yes, the shop staff can appear a bit brusque, but I get what I want. I wish I had a model railway shop within 10 miles of where I live....

Well chuffed with yesterdays announcement - pre-order placed!

DRS Crewe On A Mission - thanks for the reply. Hattons are advertising the 68's as new stock, so I assume they are another production run that Dapol have distributed, which still puzzles me as to why they've done a load more DRS and Chiltern models, but not what must be the most promising seller. Oh well, gonna have to be patient

Im sure there has only been 1 run of TPE liveried locos. Ive heard other people say "oh, as the mk5 production run is going to be limited, there isn't the need for another run of locos". That's nonsense, as, im sure, people would like more than 1 TPE liveried loco (sort of the reason I didn't buy one originally - I wanted something other than 019). Your point about other versions having stock to pull isn't exactly correct - there are no Chiltern Mk3 available and, as someone else has pointed out, these locos have been used on other traffic too - both sides of the coin covered there. I suppose, having bought a set of the Mk5's, I could always cash in when someone else cant buy them and double my money on Ebay!

How come Hattons seem to get more and more stock of DRS and Chiltern 68's but Dapol cant seem to grasp the requirement for more TPE liveried models? Shops seem to have shelves full of DRS and Chiltern liveries, so why more?? Come on Dapol, there is an obvious market for more TPE examples!!

Completely off topic I know, but im fascinated with your photo of Habaniya - my late Father was there around this time. Im still looking for him on the photo.