Bishdurham

58 minutes ago, MarkC said:

That service actually started from South Shields, I believe.

I think you are right but did the return only go as far as Sunderland?

I believe there was one used on a daily trip from Sunderland to Middleton in Teesdale via Durham and Bishop Auckland.

How close are the First and Last HAAs to reaching these shores?  I thought I read somewhere that although the first part of the main production had errors and were being reworked, this would not affect the production of the models for Locomotion.

11 hours ago, DougN said:

I have a hope that the price is "reasonable" . OK this is a very subjective point of view. One person will have a view of a 200quid price being too high where as others might say it is fine. I have had a look at the recommended retail of some equivalent locos. I am confident that the price won't be discounted to 100quid! but the RRP of similar locos is about 180quid. Personally I hope this is about the price we see as I will be happy to pay that for a non sound or DCC fitted loco.  

 

I will point out that this is not to criticise TMC if it is higher or lower (all of our wishes, but in the current economic environment I doubt it!)  the reality of commissioning the loco and the risk that TMC has taken on is large. I do hope that it works well for them and is profitable so they can end up producing more RTR NER type locos.  B16 any one? D20? I think if they did manage this our collective cups of NER designed locos will run over! 

 

As a modeller that has liked the look of these for so long and purchased kits (and built them!) now to have these so relatively close is wonderful!

 

 

I have a model of 1759 on order and the question is do I get TMC to add DCC & Sound and then do their magic to it or do I order a second in LNER?   Of course if the economy doesn't sink without trace I might do both.

A D20 would be fantastic!  We can always hope.  You never know, Hornby might decide to fill in the gaps and make a Raven A2!

Great something I didn't want and then I saw it in GNER Blue, mighty tempting!

Jolly nice!

As it was an LNER 12T Van and Sheperd Neame are based in Kent it is quite possible that this livery is fictional.  But I stand to be corrected.

I think the North Eastern Railway T3 or LNER Q7 would be a great locomotive to pull those NER 20t Hoppers that will be announced the moment I get started building the Slaters kits I've had since 1990.

W&S Stamp in the Old Kent Road used to have a slot for an old penny.  They would hear the coin drop and turn on the controller and a train would run around the shop window.  Not sure what happened after new money.  Maybe they had good hearing or perhaps the price went up to Five New Pence - the start of inflation!

August Bank Holiday up North?

So they are now charging club members the price the Tier 3 guys did?

Just now, Michael Hodgson said:

So how many are there on a Deltic?

I do hope none of the rivets fell overboard on the journey from China.

Less, if they fell overboard!

Hornby have sent out an email that the new Rocket set is about to arrive, TMC have asked for money.

7 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said:

 

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

I've had some dates where I'd been happy to have a hot stove nearby!

3 hours ago, Ruston said:

These must be due now?

 

I never understand people wanting plastic pretend coal loads when they can easily make loads themselves and use the real thing. But I forget that not everyone can still just pick the stuff up anywhere. You can walk your dog just about anywhere round here, on old pit sites and colliery railway lines, and find enough coal lying around to make wagon loads. Not that I need to because I've got an ice cream tub full of Beeston seam coal, from the last deep mine in Yorkshire.

 

I am thinking that my new micro layout will use my order of chaldrons but for fireclay and not coal.

The Leeds Fireclay Co, in the 1950s, with wagons that look like they could be from the 1850s.

You have probably never seen an Accurscale coal load.  I don't think my skills are good enough to get close and for the price I think they are hard to beat.

As in the UK, Nova Scotia has coal deposits that our governments refuse to use so that their populations can pay higher fuel bills.  Unfortunately my local line was used for gypsum, so if you require any gypsum let me know and I will do a trade for coal!

Mine arrived yesterday, well packed and safely delivered.  It really is a beautiful product from the sprung buffers to the box.  10/10!

From that angle it does look like the lamp should be a little lower as it appears in the photos to be below the centre of the headcode box.

It must be that A2 "Duel" Carriage Way  it is handbags at 50 paces!

40 minutes ago, Worsdell forever said:

 

Hope it sounds different, it's the petrol sounds that are on!

So the petrol sounds like a diesel?  I may have to sit down!  

Pack 1 of HAAs arrived yesterday and Stunning doesn't do them justice!  I really will have to build a railway to run them on!

On 08/05/2022 at 17:36, phil-b259 said:

 

Still doesn't change the fact that if there was a huge market out there for 'basic' models then someone would have grabbed it by now.

 

That they haven't speaks volumes - though there is of course the problem that if anyone did then the potential exists for Hornby to rush out a 'spoiler' model thus eating into sales and reducing returns significantly*

 

* 'cheap' items are that because the manufacturer can realise volume of scale to drive down costs and generate huge sales volumes - not just because they may be inexpensive to produce.

Think what may be missed is that there is not a huge market out there!  There are other ways to make money which doesn't involve dealing with people who want  a model  railway.  I am an agent for a company in the US which manufactures most of its products at home.  When I go to local shows I find that although the few people who come through the door are interested, the majority don't want to pay for the quality when they can buy cheap second hand imports from China.    From what I can judge, there is a small number of people who have both the funds and desire to buy high quality items .  There are others not so fortunate, but not enough of them that manufacturers think it is worthwhile to look for their business.

7 minutes ago, No Decorum said:

Yup! A man of taste, Mike Wild! Are those engines painted? The factory forgetting to do it was one reason for the delay.

Or Colour Blind!  Jokes aside it does look stunning.

9 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

The sound version is ESU Loksound..or have I got that wrong ?  Both my rigs are DC analogue only but I can and do run a small number of the above mentioned fitted models with limited but effective enough results for me to enjoy a little fun. The Napier Deltic sound is unique and my first “experience “ of it was of standing at the tunnel end of KX Platform 10 and hearing an extra terrestrial roar emanate from the tunnel.Into the early evening light burst this vision of blue and gold rudely shaking the collection of Gresley Pacifics awaiting departure. The date was September 1959 and Doncaster was putting it through its trial period on the ECML. Be interesting if it’s possible to recreate it in some,if limited,fashion. Obviously not DP1 .Any thoughts ? 

 

 

 

What an experience!  Almost as good as hearing a Pacer pass Gateshead West on a wet morning in January! 😂  

5 hours ago, johndon said:

whilst this is a kit built wagon rather than one from KR, this was done with brown and black pastels:

 

 

using this photo from Howie Milburn as inspiration:

 

 

John

 

A video on how you do it would be much appreciated!  Looks like they didn't stay clean for long!

1 minute ago, PhilJ W said:

Do you need a magic wand on a powered model?

To turn the lights on and off yes!  Any magnet should work, but most put a wand in the pack.  Even the Hornby Lighted Generics come with something!