Moxy

Like 1196/1197 perhaps? http://www.gwr.org.uk/nocamrys1.html About half way down the page.

Is this the one you were thinking of? Cut down J72 chassis & Triang Polly body.

There have been a couple of versions of that Avonside on RMWeb. Corb's very first post on this thread included a Pug/Smokey Joe/Triang Nellie hybrid, and there is a thread here with some instructions, although the pictures are missing, sadly. Looking forward to see what you do with yours.

I'm confused. Are you saying the platforms most recently in use (1 & 2) were ex LNWR & the long disused platforms (3 & 4) were ex L&Y? If that is the case, the LNWR lines are on the wrong side of Salford Central to access Manchester Exchange, they would have to cross the L&Y lines to get there. Manchester Exchange would be just off the top right of the modern map. There are two office blocks on the site of Exchange nowadays. (The company I work for is in one them). It always struck me as strange that they haven't reinstated the disused platforms at Salford Central, particularly after they reduced the number of through platforms at Victoria, and how busy it has subsequently become. With the opening of the Ordsall Curve they could have made better use of Salford Central.

Those LNWR platforms at Salford Central have been out of use for donkeys years. I first started commuting into Manchester in 1987 & they were disused then. Have they actually removed the old platforms now?

I got an email from them on Monday saying that as the Scotsman set was here, some of the track/buildings has now been released: Track Pieces TT8002 - Straight Track TT8003 - Curve - 1st Radius TT8004 - Curve - 2nd Radius TT8005 - Curve - 3rd Radius TT8006 - Curve - 4th Radius TT8007 - Curve - 6th Radius TT8008 - Left Hand Point 166mm 15° 631mm TT8009 - Right Hand Point 166mm 15° 631mm TT8010 - Buffer Stop TT8011 - Quarter Straight Track TT8026 - Locomotive & Rolling Stock Railer TT8027 - Power Connecting Clip TT8028 - Digital Power Connecting Clip Lineside Signals and Buildings TT9001 - Footbridge TT9002 - S&C Dent Station TT9003 - S&C Waiting Room TT9004 - S&C Signal Box TT9005 - Water Tower TT9006 - Engine Shed TT9007 - Good Shed TT9008 - Straight Platform TT9009 - Platform Ramp I do take your point that most of the range is probably still to follow in 2023.

I believe they do ship direct from China to Australia. When one of the 00 industrials (Peckett or Sentinel, can't remember which) was released, it was on sale in Australia before it reached UK shops.

Although not very clear in that photo, the corridor connector is painted yellow. An early version of rail blue, and one of only 2 or 3 vehicles so painted. More info here : https://railcar.co.uk/type/class-128/liveries

Probably because they haven't got any TT product in stock to push yet. (except track, which they do have in stock, but have already said they are waiting for the trains to arrive from China before releasing that.) The Flying Scotsman set is the first train set to go out.

It starts here Way back in 2015. Unfortunately most of the finished pictures have been lost, but the text is still there.

I think Hornby have chosen to match the geometry of the existing European track range made by Tillig. It makes sense if you are looking to sell into the European market that your track matches what is already available.

Yes, there is interest here. 👍

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=558762159592806&set=a.453895220079501 for Rio Tinto possible conversion kit.

I agree with you about the couplings, when I was looking at the samples on Hornby's stand at Warley I didn't really notice the couplings. On reflection that TT coupling is no more obtrusive than tension locks in 00 or the standard N couplings, I think it is just that the TT coupling is unfamiliar to British eyes. I'm sure we will get used to it.

Directions are here http://www.mmrs.co.uk/exhibition/new-venue-directions/ Bus & tram towards the bottom of the page. Venue is just off Oxford Road, so any bus that goes along Oxford Road.

Link here to his blog https://thrumlington.blogspot.com/2013/01/gwr-14xx-to-517-class-conversion.html One of the 517 tanks ended up on the Bishop's Castle Railway, my kind of light railway.

I wonder if the catch points and the adjacent gate posts are the start of the paper mill's private siding? Catch points would be to protect BR lines.

Yes, either of those would be good. Well, we will know in just under 2 hours. Suppose I had better go and do some work in the meantime.

That doesn't narrow it down much, although the Y7 is based there.

Simon Kohler in the TT Talk video about 4 pages ago said there would be no traction tyres.

Barry Railway A Class perhaps?

It is sobering to think that film is seventy years old this year.

According to said book, Great Southern livery was the same as GS&WR livery, just with different crests and lettering from 1925 - 1930, described in the book as purple lake or purple brown. 1930 - 35, GSR started to paint their bogie coaches chocolate & cream, not unlike that Swindon based railway. 6 wheelers however were all over brown. Shade not specified, although it does speculate it's probably something like Pullman umber brown. 1935 - 44, GSR started to paint their coaches crimson lake. Again exact shade is not given, but it does mention a similarity to contemporary LMS/NCC practice in the lettering style. 1944 onwards is CIE dark green, as modelled by Hattons. (and 1950s/60s as appropriate).

Yes, six of them apparently. http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/halpin/halpin.htm

Maybe not individual items of track, but you can pre order track packs.