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8 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

So still no pics of them working freight trains in their principal years.

Found this video tape (no longer available) https://www.videoscene.co.uk/deltics-the-style-the-sound-and-the-speed which claims the following:

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Highlights include many unusual workings, with Deltics operating in tandem and with other loco types, on freight turns and in the depth of winter.

I do think each reply on this derailing of the topic should carry a donation to charity, but eh.

If Hornby were actually planning a Deltic, we might have the narrowest thread of justification 😀

So far off topic (there should be a button to pay a small fine for this, proceeds to charity).

(Embed from flickr - click through for original with caption)

  
Also this from the Steve Banks parcels formations page:

https://www.steve-banks.org/images/historical/parcels/pcls_1967_1_22_d9018_2000_870_72.jpg

These are excellent, thanks 👍

On 13/10/2023 at 09:11, Legend said:

"...who do know something about railways but have so far lacked the space . They know A3/A4 Pacifics look stupid on 10ft wheelbase goods trains. "

Perhaps...what they actually know is what they learnt from their childhood train sets?

• big passenger locos only ever hauled matching rakes of passenger carriages, all of the same generation
• tender locos never ran tender first
• parcels consists weren't wildly mixed, they were always a neat and tidy TPO + matching vans
• big passenger locos would never be seen hauling freight
• brake vans are only ever found at the rear of a freight train
• a brake coach is always the last vehicle in a passenger train, and there's only ever one in the consist
• restaurant cars always go in the middle of a passenger consist

Said with much love.

4 minutes ago, RFS said:

For fitting magnetic couplings which are fixed to the bogie (ie there's no close-coupling mechanism) have you considered using the Hunt pivoting couplings?

+1

These are (slightly) the majority of what I fit now.  The flexibility is useful where NEM mounts aren't kinematic, or the kinematic mount is sticking or the spring is broken (I buy a lot of secondhand stock, so this is common).  

The only downside is that when both vehicles have pivoting couplings, the propelling performance can be degraded.  For fixed rakes it can be minimised by fitting one end of the vehicle with fixed coupling and the other end pivoting.  

I have the Roco Ludmilla and it's excellent.  I had picked up the idea somewhere that Roco had quit TT, but eh, clearly not 🙂

1 hour ago, 33212 said:

Hello, I've scanned through the 90 pages but just want to check if there is a list of the latest Dapol class 73 releases with the running issues resolved i.e. second batch?

I don't have a list, but I have 2 of the latest ones per (at time of writing) https://www.Dapol.co.uk/collections/br-class-73

• 73 120 BR Blue
• 73 136 Intercity Executive

Both worked perfectly out of the box. 

I had (and no longer have) a first batch Civil Engineers Dutch one which had the known issues (stuttering, stalling, sluggish performance), and didn't improve with running in or cleaning away excess grease.  It also had the 'Dapol Lemon Yellow' issue with the paint.

Both of the second batch ones are excellent in my view, at a good price. 

Wish-listing is bad, but I'm hoping they do a further batch with Intercity Swallow, NSE, and a more accurately coloured Dutch livery.  Or plain grey.

19 hours ago, The Johnster said:

I offered the driver pinned-down handbrakes at Llanvihangel, but he refused, a little contemptuously I thought.  We certainly ran pretty fast through Abergavenny (I estimated the high sixties), and in fact he didn't get a grip on them until Maindee, where we were looped, fortunately.  His loco brakes were down to the rivets and the van was now starting to catch fire from brake sparks (I think we'd have run away properly if I had not been very severe with the van brake, the only thing for it was to give him the best brake I could), which I extinguished by peeing on it.  There were several hotboxes.

rmweb's ability to go off-topic into pointless nitpicks is legendary, but then we also get off-topic gems like this. 🙂

Probably the best thing I'll read today 🙂  Thanks.

Was it this one? 

Such realism 😛

16 hours ago, G-BOAF said:

 

I don't understand why I am constantly hit by poor quality. It is very rare for me that a loco purchased 'remotely' does not have to be exchanged at least once, be it decoration, sloppy assembly, or poor running

Some people are just unlucky. Bad RNG in this round of the game probably.

As an unhelpful anecdote I’ve bought around 200 OO or HO locomotives in the last 10 years, and maybe 15 had issues. So < 10% failure rate. Only 2 DOA, both secondhand purchases. Sorry this is unhelpful, but it’s a data point 🙂

Gandy dancer (pump handcart).
 

I had the Bachmann one 30 years ago. I feel it could be…improved upon.

9 hours ago, adb968008 said:

I think your down playing Hornby and up playing Lego

[deleted grumpy reply - not how Sunday should start]

If that’s true that’s looking like a career wind-down or a passion move. The Lego Group (TLG) is a much bigger enterprise with a much stronger public brand 🙂

12 hours ago, Revolution Mike said:

The white ICI tanks are not quite the same - from a quick look the suspension / brake and discharge gear are different and the sole bars are a bit different. 

ImaginatioN? 🙂

I'd buy a couple, wrong chassis or not.  

But then again, many fortunes have probably been lost on rmwebbers saying "well I'd buy a couple". 🙂

1 hour ago, The Fatadder said:

It is an earlier (similar) design, from memory I think the tank barrel is very similar however the suspension is different (an earlier design).

Oh I should have spotted, BSC Friction Pedestal vs. Gloucester, if I remember correctly things I learnt 30 years ago 😛 
Brake gear and other chassis arrangements might be different also.

I have a feeling RevolutioN aren't going to be keen on 'near enough' liveries which don't match the wagon diagram. 
Perhaps a new RevolutioN sub-brand is needed? 🙂

32 minutes ago, Ben86 said:

Just received my unbranded wagon, so pleased with the model, the detail is excellent ! are they any plans for the white ici liveried wagons ? 

Is this the one you mean (from Paul's site)? https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/icicausticsodatua

Attractive livery, I'd be interested, assuming it's the same diagram wagon (or even if not).

Thanks for these, nice prototype, nice model. 👍 🙂

I'm betting it's the Kof from Eastleigh.  And a surprise one in TT:120 too? 😛

Yair, I've never seen or bought any triple wagon packs from Hornby. 😬

Oh wait. 😉

https://www.google.com/search?q=Hornby+triple+wagon+packs&oq=Hornby+triple+wagon+packs&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.4119j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Off-topic wibble, but Scunthorpe has the NSB Di 8s in use currently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSB_Di_8

Westhill Wagon Works range continues to expand in TT:120 

https://westhillwagonworks.com/25-lineside

https://westhillwagonworks.com/19-tt120

(no connection other than as a customer) 😉

Class 19 DVT.

4 hours ago, LNERGE said:

I’m very impressed. My two have completed a tour of the main running lines on my layout including the two radius two reverse loops. The lower loop has gradient changes too. No derailments. 
 

I seem to recall seeing a picture of a test train made entirely of these vans with a 37. I’ve searched the net but not found it. 

Probably ‘traintesting’ site, air brake propagation tests(?), Midland main line(?).

I know the photo you’re referring to, but on slow internet right now, so not going looking for it 🙂

49 minutes ago, Roy Langridge said:

And this has appeared in the Pocketmags half price sale today. 
 

Roy

It’s good value even at £8 rrp. Hoping they do another in future 🙂

2 hours ago, Grampus said:

Evening all. A ferryvan question if I may; well, actually, a barrier wagon question.  I have just received my second Rapido van, this time 910004, the 'scruffy brown' barrier version, coded RBX (wagon number B787170); and very nice it is, too.🙂  My question is, what  traffic flows required use of these barrier vans?

Explosives traffic, mostly MOD, but possibly also civil explosives.

I highly recommend  “BR Train Formations Handbook” which has a dedicated section for these traffics 🙂

https://pocketmags.com/eu/rail-express-magazine/train-formations-handbook-from-rail-express