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It's on hold at the moment. I'll probably get back to it after Glasgow.

No. We're still working on the Humorist and Coronach smokeboxes. It's taking a bit longer then anticipated.

Its been I while since I last saw Overlord. It will be good to see it again.

I was up at Pickering, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway this week with the real plough 18. A very enjoyable few hours taking photos and checking dimensions against our model. It was a pleasure to meet Bryan Blundell, who owns plough. We had a good chat about the plough history and reminisced about our shared railway past. A big thanks to Bryan for allowing access. I also managed access to the Gresley engineering coach to get a colour match on the blue paint.

Thanks for the mention. The NER Plough is the first of several LNER RTR models we have in the development pipeline and hope to bring to fruition over the next few years. These will complement our growing range of LNER conversions kits.

Having overcome the initial email address problems, we like to thank everyone how emailed us and expressed an interest in the NER snowplough model. All names are recorded on our mailing list and we will issue out update emails on the plough and other models we have in development as thing progress. If all goes to plan we expect to open the pre-order scheme in early spring next year, with an anticipated release date in the summer. Thanks.

Thanks. corrected now.

The model will be available in three liveries; North Eastern Indian Red, LNER Engineering Blue, and British Rail Black. It will be produced in a limited run of 135 models across the three liveries with an expected release date of Summer 2020.... The retail price will be confirmed when the pre-order scheme is opened in early 2020. To register your interest in the Snowplough and be kept up to date with developments of this and other Niu Models locomotives, please email us at Niumodels@gmail.com Snowploughs Nos 18, 19 & 20 were built in 1909 by York Carriage & Wagon Works for the North Eastern Railway. Ploughs No.18 & 20 were assigned to Shildon, near Darlington, while Plough No. 19 assigned to Tweedsmouth at Berwick. While under BR ownership, Plough 18, at that time in BR Livery and carrying the number 900572, featured in the 1955 BTF Film 'Snowdrift at Bleath Gill' where it can be seen in conjunction with Plough 23 (BR Number 900577), rescuing BR Standard Class 2 No. 78018 from a snowdrift. Plough 19 remained at Tweedmouth until 1957 when it was withdrawn from service and scrapped. Plough 18 & 20 were reassigned to Gatehead in 1964 were they saw out the remainder until 1973 when they were retired and both were bought privately for preservation. Plough 18 now resides at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, while Plough 20 is housed at the Beamish Museum. Niumodels@gmail.com

Niu Models has announced the production of an OO Gauge ready-to-run model of an NER - LNER Independent Snowplough scheduled for release Summer 2020 Spring 2021 (delayed due to Covid-19 impact)