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roythebus1

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  1. Ha, my Chesham set arrived this morning. what a lovely model, it captures the atmosphere of the set rather nicely. the only minor niggle is the bogie pivots, 3 of them had fallen out in transit. I've tried to stick them back in with a spot of superglue! Hopefully they don't fall out on the layout somewhere. I suppose if I live enough years to finish everything else, I could spend time fitting wire handrails.. I've fitted Kadee couplings which I use as standard on my layout and to my surprise they are the right height as well. I may well fit some of those little magnetic couplings between coaches when I find the packet that arrive last week, put somewhere safe as usual, never to be found again. A super model, well worth the price, ready-to-run, all it needs to finish off is transfers. Very pleased with it. Well done CC Models. If anyone fancies motorising it, it will need a 28mm motor bogie. :)
  2. Having recently witnessed some of the very late night Watford-LHR buses running full to capacity, that may be another source of traffic. But then with the local bus fare at £2, it represents excellent value. Natex coach fare was £6.
  3. And in the fiddle yard at Waterloo, me changing ends for another trip to Bank.
  4. Reminds me, I must get my Kitmaster set finished!! ISTR a BP set being used for a trip on the PAdd-OOC shuttle for an open day back in the 1970s. I had a look inside the set at OOC and still have the souvenir ticket somewhere.
  5. Or the Italain girl back in the mid-1960s who told her mama she wanted to be "Veectoria Choo bellini." Mama asked her to explain, and she showed her mama the Evening News headline "Victoria Tube Line laid by 2000 men in 2 years"
  6. The last Alec Swain was a prolific railway photographer and was also shedmaster at Willesden in the 1960s. He managed to "arrange" certain rare locos to be red carded to delay their departure so he could get decent photos of them.
  7. They've been talking about the Rickamansworth-Watford link since 1973 when I was a guard at Ricky. a couple of km of new track and a bridge, still not built 50 years later. and they expect a new line to the airport in 4 years??
  8. I fail to see what mot of this discussion has to do with railway safety!
  9. On my local heritage railway there was an "incident" in the workshop the other week and the workshop had to be shut down for a short period. I don't know what it was, but it's the 2nd incident in the workshop in the last few years. H&S involved, but that affected loco availability.
  10. I cleaned up my Anbrico railbus and ran it at the Folkestone MRC the other week. It generated a lot of interest as very few people there had any idea what it was. Most thought it was a motorised Airfix railbus. and yes, I've got one of those with the eAMES chassis with X04 motor and another chassis going spare. There's a part-built Kitmaster Beyer-Garrett in stock as well. And the MTK Cravens parcel car has recently acquired a Black Beetle motor bogie and footsteps. :)
  11. You're welcome. Martin always looks at his own forum but doesn't apparently go on here every day.
  12. "putting up prominent signs and making announcements over the public address system." I wonder how many heritage trains have a PA system? On many I suspect it's the guard bellowing at the top of his or her voice! :)
  13. Without having to read through 10 pages of discussion about road traffic matters, what was the outcome of the Jacobite ban? Has it been lifted following fitment of bars to windows? Or was there more to the matter? It's fun watching people at my local steam railway trying to press the button to get the carriage doors to open. They simply aren't used to big brass door handles and stand there pressing the door stop!
  14. Maybe post this on the 83A Templot site for more expert advice.
  15. I've probably got some ABS GUV/CCT ends. I know I've got quite a few suburban coach ends and M1 1 ends with corridor connections. Adrian Swain used to produce bus kits for me. I've recently found an ABS suburban coach kit unbuilt, still in its box.
  16. The TP and AM10 were totally different body shells and ends. TP were Mk1 based, AM10 mk2 based with no separate chassis/underframe.
  17. The Victorian brick-built tunnels on the Metropolitan railway have lasted a lot longer. 160 years is it?
  18. The "used" 31 I got was missing a couple of cab handrails. the previous owner has made a bit of a mess with super glue trying to stick them back on which explained why I had a problem getting the body off the chassis. I used to wrk on the 31s as a secondman at KX, loved doing the all-stations suburban trains from Welwyn to Moorgate and th Cambridge buffet expresses.
  19. There's one at East Ham on the District Line. And another at Barking sidings!
  20. Now sorted, a reasonably easy conversion. there's a bit fouling on the front valances under the cab, it would appear the Hornby version has shortened these a bit to clear the bogie swing. The problem with them all is that the middle axle on the real thing was 3' diameter, not the 3/6 of the powered axles! But with all 12 wheels driven, it ought to go better than the Lima chassis with no traction tyres. Anybody want a set of Peters Spares wheels??
  21. Thanks, that's most helpful. i'll have to try to find the pest-ridden 31 now! Shame as it had the early body without headcode boxes. At least the mechanism won't go to waste. As you say it's a pity the Lima mech isn't very well engineered on this one. Presumably the bogies pivot on the white plasticard bits seen in your photos? It seems a more sensible way than the very awkward Lima method. Is there a way to fit NEM coupler boxes or Kadees on your conversion?
  22. I renectly read on here that the Lima class 31 is a fairly decent model so I ought a used version from an ebay source. The model runs well, but not on my hand-built track! despite pushing out the b-2b-b to 14.5,, I found there's so much slop in the axle slots on the trailing bogie that ny decent running may be near impossible. I got a set of replacement wheels from Peter's spares, they arrived today so I fitted those. No improvement as there's still the problem of 2.5mm ales flopping around in 3.5mm slots with the middle axle tending to run sideways and derailing on single and double slips. Short of digging out my ancient Unimat and making some axle bushes, does anyone have an easier answer to the problem? I've also thought of making a couple of frams out of scrap n/s etch as an axle runner between the centre axle and one of the outer axles. Sadly my super-details Hornby (China) 31 suffered badly from mazak pest so is unusable.
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