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Try posting this in the "London Undergrouns" section further down the "prototype" section and the District Dave website, there's sections on there for historic and modelling.

If you look at the fare quoted above £55 return, it's a tad over 50p/mile for London to Brighton. The Government/IR figures for using your car for business and tax purposes is 45p/mile. I tend to compare prices by the cost of a gallon of diesel or a pint of beer. :)

Do you still need any information for the Q38 car? I still have the large scale LT drawing for it. I got that in te early 1970s when I was running GS Models and was intending to do it as a cast metal kit. I also have the 1938 tube stock drawing but that's already been done! Anyway, all is looking good and I've got a couple of Black Beetle motors to go in them. :) I won't bother with the resin kit after all, it needs a lot of work to make it look right so hardly worth the trouble now yours are coming out. I can see a lot of demand for the Q38 as COP/R stock as well!

I've recently been tasked with disposing of a late friend's railway collection. It contained a number of Kitmaster kits, including about 6 part-built and unbuilt Umbauwagen coaches. I've compared the built items with the Roco models and they are almost identical in measurements, very good models but lacking some of the fine detil of the mass-produced Roco version. If anyone's interested in them pm me or have a look on Ebay next weekend. Oh, there's also a load of the Airfix Interfrigo wagons part-built and unbuilt, another good HO model.

Look out for them on Ebay in the near future!

Any further developments on this project?

I don't know if anyone's posted this link on here yet, but it's gaining a lot of support on FB. https://busandtrainuser.com/2023/07/08/ticket-office-closure-con/

Thanks, any takers? :)

I've recently cleared out a late friend's railway collection, it includes about 6 part-made and unmade Kitmaster stainless steel coaches. Are these accurate models? I know the German "umbauwagen" coaches are quite accurate as I've compared them with the Roco coaches and they are almost as good. These kits are seeking a good home.

the high speed runs underatekn by the SNCF in 1952 and 1955 are well-documented and I've just watched through the 3-part documntary on youtube, fascinating stuff. But, a few years ago I remember seeing another film of the aftermath of one or more of the runs, stuff the SNCF didn't want people to see. It showed damage caused to the track caused by the train beginning to "snake" at high speed and taking the track out of alignment with it. This was film taken from the rear of the train as well as some ariel footage of the damage. It also showed the damage caused to the pantographs running at such high speed and high amps required for those sort of speeds at 15v dc! I've just tried an internet search for that film, but nothing so far has turned up. does anyone else remember seeing this film or clips of it? It may have been "cutting room floor" clips that weren't to be seen by yht publc?

And this one form last week:

This gem yesterday from the Lost Boys: "Excuse for cancelling the Avanti 0610 Crewe to Manchester today was that there were too many trains to maintain. Things are looking grim for ALMOST!"

This week's interesting delay from the FB "Lost Boys" group, something like the 0625 Cambridge-Liverpool Street cancelled as the driver has retired. If I can find the original pic I'll post it on here.

Yes, it was on the Liverpool Street-Cambridge line a few years ago. someone on here put a recording from the driver on here. It was genuine.

I'd suggest that RTT doesn't always show kettle specials to try to prevent trespass incidents along the way.

How about the Bluebell's Chesham set which I believe has Mansell wooden wheels which was authorised to run from East Grinstead to Kings Cross a few years ago? But that was ECS for a film job.

Another view of Minories Mk4 (I think). Lifted from FB group Metroplitan Railway Past and Present. Photographer unknown.

Nice work there. the P class was the first whitemetal loco kit I built back in the 1960s, a Wills finecast kit that cost me many weeks of paper round money! I still have that loco in my collection, but it had the motor upgraded from a Triang XT60 many years ago. I've also worked on the real thing as a trainee fireman on the K&ESR a few years ago.

I had a conversation with Tony Hultman of Gothenberg Tramways about this sort of stuff a couple of years ago and he confirms what Jim has said above. There's some little-used emergency crossovers in Manchester where the trams actually run over the top of the running rail when they are crossing over. On the straight rail there is a continuous groove. Tram wheels have different profiles to suit the systems they are to operate on, curves, whether they have ride-over crossings as mentioned above..

The consensus of opinion from the FB "BR Lost Boys 1968-1988" group say it's Baylham. These are the men who would have seen it an awful lot from the front of the train.

Nice find!

The main fault with the Trix model is the bogie wheelbase as we've discussed before. The lat Adrian Swain of ABS Models done the patterns to fit an existing bogie casting. Otherwise I'm not aware of any major things wrong with it. Nothing that the right size buffers and super-detailing won't put right.

I've got an 81 body part-converted to an 86! Plus the bogies to go with it. :) I made one into an 85 many years ago.

All of this reminds me of the Anbrico DMUs and other rolling stock, including a ready-made Glasgow blue train. Late 1960s, just after the invention of Protofour, a couple of us were working downstairs on a club project at the Central Hall exhibition. Opposite us was Protofour BLT with an Anbrico single-unit railcar. It looked very nice running on P4 track, except the wheels didn't line up with the axle boxes! Why on earth go to all the trouble to get the trak right then not bother about the wheels lining up with the axleboxes? It was a source of amusement and comments for the week. BTW, I've just found my Anbrico railbus, must get that finished one day! and the Anbrico Sheffield tram, which I more or less finished many years ago and spent ages filling in the big gaps between the decks, only to find it should have been there anyway! Oh well, out with the pan of boiling water for yet another rebuild!

A good model that's stood the test of time.