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I have placed this under discussions rather than questions even though it is framed as a question as it might be news. Todays click bait brought this up: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12076829/Are-old-tube-trains-going-returned-service.html In February GWR did announce that they had purchased the assets of Vivarail regarding the battery conversations, but this implies they have purchased all the remaining stock! It's dated today as an exclusive so it might be new information, but I cannot find any other references online after Feb'.

I only discovered WD40 contact cleaner recently,through a similar rmweb thread. It brought back to life a couple of N gauge locos that had resisted all other cleaning methods. I certainly wiped off any gunge as my thought were that if I didn't remove it it would end up somewhere else.

Fast work there with an excellent result. Someone asked on Facebook if the armoured wagons would be available separately but there was no reply. I will email Niu as I would be interest in having the train without the loco as part of my diorama and the overall cost of the kit and chassis is rather high for me just to create a static model.

I only discovered this programme a couple of days and have watched the first two episodes on catch-up (Channel 5). In this series "Peter Davison, John Sergeant and Paul Middleton travel from London to Scotland by steam" quote from the Channel 5 web-site. So far there have been three railway related elements but the series has the usually continuity errors common to many programmes. Also they seem to ignore the geographic locations every now and then. For example saying Stevenage is the local station for the Shuttleworth Collection and that the Grand Union Canal runs next to Wansford Station on the Nene Valley. The series itself is fairly enjoyable in my view,

Interesting take on value of models: Some days ago some clickbait appeared on my MS-Edge home page with a story about "how a model tank" had raised £20k at auction. Today the BBC ran an update on the story saying it cost him £34k to make, excluding his time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-essex-65383978

Although the Op was about a collection of railway models the title is somewhat wider. The current position regarding books is worth considering. A few years ago I was downsizing so had to dispose of a number of railway books In some cases the ebay bids (including postage) was higher than the full retail price that I pai. Fast forward to today and due to a change in circumstances I have large area for a library I am buying some of these titles again and I am paying less that I got when I sold them. Some Irwell book certainly come into this category as do many books on WW2. Having spoken to a number of people in the second hand book trade and they say the same hing. Most people who want that type of book will already have it, and these books are coming onto the market either through downsizing or death and there is a lack of new customers entering that market. One of the larger players in the second book market says they are considering pulling out of the second hand business and sticking to new books where the margin is known.

@33212o Doesn't say how central to London doesn't say how close to central London or which region the layout is set in. Apart from Paddington I cannot recall any freight close to the centre in the 1980's. Most parcels traffic ended very early in the decade, so perhaps mail or newspaper trains could be considered. Although not London I recall a parcels/mail platform at Leeds with a couple of RES liveried coaches.

Having not owned or run an exhibition layout for over 30 years, I can only comment as a visitor. I realise that I am in a minority but I like layouts that inform as well as entertain. I can think of examples of all of the following: Hornby Dublo / Triang layouts which told the history of the brands Work in progress layouts with someone actually constructing buildings tree etc.. Run to a timetable with displays showing where trains were coming from etc.. Tell the story of an area or event

Nice to read others tips for tackling Scalescenes kits. I must admit cutting arcs such as the top of windows such as those on the warehouse was one of my main motivations for investing in a Cricut cutter.

What you don't say in either of your posts is the gauge/scale of your model and the space available. I had the space for 2 scenic inglenooks back to back so build both and used one as the fiddle yard while the other was being shunted.

Although the YouTube video purports to show Accuarscale's research at Bressingham, they end result seems to be wrong. Everyone of a certain age knows a Buckjumper looks like this. Still runs well after 50 years, which is about the life time of many of the prototypes. Thanks to the excellent website https://www.brdatabase.info/classes.php?type=S&subtype=LNER&prg=GER I can now research which model I need to order.

I'm don't tend to join in the Hornby knocking threads but I am so glad that this is an Accurascale model, when I guess it could easily have appeared under Paul Isle's time at said company when we had the batch of GER loco's. However unlike Hornby who have not issued the variants of their models, such as the J15 revised to be a Y14, Accurascale have planned for the different variations of this loco. Good on them. The J67 family has been top of my wish list for years as I can remember the pilot at Liverpool Street and saw others. However I now wish I had not changed eras for my modelling. My initial concept for my retirement layout was going to be based on the pre 1960 era that I just remember, with the end of steam and the pilot scheme diesels. I then changed era's and am modelling the WW2 period. So do I - submit to temptation and purchase the Liverpool Street pilot and bring by transition era diesels etc out of store? Buy the most suitable one for my period and get it repainted and renumbered? Wait for a wartime version to appear? or lastly buy at least 2?

I know we are very much in the minority these days but I was talking to two volunteers yesterday at the railway I volunteer at and all three of us have regular church committments on Sunday mornings. That plus the total lack of public transport in our area on Sundays mean Saturday tends to be the only option. Thus I am very much looking forward to the Bury St Edmunds MRC show next weekend.

Big step forward today - the layout has been moved to it's final location, which allows for the last board of the initial project to be added. The current position is three 4ft x 2ft boards each holding a small inglenook/shunting puzzle type layout. 1) Supply depot, loosely based on that at Easton Lodge on the Bishops Stortford to Dunmow line 2) Part of a country station, this is an mixture of various GER stations. 3) A harbour scene, slightly freelance but should have suggesting various East Anglian ports These feed into the Hornby track mat layout, which apart from acting as a fiddle yard and test track will become a rural scene. There is also the possibility of adding another board to the entire layout, which would be a small London terminus. Pictures and track plans should be ready over the next week.

My annoyance is the other way round when Supermarkets and W H Smith bundle two magazines together so that you have to pay a small sum for a magazine that you don't want. The Hornby catalogue was not free but at a discount and subscribers could get the same offer through the publishers web site. Some offers etc don't always seem to apply to digital subscribers.

Great to see another military railway on here and your lucky to have the 30th length available to construct this in O gauge. You might have enough references but it may be worth joining thr Military Railway Study Group https://www.mrsg.org.uk/ at the moment their web-site is under development, with member access to the archive, but membership gives you access to a wide range of information about military railways. I will be following this one with interest as I am currently building a WW2 based railway, including a similar scene and have been tempted to match O gauge with 1:48 scale kits especially when the Dapol J94 becomes available.

Due to an extended period of ill health work on this project slowed to a crawl since the last post, also the room in which it is located is not really suitable for use during the winter months - basically it's a separate building away from the main house and heating is an issue - I think it would cost as much to heat the railway room as it does for the main house. Anyway - this week has been warm, and light, enough to resume work - so postings will resume.

As to the Tri-Ang trade mark it seems it comes to the colour, Tri-Ang Minic ships of Hong Kong own many of them but as https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK0002384208B Shows Hornby Hobbies own a few colours. Interting that two years ago they trade maked the made up word Scaledreality.

Everything that @spamcan61 and @woodenhead is completely valid but you have not said what part of the ECML you would be basing your layout on. There is a difference between various parts of the line.: inner suburban, outer suburban, cross country (Peterborough, Doncaster, York). Hornby's programme for TT:120 for the next few years has been announced so unless another manufacturer enters the market, practically any location in the UK, apart from sites with Cl08 and/or Cl66 will be impossible to model. The big problem with OO is the length of trains such as HST's or Cl91's +Mk 4's. N gauge is the obvious way forward but it might be too small to handle for you and your daughters.

Just surprised that no one has suggested electric fences, these are actually fairly cheap in agricultural suppliers, we are getting some for our vegetable garden this year as the deer took much of last year's crop. Although I have not seen any recently there were a number of exhibition layouts that used to have "Danger - High Voltage" notices with the voltage expressed as millivolts.

Only just caught up with the latest episode last night. When SK went to his library to research the follow up to Rocket did he not point towards a picture of a rocket as rebuilt and declare that's Lion? I was only viewing it on a 10in tablet.

This is not the case now, a couple of years ago Airfix launcher starter level kits with new moulds, these are simpler to build and cheaper than the equivalent full-day kits. This must have been a success as this year they are launching a F,-35 Lighting to the same standard.

Now reporting that today's announcement is just an extension of the LNER trial https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64548794 Interesting choice of photo, feet of passenger seem to be on seat

Exactly, this especially applies in the commuter area around London, taking Harlow Town as an example, for a return journey to Liverpool Street today I can buy: Two singles @£15.10 each - £30.20 Super off peak - £16.10 Off Peak (same day) - £16.20 Off peak (one month) - £22.30 Anytime day return - £23.30 plus a variety of Travel cards In addition Greater Anglia, at the moment, are offering the Hare Fare return at £10. I agree this is confusing but where do you set the new base figure for a single ticket? Also I would be happy for a credit/debit card system but London Underground has shown that these don't work with railcards so, I have to have a Oyster Card for travel in London, i do this so infrequently that I have loaned TFL around £7 interest free for around 10 years! As a journey to London now involve changing onto the Central or Elizabeth line at Stratford I don't want the hassle of moving from one ticketless payment to another as I change trains. but we need to wait for the details, which I guess might be after the next general election, broad statements get votes, the detail can lose them.

There are plenty of similar adaptors available on the internet but whereas once the price differential between peco / gaugemaster and others seems to have narrowed. However for reliability and extra power a capacitor discharge unit should be considered although this obviously adds to the cost. You can also often pick up suitable transformers at boot fairs or charity shops. Just check the amps and voltage. Although not cheap the Hornby HM6010 accessory controller is worth looking at.