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The free bus starts from Wood Green underground and stops at Ally Pally, however by the time the bus stops at Ally Pally it is full and standing. Could the organisers arrange to have some seats left free for the Ally Pally pick-up? Thanks

Will the new items be available from Hattons? Hopefully Hattons will be let off the naughty step soon. GBP174 for a Deltic you must be joking.

The list is still on the Cambrian website. Scroll down the first paragraph to "List of Liveries", which is a PDF file. We could certainly do with a comprehensive list of Private Owner companies, wagon types, kit manufactures and kits all cross referenced. I supposed the RTR wagons could be included too. Big task, it would need afew people to work on it.

Not surprising why, or are there other reasons?

Any news of Hitachi introducing Japanese practice yet and I don't mean issuing white gloves for the train crews. Why are the A/C units dropping offline?

Found on the web, sorry if this has been posted before. Click on each link in order to enjoy. Omiya Railway Museum, Japan mural showing key events in Japanese railway history ... The big picture The first one Recent new trains

Interesting slant on an old operating practise. The East Japan Railway seen to connect and disconnect the Hayabusa and Super Komachi Shinkansens automatically without any problems though and the timetable is stricter there.

Talk about temperature ranges nearly 40C in Hokkaido in May and about -4C in January. Does anyone know how the Hokkaido Shinkansen lines and the other purpose built Shinkansen lines, cope with wide temperature differences or could point me toward something on the Web? Not wishing to inflame the debate regarding OHE again, to "weather proof" and to improve general reliability would major investment be required (especially on ECML) on the OHE infrastructure?

Sorry if I was "over the top" with my comments in previous posts. I would be interested in replies from those in the rail industry in how the UK railways cope with high temperatures and if possible comparing practice to other countries especially Japan.

Would it be appropriate to expand this topic to include other services hauled by Midland 1Ps? I am thinking of The Peak District as a start. Is that Ivo's Bentley in the second photo on the LHS within the columns?

I would expect one of the franchise partners to be able to run a timetable well, maybe the crews need some more training?

Service on TL GN is poor at the best of times so anything outside of their barely there planning and thats all folks. Whos fault that LNER not accepting TL GN tickets? Maybe one of the partners of WMT should be asked how to run a proper train service as they can run a service in the same temperature and humidity as we are having and the track is not slab style either. The UK is a laughing stock again - shameful.

Why not? Forecast for at least a month. Preparations on the cheap instead of doing a thorough job?

If you get bored buy some popcorn, lurk by the stand and watch what happens.

Off topic slightly, as you state you would like to use the standard 009 coupler, however if anyone wants to use knuckle couplers. From Narrow Garage roll down the page and under Parts there are fittings to attach magnetic knuckle couplers. The mounts look 3D printed and the couplers seem to be Micro-Trans N Scale couplers. There are similar mounts on Shapeways.

As for the seats maybe LNER and GWR should hand out inflatable cushions to sit on? Marked with the logo of course. The Japanese Shinkansen have automatic rotatable seats so you always point in the direction of travel. Rotating Shinkansen seats Seats revolving! Hopefully the operators will get fed-up with complaints about the seats and do something about them.

What a boring launch no cute character (person in suit) to promote the train, no special packed lunches being on sale in the shape of the train, no inflatable cushions being handed out for the Standard Class punters to rest their bottoms on. It is supposed to be the "Japan-UK Season of Culture” but I didn't see anything to promote this either. I hope LNER haven't upset H as they are very honoured to supply trains to the country where railways began. As japan sees it. I would expect all the railfans to have piled into the HST on the next platform. Yesterday, 16th this happened "JR East Shinkansen ALFA-X prototype hits 320 kph in test run in northeastern Japan" - just a gnats whisker off 200mph and they will be increasing line speed to 360kph. Line speed of the Azuma is 200kph on a railway with weeds growing all over it what an embarrassment.

Put a flexible full width cover between the coaches simples. Oh hang on can't do that it might come off and hit someone at speed. I don't envy the Japanese designers of trains for the British market."You want us to stop people climbing onto the train? Why would they do that we have given them seats inside" "Yes" "Well just tell them not to like we do". A different attitude to following rules I guess. You cannot remove all danger from some situations, so change the law in the long run. As for they lack of decent catering on some of the new trains, which is down to whoever wrote the spec, but the short term answer is buy the food before you get on. It's a pity food at stations costs too much. Have the maker's fixed the alleged problems with the poorly shielded signalling system yet?

The gap between the coaches gives the impression that the new owner has left a blanking piece in the box and has set the coupling adjustment to maximum for those sharp set-track curves. If you look at the N700 Shinkansen they have a special gap-filler piece between the coaches to improve streamlining in the first instance but there is no sign of ugly cable loops that look like the waste pipes on the back of a house.

Ekiben (railway boxed meals) they look so beautiful. Come on LNER Next Gen and GWR let's have them over here and we can eat them on the Class 800s. Much healthier than the fried stuff and sandwiches served at our stations. One day I hope to eat one on the way to Kyoto by Shinkansen.

Indeed. Respect for other people. No talking loudly into cell phones on the trains either. Do another search for Japanese waste recycling - amazing.. You might think the Warley show is busy; have a search for Comiket the huge comic market that's held twice a year in Tokyo. The attendance is 550,000 over three days!

The anime involved (Evangelion) has a vast following and let alone the interest in railways is even more so than the UK. Have a search for the UK Class 800s units travelling on transporters from the Japanese factory to the docks. The streets were packed with local people watching and photographing. Nearly every railway company has a mascot, hence the yellow creature above.

Azuma?

When making purchases from the USA does anyone have a legal way of reducing the shipping cost? Since the ending of surface mail the shipping cost has become quite significant; especially with heavy items like locos. I suppose dealing with UK shops and ordering through them would be a way.

You can never have enough F-units & E-units. Goodness where was that picture taken. As for the track picture; if you tried to model track like that and make it work.