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  1. I’ll reply more properly/acknowledge people tomorrow - many thanks all- but am working late tonight. I have actually thought of this but didn’t know where to start. Definitely worth some consideration and thanks for the link!
  2. Hi all, not sure where to start with this one or where to put it. I'm building a small diorama of the Mid Suffolk, and thoroughly enjoying it. But I've been collecting stock, for a planned 16 x 12 OO gauge layout over the past 8 years, and now thanks to a change in living arrangements am having to look at what I can do with more like 8 x 5 in N. so, what's the best way to dispose of everything - am I best trying to drip it out on well known auction sites (I know I'll get more money overall) or just bite the bullet and get it all gone to one of the high street buyers of collections? Part of me just wants it gone at this point, to free up space and cash to get on with what I can do, rather than what I've come accept I'll never do. thoughts/advice welcome
  3. 8 ton L&B open wagon arrived yesterday, brilliant service as always. Favourite online model dealer by a long way.
  4. They are trading and will be until they stop. It’s not being a vulture, it’s a transaction. Gutted to see them go but they haven’t gone bust. It’s all money in the till until the doors are locked for the last time. if anything, people are a bit stunned - me included - to see a company closing down the old fashioned ethical way, having become used to the ‘we’ve gone bust, please buy everything including the fixtures and fittings from an administrator’
  5. A fact which has been repeated by ‘historians’ down the years as gospel despite being demonstrably not true. quite apart from anything else, Great Northern wasn’t even selected for rebuilding by Thompson! See Simon A C Martin’s book on Thompson from the other year. The choice of locomotive was made by GA Musgrave, Southern Locomotive Superintendent of the LNER, conforming to the totally normal practice of CME proposing the design, a Locomotive Running Superintendent proposing the locomotive due a shopping that fitted the bill, and the LNER board signing off on it.
  6. You mean in addition to Clan Stewart and Clan Macdonald which are still around new in shops? I reckon the Clan demand might just have been satisfied for now.
  7. I’ve got two DJH ones (B16) though, and would happily have an RTR polished up version of their compromises
  8. certainly in terms of locomotives they reached their final form in Southern ownership, so technically if you want to portray things like steam heating (or Lew) then the livery decision makes itself. However, I’ve always suspected (and I’ve got an L&B Southern era OO9 set up) that it’s the legitimate ability to represent a mainline company livery on the narrow gauge
  9. Bigger potential issue (and I realise that this is picking nits on nits) for me would be an instinct that that driver is going to work better with a right hand drive locomotive…
  10. LCGB Railtour. When in doubt, always an LCGB railtour.
  11. If it fits with what I need and I think it’ll sell out I do. One variant of the A5, the LNWR liveried Precedent, now Gordon (from ECR) almost everything else I buy is second hand anyway I did pre-order the second batch run of GT3, but only because I missed the boat the first time and the reviews by that stage were positive
  12. It would be a serious wallet emptier for me
  13. Exactly - I’ve gone for Gordon as a big part of my childhood. It’s expensive but seems fair.
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