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Was she turned during the day? She appears with both the smokebox and the tender towards the Kidderminster end of the station in the piccies 

Agreed - send them whatever proof of purchase you have and that should sort it. They are reasonable folks and from from your initial post it seems that they agree that the problem could be on their end as well. They are actually much better at customer service than most - give them a chance to resolve

As the loco was never officially a BR loco and only ran test trains I’d be highly surprised if the loco ever ran with less than two crew in the cab.

I believe that it may have been set up for single man operation, but again, considering union opposition to single manning at the time, it’s unlikely it hauled any trains that way. Perhaps yard moves etc. but that would be about all

Well, received an email from Hattons saying that my ‘British Enterprise’ pre-order has now vanished. So cheers, thanks for that - only had it for 18 months at this point and no chance whatsoever of getting another pre-order elsewhere.

lesson learned - all pre orders with Hattons now cancelled and I will never ever trust them with pre-orders again. Whoever bears the true fault for this, such cancellations are doing nothing but hurting Hattons. My pre-orders added up to well over £1000 and now they are all with other companies. Not good at all

Facebook for TRS has some fascinating videos on there. A wonderful system with some wonderful results

https://www.facebook.com/trs.trains/

16 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:

There was a proposal to reopen the line north of Bridgenorth a few years ago, at the time the SVR had no interest in it and I doubt that, that position has changed.

 

 

From recollection their response was something like "we have quite enough trouble keeping our current 16 miles of track going, thank you"

From an aerodynamics point of view, a bullet shaped snub-nose front can actually be a significant advantage.
 

A Bugatti story front end will tend to cut through the air and consequently there is normally regular pressure air pressing down on the whole of the loco and train, this creating more drag. A snub nose creates a far greater initial resistance but actually sets up a shock front of high pressure air which actually acts as a shield for a low pressure bubble behind it. This has the effect of actually lowering drag overall.

now, that being said, I actually agree with the idea that the streamlining on the vast majority of steam locos is style over substance. In practice, they almost never worked at the speeds necessary to see any sort of return on the whole idea, and the aerodynamics never actually seem take in to account things like the wheels and protruding items from carriage rooves etc. 
 

streamliners (yes, even the GWR examples) are a wonderful bit of railway history. But I do think that they are examples of railway PR rather than practical methods for making the engines go faster

5 minutes ago, sc2016 said:

Hopefully it may be the Class 88 that they announce but probably it will be a steam locomotive.

Yes, I too expect a class 98 from them today

little bit of TOPS humour there for you fine folks

I'm going to go left field and say I'd like it to be an S160 in 'OO'. based upon nothing more than the fact that I'd actually quite like one

3 hours ago, didcot said:

The remake of The Ladykillers staring Tom Hanks must go down in history as one of the worst remakes ever!  We gave up after 10 minutes. 

I considered it to be one of the best. Was side splittingly funny without being a shot for shot remake of the original. I like it when remakes respect their source material.

takes all sorts to make a world though  

for my part, I guessed that Hornby would make ‘Lion’ or ‘Planet’ in the coming year but Rapido was a bit of a surprise. I can’t say that I particularly care which one I get at their stage, with my one idea being that the Hornby one is likely to have compatible couplings for the LMR second class coaches I've bought. That’s about it at the mo. Neither of the companies is spending my money on the project  so they can duplicate till the cows come home as far as I’m concerned  

I was literally writing the same thing and spotted your thread before I posted

lord, please have mercy on my wallet, I’m already giving Hornby £1000 this year...

42 minutes ago, Phil Parker said:

 

There will be an EP when they have on and not before. There IS an EP of the Fell so it's reasonable to assume this is further along the path to completion. KR is a tiny company and this is a niche product. Be patient. 

My original post was saying how unreasonable it would be for me to expect an EP already. Was simply curious as to how things were going with the uptake

1 hour ago, 96701 said:

 

Have either of you asked KR Models directly?

This is what I’m doing on here?

Any word/indication from KR models on how the project is going? I mean in terms of the uptake so far - as nice as it would be to see an EP i don't think that thats too reasonable

On 04/03/2021 at 21:43, God's Wonderful Railway 1835 said:

From the days Llangollen engineering could produce quality work. Taken on the preview day for Auto coach 92.   

I rode in 92/93 at the gala it attended and had a wonderful time at two Steam, Steel and Stars events at the Llangollen. I personally think it belongs in the upper echelon of the preserved railways of the country and its actually pretty heartbreaking to see it in this position.

I know exactly nothing about the manner in which the railway was managed, so I shall hold my tongue on that issue, but I do hope that it can survive this intact and continue into the future. 

Not good is a bit of an understatement there. Here’s hoping that the situation can be straightened out 

Yes, I must confess that I now have a concern about my ‘British Enterprise’ W1 - I’d shift my pre-order if anyone else was still selling them

Mine just ordered - no crest grey. Bit of a stetch to justify it by calling it a new build for the preserved railway, but hey, its my model

Can i also say, truly biblically brilliant customer service from KR models as well

I’ll be grabbing an Inverness sleeper set come next payday. I’m a steam modeller but as I’m planning a preserved railway I think I can crowbar them in somewhere  

It’s a shame - there is no actual evidence that anything here is the fault of Hattons, but if it affects me getti by my model trains then I’m afraid that action must be taken.

thats £500 from my wallet not going to Liverpool at a time when I’m sure that they could use it.

as I said, my W1 is on order and has been for many many months without incident, but I shall be most miffed if anything happens 

Clan cancelled, order shifted to Kernow . Am now concerned for my other 2021 pre orders

EDIT: have now shifted my orders for 2007, the Bristol peckett and the NCB brake van to Kernow. My W1 is still with Hattons - I hope that there isn’t another revision 

Always wanted a Jubilee, and I do like my odd liveries...

I take it that there was no news from new stuff for EFE? That’s where most of my purchase money has gone for the past year, so I was interested to see what they could have coming 

Just got an email from KR models saying that the order book for the leaders will be open in fed and that both grey and black liveries will be available.

Quick question for KR - is the grey livery the early crest grey (loco’s official ‘portrait’) or the lined grey she ran with in her trials without the crest?

Could be the return of the Hachette parkwork Mk1s? But a link would be handy so we could take a look

Bellerophon is of considerable interst to me - will await the opening of the order book