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It's a puzzle to me that you boys haven't co-ordinated Brush Type 2 and 57ft Suburban releases.

As things stand, we can soon get ER early Crimson coaches, but no early pre-warning panel Brush 2, or we can soon get a later Brush 2 with warning panel, but no later maroon ER Suburbans!

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5 hours ago, TomScrut said:

 

I was concerned that making the loco prototypical would hinder traction, however if the non driven wheels wheels are lightly sprung then they wouldn't be carrying much weight anyway and therefore there would be about as much traction from 4 axles as if there were 6 driven.

There would also be the issue that the centre wheels are, on the prototype, a smaller diameter. Though I suppose clever choice of gear sizes on the model could cope with that.

On 02/06/2023 at 13:07, Accurascale said:

Well, the good news first! The next three running numbers, 37026, 37027 and 37051 are in our warehouse and shipping begins today (June 2nd) now that the Siphon G pre-orders have more or less cleared. Also now in stock are the DCC decoders for the 37s, as  well as the EM and P4 drop in wheelsets and Class 37 drivers from Modelu.

What diameter are the drop-in wheelsets please? I was disappointed that the Deltic ones were not a scale size.

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Did unlined Crimson livery last long enough to be paired with the forthcoming Brush Type 2

with trip-cocks in GSYP livery? 

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On 30/12/2022 at 05:27, LNERGE said:

It's a fascinating bit of railway. [...]

 

In latter years the single line to Hatfield was dispensed with and the train was shuffled back and forth at Welwyn Garden City to gain the up lines.

Unfortunately I was a couple of years too young to ride this branch to Luton unaccompanied, though I did make use of the option to ride WGC-Hatfield as part of my journey home from school on a couple of occasions. The demise of the part south of WGC, along with the partner Hertford branch on the east side of the ECML was due to the collapse of Wrestler's Bridge which carried the Great North Road over the line at Hatfield. This was at half-term in spring 1966, which spoiled my plans for a day's spotting outing to London with a school friend from the opposite side of the blockage. The utility services were reinstated over the line on a temporary bridge mounted on fabricated piers placed in the branches' trackbeds. The full roadway was never reinstated.

There were old gravel pits off the Hertford branch too, at Holwell where the A414 crossed on a humpback bridge. I once noticed an open wagon stood in a siding as we passed. My impression was that it was longer than a 16-tonner, so may have been a Sulphate.

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15 hours ago, 5944 said:

https://flic.kr/p/H9GujR

 

Horns and footsteps removed as out of gauge I believe.

Bogie footsteps were lying loose on the cab floor. I had a peep, in the DPS depot.

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2 hours ago, McC said:

highlighting the important bit. The first release may not include all of the coaches in the first production run yet. 

 Well, that could sort one end of the mismatch. Couldn't pull a few D5615 bodyshells before they get the yellow sprayed I s'pose?

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3 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Carmine presumably ran mixed with maroon for a bit, the same as blue&grey later ran with maroon corridor stock?

Yes, and as the CLs were a later build, the Thompson equivalents survived in otherwise Mark1 formations.

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For some reason, Accurascale seem not quite to have got their ducks in a row as far as transition-era Eastern modellers are concerned.

The first release of the 57ft Suburbans will only allow the assembly of a transition-era ER Inner Suburban set in Carmine livery. However, the first release of the Brush Type 2, trip-cock fitted, such as could work these services, includes Green livery only with SYF, by which time Carmine would be becoming a rarity, with most coaches in Maroon by then. 

I'd hate to be stymied by inflation while waiting for subsequent production runs to solve tis conundrum!

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Way upthread I expressed the hope that the 91s would stick around long enough to be re-liveried out of the calculated tweeness of the fizzy drink design. Have to say they could hardly have done it better, it looks so much more mature!

Just have to phot it before it gets covered in flies. I'd hoped the 225Group Twitter feed might have daily updates on which diagram it's on.

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15 hours ago, autocoach said:

I must say it was rather disappointing in relation to previous Engine Sheds. The evil mavens of marketing are watering down what was meant for the serious hobbyist. 

Are we sure it's 'the evil mavens'? Could it be instead that Hornby have lost significant

capacity for research in depth?

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6 hours ago, melmerby said:

 

Midland Red's first of 420 New Mk1s

It may have been that same vehicle I photted heading into town along the Stratford Road in Hall Green one summer afternoon in 1973. This was the livery which came to mind immediately I found this thread. My main mission that day was to catch at least a couple of West Midlands' all-over advertising Fleetlines, but I was pleased to catch the National looking so smart, aware of the mandated Soviet-style drabness to come, which I'd already sampled on London Country's LN5.

Did BMMO repaint these early ones, or was Workington's paint shop initially more flexible?

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6 minutes ago, flapland said:

I assume it will be escorted up the Channel by a couple of Napier powered patrol boats. 

Pity there wasn't a soundtrack. Was that Eamonn Andrews narrating by any chance?

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13 hours ago, brushman47544 said:

55008 had unique square buffer cowling.

Was that from new, or was it just the first one to receive fatter buffers, before a neater mod to the

existing buffer cowls was chosen? 

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On 14/03/2022 at 13:31, No Decorum said:

Giles cartoons are superb. It’s the little details that repay a short study. “Next train Wed.” in this one and the coach door knocked off by struggling commuters in the next one.  Didn’t he draw the 31 carefully and isn’t the poodle delightful?

Yes, it's well observed. I do believe this may have been the drawing Hornby used...

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Not sure that's quite right. My suggestion is that the rope drives the large wheel, which

is geared to the governor. There's a lifting rod from the governor so that when that

overspeeds, the lifting rod operates the geared quadrants which would be coupled to

the safety catches, driving them in opposite directions.

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Even in an internal EE/Vulcan document it was referred to as a Type 4 1/2. The Eastern Region were

delighted with its performance, where it could fill in seamlessly for Deltics while they were depleted

by works visits. So the Eastern might well have tried to hold on to it, and given the commonality of

the braking system with the Deltics, the dual upgrade package was pretty much ready-designed for

it, whether in EE/GEC ownership or BR's. After that, surely a chance at preservation.

I heard it coming, but was only quick enough to see its roof pass in the cutting, as I was walking back

from Potters Bar to Brookmans Park along the lineside footpath, one day in early Summer 1967. I

often wonder if that was on the occasion of its last trip.

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1 hour ago, Pandora said:

Has anyone thought of the name of the Station with  the  image of the Deltic?

It is not Doncaster, 

The headcode is 1E14, trains to London were indicated by had A within the headcode,  E (Eastern Region?) , therefore I think this is a down train. Some  weak guesses,  Peterborough  Retford  York?

I'd say the north end of Grantham.

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3 hours ago, Zomboid said:

I doubt jet engines would actually be much help on an F1 car. They'd be too slow to wind up to contribute much on anything other than a really long straight, but they'd have to carry the weight all the way round.

The precession forces could be entertaining on typical track bends!

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Well, Hornby can't grumble. They had their chance and blew it with their slabby effort. 

A little disappointed that none of 34B/34G's are in the first run, but maybe that's Accurascale

being considerate about folks' finances in view of the imminent Deltics.

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1 hour ago, Hobby said:

The simple rule would be that if you dive in for a tyre change then where you come out is where you stay, if that means you have to overtake cars which you were in front of before then so be it, that's a risk you take. I doubt Max would have won had the cars between him and Lewis had been allowed to stay there.

How many lapped cars did pass Max while he pitted? It is a question that's been bothering

me. He shouldn't have been gifted those positions back.

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On 26/12/2021 at 07:52, 45568 said:

I always hoped Hornby would follow-up the B17 and B1 with a V2; even now, assuming they could get a correct BR green, I still think a Hornby V2 would be superb.

And since there exists a Meccano engineering drawing of a V2 bodyshell, which never made it to production, Hornby could claim "it's always been one of ours".

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1 hour ago, ruggedpeak said:

As Hawks have no long range radar of their own they would team up with a Tornado or Typhoon on combat air patrols. Certainly be an interesting combo for the enemy to take on a state of the art Typhoon with all the toys and a pair of slower but more agile Hawks.

This has been done, to good effect, in exercises. It's long enough ago for the tale to be told on YouTube

by a retired participant, so it was probably a Tornado tale. It's a couple of years since I watched it, so no

chance of finding the link in my history. But apparently much entertainment was had bamboozling the 

'opposition'. ISTR the exercise was over the eastern Mediterranean, the RAF being hosted in Cyprus,

against the carrier-based US Navy.

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The problem is that a design file embodies a lot of research, apart from the labour of

interpreting it. Research, if done right, is rather expensive, and quite labour-intensive

in its own right!

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1 minute ago, Steve51769 said:

Perhaps it is time Accurascale or Bachmann brought out a range of Gresley Coaches.

Don't forget Rapido! But Hornby's could easily be bettered, due to their compromised body shape. As a

consequence, I have only one example, when my interests suggest I should have at least a couple of

dozen. I hope they don't blunder similarly with The Coronation set!

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