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  1. Tim H
    Wonderful photo. Reminds me of the 122/108/101 combos in Cornwall around the same time. I remember the first few 121s in NSE had the upsweeps at both ends, before they changed to the style in the photo,
  2. Tim H
    Looking through published photos of WR steam and diesel-hydraulics, there was still some GW-design stock around in blood & custard in 59/60, but all survivors were maroon by 62/63. There were a few Mk1s in blood & custard as late as Summer 1963, but no older stock. Guessing these would have still been wearing their new-build paintwork Are Farish doing what Dapol did a decade ago with the Colletts and deliberately leaving the most popular livery until last in the hope of selling more coaches?
  3. Tim H
    Have a feeling FGW hire a couple of Arriva 150s to boost capacity every Summer during the high season, and they go back to Arriva in September. The Silverlink ones were transfers, though. Think they were former Bedford-Blechley or possibly Gospel Oak-Barking sets.
  4. Tim H
    I'd forgotten that. Back in the early 70s for a couple of years, if I remember correctly. The 104s were much later on. Fair point. I was thinking of the post-steam era when most of the surviving branches were heavily rationalised and lost their freight traffic. Did the Bourne End line carry any through freight before the section to High Wycombe closed?
  5. Tim H
    I remember a 101/121 hybrid set (101 Motor Brake Composite, 121 Driving Trailer) in the last years before Turbofication. How many people actually model the London end of the WR in 00? Seems to me it's eitther the 4-track main line which needs a lot of space, or 'basic railway' branches which aren't that interesting to operate. Most WR-based layouts I see seem to be based on other parts of the region.
  6. Tim H
    Why is every new product announcement greeting with moans of "They should have done [thing that ran in my region] instead"?
  7. Tim H
    Aware of that (and have several of them). I was thinking of the 117. Of course, what I really want is a 118...
  8. Tim H
    As an N gauge modeller, all I can say is "Shrink Ray" Seriously, this one probably ought to have a higher priority than the Cravens 105 (Sorry, ER modellers) for shrinking to the smaller scale.
  9. Tim H
    Iron Maiden - Book of Souls This is an absolute belter. Most ambitious thing they've ever done, and ends with an 18 minute epic about the disastrous maiden voyage of the R101 airship Blackmores iNight - All Our Yesterdays Sadly this is an awful record, for bad car crash levels of awful. To think this is the work of the man who created Burn and Stargazer...
  10. Tim H

    Gotta love pre-1990 nylon gear Farish locos; you can take one out of storage that hasn't run for 15 years, and it will still run.

  11. Tim H

    Gotta love pre-1990 nylon gear Farish locos; you can take one out of storage that hasn't run for 15 years, and it will still run.

  12. Tim H

    Gotta love pre-1990 nylon gear Farish locos. You can take one out of storage that hasn't run for 15 years, and it will still run.

  13. Tim H

    Gotta love pre-1990 nylon gear Farish locos. You can take one out of storage that hasn't run for 15 years, and it will still run.

  14. Tim H

    Gotta love pre-1990 nylon gear Farish locos. You can take one out of storage that hasn't run for 15 years, and it will still work.

  15. Tim H

    Gotta love pre-1990 nylon gear Farish locos. You can take one out of storage that hasn't run for 15 years, and it will still work.

  16. Tim H

    Gotta love pre-1990 nylon gear Farish locos. You can take one out of storage that hasn't run for 15 years, and it will still work.

  17. Tim H
    Take that shot with a tilt-shift lens and you'll fool a lot of people!
  18. Tim H
    That picture doesn't half look like a model. Think it's the very clean HST coming round that tight curve that does it.
  19. Tim H
    The version I started building (but never completed due to a move) was arranged in a "U". The main line towards Plymouth did a 180 degree curve and ran along the wall behind Par station, and joined the Penzance end in a hidden double junction at the far end of the room, making the entire main line a teardrop-shaped reverse loop. From the double junction the combined main line ran to a fiddle yard behind St Blazey.with another return loop at the far end. It meant you could run a realistic sequence with down trains reappearing as up trains later in the day. The plan did take advantage of the tighter curves possible in N, but was in a much smaller space (12'x8') than you have available.
  20. Tim H
    I once sketched out a US-style two-level "Basement Buster" including Lostwithiel, Par, St Blazey, Goonbarrow, Burngullow, Long Rock and Penzance. Probably not practical in 2mm finescale, though...
  21. Tim H
    Since the Allegras pull mixed trains on the Bernina line, some modern freight stock would be useful.
  22. Tim H
    There's a photo of a class 22 triple-header at Newquay in 1965 in John Vaughan's "Branches and Byways: Cornwall".
  23. Tim H
    What was the 23:45 ex-Paddington? Was that the sleeper, the TPO or the Newspapers? (Timing from Plymouth suggests the first of those)
  24. Tim H
    Islands by Mantra Vega - Single released in advance of the new album by Heather Findlay & Dave Kerzner http://mantravega.bandcamp.com/album/island-single Strong Fleetwood Mac vibe to it, I think.
  25. Tim H
    Certainly some 47s allocated to the metals sector in sectorisation days. 58s were concentrated on MGR coal traffic until the final years of BR when sub-sectors gave way to the 3 regional operators, when they started appearing on more varied trafiic. Don't know about 31s, but none of them ever carried Metals subsector livery.
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