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24 hrs from ordering to delivery - including follow up call when I filled the order in wrong ! Great prices, but more importantly , great service , Well done !

Crickey, I thought I was a sad case leaving home at 28 !

Good job mate , A Useful resource !

One other thing that has been mentioned before with bachy diesels is where the axles lie in the plastic rebates in the bogie block sometimes the holes are not perfectly cast, leading to a wobbliness of one axle. I eventually changed a 37 bogie assembly due to this and I still have one that has a bit of a rolling gait.

Greetings from the yard. I'm still here.... I'm concentrating at present on acquiring and upgrading stock for the West Country theme which will be the next plank. I would really like to run the moorswater cement train as it was in the late 90s. To this end I have 4 Hornby PCAs, and 2 Bachmann ones on order at track shack. I've replaced the inner couplings with smaller Bachmann tension locks and they run as close together as I can get and still go through the peco points in the yard. I've also painted the Oleos silver. They need some more general weathering now. I also have 2 Heljan cargowaggons, so far I've only painted the bogies on one. I'm not sure how to achieve the all over pooey brown they seemed to take on. I've also managed to acquire for a good price from a fellow RMweb member 2 of the distinctive yellow blue circle ones used on this flow. Here's the yard having a Cornish day as seen from a drone ( in 1996 ??!!) The planning of the next one continues. I need to work out first if it'll be another 10' plank or whether I can utilise more space in the box room to bend it into a U shape or an L shape. I have to retain some sort of bed in there though.

My rose tinted nostaligia doesn't extend to reality

That looks really nice. What would really set it off is one of those choc machines where you put your money in and pull out a drawer with the goodies.... I remember them well from the period ...

That's great ! Trousers are not bright enough for mr portillo though !

Yeah, that's true , I think the one I brought was £65 from hattons - wrong roof config, but I made it 47033 because I really wanted " royal logistics corps ". They may have been better with a 47/0 in RFd as better renumber options .maybe as 306 was at blazey for a long time this has prompted it, but as alluded to I don't think it ' worked ' from there. Anyway, lets see and I wish them all the best .

I don't think that train is anything to do with the train the OP is talking about. It comes from Belgium now and runs with GBRF ! Is this not something like Aberdeen - Workington

Wow, What a lot of models ! I'd like 47306 to run with my mIlitary stuff . They state " as it was working from st blazey " but my understanding was it went down for an open day and then festered down there. I'd love to see evidence if it actually working down there as it would fit a Cornish plank as well. Then .

I just envy anyone who actually gets home near their models. I'm away about 14 days a month. Plenty of time to play " fantasy layout planning " in my mind .

That would be a disaster ! But then again Imerys can be rearranged to make misery...

You lucky whatsit. I used to go reading to Portsmouth harbour on these. Wouldn't mind one.

If they do do it, please don't do it with the big modern headlight - surely that was only valid for a couple of years and will wipe out the 70s potential. Music easier for people to add that, than try and take away

Looks good , never seen one before like this. Also 37174 was around in primer in same sort of era due the same issue

Your rubbish isn't rubbish ....nicely done !

Pearl - bloody - harbour ! Nuff said.

I've got a 672as well, was humming and hawing about fitting those plates as they came off before 97, but they do look nice

Burngullow- Irvine, for coating paper IIrc. 2x37/5 originally, and 11-15 tanks. Deffo went via Hereford......

Be interested to see how the bullhead looks !

I'm guessing in a shed you physically have to select them on and off...no automated function.

I think they'll do one eventually , they must be aware this has been requested often. As for hattons price.....you'd have to really really want one !

Looking great. Do you fix your weathering powders or leave as is ? My next project may well be blue stuff as I'd really like a play with the new peco bullhead track

I don't understand how even the most hardened N gauge modeller can say the parts are as fiddly in OO. OO TOPS numbers are 2mm high , that's about the limit of what I can do even with steady hands. With smaller numbers it would simply be harder in N and I simply, wouldn't enjoy it at all.