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D1733 did actually run in service with the Red paper panels attached, until they fell off, for at least 2 months after it was launched to the press. I can well remember seeing it 'failed' on Oxford shed on 1st July 1964 as it was my birthday! It was a regular on The Pines Express ande somewhere I have a black & white photo of it entering Oxford station on such a working. I also have a few colour shots of it with the panels attached which I will post later but they also appear on my Brush Veteran Flickr site.

Gilbert, these latest images of yours under the overall roof are the most atmospheric I have ever seen on this forum. Keep it up! Have you had your Tango's weathered yet?

There are no spare screw couplings supplied with the locomotives, these are pre-attached but the NEM couplings are in a packet for the customer to fit.

I think the figure actually adds to the composition................................it looks like the lady in question is bracing herself against the wall after receiving a vibrating ride on the Cravens................probably waiting until she is comfortable to walk home!!

That's it Brian I'm going to ask for a pint of 1:48 tonight to see if I can reduce mine!!

I put a comment regarding the 47XX and update a few weeks ago...........................this is a different thread! I will reiterate, when a suitable sample is received and approved it will be posted on the relevant thread. Up and till then there is further development taking place which is being monitored by a panel of suitably qualified people, including those who are building a 12" : 1 foot version, and when we are all satisfied then pre-production samples will be shown.

We have had a first sample but as this has been rejected we have to await some revisions and improvements before we can post any pictures. I will try and update this post as and when the next suitable sample arrives.

I like the "random" speech comments on the animated version. I'm sure as they stand they'll have to be spoken by the BBC's Richard Baker in his narrative voice............................rather than what the original "anglo-saxon" version would probably sound like! Water 'spilling' just doesn't sound right!.................it wouldn't do for my layout!!!

I don't think that the RSPCA would go much on that!

D6328 with "new loco" reminds of one day way back in 1967 when whilst waiting at Sandy Lane Crossing, Yarnton an Army 0-6-0 presumably from Kineton en.route to Bicester trundled past light engine and BR brake van under its own power. Apparently the loco towing it had failed by Banbury with the 0-6-0 doing most of the work, so it carried on under its own steam....so to speak. I can't imagine that happening today!

Glad to see the Tango's are performing OK Gilbert.........................................................................stopped by for a pint in Lincoln yesterday (as you do!) and thought of your thread when I saw this!

I know you may know this already Gilbert, but make sure you have a photo of the prototype engine you are going to represent taken at the correct period. There was a certain amount of tender swapping between O2's and there was of course boiler swaps which made some O2/3's into O2/4's and vice versa. If you unsure then I may be able to send a picture of your chosen loco's as I have pictures now of almost all the engines. It is indeed a minefield as you say and you can appreciate the care we had to take when trying to represent the correct loco at the given timescale to give the required variant. We were originally going to vary the tenders within the two sub-classes but things were beginning to get complicated and in order to eliminate simple errors in artwork and colour-layout representation we opted for simplicity and went for the same tender types for each variant. As you say the tender tops are easy enough to change but just be cautious. I look forward to see them with their new identities

Have you tried Rocket superglues Stewart, they don't tend to fog clear plastics when I have used them and they seem to work quite well with both ABS and Delrin type compounds

That's what I implied to Gilbert when I gave it to him Stewart, I told him that the destination and fleet number would have to be changed for exact authenticity and I didn't even know whether any of these four vehicles (LL431-434 WPW631-4) ever operated from the ECOC Peterborough area depots. At least it adds a further splash of local colour and atmosphere to what has become one of RM Web's most topical threads.

That's interesting as I've never seen one fracture in that spot before................although that is one of the weakest parts of the body. Make sure you ask for the bodyshell back as it does look salvageble to me. They normally do send them back if they fit a replacement bodyshell.

Two of these for me Mike please!

I'll come and pay you a visit next month. I will bring the circuit board and chip out of the demo loco that we used on your layout when we took photos last year. That worked OK and has performed on many layouts with none of the problems you are currently encountering. I'm determined to get to the root of the problem because I haven't been able to replicate it anywhere else..............................but I am using a Bachmann decoder.

Sorry about that Clive!....................................................I scratchbuilt one but couldn't face the other nine! Then an opportunity came along and I took it.

Hi Brian The High Dyke tablet apparatus was only fitted to O2/1's and O2/2's coupled to ex.GN tenders, these being just five locomotives O1/1's 63929-31, and O2/2s 63932 and 63940. I have images of all the O2's and have not found any evidence of others fitted......................so far!

I think this is the model you are referring to.....................quite simply an accurate work of art built by the man that used to maintain Sundew whilst at Cottesmore. There is also a section at Cottesmore with a working diorama showing how the ore was mined and it is well worth a visit. There was a similar sized electric shovel (I think that's what it was called) built by the Marion Engineering Co' in the US, for United Steel, Ore Mining Branch at Colsterworth. I am fascinated by the size of these things and would of loved to see them in action. I believe there is a similar but smaller drag line/shovel lying disused in one of the quarries around Scunthorpe but have never got up there to find it. Has anyone on here seen it.............is it still there? The next two images are of the Marion shovel being moved between two quarries at Skillington Road near Stainby. Look at the size compared with the class 31 alongside. I'm sure DaveF has some better shots of the Marion than I have!

I've never seen a 31 in that style Lloyd.................................yes, your memory is getting like mine. Welcome to the club.............it's called getting old!

I have just been informed that this release, R3470, has been cancelled from the 2016 programme. I should think that this puts pay to any spare chassis being made this year.

I believe samples are awaited.

Mick I have been informed that the O2 has a different motor to that fitted to the Beyer Garratt, however I will be stripping one of the samples down in the near future after extensive running to check for wear etc. so I will compare.

It would appear that there may be a problem with using a Lenz Silver decoder on this locomotive.................We are still investigating the actual reason. During product testing on various layouts with differing makes of DCC equipment we tried two makes off decoders, a Bachmann 21 pin #36-557 and an ESU standard. We are also currently using ESU sound decoders (#50444) which also perform OK. As soon as I can find out the exact reason for the Lenz decoder problem I will report back on this forum but I thought that I would bring this to your attention before people start dismantling locomotives thinking it is a motor fault............which it isn't. The locomotives perform fine on DC when tested.