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My workaround was to use a copy of VLC (from videolan.org), which in my experience will play just about every video format. The video lives at http://www.apt -e.org/videos/video.wmv. (I've broken this address by inserting a space after "apt" so browsers don't try to interpret it as embedded video). It can be downloaded from here or played direct by VLC. I'd expect YouTube's copyright filters to delete the soundtrack if it was uploaded there. Edited repeatedly because the URL wasn't displaying right...

Not my prototype, not my scale, not even my side of the planet. And I'm still thinking of getting one. I grew up reading the same books as Jason...

Mechanisms for all of these would be covered by Steam Era or Hollywood Foundry (linked examples by Andrew Collier for his marvellous Glenburn layout). Even the bogie sideframes are more or less the same ones Steam Era make for their own DERM kit. As far as drawings go, the VR diagrams are on the net or in the relevant Brief History of Victorian Rolling Stock volume; though they're not the best modelling references they give basic measurements. Photos seem fairly plentiful, and the E class in particular seems a relatively simple scratchbuild or digital model. I'll build a pair of them one day... Hardest part would be those cross-leg pantographs, I don't think there's anything close available off the shelf. Nearest seem to be Japanese ones that are a bit small.

E class electric locos? The steeplecabs? Parcel vans? Overhead? I've been sketching out ideas for small 1960s/70s suburban goods yards for years...

There are a few models of Pilbara iron ore locomotives where repaints of off-the-shelf US designs aren't bad representations. On the other hand, this model is to my eyes even worse than Powerline's repaints of cheap F series locos. Cheap, though.

I paid a hefty A$26.95 for my Brekina Morris (around ??15), though it didn't come from the cheapest shop in town. It is very good, but at that price I'm not going to be looking too hard for the Rover (there weren't a lot of them on Australian roads anyway, I'm in no hurry to fill my station carpark with uncommon foreign cars). And I've found some packaging from my Mini, it came from Schuco. Mine was bought at show for a third of what I later paid for the Morris.

It looks like someone in China is re-using their tooling, the photo above looks a lot like my Mini which came in a nice clear acrylic box rather than on a keyring. Right now I can't find the box to identify the brand... German company Brekina also do a very nice Morris Minor and Rover P6 in HO, as right-hand-drive versions, though for quite a bit more than ??1.50.