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  1. Porcy Mane
    Thanks for the link. They look ok but the distinctive bits appear to be missing. 🙂 It's making up these bits that does my head in. I'm sure accurascales cad boys could manage it.
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    That's wacky. (Goodwood festival of speed, I believe).
  3. Porcy Mane
    Any patents pending on a motorised horse?
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    Complete with Modelu figure. A Nigel Valentine pic on Flickr: Yard shunting pugs by Nigel, on Flickr
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    Perchance, a small loco to pull some small chauldrons??? Perhaps a... whisper it... a wee Conflat L 📢. (that could occasionally be seen in the company of a chauldron or two).
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    Almost as tedious as Mr. Modelmasters doling out the same old, same old, the same old, same old excuses. I think the railway modelling fraternity overall is a pretty forgiving bunch but there comes a time when patience runs out and folk understandably turn to the forums in an attempt to find out what's going on or simply to vent their frustrations. I hope Mr Modelmaster sorts out his problems but his unreliability has been well known for many years and I hold out no hope for improvement.
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    Welcome to the new server. Exactly the same as the old server. "Image coming soon". 🥱
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    A little more North Eastern Railway locomotive dialect. "Clever sh1te"! 😋 "Serious head on". I did mean to write buffer plank but my emotions got the better of me.
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    *Meaningless Drivel Alert* Unless Heljan are giving us a detachable dragbeam buffer plank (pressure treated with anti woodworm fluid), corrected the livery on 26500, give us three link couplings and fit correct gauge wheels, I'll not be having one. Harrumph! Ok boys, you can get back to converting this thread into a wish list. P
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    Where do you think I got the photo. Time to go (Trilby at the ready). 🤠
  11. Porcy Mane
    2007? Maybe... Maybe not.
  12. Porcy Mane
    Crewe built in Crewe erecting shops. Photograph is part of a an extensive set of BR officials commissioned by the Derby Mechanical & Electrical engineers office recording Class 24 bogie testing.
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    I think you'll find Hornby is paying the designer and patent holder for the use of the technology.
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    Maybe plans are afoot? Something to ponder is we are just over two years away from the bicentenary celebrations of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Maybe the model manufacturers have been rubbing their collective R&D chins and glancing skywards, thinking to themselves "Hmmmmm, money making opportunity approaching ???". Locomotion Number One from Accurascale perhaps?
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    A dig for a new fence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-21742168
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    Thanks. I think the PC etch was a slightly better match for the Tyneside knitting but at least the Mark Hughes stuff is available.
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    ES1s always ran with two crew members to make the switch between overhead & third rail less perilous. Quite a dangerous job by all accounts with all those exposed bare conductors and switches just raring to give any stray fingers a bl**dy good tingling. I wish some of those yuchoobers would get the same. Maybe it's time to reintroduce the old PC models tram catenery etch again. (now in the hands of P87-models ?) Anyone for Peco third rail!
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    The Lympdik connector to the panto.
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    Course it was. There was/is a tunnel that originated at Spittal Tongues and came out at the Ouseburn (Its course passed under the Quayside tunnel). It's sole purpose was coal shipment and after falling into disuse was used for all sorts of other things. You can still have a guided tour. The Quayside branch handled loads of coal (and oil) but for ship bunkering purposes.
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    I thought you would have been able to use your influence there Mike? I thought that was what Cairo Jacks and Josephine's was for? (Only residents of Sheffield and those of a certain age will get that quip).
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    Something I doctored up years ago. Lost to the updated versions and crash of RM web. There was a complete thread on the Quayside branch. And there's Always Britain From Above
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    Traff Yd catenery, with the trolleybus wires beyond. (Detail from a Photograph by the late Ian S. Carr on the last day of electric operation). As compared to the modern overhead on the mainline. The add hoarding is still there. P
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    Probably easier to install the third rail or just have a J72 or Class 03/04 shunter moving it around.
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    Probably June 1961. This date is disputed. I'm chuffed Heljan is doing this but I'd imagine the production is completed if it's delivery afore Christmas. I hope the livery has been corrected from what I assume is a pre-prod model in the phots above? P
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    Especially the Livery for the BR version, but I can forgive Heljan for that for introducing a NER loco that worked in a very limited area.
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