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Does anyone know what time periods the (authentic) liveries correspond to? Eg they were brown from X to Y, red from Y to Z. I am very taken by WP, that brown is very smart

Because watches (and many other ‘limited edition’ products) are sometimes done to a round number but a few are reserved for involved individuals

Hi All. I’m trying to determine if anyone out there bought the Planet Industrials Devonport Dockyard Barclay kit when it was released, and either isn’t likely to finish it or just used the cab without the decals and kept them. I have a number of project locos which require either the decals or both, so if anyone would like to part with them please DM me. PI still have cabs but no plans to release the decals again, forcing me to make alternative plans! Thank you in advance

Does anyone know a suitable ModelU stand-in for a driver? The cab is very big and well illuminated, making the absence of crew more obvious. Does anyone know if they ran with a second-man?

Hi All Does anyone know if it is possible to get spare parts for Genesis kits? My rectank only came with 3 out of 4 bogie ends, so I need to find another. I cannot find any online presence, but some detective work indicated that the founder may have died. Has the company been taken over by someone else? Many thanks in advance

I don’t think any of those entered service in Longmoor Blue, willing to be corrected on some of the latter austerities. No J94’s were used at Longmoor…. Cue discussion about what shade it was- in reality it was whatever blue the National serviceman allocated to mixing the paint thought looked closest to the one parked outside. i think some of the diesels went straight to Longmoor but would have to check one of my bibles, probably the third testament volume

Does anyone know if Kernow will be selling these from their stand at Ally Pally? I’m quite keen to pick one up but if I can see it first and save on postage then all the better!

IMHo there are a couple of elements which elevate a train set into a model railway. 1) are you left unable to see the original board because it has been entirely covered by ballast, scenery, road, buildings etc. If the latter, it’s a model railway. 2) does it have some form of undulation? If the latter, it’s a model railway. 3) does it have some form of mechanisation? That can include points controlled by piano wire and other alternatives. 4) do you run kit built locomotives or rolling stock? Do the buildings have any sort of modification (lighting, smoke, people and furniture), have buildings been custom built? 5) is it based on a real location? I think if you answer yes to any of those, it’s a model railway.

They’re not homemade, they’re all built by Iran, shipped through the Indian Ocean and rebuilt by Iranian engineers. There are allied task forces dedicated to hunting them in transit. Houthis are best viewed as a foreign legion of the IRGC, superbly well located and trained in insurgency warfare, with targeting supplied by Iran.

If that’s so why have the Chinese built theee when the US have 11? Because they recognise their value if correctly operated, demonstrated not just by the Americans but in the value they brought in the Falklands.

You’re assuming the flow of info is from the axis of Iran/Russia to the Houthis, rather than the opposite. They could be feeding back when they are ready to fire (after all they didn’t dig these missiles out of the ground, the Iranians supplied them) and ships containing stuff the Russians and Iranians want is then rerouted. The Iranians do also have a spy ship named and shamed which is helping with targeting, so they aren’t just lobbing fireworks at whiffs of smoke on the horizon.

Define ‘not our shipping’? Doesn’t make a difference if it doesn’t have a red ensign on the stern. There are 4 components to ownership of a ship these days- where the ship is registered/ flagged, where it’s owning company is registered, where the cargo is owned and the nationality of the crew (which could be 20 different countries). Only one of those being British affects the U.K. economy. If flagging British decreases then it’s less money for U.K. Govt, if the owning company has to pay more insurance that gets passed on to shipping fees, if the cargo needs more insurance (or travels further than expected) that cost is passed to the consumer, and if British sailors are taken hostage that has a multitude of negative impacts on confidence in the U.K. merchant fleet (shortage of sailors and officers could lead to higher wage bills, passed on to us, etc). So an absence of union jacks has no bearing on the absence of impact on U.K. consumers…

There is a very interesting line in the article by the Times on this: It is understood that internal Treasury assessments have warned that the UK economy could shrink by 0.3 per cent if the Houthi attacks continue. what this essentially says is this country could tip into a recession, due to the inability/ unwillingness of successive Governments to invest in our sovereign ability to protect merchant shipping on the high seas. Now we know that the T45s can defend a task force, we could send a carrier out if the politicians allowed it- don’t they know people always vote Tory after a successful foreign war…

That’s not true. There was no need for NATO to give us generic support as it was recognised as being outside their core purpose. However multiple NATO countries supplied replacement ships allowing the RN to send a bigger task force (on things like the Armilla Patrol), and the French let the sea harriers dogfight the etendards to give our pilots more experience (besides providing info on Exocets). That doesn’t even cover what the Kiwis tried to do. The truth is our allies had our backs when we needed it.

It’s another article where they’re confusing impact and probability. Space weather is of huge concern to government as it would damage satellites on which so much depends. It could in a worst case scenario render ships unable to navigate apart from by sextant (a number of pre-GPS systems have been deactivated) which would leave them either wandering about taking longer routes or running aground. This would also impact any satellite based communications (which I believe includes some forms of signalling). Fortunately there are ways of detecting space weather in advance (as anyone who watched the surprisingly-not-completely-terrible series one of COBRA on Sky One). Like Y2K, the UK’s system has never been properly tested, though other countries have had light encounters. In short, it’s not rubbish, but something else, we just don’t know what…

Glad to hear that the Hardy’s range is being resurrected. Attached is a picture of my HH 14” Bagnall, modified to resemble Devonport Dockyard Railway No.18 as in service with a HH footplate crew. It is awaiting wasp stripes and coal (which I have), plates (which I can get from Planet Industrials) and Devonport Dockyard livery, which cannot be bought separately. I am tempted by one of the Avonsides as the dockyard had one of these in roughly the right timeframe. I will be keeping an eye on the website this week! P.s. I have no idea how to get photos the right way up!

Has any artwork or running number info been released?

Which gives the perfect excuse for them to be run in perfect and unweathered condition!

If people are desperate to see a big engine in LMR blue, they could always support the restoration of Gordon’s neighbour 48773 at the Engine House. She was at the LMR from 1952 to 1957, and although she only wore WD black I think it would be very legitimate for her to be done out in LMR lined blue- far greater crimes against liveries have been committed over the years…

Duly ordered a ‘Gordon’. All I ask is that they given it a couple of years before they release a model of ‘Kitchener’. I'm surprised that this wasn’t snapped up by Bachmann, the tooling wouldn’t have been a huge upgrade from their 2-8-0 version. There aren’t many big LMR engines left to be released now, by my estimate the half dozen 8Fs are the only ones not yet done in RTR yet. If Hornby redo the 8F next year I’d be amazed if the LMR wasn’t considered- they could do a multipack with a model of Caen and call it ‘Little and Large’…

Whenever I show people footage of my layout, my sound/ smoke/ firebox glow fitted BG is what I go for first. I’ve not had any problems with mine (unlike my first LBR loco), and the only issue I have is lacking a long enough rake of coal wagons and LMS brake wagon to go with it. I don’t even model the areas they worked- my rule 1 application is that they worked cross-country coal services to the south coast, requiring them to cross GWR and SR rails. No idea if that’s true or not. My only surprises with this are that it’s taken so long to release and that it doesn’t come with steam built in. It won’t need two decoders, two speakers in each bogie might sound good but I consider the chuff to come from the chimney anyway.

Can someone explain if there is a historical precedent for the NER blue model being produced? If so, where was this livery found?

I’m told that the only thing justifying the line from Lymington Town to Lymington Pier remaining open is the number of students who travel from the Isle of Wight to Brockenhurst College- with no educational facilities for over 16’s on the western half of the Island, it’s the only way for them to sit anything other than GCSE’s! If it weren’t for them, Network Rail would close it on the grounds that the bridge over the river Lym is desperately in need of renewal!

Hi all. Help needed with my Wills metro kit. I am using rocket UV glue to put it together but I thought priming my components would be beneficial. It turns out that glue and primer creates a grey sticky putty which never sets! Does anyone know a good solution for putting the whole life in to lift the primer off so I can start again?

Hi All. I have a trio of Keyser GWR 40 ton coal wagons. Does anyone know where I can source appropriate transfers for the GWR period (late 30’s/ early 40’s) and where I can source replacement buffers as a couple broke while being fitted. Thanks!