royaloak

But the point is the passengers on it dont care what electric (or diesel) is on the front, they are only interested in the steamer and they like a variety of them.

So your 'defence' is one particular train where the (steam wanting) clientele have to endure an electric loco for the boring bit until the steamer is put on for the interesting bit.

Not really, the electric is only used on the ECS positioning move, the paying public want different steam locos on the front of their passenger trains.

I used to have a Nissan Bluebird with the reg number G232OWX, a few years later I bought a Vauxhall Corsa with the reg number N434xxx, (its still on the road) but when I insured it I put N232xxx by mistake (this reg didnt exist), I ran it for a year like that and only noticed when the insurance renewal came through, the RFL was for the same time so was done early on the proper reg so the wrong reg never got taxed. I was basically driving an uninsured car for a year and despite doing a 75 mile each way commute from Fareham to Strawberry Hill along a motorway and I never got pulled once, I now check, double check and triple check I have got the reg number right,

Yet some were withdrawn after just 10 years service due to different travelling habits making them surplus to requirements.

Especially to those who use their phone as a (hands free) sat nav.

Steventon has been electric since last October (or was it September), but now at 110mph instead of the old 125mph

I think the idea is you look at the price and it scares the sh-t out of you.

Where-as you would have only scanned 12% and then have to decide which bit is worth concentrating on hoping the 88% you couldnt scan isnt important.

There are 'standard' procedures, its just they keep changing the standards. IETs have certain safety equipment other trains dont have, this takes a couple of minutes to configure before the train can be moved, the days of 'key on and buzz off' have long gone! The person that was aimed at is fully aware of the various type of passengers on different parts of the network and his continual postering is getting rather annoying, especially as most of the points he continues to be make have been previously answered but he chooses to ignore them.

Are you sure about that? How many other tools 'disappeared' when a company ceased trading? There seems to be a lot of utopian thinking on this thread!

But would anyone take any notice or even print the statements. Remember our 'great' free press are only interested in selling copy and wont let a silly thing like the truth get in the way of telling their readers what they want to read!

Maybe the price is because Bachmann have decided there is only a small market for a BEP so are only producing the minimum number possible and need to get a return on the investment. I for one dont think Bachmann want them sat on shelves being discounted hence the minimum number produced.

So no great cost in having it powered then! It seems a penny pinching idea by Hornby not to have 2 NDMs in the 7 coach set while offering all the additional coaches to make it up to a 14 coach set in the guise in which it was in passenger service (black windscreen surround).

Most/all will need the passenger doors closed and interlocked before you can get brake release, nothing I have ever signed (143/455 being the oldest) can be moved with the passenger doors released/opened unless isolations have been made.

You cant because you wont get interlock or brake release, the doors must be closed and locked before the train can be moved.

With the detail on it I thought it WAS 4mm scale!

Like they did when that Turbo hit a gantry outside Paddington.

Which is the whole point of HS2.

Without looking is this the 'we dont want HS2 so write a report with the conclusion it doesnt fix anything and is far too expensive' report?

It does the square root of naff all for us in the sunny South West either, but then it was never intended too.

If you compare the before and after pictures it looks to me as if the boiler is broken behind the 'smokebox' at the first white boiler band, and the running plate split just behind the smoke deflector, buyer beware.

I have knowingly and willingly paid over the odds for some things off Ebay (and auction) because it was something I REALLY REALLY wanted, not often though me being an orthodox tight arse and all that.

Stopping the no win no fee brigade getting their cut!

Most 'Southern' passengers are commuters and/or well seasoned travellers, ours down here are not, that is the big difference. You can call it what you like but from my viewpoint dealing with them the two are not even remotely comparable and that 'glance' at CLJ wont work down here because most of the passengers wont have a clue what you are on about as they only catch the train a few times a year, so unless your staff are going to be in place for the next 5 years the message will be falling on new ears day after day after day, and by the time the people who heard it on day one travel again they would have forgotten all about it.