bennyboy

I wonder if they'll also be making the earlier Vanwide with the original suspension?

Thanks for all the pics Rich, although that Skytrex Mk3 has an "interesting" paint job.

It's easy to become a millionaire in the model railway industry, as along as you start off as a billionaire.

Dave, I know that you were trying to reduce the cost of the model, but removing the side of one of the coaches is taking things a bit too far.

So even 009 modellers will have more new items from Bachmann than N Scale modellers? I do get the impression that the Farish range is becoming a bit like "Cinderella" for Bachmann.

03 shunter for Sale. May require some assembly.

Allision is what some blokes call their wives when they're drunk.

No, I hadn't thought about that, but to be honest I thinking more about external turntables that are used to move complete wagons.

I've just been looking through an old copy of Rail Express and there was an article about wagon repair yards. One of the pictures is of a wagon turntable at E G Steele in Hamilton which was being used to store wagons in a roundhouse style track formation in the late 80s. It got me thinking, does anyone know when or where were the last regularly used wagon turntables? I'm not including narrow gauge or preserved ones, just standard gauge ones either on BR lines or even in private sidings.

Most of that is due to the new lower/simpler spec of the N Gauge model, so unless Dave is going to do the same for the OO model then probably not.

Wow, that is impressive. If you didn't know any better you would think that it was an OO gauge layout.

I see you've got a mongrel one at the left end.

You'll probably find out in this thread. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/65792-hunslet-class-05/

I'm exactly the same as even in the 90s I never went to have a look at it. I suspect it was largely because I didn't really know exactly which bits were still in use and I just presumed that it was mostly abandoned.

Wow, I didn't realise that you were making the early versions with the Venetian blinds! You obviously like a modelling challenge!

I've just come across some pictures of the CPC Andrew Barclay at Trafford Park which I've never seen before. https://www.branchline.uk/photo-new.php?id=365&pid=1265&seq=16 https://www.branchline.uk/photo-new.php?id=365&pid=1266&seq=17

I've just discovered some amazing pictures of the TP network on the Branch Line Society website. A lot of them were taken during a railtour in the 70s and it's a proper old school one with blokes standing up in open wagons! There's also some really rare pictures on the MSC network such as the coal tippler at Partington Basin, the Swing Bridge in Trafford and some shots of the Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 at CPC. https://www.branchline.uk/album-new.php?id=365 There's also this one which is an interesting take on the concept of a shunting plank! https://www.branchline.uk/photo-new.php?id=365&pid=1263&seq=14

Has anyone see how awful the weathering is on the pictures on the Bachmann website? It's looks as if the ends have just been sprayed with custard yellow paint! https://www.Bachmann.co.uk/product/graham-farish-50ft-ex-lms-full-brake-coach-br-blue-weathered-374-890/

That's a weird coincidence as that interview with Rapido's Jason Shron got me dreaming today about how much it would cost to commission Rapido to make a set of Manchester Pullmans! But which of the liveries are planning on painting it in?

One of those versions is going to end up in the bargain bins.

I know that before Bachmann ruined, sorry I mean reorganised their website, I think it said that they would be out in May next year.

When I got my first Hornby train set in 1978 it was the complete opposite of the artistic artwork illustrated here as they used photo-realistic artwork of the rolling stock in profile, which wasn't very inspiring at all!

Wow, your depiction of the battered and rusty paintwork is amazingly realistic.

So this is just about the new liveries of the existing model? I thought that you were announcing a brand new model as there is already a thread about the Dapol 86 here... http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/6647-Dapol-class-86/page-8

I'd love a Babycham. And a ham sandwich.