Ian J.

Nice. I think I will however wait until Dapol do 59 001 in original condition themselves, and keep my fingers crossed that they get it right.

I did check out the firebox glow on mine and it does flicker but it's quite subtle, unlike say the flicker on the Dapol/Rails Terriers which is far more obvious. Running on DC, btw.

American pronounciations are often somewhat different to British. A friend and I watch NFL games on the NFL app on XBox, and often are intrigued as to how various peoples' names, various cities, etc are pronounced compared to how we would pronounce them.

Just to add mine's arrived too. Looks lovely, possibly slightly noisy running, but when I get to running in hopefully that will subside:

😍 🙂 😁

My destiny is mostly cheese...

Done. Hope the results prove enlightening.

They are expensive, though they do appear well done, even if the coaches could do with a bit of varnish as they finish is very matt in nature. I just worry that they'll sell out and I'll miss out. That's happened to me too often in the past to be comfortable. I keep my fingers crossed for a lottery win too 🙂🤞

I haven't done anything, they're just as they came out of the box. I think the shadow cast on the wheels due to the central ceiling light is 'hiding' that they do look very bright. I will need to tone them down.

Just as a bit of wishing, how about Bonnie Prince Charlie / Western Pride, the 0-4-0ST industrials that used to work Poole Docks...? Go on, you know you want to, and they're 'easy' to do, because BPC is still in existence at Didcot 🙂

Just got a set today. Nice, even though they were all gone by the time of my closest interest period (1961). I'm using a Rule 1 for running it: 🙂

Just paid for mine (Holly Bank No.3) 🙂 I'm hoping to be able to fit a sound decoder at a later date, I just couldn't afford it this time. Will the decoder/project be available separately at some point in the future, or will I have to find an aftermarket third party project?

Is there any knowledge around as to what in the wiring is amiss, such that with a look inside I would be able to tell if the problem was present or not?

Re a 4REP, if it's on the cards (and this would be true of any of such standard front end BR(S) EMUs) at least get the front end proportions right. Neither the 4VEP (Hornby) or the 4TC (Bachmann/Kernow) have got the look right, seeming to make mistakes in door width/height and/or cab window size/position. Both have also tried to correct initial errors, but still not got it quite right. It might need a decent 3D scan to get it correct, it seems.

The other thing to remember, is that just because something 'is' an E number, doesn't mean it's artificial. IIRC, E numbers are just a way of classifying various additives, some of which are entirely natural (?)

OT, still... From the RAC website (https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/legal/speed-limits/):

I noticed the blinds issue on my two which I recently purchased. I understand why it's the way it is, but I'd have preferred a bi-colour led behind a white blind as a better compromise than showing the completely wrong colour for direction of running.

Top and bottom for me. U class once again coming very high (top this time) and I bet it still won't see the light of day... I bet my 'bottom' choice - the 64 foot Bulleid multi-door sets - come out before the U... I did also vote for the Q as well, maybe we might actually get to see that.

...or, in layman's terms, bu**er. I had been planning to try and get tracklaying complete during this week, as it's my annual kind-of week off. However, before beginning, last week I had a chat with model railway friends, and they informed me I was right of something I had been concerned about. I have been using cork to boost the height of the copper clad strip up to the underside of the rails for the board ends, but I felt it was really too soft for the job. My friends agreed. I was able to get hold of brass bar of the right size amazingly quickly, delivered on Friday. But on trying to put things in place, it became all too quickly apparent that my efforts to get board ends flat and level with each other weren't good enough. Even small imperfections were being shown up alarmingly by using the brass. So, I've had to take several steps backwards to examine just how off my dowel alignments are, and try and correct them. This has been disheartening, and has meant I haven't wanted to deal with the layout this week. The dowel positioning has been the most tricky part of this whole build, and I really didn't want to have to revisit it. I have started, but I think work on fixing them will be slow. A couple of pictures showing the brass bar arrangments on two of the narrow sections: 😔

We all have personal opinions about liveries we'd like to see done, some will be workhorse (LL no orange cantrail), some will be less commons, perhaps one offs (Edward Elgar Green). The unusual ones always seem to attract at least some attention worthy of consideration of producing them, regardless of how few were in the livery, or how short lived the livery might have been. Personally, with Class 50s, I'm only interested in LL, no orange cantrail. They might look very similar to each other, but I'd be in the market for several to compliment my small collection of Hornby ones.

Apparently, my nose doesn't work. I can't smell Stinking Bishop cheese (my sister had bought me some for Christmas as I'd never had it before), and I know (from Wallace & Gromit) that it's a very stinky cheese. I tried some French Brie yesterday too, and I couldn't smell that either, but I'm sure I've caught a whiff off it in the past. both tasted nice though, very delicate taste.

It might be to do with running when in DC mode with a blanking plug?

Name popularity comes and goes. For instance, not many babies get called Gordon these days, but Gordon Sumner has a sting in his tale...

I thought it was Daniel O'Donnell...