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Here's a few more recent ones to keep things up to date, well ish. All linked from Flickr. A few of 6M47 and 6V10, these are the loaded and empty halves of the same service. A brief pause in Newbury as 66136, still carrying its Yiwu China branding, is seen working 6M47 Westbury - Acton. After an early run along the Berks and Hants, there was about a 25 minute wait at an eerily empty Reading station for 66115 and 6M47 Westbury - Acton. This would follow the first passenger service of the day, operated by a class 165. 66130 sits on the fuel point at St Blazey waiting its next move. The fuel point has many memories of the past painted on the wall - the markers of where to stop included 37, 47, 60, 66, 67 and interestingly, Class 153. After working 6V10 to Westbury from Acton, 66050 is seen running round its wagons before being shut down in the Down Yard. Even departing Acton half an hour late, this time of year 6V10 is a nice run down the B&H in daylight. Jo

When the Severn Tunnel was shut, 528 was one of the locos engaged on the trains to the site. Seen below on 4th July. 66528 'Madge Elliot' in the short lived Freightliner Powerhaul livery sits in Westbury Up Yard at the head of 6F07 Westbury - Patchway. This departure in the early hours of the following morning was heading to the Severn Tunnel worksite, a blockade which saw the Down line renewed. Jo

A particularly useful option for anyone with a Microsoft account, as it gives 5GB for free. Jo

That looks great. I love using the depot plaque to display the company logo. Subtle! Jo

Outside the box, but it's probably easier for customers to add some black or dark grey paint to the rim and hub of a shiny wheel, than to add a shiny brake disc to a dark wheel. Jo

Surely it's not speculation when there's photos of the model, pointers towards a Dubliner and only one DCR 60 named after a charity founder from Dublin? Page 17 onwards there's plenty of discussion about announcing the announcement. I'm sure all the extra discussion about announcements and pretty boxes has got many mouse clicking fingers twitching in excitement... Jo

Alan started in '71 Mike, here he is with Driver Bertie Miles at Padd... End of last year Alan retired. Nice chap. Jo

No multiple working, drawbar coupling and brake/main reservoir pipes only. So individual crews (loco/HST) working together I'd imagine it was 33 only powering, as the caption describes the HST as a failure. As mentioned, they couldn't multi up even if they wanted to. Jo

Does Lando half half a chance if Piastri can block Verstappen off the line? More so than if Max was alongside I'd say, but not how much it improves things Jo

Going off this link, (scroll down for a close up) the tail and portable headlamps included are dummy mouldings. The model shows an oil lamp, but presumably the battery lamps are the same. https://news.Bachmann.co.uk/2024/06/a-new-dawn-for-the-diesel-shunter/ Of the percentage that do open the accessory pack, how many will put the lamp on a step as often seen on 08s? 08s / 09s running with a portable headlamp whilst an everyday sight in certain locations (Newport for example) was hardly common place across the country. It's a nice touch that the accessory pack covers more than just air pipes. If someone is that keen to model a portable headlamp, adding an LED isn't major surgery, especially as the circuit boards will have pickup points for 6 LEDs and modern 08s on have two markers. There's a huge difference between what is achievable on a mass produced RTR item that has to be handled by potentially clumsy hands and survive the retail environment vs what an individual modeller can add themselves. The lamps on the Black 5 tell a story, they're very chunky. It's a nice touch that they've tooled an EWS spec 08, with NRN pod and swing head buckeye. Jo

60055 has carried that name since it was built. Jo

Typical wiki rubbish I'm afraid. They're not an FOC, they're a joint venture between Yeoman and ARC/ Hanson (now AI and Heidelberg Materials) and a customer of the FOC that currently has the haulage contract. Previously EWS / DB, now Freightliner. Jo

No problem at all! Nice work on the JHA graffiti both @Andy7and @matthewchallenger definitely don't think I could even contemplate hand painting in N. I think the results you guys have achieved justifies doing the weathered sticker decals separately from the graffiti in 4mm. I'll try to keep the thread a bit more up to date too! Jo

I've noticed on a few threads I've posted in, but not for a while, the star "bullet point" had reverted to the standard dot. I doubted myself, but this thread confirmed I wasn't going mad, since it's my own thread! I don't know if this is a glitch as such or a known forum software issue. Not earth shattering, but just an oddity I'd noticed over the last month or two. Cheers Jo

Hi Andy, Yep got an HYA pack in stock- if you either PM or email me your email address I'll get a payment link over. £15 plus £1.50 P&P. Yeoman JHA, I've drawn up both graffiti and weathered data panels and stickers to cover the 10 wagons Dapol have released. I've done some tests of the graffiti in N, but need to play at getting it scaled up. In N the graffiti incorporates the weathered labels, but I'm not sure the best way to do it in 4mm. I might keep them as separate packs for more flexibility. The issues largely arise around the fact some of the Dapol printing is in the wrong places, so doesn't match the graffiti, but not everyone would want to go the whole hog and remove and replace the inaccurate labels. Testing required! Here's my N scale test bed. Jo