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This, hopefully, might be a direct link to it: https://footplate.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=512_529&products_id=8123 Not exactly promoting it on their website!

Responses to queries along these lines on Heljan’s Facebook posting about this, from Heljan themselves, say it is all new tooling.

Sorry, yes missed out the important tender word! I appreciate that there is the water scoop and brake gear behind the frames but it all looks rather “solid”, appreciating it is in shadow. I wondered if it was a sort of continuation of the electrical connection with the locomotive, as that is at that sort of underfloor level. Anyway, just idle thoughts!

In the "side on" shot there looks to be an awful lot going on behind the arched holes between the axleboxes. Should there be more daylight there?

Your Thirsk link just seems to take you back to the top of this page!? (Tried on both ipad and PC). There's a topic in the exhibitions section: And from that there is this link: http://www.expo-thirsk.co.uk/blog/ Hope this helps a few attend!

The notches in the buffer beams to accommodate the coupling seems unfortunate, but look to be because the bottom of the buffer beam is lower than normal most engines and stock. @That Model Railway Guy post of 17th May suggests the buffer beams are part of a larger diecast part for the footplate etc.

The Hornby website information for all variations proposed uses the same image of yours for each one and acknowledges its source, see: https://uk.Hornby.com/catalogue/train-sets-rolling-stock/wagons-wagon-packs?langPath=Hornby-uk&filters[Gauge]=OO&filters[min_price]=0&filters[max_price]=84.99&filters[Pre-Order]=true&filters[Brand]=&filters[Scale]=&filters[UK Era]=&filters[Website Exclusive]=&filters[mandatory_filter_by][product_br_category]=br-wagons-wagon-packs&page_id=320&sort_by=5&page=2&inputValueChanged=filters[Pre-Order] The “tech specs” under each version gives some livery information. The earliest one is given as LMS grey, the oldest one as BR departmental and the others as BR grey. Given these aren’t going to be here until next year I suspect some of this information is just a work in progress!

Hi. Can the organisers clarify if there are now parking charges at the Dewars Centre when the exhibition is on? Their website suggest that there might be: https://www.liveactive.co.uk/Venues/dewars-centre

Queen of Scots Pullman - started from Glasgow Queen Street, rather than Glasgow central?

A quick search on Google suggests Squires took on this range. I don’t know if that is still the case or not.

Thanks for the link to hive.co.uk. I wasn’t aware of them previously.

The context you describe helps understanding of the choices made. Looking at the Highland Council pictures of the Brora shed it is surprising how small the cross section of the battens are/were, and that they are more semi-circular than square cornered.

Excellent model making, but I think the sides on the real thing are/were “board and batten” construction? i.e. where the joins between boards are covered with a small batten. For example, some of the pictures of Brora goods shed here show this in close up: https://her.highland.gov.uk/monument/MHG32875 Of course, you might already be aware of this!

Not exactly the same wagons, by the look of the first one, but good find anyway for the general principle. For those wanting a bit more inspiration from this picture see this OS mapping: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.8&lat=52.97419&lon=-3.09397&layers=168&b=1 Sorry for thread drift!

Reading the OTT blurb it sounds like only available in GWR livery.

A specific thread for the GN Quad arts is here:

£7.92 for a pack of three seems pretty reasonable. However, the brick load is higher than the wagon sides, which seems a bit unlikely to me?

Thanks. Was aware that it hadn’t been available for a while but hadn’t appreciated it was that long! No wonder one has never got into my kit pile before now.

@Hattons Dave Hi. Will these, and other newly announced production runs of previous models, be available through the model shops that stock your own brand models? In the interests of supporting my local shop etc. Thanks.

Thanks for information. I did wonder why the Open C wasn’t listed in the list of Ratio kits in the Morgan Designs PDF but assumed it was because it was no longer in production, or hasn’t been for some time, I don’t think.

Having recently found a Ratio Open C to add to the kit stock I was interested in the comments about the Morgan Designs chassis kit for it. With some online searching I found this page on the Scalefour Society stores page (meant to be members only?) which lists them: https://www.scalefour.org/members/stores/shops.php A very long information and instruction PDF for them is also available to download here: https://www.scalefour.org/resources/downloads

That’s a lot of baseboards just for the scenic part!

If you use the georeferenced or side by side options on the NLS website then you don’t need to worry about a location being on more than one sheet because these options have all the sheets joined together! As an example here’s the 25” coverage for part of Edinburgh: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14.7&lat=55.93816&lon=-3.24055&layers=168&b=1 The most recent detailed mapping in the drop down list is also now something like 1944-1972 at 1:1250 or 1:2500. Using a slider you can also compare the mapping with, say, recent aerial photography. All in all hours of distraction! Hope this helps.

I think the word is “thorough”. Every power to your elbows!

@john new Might it be worth putting a link to the exhibition website in your footer message? And, if easily available, web links to pictures and/or videos of the layouts? Appreciate that is more work but quite a number of the layouts listed don’t sound familiar to me. Just a couple of thoughts to try and help encourage visitors!