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Is there a clue in the title, "something hot"

Just posted a topic on this but looks like I got booted. Makes sense to have one design team and it's the obvious thing to do, but I suspect it means less production not more

Two points spring to mind 1. The station wouldn't have been anywhere near big enough, and 2. What route would the connection have taken to get to it. Would this have involved an awkward reversing maneuver or a loop round?

Great layout, only I thought Chufnell Regis was in Somerset, well that's what Jeeves said when we drove down from the old metropolis to visit my old mate, Chuffy to help with his engagement to Pauline Stoker. Clever chap, Jeeves, dont you know. Bertie.

Hi hope Danemouth goes from strength to strength. I saw this online and instantly thought of your layout

I thought 47's were sometimes used on holiday specials?

I have been trying and failing to find a photo of the line crossing Leeds Road at Allerton Bywater where until the open cast pit closed coal trains would cross the road on the by then very delapidated line to Castleford. Anyone got any images?

Your GWR bus driver looks rather like Captain EJ Smith of the Titanic. Hope that's not an omen!

Wonder when they will finally replace their Collett coaches?

The owner of the Footplate in Kidderminster was unpacking his delivery when I called in at lunchtime. Looked stunning. Only thing I was unsure of was the brass effect on the safety valve cover. Be interesting to read all your comments

I think it's more likely to be westdale. The roof sides and solebars are all moulded from one solid piece of aluminium. BSL/Phoenix, came with separate sides and solebars and a wooden roof, or metal in later kits.

Wills did a white metal kit which used the Hornby Triang chassis. So again wrong wheelbase and wheel size. I think it could also be built with a cast or brass chassis but then you needed wheels, motor etc. I don't know whether you could use the wheels and axles off the new Hornby saint on an old Hornby chassis? At least then your wheels might be the right size.

I thought they tried that in the sixties and seventies

One problem with using an old Hall chassis will be the wheels will be too small. I understand that some the issues with the Hornby saint is that it was based around the old Hall chassis and so repeats some of the issues that chassis created for the hall, having originally been created for an lner engine. With different wheel spacing. I think the saint chassis has the correct sized wheels for a saint but still has the wrong spacing. There is an old thread in the Hornby forum where I asked what was wrong with the Saint. I needed my hard hat for replies

I am and stop calling me Shirley

Or surely For me nothing there is

Am I the only one that thinks this looks like it's been sponsored by Cadburys?

Question, if using the Hornby open third as a restaurant car, as opposed to the new model, would it have been marked as a "RESTAURANT CAR"?

Just had an email from Hornby reminding me it's mother's day in seven days or so and how much my mother would appreciate a stanier princess class locomotive!! Apart from my mother having been dead these last ten years I suspect she'd have preferred a card and a bunch of flowers!

I would expect Dapol to do an all third, composite and brake third (because that's what we always get). Personally I'd like the panelled ones as this would really make them stand out against the Colletts and Hawksworths. I also predict no effort to panel/plate over the sides. We'll buy them anyway.

Any comment yet from Dapol about their BR maroon. Their spec suggests 1950 onwards, but maroon didn't come in till 1956?

I can't find much info but what I can find does suggest that these coaches into London. But did so from some far flung places. So far as I can tell wouldn't have made it up to Brum. Brum had its own sets of toplight non corridor. They were longer and ran in four coach sets. Some cleverer than I will know if the sets were broken up and used in general mixed use, setting aside for a moment the miners coaches. The all over brown are presumably war time liveries. Were these repainted after the war into choc and cream. Did they see BR crimson? Or go straight from wartime brown to maroon? Would love a set, just got to work out how to smuggle past the better half

I gave up trying to get anything from SRG group in relation to the old Phoenix X kits. Your best bet is to try and pick them up on eBay. They come up relatively frequently

I gave up trying to get anything from SRG group in relation to the old Phoenix X kits. Your best bet is to try and pick them up on eBay. They come up relatively frequently

Actually thinking on this might be a good one for Rapido to announce to get their own back