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Will have to wait till I'm home can't do it on the phone. But if you search for gwr in trains on ebay you'll find it

I notice today that the Model Centre is advertising six of the all thirds on ebay at the moment. Thought these were not due to land for a couple of months yet!

My sincere commiserations

Sorry if this has been dealt with elsewhere but presumably a parcels train could be split and added to during its journey from A to B. So us modellers wanting to add a bit of interest to usual train comes into station, stops and then leaves again. So we could model these movements. Train comes in, couple of vehicles removed from front or back and shunted into a bay. Perhaps a couple of vehicles added from the bay added to the back or front. Remarshalled train pulls out. Later in the day parcels train heading somewhere else comes in, vehicles in the bay added, train pulls out again

That would make for an interesting model. Presumably as the brown would have faded since the last repaint, the painting over of the GWR would be relatively apparent, rather like the painting over of G W R on some loco/tender sides, although to be fair I've only ever seen that on the Titfield Thunderbolt loco.

Thanks

on this point. Can anyone explain why Autocoaches have such long buffer shanks?

Nice work

Yes, on the basis of no analysis at all, that was the thought that was passing through my mind, perhaps we are at last to see an upgrade of the 61xx

Yes, is the researcher stood on the roof of something, or on the tender of something?

I honestly can't believe given how long these works have been taking that so far all they have resulted in is an extension from Snow Hill to Bull Street.

Hi for those who don't know it, this is the old Bethel Mission in Scarborough's South bay, near the harbour. https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix/image-information/poster/bethel-mission-chapel-scarborough-north-yorkshire/posterid/RIBA5709.html It has suffered somewhat since this photo was taken when it was converted to commercial uses.

Just another thought. Rather than having all the cottages on the flat. Have you consisted having them on a slope. A path with railing in front could then run down to the harbour key side which itself remains on the flat?

Might I also suggest a small Methodist chapel. Perhaps a bit like the one in the south bay at Scarborough. I expect that there is a resin ready to plonk example available. Sort of seamen's mission type affair

Actually I was beginning to wonder whether they would have enough news to keep a two weekly blog going. Not a criticism by the way just an observation.

I've always thought it was a shame that there is no decent statue of queen Victoria available. I did come across a white metal one that I'm going to use but it works out about twice life size. That's a very patriotic statue

Is there going to be anything left to froth about come December?

I agree, if these are popular and a good seller, I would expect at least the matching dining car to follow, and if we are very good boys and girls perhaps a brake composite

Just been catching up with this thread and was interested in the comments about Bromsgrove and making it part of Cross City. I hadn't realised the extent of the works being carried out. I live in Redditch and at the moment getting to Worcester by train is a real pain. The Worcester trains from New St and the Redditch trains from New St share the same line as far as Barnt Green before the Redditch line branches off. However the Worcester and Bromsgrove trains don't stop at Barnt Green (except a rare few) and so this means travelling all the way to University before changing to the Worcester train and travelling back along the line. Effectively adding 40 minutes to the journey. If the new Bromsgrove cross city line trains stop at all stations I can at least change at Barnt Green for Bromsgrove and then catch the fast train to worcester from there - result. (alright changing train twice is not the best, but probably still faster. In fact when I travel to Kidderminster from Redditch, I change trains at Barnt Green and Droitwich Spa and this is still faster then getting the train to New St and then walking to Snow Hill and getting the train from there. The Network Rail site does indeed say four trains an hour, but I assume that this is three cross city trains (terminating at Bromsgrove) and one through train from Worcester (or beyond). Finally does anyone know how the Cross City will operate. I assume the six trains an hour is the maximum capacity, so will the trains that currently terminate at Longbridge be extended to Bromsgrove?

I particularly like the greasy finger prints on the tender

So, pre-nationalisation the likelihood is that parcels van would have been attached to a passing passenger train. Detached on route and attached to something else going in the right direction. Correct? If so would make for some interesting haunting movements in a station

I suggest that if the end product is too expensive that you buy the brake thirds on release (as there never seem to be enough of them) and then wait for everything else to be remaindered at knock down prices Simples

It looks absolutely beautiful, but I can't justify replacing the four Kings I've already got.

Just been catching up on this thread. I presume parcels trains ran prenationalisation on an inter-regional basis. if that's correct I also presume the trains were fairly mixed depending on the origin and destination of each van. perhaps someone could shed some light on the scene pre 1948. And this being the case how quickly post 1948 did this break down thanks Dean

Ah yes - but only if every conceivable surface is lovingly picked out in hand applied real 24 carat gold - a sure sign of quality :-)