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If it's not a Kader-tooled product, then EFE is the natural place for it, surely?

Agreed; I was looking at it with interest too, but in my case I've decided it would make a good water tower for a remote military camp.

They're probably cheaper because they have half the number of wheels and axles.

Class 143 Alexander/ Barclay Class 144 Alexander/ BREL In each case, the latter party constructed the chassis.

Presumably because the manufacturer judged that there is insufficient demand to produce 5-packs at the expected price either via the Club, or more significantly, via their retailers. Stock sat around is not a good use of working capital, when other products that will sell-through have been held back instead.

This! Oh. thank goodness!!!! https://www.departmentals.com/photo/025031

Excellent news, I'll wait for the Rail Blue with full yellow ends version as allocated to Carlisle Upperby in 1968.

TBH, I feel that the overall quest for authenticity amongst general modelling interests is so comprehensively swamped by the Rule One brigade, that Accurascale could release a Class 50 in 1963 'Dog's Ar5e With A Hat On' livery and still shift 504 units.

I'm pretty sure that one of the RTC's Class 17 'Claytons' (8598) powered test trains that measured the OHLE on the Styal line in some way, during 1972. More relevant information here: https://features.rcts.org.uk/diesel-dilemmas/rtc-main-line-locomotives-1968-1978/d8598/

Noun (Scots, archaic) Historic landmark where an intimate surgical procedure is performed on male subjects.

How many Belmonts have there been? I instantly thought of the one in Middlesex, closed in 1964, then mistakenly invented a disused station on the West Pennine moors - nearest stations Turton & Edgworth (now closed on the open Bolton - Blackburn line) or Withnell (actually at Abbey Village on the closed Chorley - Cherry Tree, Blackburn line). Nurse, time for my medicine and draw the curtains, please.

This is a reassuring announcement for a few reasons. The evident response to customer/ user feedback in making improvements. A willingness to re-run a recent model that will result in longer term availability on shop shelves, thus helping people's ability to pay while building up decent size rakes of wagons. No hefty price increase. Now there's something to run behind my Accurascale Class 92. Note: one of the aforesaid reasons may be made tongue-in-cheek.

Pretty sure that it had two tyred wheels, yes. My 'specimen' was cast out many years ago, so I can't physically check but I'm confident I'm correct.

Like The Office!

There, fixed it for you, back on topic (ish).

D1842 bodies appear fairly frequently as spares around £45 from two Ebay sellers* in particular, Trainsontime and Clare's Clearout. * no connection other than satisfied customer

Nothing other than a complete lack of confidence.

I expressed interest in this on announcement day, but if I've missed the boat then so be it. I'm not confident enough that it will be up to scratch, or that I'll be able to afford it when it finally emerges, so it's too precarious a proposition to pre-order. If it's fabulous then I'll get one in the aftermath of the evident Dublo collector froth.

My 'relationship' with the real thing changed the moment I started work in the railway industry in 1988. I've never lost interest in it, but my interests have certainly shifted. Partly it's a case of 'never meet your heroes,' by which I mean that without exception every train manufacturer and leasing company (I can't think of any that I've not been involved with in some way) has been in one way or another underwhelming (spoken like a politician!), and when you 'know where the bodies are buried' - so to speak - you never see that organisation in the same light. The same tends to be true of the post-privatisation operators; my impression of the last years of BR was that it was a rather better and more credible organisation, and as the real railway has become more diluted and further from BR in appearance and outlook my respect for it has dwindled. There are outliers that I have a fondness for, GBRf and DRS being two (old-school, the two of them!), I was partial to the late Adrian Shooter's Vivarail, and I still love certain non-electrified journeys - not least the reinstated portion of the Waverley route (and that's not without its hideous shortcomings born of contemporary construction standards). I have no time for the mega-fleets such as Thameslink and the hideously encroaching IETs, modern electrification tends to the grotesque, and Class 66s are still 66s even if each specimen is painted a different colour, they are just fodder. I cannot abide the slipping in appearance standards: graffiti, palisade fencing, rampant foliage and weeds in the four-foot. Just NO. (And don't start me on the inevitable impact of the unquestioning headlong rush for Net Zero).

Another Frankenloco... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225293998536?epid=1148985322&hash=item34749199c8:g:sPcAAOSwlMVjlkJw

Or Jennifer's attic, for that matter...

Given the various lines' geography, delivery runs from Gorton tended to be via the Midland route to Derby via Bakewell and Matlock, and I am guessing thence via the Midland route through Gloucester to reach Bristol and South Wales.

I'm ashamed to say that I re-discovered this topic novel just yesterday. I say rediscovered, because 12 years ago I 'liked' one of the early posts! Since then I've been going through the build - I'm up to page 6 or so now - but I had to fast-forward to present day because I was terrified the layout may have been cut up or exported! This is truly fabulous, I've discovered a lot of the real East Lancashire over the past three years and seeing this wonderful scene instantly transports me there. Right, now for a brew and a barm and back to page 7.

They all were. 😜

I suggest that green livery diesels have the additional advantage, amongst those of us who like prototypical, not 'Rule One' arrangements, that they ran alongside steam whilst steam was still in the majority. I know Rail Blue started in 1966 (taking a while to get going), and did coexist with Death Steam, but conversely 'Green TOPS' is a thing too, with a decent following. Two-tone green 'heritage' Class 47s can still be seen on the main line today, so that ticks a Railroad box or two.