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Hi, I have seen 2 different decoders sold as 36-557 - firstly a Soundtraxx mc2 I believe this was superceded by an ESU LokPilot standard. Tom

In 1896, the M&SWJR had 15 cattle wagons built to the Midland Railway design, on steel underframes. All of them passed to the GWR on grouping. Tom Source - Midland & South Western Junction Railway volume 3 - carriages and wagons, by Wild Swan Publications. Tom

The Mitchell small prairie is available under the Churchward Models label, from Phoenix Paints. Apparently in 4mm or 7mm. Tom

In the book 'The early years of Western Region Steam', there are several pictures of the Calne branch. Two of them show the daily 'Sausage and Souls' train from Calne to Chippenham made up of Autocoach-loco-vans, with the vans containing the daily output of the Harris factory at Calne.

Agree with the above posts. There is a picture in the book 'Paddington to Weymouth' showing W17W entering Paddington in April 1952, still in GWR livery. So the assumption is that it got repainted after the rules had been clarified. Tom

I have just been browsing the two 'bibles' from OPC and Wild Swan. No 18 was tested on the Brentford branch with up to 4 trailers (124 tons). It was also tested Southall to Banbury with up to 2 trailers. There are photos of it with an autotrailer plus all-third coaches, as well as 7 horse boxes (with the comment that this would put it over the limit). There are also test results with one of the dual-ratio cars between Southall and Westbury. The results compare the different ratios with different loads of no,1 or 2 trailers. I have a picture of parcel car no 34 trailing 2 BGs. Tom

Have I missed it, or is there still no footsteps up the tender.

Are you sure it's not a model? Tom

The day after concorde landed at Duxford, the runway was considerable shortened, by cutting through it to build the M11.

I received my subscription copy yesterday. There were two address labels on the envelope, one partially covering the other. I contacted Cygnet and was told it was not a problem. The first run of placing the labels on envelopes went wrong and they decided to rerun the whole run, reusing the envelopes. The labels couldn't be removed so they just stuck new labels over the old ones. As far as Cygent are aware, there are no missing subscription copies. Apart from that, what a great issue. Tom

Hi There is a picture in the book 'The District Controller's View - no13 - The North London Railway'. The reference is R.E.Vincent - transporttreasury.co.uk. Tom

There's a picture on this web-page ... http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/t/trumpers_crossing_halt/

Radley Models (?) - there's some on Ebay - selling tonight.

It could be the pony-truck axle not being located correctly. On my first one, the pony-truck was lifting the driving wheels clear off the rails. Tom

There were etched kits of Dreadnoughts available in 4mm. Designed by M G Wynn,under the trade-mark Tru-scale models, manufactured by Taseko ltd. and the main distributor was E S Models (Blackpool). They are exceedingly rare these days (unless someone knows better). Tom

According to the book, the original stock had gas lighting, but this was replaced towards the end of the first world war. The drawings in the book show both gas cylinders and battery boxes. I believe the layout was a large box on one side, and a small box opposite. Tom

Yes - but the rules have changed since its' day. If you look at the changes to the King, and the changes being made to the 47XX under construction, to bring them into gauge, then basically the goalposts have changed, Tom

Try GWRJ no 37.

The photograph I have seen (District Controller's View no.11) Shows 2203 pulling an eight coach train - the 16.36 Southampton - Cheltenham. Normally 3 coaches, it had been strengthened on the day with 5 extra coaches. The Manor pulling it failed at Ludgershall. The only engine available was the one from the local pick-up goods, which was normally a Mogul, but on this day was 2203. The train was 30 tons over the limit for an 0-6-0, but 2203 proceded to take the train to Cheltenham, there being no other engines available at Ludgershal, or on route.

My first 47XX came with both cab foorsteps broken off, as well as a few other things. My thoughts are that the inner packaging is not up to the job. Hattons provided a replacement which has no problems with broken or missing bits, and runs sweetly. Tom

Happened to me earlier this week. Appeared to lose all the data as well. A restart fixed it though. Tom

In 1954, the coaches would be in 'blood and custard' livery.

Both the 6-car and 8-car units appeared on the Berks and Hants from time to time, due to diversions from the usual route due to problems. Also, when the 6-car units were transferred to the Western region, driver training was carried out between Reading and Westbury. Hope this helps.

I'm not sure pre-1950 vehicles would have wing-mirrors. I have checked a few photographs and they are not common. Thinking about my first four cars (Ford Popular 103E, Morris Minor Traveller, Wolsley 1500, MG Midget mk1) the wing mirrors were very much an optional extra. The accessory shops did a nice line in replacements/original fitting.

Just a thought - were they fitted with speedometers? - without them, any speed limit would be speculative - just as fast as the drivers risked taking them.