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A few more photos this time more current:

66059 working a diverted 6Y32 Fawley to Holybourne Oil Terminal via Woking Up Yard passes Basingstoke 21/03/16 by Justin Foulger, on Flickr

TEA No.VTG 85939 by Hugh Llewelyn, on Flickr

66611 at Brockelsby Junction with 6E85 Rectory Junction-Lindsey empty oil tanks for refilling 05August2003. by Michael J. COLLINS, on Flickr

Muston - 70816 on 6E82 by John Tomlinson, on Flickr

60021 Muston by kurt55007, on Flickr

60074 by Rob Reedman, on Flickr

f13-3s by john catterson, on Flickr

March 2020

Whilst searching Flickr I found some very nice photos which I thought it worth sharing:

47294 by Alan Padley, on Flickr

Garforth by RobT653, on Flickr

Spotlit 47 At North Killingholme (Michael McNicholas) by Neil Harvey 156, on Flickr

47054  Barnetby  22-07-88 by Gray Callaway, on Flickr

47276 on oil approaching Nottingham by Awwalker1, on Flickr

Wrawby Junction. by John Whiteley, on Flickr

Leeds by Jay Bee, on Flickr

Approaching The A18. by Neil Harvey 156, on Flickr

Lindsey To Leeds On The Curve. by Neil Harvey 156, on Flickr

On 23/03/2020 at 18:02, Pillar said:

Does anyone know whether these TEAs ran in the North East while still wearing their Total branding? I know they are/were on the trains from Jarrow in heavily weathered condition, but those logos do look nice.

Hi Pillar, from looking at Flickr I can only see photos of these TEAs being used on the flows to Leeds. Total acquired Petrofina in 1999 so do not believe that the Total branded tankers would have worked any of these services prior to this year. However, that may not be the case in reality of course.

I will continue looking.

On 20/03/2020 at 20:02, richscylla said:

Does anyone have any photos of these in Wales in the mid-late 90s?

Hi Rich, I have been searching Flickr and SmugMug looking for photos of these TEAs in Wales during the mid to late 90s but unfortunately have only found them being used in the late 2000s.

I will continue looking though.....

On 23/03/2020 at 18:02, Pillar said:

Does anyone know whether these TEAs ran in the North East while still wearing their Total branding? I know they are/were on the trains from Jarrow in heavily weathered condition, but those logos do look nice.

Hi Pillar, I will be conducting some research over the weekend to see if I can answer this question for you.

I will let you know what I manage to find.

On 22/03/2020 at 22:06, Crisis Rail said:

Alex. 

 

You doing VTG Black livery as for the Lindsay to Preston Dock Lanfina? 

 

COLAS 60 Traction. 

 

Apologies no likes currently in moderated status.

 

Ian

Hi Ian, unfortunately we won't sorry. The VTG black bogie tanks are fairly new, well I say fairly new, introduced in 2010 I think!!

Our particular TEAs were built in the late 1980s.

Hope that helps.

On 20/03/2020 at 20:02, richscylla said:

Does anyone have any photos of these in Wales in the mid-late 90s?

Hi Rich, I will be doing some research to try and answer this over the weekend. 

I have seen photos of these particular TEAs being used on the Robeston to Westerleigh flows however this was in the late 2000s.

The factory have advised that the first sprues out of the TEA moulds have been produced. We are very excited about seeing the first Engineering Prototype samples.

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this difficult time.

March 2020 update

4mm PHA/JGA
Design work is progressing well and we will be providing more of an update on the design work over the next couple of months. We hope to have the design finished and ready to show at DEMU in June.

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/march-2020-update

On 18/10/2019 at 09:01, SouthernMafia said:

I'm making a slight tweak to my layout and planning on having these accommodated in the yard onto a loading ramp.

Could you advise on the length of the wagon over the ends of the buffers? Thanks.

Good morning Rich, apologies for not responding to your question regarding the wagon length over buffers. We will get the dimensions and post on here.

Once again apologies for the delayed reply.

March 2020 update

4mm KFA/PFB
We are pleased to announce that the tooling stage of the process for our KFA/PFB Warflat wagon exclusive to Trains4U has started.
Further updates will be provided in due course.
 

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/march-2020-update

March 2020 update

4mm TEA
Tooling is progressing well - we are hoping to have the first samples out of the moulds at the end of this month and expect to receive the first Engineering Prototype samples in the UK early in April.
We will of course post any updates as and when we receive the first wagon samples.

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/march-2020-update

March 2020 update

4mm BBA and BLA
We are extremely excited to advise that production of our BBA and BLA wagons is underway.
We will provide updates as the production process progresses.

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/march-2020-update

14 hours ago, faa77 said:

How prevalent were the BLAs in Railfreight livery? I can't find any pics on Paul's website.

 

I assume they can be used with BBA, BAA and BDA?

Good afternoon,

When first converted a lot of the BLAs were still wearing their Railfreight livery:

Hope the links above to photos on Flickr help.

1 hour ago, 37501 said:

Hi Alex/ Cav,

 

Are the BBAs still available to pre order please? I have already pre ordered some Railfreight black and red ones from Rails but would also like some plain brown ones. Your website says sold out.

 

Best wishes 

John

Good afternoon John,

If you could please send me an email to cavalexmodels@gmail.com we can then sort that out for you.

Hope that helps.

Many thanks

Alex

Good evening,

Our January project update is now live on our website - see update here:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/january-2020-update
 

Good evening,

Our January project update is now live on our website - see update here:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/january-2020-update
 

Good evening,

Our January project update is now live on our website - see update here:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/january-2020-update

Our January project update is now live on our website - including our statement on Project 225 - see update here:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/january-2020-update
 

Thanks to everyone that has supported our project.

8 hours ago, lyneux said:

Any update on this project chaps?

Good morning Guy,

We will be providing an update on our projects this weekend which will include the TEA.

Hope that helps

We would like to thank the CMRA for a very enjoyable weekend at the Stevenage exhibition, thank you.

Also thanks to everyone that visited our stand to say hello and chat about our projects.

We just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone that dropped by our stand over the weekend at the Stevenage show to have a chat and talk about our projects, thank you we really appreciate it.

Thanks for all the support.

1 hour ago, Clagsniffer said:

Hi guys. Any news/updates on the BBA?

 

cheers.

Good afternoon,

We will be providing an update on our projects hopefully next week which will include the BBA.

Hope that helps.

Just under two weeks to go until the Warley MRC exhibition - come and visit us on stand B33 to see the latest batch of PGAs.