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Looks good Gareth. The weathering certainly helps to tone down the yellow front.

The amount of constructive communication and feedback on the subject of the new Dapol Western convinces me that even the big boys (Bachmann/Hornby) ought to think more about consultation with their customers. Having waited so long for this ubiquitous, workaday EMU it is disappointing that there appear to be so many avoidable errors, especially after the justifiably lauded Maunsells and Hawksworths.

Emulating Gareth's micro-surgery with a chainsaw will, I fear, be a step too far for me, at least for the moment.

 

I am a Yorky and I'm not too young, can't think what the reference is unless it's the three ridings.

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Surely everyone's seen/heard the Monty Python sketch with (ISTR) 4 Yorkshiremen, increasingly claiming greater deprivation/ hardship as the conversation went on. Classic.

I was going to mention it earlier, but succombed to PC.

As another product from 1954 much of that list is disturbingly familiar. However, no frogs were (deliberately) harmed in the making of my childhood...

Wonderful!

Comperes who use "give it up for" instead of "please welcome". Give what up? Chocolate for Lent?

The train station vs rail station debate is set to run and run. Use of train station really grates on me. Increasing use in the UK is probably down to lots of American TV on our screens.

"Treat others as you wish to be treated" has long been ingrained in my psyche. It says a lot about contemporary society that people have to be asked to think this way. Happy cruising!

The last "quiet" coach I travelled in (a class 444 from Waterloo to Portsmouth) in June was a complete waste of time. Two minutes after boarding I was joined by two middle-aged men with six-packs of lager which they quaffed noisily in between loud chat. And don't get me started on the two young women further down the coach who managed to chat on mobiles for most of the journey. Have these people never heard of enjoying the passing view or even reading? Oh, I see...

Here is the image I couldn't embed into that last post:

This thread reminded me that I have one of the affected models (R2413) and dug it out. After chipping it ran a few times, but it hasn't been used for around two years. Sure enough, it has the same problem.

This is the worst corner. As with others, when I tried to dismantle the model to recover its decoder one end broke away and it's virtually impossible to get it all back together again. However helpful Hornby are, this one is beyond repair and will need to be written off. One phone call to Kent coming up methinks.

By the way, I also have the R2649 variant (31 165) and this is fine.

"It's in the label Mabel"... In the label of what exactly?

I think that was Carling Black Label. I was once given a bar towel with Mabel - Black Label on it.

There are not many ads now that I feel are genuinely clever, entertaining or amusing. Apart from humour in advertising, music can play a big part. I recall an Ever Ready ad in the late 70s or maybe early 80s (power to the people) that had a very catchy jingle. Hope that reminiscence isn't OT.

Even nicer in real life than she was on the telly - and similarly attired if you get my drift, nudge nudge.

You've reminded me of an article I read recently about the roles of primary and secondary suspension on rail vehicles...

Wow. I first encountered Parisian taxi drivers during a visit in 1997 and the two I "travelled" with were only marginally slower than the driver in the film. At least that's what it felt like at the time!

If you scroll through the BBC photos there's one with a caption that says: "The machinery breaking up the road surface, which was built in the 1830s, can remove up to 700 tonnes of tarmac per day."

I had no idea the Stephensons had diversified into road planing machinery...

Even British Transport Films were not immune to these sort of problems. One I saw recently was almost wholly shot under 25Kv, yet arrival at the destination was a 47 running into Paddington!

"I'll only be a minute"............doncha just love'm.

 

Ed

During my time in a highway authority I came across this quite often. Out in my hi-vis coat undertaking surveys people assumed we were there to enforce parking. "I'm only going to be two minutes" was the usual statement. My response was to smile and point out that the next 15 people would say exactly the same...

Reading the review in Hornby mag I was very disappointed to note that the motor bogie is fitted with traction tyres. I thought this was increasingly regarded as an outmoded concept. The Bachmann CEP doesn't need them, so why the VEP? This does seem to reinforce the point above about a Lima design philosophy on this one. Still, I've not heard enough to cancel my advance orders - yet.

Brilliant. I almost choked on my coffee...

Leaving aside the geographical and historical howlers, I was wondering why the loco in the first shot apparently has a loading hopper where the chimney - sorry, funnel - would normally be. As spark arresters go, that one takes some beating.

He had no ikea it was dangerous.

Groan...

Crikey, Network Rail are taking McNulty seriously in trying to save money. Isn't that the Looe branch?

Anyone with a robust sense of humour. Julia Bradbury might be fun...

Heartless swine. You'd do that to a pregnant woman?

Anyone who publicly claims HS2 is a vanity project.

Funny you mention Cromptons, 33026 was sat on the holding siding earlier this evening.

And very nice it looks too...

For some reason I missed this thread when it started and am really pleased that the book is being reissued. I saw an original copy soon after publication and was completely bowled over. Colin Gifford - along with a few other notables - has been one of the strongest influences on my railway photography ever since.