montyburns56

I have a feeling that the reason why they are producing a run of the Charter FOs was to help sell those BCKs that they still have in their warehouse from 2020. I think that they did the same with the second run of the Sealink MK1 TSOs.

You could sell the most valuable pieces i.e. the locomotives on Ebay and then just sell the rest to a trader.

It's kind of ironic that the nearest town is called Hatton.

So rather than do another run of MK2s in blue/gey, which they haven't done in eight!! years, they've decided to drag out the old MK3 sleeper tooling duplicating a competitor's superior version and producing models that I guarantee will be in the bargain bins within six months. *sigh*

08238 St James Park 1977 by Mr Western

Siphon Gs Old Oak Common 1981 by Lewis Bevan

Do we know how this automatic uncoupler is going to work in practical terms? Will it lift the hook or lower the coupling bar?

Sorry to dig up this old thread, but I've just noticed that quite a few retailers still have stock of the original Nanking Blue set despite it being released almost eight years ago! I guess that Bachmann must have massively overestimated the demand for the second run. It's one of those items that I'd love to buy, but I just can't justify the cost (about £330) as it doesn't fit in with the period that I'm modelling.

Right, well paupers like my family used to just hang out at the perimeter fence before they built that fancy viewing park.

Manchester Airport 1971 by MMU VR

Well you wouldn't want any old riff raff getting intimate with the Pullmans.

Blackford 1964 by Antony Guppy

Leeds 1990 by Neil Young

I never realise that Novelty had its special Large Logo L&M livery removed in favour of the bog standard Rail blue livery. Does anyone know when this change occurred? 86235 Novelty Stowmarket 1987 by Ian Sharman

Sidmouth Junction 1956

There's another one that I was thinking about, but I can't remember it's name. It was featured the 80s and was seemed to be basically a glorified trainset set in the 60s but I remember that the author had built a large number of Class 15 locos for it.

This was the NCB's experimental coal loader/secondary school. Mansfield Colliery 1989

I'd like them just to do another run of the MK2 TSO in blue/grey, but I guess I'm being greedy!

I remember the name of Baslow as well, but can't remember what the layout was actually like. Another name that has sprung to mind was G. Fereday Glen and his various layouts.

I'm sure that most of of us have been inspired by some of the creme de la creme of railway modelling that have been featured in Railway Modeller over the years such as Nempnett Thrubwell, Evercreech Junction or the various Ian Futer's layouts, but what about the "average" layouts that have inspired you? As someone who was interested in the so called "modern image" RM was a bit of a desert for me in the 80s, so I was often inspired by the few layouts portraying what was then the current rail scene. One that sprung to mind for me was one called Heysham Harbour which despite its very compact nature was fully signalled and run as per the prototype. Another was actually Layout Of The Month and was a compact end to end multi level layout which was inspired by Sheffield Victoria in the 1,500V DC period. I mean no disrespect to those who created these layouts by labelling them as "average" as I know that most of us have aspects of modelling that we concentrate on and are more skilled at, but sometimes an achievable standard is more inspiring to the average modeller.

Exmouth Junction 1991 by Nigel Hayman

08937 St James Park Exeter 1982 by australia3393

08401 Doncaster 1976 by John Woolley

Stoke Prior 2020 by Thomas Stobbs

Tipton St Johns 1967 by Graham Bowden