Birdy

Whose sound chip did you use Darius? Very authentic to my ears. Brilliant model - you've inspired me to get my half finished DC kits version back out.

Apologies, I've been offline for a while. Thank you all for the information. Very interesting and plenty to read and research. I appreciate your time in replying.

I cannot find the answer on the forums, but please redirect me if I've missed it... I am trying to find a history of locomotives on the Reading to Guildford, North Downs Line, in order to model it correctly - and from a personal nostalgic point of view. As I child of the early sixties i can vaguely remember steam locomotives but travelled to school on the Class 206 'Tadpole' DMUs (and the one Class 33 'express' a day). Can anyone give me detail of what steam locos I would have seen on the NDL in the early sixties please? Thank you

Ranelagh (if the same as Lord Ranelagh and Ranelagh School) is pronounced Ran-er-la (Ran as in did a run / err as in a pause - erm without the m / and la as in 'la a note to follow sew' but more often said as le in French). I always assumed Ranelagh Bridge depot was the same.

Having travelled to school on a Tadpole on a daily basis I can vouch that the width restiction has to be visibly different in any scale to make it realistic. If you want a Tadpole (as I do) it appears DC Kits are re-igniting their 3R kit unit. "2010 will sadly see the demise of certain kits in our range, for details of this visit our NEWS page. Also we will see the re-introduction of Hastings 6L & 6S, closely followed by the 3R Tadpole Unit." http://www.dckits-devideos.co.uk/