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just turn the magnet around. remove the black top cap - brush/wiper pickup holder by undoing the longitudinal brass bolt, remove the magnet from the two pole pieces. turn magnet through 180 degrees. rebuild is a reversal of the removal procedure - job done.

**cough** Bachmann. Although Heljan Class 15/16/17 bogies could be used. Currently adapting Hornby Hd HST parts myself

Took a photo of an O Gauge model of it on John Emersons demonstration stand at last years Southwold show - unfortunaetly I didnt take a picture of the driving end, couldnt get an angle on it. The model looks unfinished as the engine box is in the wrong place and the "cab" is sat at a jaunty angle. I am also looking at making one of these for my p4 Lowestoft harbour scene. Any dimensional info would be brilliant.

he answers someone's neutral feedback with "HATE PRATTS HATE EBAY HATE ALL....." protip: keep it to yourself or you will put off more bidders than you could ever imagine certainly made my blacklist - just or his stupid postal charge and policy

ebay are offering me a maximum of 50,000 nectar point if I buy. Tempting... not

Unfortunately the seller doesn't have to "prove" anything. He/she/they just have to say its no longer available and give a full refund, after that Ebay/Paypal are no longer interested. This has happened to me several times in the last 6 weeks, either cancelled with the excuse of "my garage burned down and destroyed all my freshly wrapped ready to post trains" or, saying the item has been sent by courier and then not able to supply tracking or confirmation. The last one took 6 weeks to get my money back through paypal.

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Hi Martyn, 4mm drawings for the E&G sets and the Ayrline units were published in "A Pictorial Record of British Railways Diesel Multiple Units" by Brian Golding, Cheona ISBN 9781900289001.

The ballast wagons appear to be Catfish and a Dogfish or derivatives. The Catfish wagons have a single drop door while the Dogfish has the triple doors and corresponding amount of wheels. Cambrian make kits for both wagons and Heljan make/made an RTR Dogfish. The bogies seem to be mostly DMU units - note the single mechanical drive box in blue, the other two are Class 25 units.

going by this Code 3* must be crap. does it go upto Code 100*****?

assuming this is a composite for 6123 and the headcode box fitted 29s - exhaust port is very wrong for a 29. Most 29s were fitted with two rotary ventilators on the roof and also bogie dampers. As theyre not in a different CAD colour are Dapol not going for the class 22 style removable side skirt/fairings on this one? - would be a pity as they fell off just a much as on the class 22. Otherwise shape looks pretty good.

Damn.. just missed it!

looks like Paisley - Gilmour Street. around 81-84

Selling locomotives by the inch now http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-BR-AIAAIA-DIESEL-ELECTRIC-ONLY-8-LONG-/262187000865 one of those rare A1A-A1A class 33s

At least one Class 21 was trialled on the Ayrshire coal lines around Maybole. Afaik lack of brake force precluded their further use, presumably before full scale the use of brake tenders. With the advent of the Blue trains would they have seen much use to Greenock? Still havent found any photographic evidence of Class 21 use on the East Suffolk line east of Ipswich

Hello Peter, the Mainline Class 42 uses the same bogie moulding for both pick up and motor. Although they look the same the pick up bogie doesn't have any internal parts, gears, magnet, armature or brush gear. Usefully on these old duffers it does let you put a second motor bogie in without to much hassle.

I loved those books when they first came out - British Rail Fleet Survey Vol 2: Western Region Diesel-hydraulics by Brian Haresnape, there is one on ebay right now for all of £59.99 - comments about which are best left on the ebay idiocy thread

think it was a Dean goods used as a stationary boiler

Its an Atlas editions display model. 1:100 scale (ish) made of plastic, detail is not outstanding but fair. similar to the current GBL display models (cept smaller) - sold 4 recently for all of £3.50. think they cost me me in bubble wrap to send

Quite right, its remarkably easy to retract a bid. Just had another one today, I was selling some parts today and someone bombed the auction in the last minute, fair enough not complaining, he then contacts me to say "I am not paying, I entered the wrong amount and didnt put a decimal point in the right place". Fair enough I thought, send a cancellation through and offer to the under bidder. The under bidder then gets back to me saying that I should offer him the parts at half price and INCLUDE the p&p as well. Seems very fishy to me, and both now added to my black list. Does this sort of thing happen a lot?

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J/361282931171 sore eyes?

unfortunately the cost price for anything you want insured for over £100. actually a very good price as ebay will extract their 10% and no charge for packing materials or the drive to the post office.

Some brave souls have suggested that before to create a replica of 10203, the LMS 10000 group even found an EE 16svt Mk2 while searching for their Mk1. But you would still need most of the electrical system.