teaky

The thing is...if you score lower than your true age, does that imply you are still young at heart and keeping up with the times or simply failing to learn from experience?

It's a direct attack on Peco's market share. Oxford Diecast are going to offer models of the Beer Heights Light Railway.

Found it! I was wrong. It's not an Adams Radial after all. Look: correct extended front apron, appropriate colour, front pony truck...

Just goes to show how difficult it is to tell when viewed from the right angle.

Hi Great Northern. Worried about curves? I watched "4472 Flying Scotsman" on BBC iPlayer yesterday. Even if you don't watch the whole programme, I recommend a quick look at the closing scene where the train approaches the camera head on along a straight before turning off scene. Before the train negotiates it you'd swear the curve just in front of the camera was train set radius. An intriguing bit of perspective.

Do you think the Oxfordrail announcement is going to be as exciting as the Hornby Christmas one?

A logical statement but there is plenty of bendy furniture around made from ply which suggests it should happily stay curved once the glue sets.

This may not be the issue with Tony's PDK article but February 2003 included an article entitled "GER / LNER B12 Masterclass".

Errm, I think you've missed the gag. That bit of the text is just the set up for the punchline which requires a translation of the motto into French and then reading out loud. (Although, you might wish you hadn't and would be reaching for the groan emoticon if there was one!)

Ah, so you're the cause of the hold up! Hurry up!

Hornby website indicates LNER D16/3 e.t.a. now 01/03/15.

Hornby website indicates LNER J15 e.t.a. now 01/02/15.

You're not the first to vote for the Jones Goods and there's definitely something in that. Perhaps they see a gap in the market for north of the border RTR? I hope Oxford Diecast are not just going to leave that fuzzy image to sit there for a month. That'll spoil the fun.

Can't beat a bit of froth! I'm sure it'll backfire if they mess about with delivery dates.

Your link looks like the T3 that 69843 referred to. From what little we can see in the current picture, I'm blowed if I can tell the difference.

I don't know enough about LSWR locomotives to know and having looked at the first few pictures I could find on the web I can't tell the difference in the front ends when related to the deliberately vague Oxford Rail picture. The radial tank does have a good following but your T3 idea might be a locomotive with a wider range. Since there are preserved examples of each with stovepipe chimneys that doesn't help either. It will be a bit of fun over the next few days to see what appears from the mist.

LSWR Adams Radial is my guess.

The Oxford Diecast website has a link to the Oxford Rail website. Still no idea what the products might be though.

Doesn't that ignore the pre-orders Ed? Pre-orders appear to have exceeded supply at present and many of them must pre-date the production runs surely?

That is the address and phone number on the invoice from my last order, dated 03/01/08. However, KM Engineering are indeed now based at MacKintosh Road and, according to the sign on the factory, still have the same phone number. Thanks lippy.

"... including a pair of outstanding breakdown trains." Can you talk him into putting something on RMweb Tony?

Mods - Can we have a "light the blue touch paper and stand back" emoticon please?

I agree that the original P2 was a classic design and is far more attractive than the Bugatti-nosed versions. However, I do still like the look of the later styling which combines sleekness and power. I take your point though Larry, it doesn't work as well as the complete streamlined package of the A4s. I suspect the P2s were not reallocated further south simply because the existing pacifics were already doing a good job and Gresley had come up with a superior design in the A4 in terms of their suitability for high speed running and more than adequate haulage ability. It seems to me that the P2s could have been developed into effective east coast mainline locomotives, after ironing out the pony truck problems perhaps, but they were simply superseded by something that was a better fit to the requirements. There is evidence that further 8-coupled designs were considered but, presumably, not deemed to be the best fit for the intended purpose. My feeling is that, as CME, Thompson was itching to design a front line pacific and, without the budget for a completely new build, was searching around for something to rebuild which would be palatable to the board. He then hit upon the P2s (based on the A3 boiler after all). I don't think Thompson's design is attractive but there are plenty of people who do. It looks fine but the cyclinder placing seems odd to me. There is evidence that Thompson's desire to simplify some aspects and innovate in others could bear fruit in times of tight budgets and lower maintenance schedules (e.g. his B1, rocking grates on pacifics) and you're right they did last albeit not as long as other LNER pacifics. One wonders though whether he was looking in the right area? Cook's focus in BR days on greater precision in the workshops seems to have been very effective in ironing out problems on all of the pacifics.

Hi Ian, Nos. 26 & 27 are Bill Richmond's Tring layout which Tony referred to in an earlier post. In 1988 it was still being built. It does look good but there's not much mention of extensive stock and if it doesn't run then .... No. 107 appears to be Chippenham in 00?

How on earth did I manage to miss this thread?! Brilliant work there Gravy Train. Inspirational.