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Thanks for that, funnily enough Hattons sent me the noification today!

Dapol Dave, Do you have a delivery date for the B and D versions please?? (Hopefully not both in the same month though ).......

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Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty.

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Thanks Jon, thats a great help. I've just happened across this image, which wasn't the one I was thinking of, and dosen't show the back of the weight but a good view none the less.. http://www.flickr.co...ews/5814626819/ Sorry for not checking before asking, doh! 6.5 ton kit it is then please. Now where's that chequebook...... Clive.

Does anybody remember the Cowans Sheldon hand crane that used to reside at Gloucester Horton Road around the late 80's please? I've only found a distant glimpse of it and can't tell whether it's a 6.5 or 10 ton version. It's number and the identity of the match truck would be a great help! Then I can order the correct conversion kit from Jon...... Thanks, Clive.

Appleby Model Engineering did a resin/whitemetal Sheerness JXA and transfers. It's a job to tell from the photo but I think that might be the origin of this model??

Well, I think I've seen it all now!! http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p4340.l2565&rt=nc&item=110770719807 Recession, what recession........

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Oh dear....... http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5646708d57

Jon, that's a very useful etch there, you'll have another PM... For anyone using the UKF transfers from ebay, available here; http://stores.ebay.c...13&_vc=1&_pgn=3 Be aware that they appear to have copied the Hornby re-release, so the UKF lettering is a little too large and the 'Fertilizers' lettering is brown rather than green. Guess how I found that out .....

Granted, it certainly appears to have a greenish tint in that image, and in Working Wagons Vol 3, David Larkin reckons they were pale green. However, when I was researching these wagons for my own scratch-build, I could only ever find shades of grey, tinted with either clay dust or traffic dust.So that's how I finished these.... By the way, there's a scale drawing of the PRA in 'Modelling the British Rail Era' by Santona.

Fox Transfers sheet F4155/2 covers numbering and small details for the CDA. ECC logo's, if you need them are F4155. Both are available together as F4155SP. I've just consulted 'Working Wagons-Vol 4' by David Larkin, he states the following ref CDA's; " After the successful conversion of a 'cleaned' HAA in 1986, BREL Doncaster produced Lot 4062 during 1987/88. These were completely new vehicles and numbered 375000 to 375123. By 1991, three design codes (CD 001A, CD 002A and CD 002B) are quoted for these vehicles but I have not yet determined what the differences were. Further vehicles were added to the fleet in 1989. These were conversions from HAAs, carried out by RFS Doncaster, and were given numbers 375124 to 375137. These may have included the original 1986 conversion. The design code for these was CD 001B." Most of which appears to be in agreement with the information on the LTSV Wagons site; http://www.ltsv.com/w_profile_030.php

The more I looked at my picture and compared details with other wagons it became clear that I'd got it wrong. Apologies to all! So 375134 that I must have photographed at Bodmin was one of the HAA re-builds with a reversed roof arrangement then. That's what threw me... I'd not spotted that some were re-built the wrong way round. An odd detail on this wagon that also confused me was the oval cover on one of the door opening catches, common on earlier HAA's, but the only one I'd seen on a CDA. Excuse over......... The Hornby CDA has the solebar air pipes of the HAA, so that's useful for modelling the re-builds, but really needs correcting for the 'new build' CDA's which has no pipes on the side with the 'middle' brake link and two parrallel pipes on the side without the brake link. Hopefully the pictures explain the arrangement better than I can. At least 353224 is included on the Fox transfer sheet !

Talking of Calcified Seaweed traffic, I've just found this picture in my collection.... Unfortunately I no longer have my notes so I dont know the exact date, but I reckon its September 89. Note the clay spillage on the trackbed from a derailment earlier that summer.

Despite many trips to Whatley, TH325V has proved to be somewhat elusive. This is as close as I ever managed to get.... Anyhow, here's a couple more. Before General Motors '120' arrived, various machines appear to have been hired in. Back to the earlier Thomas Hill loco's, this is TH136C preserved at Cranmore. And finally the mystery YE Janus again not soon after it's arrival at Merehead. Note the number chalked on the cabside, little did they know then....

Here are a few scans from my collection; Foster Yeoman's '33' formerly 08032 at Merehead. ARC No4 Thomas Hill works No 200V at Whatley. Former ARC No1 Thomas Hill 133V at Mells Road. Former Foster Yeoman YE 'Janus' also at Mells Road. Does anyone know the works number of this loco? I believe that these two locos were part of the North Somerset Railway Company collection and were moved to Mells Road after they vacated their Radstock site. Finally, ARC,originally Roads Reconstruction's Sentinel No3, works No 9387 of 1948 preserved at Welshmill Adventure Playground, Frome. This loco went to Frome after withdrawal in 1971, I wonder where she is now?

Hopefully this is what you're looking for; See at Bodmin General on 22/9/96. There's also some informtion on the CDA's here; http://www.ltsv.com/w_profile_030.php Hope this helps. Clive.

I do believe I've found a picture of it. I'll try to fire up the scanner over the weekend.... CDA 353224 was on display at Bodmin General during the Bodmin and Wenford Railway Diesel Gala on 22/9/96 and that's where I saw it. The differences between it and the production batch are that the 'easy-sheet' roof and it's operating gear are mounted the opposite way round. The chassis appears to be un-modified from it's HAA design with the brake distributor and air tank mounted below the headstock.

Ahh yes! Must be the prototype one, which I believe was a conversion from an HAA.

I'll have a look but I doubt it... Why 352224 specifically? is it different from the rest in some way? Clive.

Rich, Many thanks for the link, and apologies for not bothering to search for myself.... Clive.

Ah yes, seaweed...... But where and when did it run to and from? And for that matter, why draft in a PGA, there must have been plenty of HEA's available...