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As a generalisation, I prefer the Pocketbond cars over Oxford Diecast ones, as they mostly exhibit greater finesse, particularly where one can compare similar car models like the Morris Minors in both ranges. The Pocketbond ones used to be around twice the price of Oxfords but many are now reduced a...

Good moaning! Hornby themselves improved the Hymek detailing in recent years, including the provision of separate horns instead of moulded lumps on the cab roofs. The latest ones also have their very smooth running 5-pole motor bogie. I detailed an ancient Triang one a few years ago, including separ...

ModelMaster Decals, Fox transfers for starters. They do complete renumbering sets too.

There are others as well, one does 3D transfers (for things like smokebox plates and nameplates - but I can't remember their name at present), or Narrow Planet can do etched smokebox number plates.

Saddle tank can be sprayed black, lettered LMS and given an appropriate number, crew and lamps, etc.. 'Thomas' was originally a Hornby E2, a Billinton designed 0-6-0 for the LB&SCR. It can be improved but will never be a great looker alas. Get shot of that awful face and replace it with a more ...

£105 pre-order price at Rails of Sheffield.

I did as suggested and also tested on program track where it read ok but as soon as I put it on the track to run the rfailmaster controller started to flash which looks like a short somewhere. It could be the decoder may be strong enough.Iam usingnthe Hornby 8249 I would definitely ditch the Hornby...

I agree with everything Bigmet has said ... very sound advice.

When I lived in Melbourne 30 years ago the situation was fine Model Dockyard and Hearns Hobbies carried a decent range of model railway equipment, living in Mornington I used to buy models from Train World who I always thought were a tad expensive, going back further to the late 1960s and 70s every...

One of the main problems Aussie model shops have had to contend with until very recent times was the wholesalers. Bach in the UK, Hornby and Bachmann were their own wholesalers, selling directly to the retailers, whereas here in Oz, the retailers had to deal with the middle men - middle men who more...

If you haven't already done the maths, 35' 10" translates to 143mm in OO.

I measured two PMVs and a CCT from Bachmann and all were 142mm over the buffers. That also matched a Parkside kit I built.

I think it was only the two locos mentioned: the 0-4-0T and 'Lord Westwood'.

Oops, I almost forgot: only unrebuilt WC/BoB locomotives should be used - rebuilt ones were just a little heavier, putting the axle loads over the limits for most of the branches.

That wire should be connected directly to the pickup strips on the locomotive's baseplate. I would suggest putting a completely new length of wire in its place. Undo the two screws holding the baseplate on, then solder the new wire to the contact for the pickups, feed the wire back up through the ch...

As far as i know the P class , USA tank and the yet to arrive B4 were purely for shunting and freight work, and I think other than the Hayling island branch this goes for Terriers as well. For a S.R branch line which used push pull stock it has to be either a M7, H class or 02 tank. For non push pu...