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I suspect the number of people who've built a 104 Class from anything (including the Caley Coaches etched kit) is quite small so you may be breaking new ground here. It's a very small prototype and there isn't much boiler to hide the motor in so any chassis designed to fit a tank engine is going to ...

In the same vein, if I receive an item I never ordered with no invoice or sender's address enclosed, assuming I allow a reasonable tme for the seller to realise that they've mailed it out to the wrong customer, can I legitimately put it in the charity bag ? I assume it's an ebay seller we've dealt w...

Gill Sans for your 1950s period, more details here: https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2013/01/02/the-font-of-all-knowledge-gill-sans-and-british-railways-signage/ You should be ablre to work out the height by looking at that 'Barnstaple' sign in the link but it could be adjusted slightly to make long...

ermmm very prewar PO wagons with a BR livereied loco? Ok, so my interest in PO wagons doesn't extend to being able to recognise 'very prewar' ones from 'ones which staggered on into the 1950s without being re-painted'. They were all bare wood / flaking paint withh "Pxxxxxxx" numbers or re...

300,000 tons of not radioactive mud from a construction site (not nuclear waste) would need a very large warehouse or a very large hole in the Brecon Beacons.

Reminds me of the Majestic trainset with a BR early crest Peppercorn matched with a RES class 47. No such horrors if you follow the link, the only real howler (as opposed to slightly elastic interpretation of time and geography) is the lack of a brake van in the the East Lincs train set. Two of the...

Read an interesting comment here https://www.licensingsource.net/hornby-to-step-back-from-thomas-friends/ Anyone know what toy safety age restrictions are being referred to, the existing European regulations date form 2009, why quote this as a reason now? The TTTE market has shifted noticeably from...

It looks like a Lincs coupler, very clever and unobtrusive bit of kit which is supposed to work exactly as Emmettman describes. I can't get them to couple as designed, the two 'quarterstaffs' just push against each other, but if you angle them very slightly backwards (like an AJ but not so acute) th...

Quoted where and by who please ?

The Mainline one (still availale from Bachmann - part no. 36-009) was pretty much bomb-proof too.

And a note on terminology: "Buckeye couplers" is a term unfamiliar to me. Best I can figure is that it was a "brand" of knuckle coupler, and there are lots of different brands of knuckle coupler. "Knuckle couplers", or "autos" as in automatic couplers, are, I...

Apart from improving performance and/or reliability (Scots, Bulleids), the extreme rebuilds were often 'accountancy' rebuilds where the company gained what was effectively a new loco from a scrap one. The reason being that rebuilds were funded from revenue whereas a completely new loco was capital e...

I loved the Westmoreland Gazette when I lived up there. They ran a front page story in the 1990s which essentially boiled down to "Man disappointed with new washing machine",

You may have see the driver training trips, I'm reasonably sure they were in DRS livery by the time the proper service started. The restrictions are down to Bransty tunnel structure gauge and a couple of low platforms which foul 158 yaw dampers. What exactly the issue with 150s is I'm not sure. That...

The Cambrian chassis can be used on a lot of the older Airfix/Mainline/Dapol/Hornby bodies if you're so inclined. As can Parkside various chassis if you want a specific BR/LNER/LMS chassis rather than RCH.