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The Southern ran its principle summer seaside traffic in portions so the train would shed coaches in ones and twos at junctions along the way to be tripped down to the terminus. I don't think they would all have a spam can but those going all the way might if thats what had worked the train down. Ot...

"Restricted Use", usually followed on the GWR/WR at least by a list of where it was allowed to go.

Brakevans were often controlled almost as closely as locos, usually to stop them wandering off and accumulating in dark corners of the wrong yard.

Here's mine. Hand points lettered A-E on the left, signalbox frame numbered 1-6 on the right. The box (which I forgot to paint onto the box diagram ! ) is to the right of points 3a. The frame in the box is facing the operator so the numbering is correct for the box but back to front for the operator

It's the later one based around the standard 57' underframe. As usual, not particularly accurate but looks the part. Apart from the underframe and toy pick up gear, the body is not far off a number of LMS diagrams, the closest being a 60 foot lav version but truncated onto a 57 foot chassis. It's o...

Rebel. Renage on the agreement, tell them you don't want anything for Christmas and buy them all a sponsored goat or guide dog or something similarly useful and altruistic. I have eventually persuaded my mother in law that "nothing I can't eat or wear" means exactly that, and definitely no...

AWS ramp just before the nearest signal in each direction ? Failing that, a boarded foot crossing - staff crossings should always be boarded, some public ones are/were too.

Same here. I started kit building in EM in the mid 80s because RTR quality was dire, and if you have to build it anyway you might as well build it to the right gauge (almost). I managed about 4 locos all fairly unsatisfactorily. Then around 2000 I turned my back for 5 minutes to build aircraft kits ...

Firefly16 wrote:At £162. for this model, China is, as Bigmet says, pricing itself out of the model market. Well, if production is to go elsewhere, let's forget about next stop country X and bring Hornby products back to Margate.

If you bring it back to Margate they'll be £400 each if you're lucky.

Was it ever not a rich man's hobby? A Hornby Dublo loco was a sizeable chunk of your take home back in the day, which is why we made do with one loco a year if that. Cheaper locos are available, maybe even cheaper 2MTs when Hattons start knocking out the slow sellers once the rush is over and all th...

Peterm wrote::shock: 162 quid.

Which is comparable with what the DJH kit cost 20-odd years ago, by the time you had added a motor, gears, wheels and transfers, but without having to build it.

Another vote for styrene sheet here (Plastikard, Evergreen, other brands are available), especially for modifying RTR locos and stock as that is (usually) what these are made from. You can buy fancy sanding tools etc but the ones I use most are those flexible sanding sticks Boots and Superdrug sell ...

The link in my post gives the cause of the derailment as debris from a washed out crest drain at the top of the cutting just prior to the viaduct. I expect the rest of the investigation will go into some detail over the design of crest drains as well as everything else. I presume it hadn't washed ou...

The interim RAIB report is out, there was flooding reported south of Carmont and north of Stonehaven, but none between the two and specifically none at the derailment site. The site was passed by the northbound train which was subsequently held at Stonehaven and nothing untoward reported. Having cro...

So have I got this right? Bachmann are no longer supplying Hattons and Hornby no longer supplying Rails But both Hattons & Rails have stocks of Bachmann/Hornby items which they can sell to you? Whatever the rights and wrongs of all this I think all should sit down and discuss this as whatever y...

They tried that a couple of years ago, and closed their concessions network. It didn't end well.