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Agreed Jim. The short headshunt is long enough to run a pug round but not much else !

minipix wrote:End2End, those are exactly the sort of axles I'm interested in! My challenge at the moment is finding them within budget. DCC Concepts sells them in packs of 48, which seems a little excessive given that I only want 2!

Wind your own from a bit of phosphor-bronze wire.

The springs are above the footplate on some 264s and below the axleboxes on others, it varies between batches and sometimes between works visits as does the pattern of driving wheels, position of rear sandboxes (and presence/absence of same) and provision of buffers. For a comparatively small class ...

Duplicate oops !

What you have to consider is that like any other manufacturer the world came to a halt, no one was making products, this had a knock on effect. What stocks were available were rapidly bought up (supply and demand)... Quite. There are far more companies making bog roll than Code 75 bullhead track an...

A lot of the 264 class (and the very similar NBR Y9 class) ran with wooden tenders, like a cut down coal wagon with the end nearest the loco missing. They gave the locos a much longer range and also seem to have acquired the usual detritus associated with shunting - spare lamps, couplings, chocks, e...

As long as it needs to be, or as long as it can be depending on what it is constrained by and what exactly it is the headshunt to. Ideally it should be longest loco you expect to shunt with + longest rake you expect to shunt. If it's only loco plus half a rake you're going to have to do the shunt in...

There is nothing in Rails' announcement to indicate whether Hornby have refused to supply Rails (which is what happened with Hattons/Bachmann) or Rails have decided to stop stocking Hornby. Bachmann acted when Hattons went head to head with them with the 66, competing with Bachmann as a manufacturer...

All three operated together for a reasonably long period depending on where you look. Sticking to places that actually have RTR electrics available and excluding preserved steam: West coast main line south of Crewe/Manchester/Liverpool between 1960 and 1968, ex-LMS and BR Standard steam (with some r...

Or buy it for 4.50 from somewhere that isnt one of their 'selected grocery stores'.

The not really free mag appears to be a Sainsburys promotion, the cover price is still £4.60.

Ratio do a small coaling tower, little brother to the concrete megalith types found at the big sheds and much easier to find room for. It's an LMS design found at Wick and Stranraer. Some LNER sheds had a free standing hoist which lifted tubs of coal up but I'm not aware of any kits for that type. O...

There needs to be something there which pre-dates the railway otherwise (in real life) that large and very expensive retaining wall would have been a cutting. A church is obvious (probably too obvious), how about a big house ? I.e. Georgian or earlier, probably now quite scruffy and run down, maybe ...

Oops on both counts, sorry. I've found the PL-11 to need even more fine adjustment than the PL-10 I was thinking of.

If they are the old Gresleys now in the Railroad range then I think they are self-coloured plastic and you can use T-cut or possibly meths to get the printed numbers off. If they are the more recent superdetailed ones with the teak finish painted/printed on then then what Bigmet said. Dont press on,...