John Isherwood

Not sure about connection to tie-bar - poor memory, and I am currently in Greece! (Probably just a bend). Staples, via staple gun, did not adversely affect tube. Baseboard edge - cheapo slide switches from electronic suppliers. Drill slider to take soldered connector - which I made up from brass threaded inserts from Aliexpress and matching steel bolts / nuts. This allows fine adjustment of the length of the wire / throw of the tie-bar. The slide switches alter the frog polarity - all nice an mechanically simple! I've a feeling - without checking - that there is a diagram in this thread somewhere. CJI. Sorry - it would seem that my layout build thread has been deleted / lost. Contact me in a couple of weeks if you need further details.

If you can post a photo of the livery in question, I may be able to assist you. John Isherwood, Cambridge Custom Transfers.

Sadly - you do without. I am fortunate in that I have a barter deal with a very skilled designer / printer owner. He produces the designs and prints; I design and print the transfers. CJI.

Being overseas at present, I cannot check the numbers on the sheet - though I'm pretty certain that they are the original four digit numbers. I read your blog as indicating that your models were not specific to a particular prototype. CJI.

ESSO bitumen transfers available from Cambridge Custom Transfers. CJI.

Thanks Paul - now that you have refreshed my memory, I agree. I would have included B333000 as the prototype, B333001 as another singleton - configuration unknown, and B333002 as the first standard wagon. John Isherwood.

Accepted - my point was simply that there appears not to have been a unified vehicle abbreviation code throughout BR. ...... though much of what BR did defies explanation! CJI.

The crosses were commonplace on LMR breakdown vehicles - could they indicate which vehicles carried first aid equipment? CJI.

Just to clarify, I was referring SOLELY to the above-posted vehicle type list that include certain DMU vehicles. CJI.

Well - perhaps I am expecting too much - but I would have expected a common notation throughout BR. After all, railway enthusiasts / Ian Allan managed it! CJI.

Well - it's not in the above-posted official list, amongt the (DIESEL)s. CJI.

By that reasoning, did all T-prefix (Trailer) vehicles have cabs - and the D-prefix was therefore considered superfluous? CJI.

Paper? I presume that you mean carrier film? As per the instructions, the transfers MUST be applied to a high gloss finish. If they are to go over any surface detail, even if just the edge of the carrier film, you should use MicroSOL (red-lettered bottle) to help the carrier film settle onto the model. This is the correct application method for waterslide transfers over surface detail. John Isherwood, Cambridge Custom Transfers.

I never understood why 'D' for 'Driving' seemed not to have been an official prefix, though widely used in enthusiast circles. CJI.

Neither of us know the eventual outcome - and I may not be around by then. We both have opinions, that's all - and they are both equally valid. CJI.

As has been posted on several previous occasions, this is not a new issue. We have been cajoled and derided into contributing to the upkeep of this group; the least that the proprietors can do is to make upgrading a seamless process - IT team, where are you? CJI.

A telephone call to HL might be the quickest way to resolve this. CJI.

Ironic, when you remember the ground-breaking electronics that came out of Japan. I have to say that I'm with them on this issue! CJI.

........ or, just maybe, a new generation of price-conscious modellers who can see through the current 'Emperor's new clothes' marketing frenzy of 'got-to-have-it' electronic tom-foolery! Then, we might actually be able to get back to railway MODELLING. CJI.

Quite so - but I fail to see how that relates to a notional new entrant to a new scale, who would like to buy new models at affordable prices. Remember, the notional new entrant has no preconceptions about the relative merits of 4mm. versus TT120, particularly as to the level of detail; but he may well not wish to risk the hazards of the secondhand market. CJI.

Now here's a theory - which may or may not have already been expounded. Could Hornby, as an antidote to the the exponential chase for 'gimmicks' / higher prices in 4mm. scale, actually wish to temper expectations of detail in TT120? If you are a 'newbie' to railway modelling, launching into TT120, you will probably be quite content with Hornby's modest provision of detail. Less detail equals lower production costs / higher profit margin and, without competition in that scale, no need to be constantly chasing the latest 'gimmick' introduced by a competitor. Just my two-penn'orth! CJI.

Having built two otherwise identical 4Fs - one rigid, one compensated, I will never again depart from the rigid creed. Suffice to say - both are now rigid; wobbly wheels are the work of the devil, IMHO! CJI.

Didn't IKB himself indicate the no-one in his right mind would order coffee from the Swindon buffet? CJI.

Not if you fill the side-tanks with water. CJI.

If it doth offend thine eye - I can supply correct transfers. John Isherwood, Cambridge Custom Transfers.