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On 20/09/2024 at 09:32, Mike Bellamy said:
Correction - not Norfolk. Drones are based at Waddington (Lincolnshire) and the rapid reaction Typhoons are at Lossiemouth (Moray) and Coningsby (Lincolnshire) - but in view of all the other 'errors' made in the programme, who cares. In any case, they would probably show the wrong Typhoon . . . . . . . .
https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/hawker-typhoon
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Thinking of high voltage, a Lightning strike could however be launched from Norfolk (Lakenheath or Marham)...but they would probably show the wrong Lightning too...
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3 hours ago, Sayajirao said:
Steam Railway, this Oct issue No 448.
Call Attention, page 6 ‘That's (not) yer lot!’ - picture of 43006 at M&GN Little Bytham box for final ‘Leicester’ and anecdote from John Barker, the maker of the headboard(s) used.Steam World....an excellent photo and it looks as though it could have been taken in summer sunshine!
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Look at Big Big Train* - plus they, like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, had an album called English Electric which touch on trains to a greater or lesser extent.
*if nothing else watch Spectral Mornings on YouTube...RIP David L.
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15 minutes ago, Bucoops said:Well maybe the new packaging is by Ultrabox?
This means nothing to me...
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So, what's all this cr*p about "payment hold" then? I have sold many items over recent years via eBay, but none in the last year and a bit, so that seems to classify me as a risk - or a risky seller...
I've just sold two low-value items and each time I have to wait until the buyer acknowledges he/she has received the purchased item (at which point I refer you to the discussions above about the various pitfalls in that!).
This, coupled with all the cost and additional hassle, means that my eBay selling days are finally over - it really isn't worth it!!
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5 hours ago, hmrspaul said:
All a housing estate now. There was a very low embankment that divided the ECML from the yard and the break to permit the rail access which is approximately central to the site can still be seen.
Very friendly, possilby because my wife was always with me when we visited and sometimes in a skimpy vest top.
Paul
...I used to spend long summer Sunday afternoons on Benslow Bridge/Lane in my teens in the blue heyday of the mid-70s...
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6 hours ago, hmrspaul said:
Thanks but I looked hard at those yesterday and I don't think that helps. But, I was sure I did have a suitable photo so I dug deep into my ageing memory and thought LMS and here it is https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lmsmineral/e2bba568e
Paul
Like so many other locations, Hitchin was a great place for rolling stock (the engineers' yard especially) - now, sadly, a vegetation-rich shadow of its' former self...
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2 hours ago, jwealleans said:
Stripe's better on the first one.
...and a nightmare...the whole wagon needs more distressing...
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Nearly sixty years separate these two models: the first is the oldest model I possess that was made by me - wrong colour paint, an attempt at weathering, kit-supplied couplings, wheels and transfers, and just look at those bufferheads...
...the second is from a couple of years or so ago, but there is a connection: whilst the body is a Parkside diag.109 rivetted 16 ton mineral, the brakegear by ABS, steel bufferheads and with Alan Gibson wheels, the underframe is from the Airfix kit; 60 years later and their axleboxes and underpinnings are still hard to beat...
Regards
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3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
Convert to EM!
Just sayin'
Mike.
Ha! Blindingly obvious to me now, but I learned the hard way when building my dozen or so Parkside kits, that not only did the (00 gauge Alan Gibson) wheels need the correct back-to-back, but they also needed to be central on the axle and any moulding pips on the wheels' rear faces required careful removal too. The clearances between the rear of the wheels and the hopper structure is 1mm maximum - any wonky wheels or imprecise construction are soon found out...
...or convert to EM!
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54 minutes ago, 31A said:
Quite a late use of them was on the sand traffic from Fen Drayton (near St. Ives, Cambs) to various places on the GN. Eventually they were replaced by some bogie hoppers, but it must have been well into the 1980s by the time that happened.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52087249@N07/8534810032/in/album-72157632935569242/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52087249@N07/8534903148/in/album-72157632932040983/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52087249@N07/14273206894/in/album-72157632932040983/
...and with complementary motive power from Accurascale too (Class 47 excepted (I usually saw either 31s or 37s on this traffic))...
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2 hours ago, Downendian said:
Just terrific news- I’ll be adding a few sets of wagons to my Parkside builds. Plenty of 5-rib hoppers were vacuum braked too - I guess an option for future releases.
Neil
Me too!! To be fair though, these have all been in this unfinished state for far too long...some more varieties for the future too perhaps...
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Just now, Roy Langridge said:
Definitely not a new tooling 47 as the cab front footsteps are in the right place.
Roy
..yes, and there are no holes in the cab front for the later-style/more common ETH jumper...
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18 hours ago, MikeParkin65 said:
Interesting review in this months RM where the 47 shares a page with the same manufacturers rereleased 57 with photos from the same angle. Certainly the 47 sits lower on the bogies than the 57 and I think raising the new model a little would improve its look. Hornby mag meanwhile has commented on the ‘face’ being wrong - an interesting stance from they have their own Ltd ed from the tooling.
By contrast, doesn't the face of the 47 on the front cover of the same Hornby Magazine simply look just right (I suspect it is a pre-2021 tooling Bachmann version)...
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Ditto today (152/250) - their light weathering really lifts what is already an impressive model...
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3 hours ago, Davidjsmith said:
I ordered mine day of launch paid up along time ago!Hope they are not sending out by surname in alphabetic order!As my surname starts with S!
Me too...and mine starts with a C!!
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On 02/02/2024 at 02:32, P.C.M said:
I was a shunter at Eastleigh east yard for a while in the early 90s.
We used to loose shunt although management didn't like us doing it they used to let it go on.
We did get a bollocking for loose shunting car flats and TTAs one time. 😁
We also did Fly shunting a few times which is different to loose shunting in that the shunt loco pulls the wagon towards the points. The shunt loco backs off just enough to loosen the coupler then speeds up past the point which is then changed before the wagon comes past. Hopefully the wagon has enough speed to go in clear to be pinned down.😁
Cheers Peter.
There's a fascinating sequence in the East Anglian By-Ways (sic) DVD filmed in the late-60s of a Brush Type 4/Class 47 fly shunting 16 ton mineral wagons in Cromer yard (fortunately it is D1565 - which has saved me having to renumber the Bachmann model). The skill of the shunter uncoupling wagons on the move is readily apparent.
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4 minutes ago, andyman7 said:
Understood - I live south of London. However, John Dutfield is half an hour by train out of Liverpool Street station and I fancied an afternoon out. It was just a personal choice, but also based on the store itself being an Aladdin's Cave of stock with no internet listings so well worth an enjoyable rummage...
I second that: I had a happy 12 months contracting for Essex County Council in County Hall...just a few minutes' walk from John Dutfield (as long as you remember they're closed on Wednesdays!)...
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15 hours ago, MrWolf said:
See "Backscene" (page 130) from the current edition of Model Rail - there is a connection between them!
Regards
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On 21/01/2024 at 11:17, MJI said:
Does anyone know a good source of turned buffer heads 13 inch?
Wsnt to get a few to detail moulded buffer body kits.
MJT out of stock.
Need 8 at moment
A bit late perhaps, but try H&A Models' own product - https://www.hamodels.net/4mm-steel-wagon-buffer-heads-pack-12.html
...they are also a good source of so many things and with an excellent mail order service too (and good to chat with too at exhibitions).
Regards
Mark
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On 24/11/2023 at 18:28, OnTheBranchline said:
Not going to lie, I was kind of holding my breath that the loco would go around the curves and not derail and fall to its demise...
There is one doing just that (going round the curves bit, not falling to its' demise...) at Holkham Hall's Christmas by candlelight event, where there is a Christmas tree ringed by four circuits of track - one of which has a 15xx merrily towing three Gresley coaches...
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5 hours ago, StuartMc said:
After the discussions on communications above, it's worth me letting you know that Tim replied promptly to an email request (timhornlasercut@gmail.com) this week and I've put in an order for delivery just after Christmas. He also very kindly offered to assemble and deliver them, at no extra cost, as I'm fairly close to Fakenham.
I won't include the prices as they are volitile due to changing wood costs, but to give you an idea of the current range; his standard options are:
Scenic/Photoplank (with backscene/pelmet and "frame" ) - each end is either either "open" (to join to other boards) or closed (at the end of the layout)
The standard sizes for this are either 12", 18" or 24" wide by 2, 3 or 4 foot long.
Standard baseboards same sizes
Turntables/sector plates start at 3ft x 1ft
Traverser example 4ft x 2ft
Other sizes are also available
Stuart
You will not be disappointed...
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3 hours ago, andyman7 said:
I've got one of these in long-term storage (pretty much since the 70's, consequent to the arrival of the Mainline model, along with a Class 47!) - but I utilised MTK's own power bogies. They had a novel design utilising a layshaft that enabled 3-axle drive (or, by omitting the layshaft, unpowered) and pickups incorporated with the brass axle bearings. I'm sure that with a bit more work they would have performed well, but they never quite did for me - the frames, layshaft and gears were moulded in a greasy sort of plastic, which was probably not ideal.
The Class 47 was powered by twin K's motor bogies which generally spun on the spot without much movement on the track.
On Wright Writes there is a photograph of my MTK Class 03, which was much more successful (until the Mainline version, again).
Like many others, I learned a lot from building MTK kits...
Anyway, back to the original topic...
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