And Class 37 no. 37402 slots in nicely with her stablemates.

And the trifecta together…

66779 missing as the A/S website was broken from announcement until after it had sold out.

Another Class 66 from the first run; no. 66769, sold to support Prostate Cancer UK.

Finally getting around to unboxing the O Gauge Class 47. What a lovely looking beast. Bags of extra bits and bobs included.

Haven’t seen one of these on the forum in ten years!

Accurascale Class 66 no. 66415; “You Are Never Alone” sees light of day for the first time, today.

This model from the first run was sold in aid of Samaritans.

Usual packaging and literature etc, and what a beautiful model it is:

Lovely models, but your photography is also top notch.

On 20/9/2024 at 4:27 PM, Metrovik said:

Oh for gods sake!  How many references are you up to now 10,12?

And many many more to come. You should probably just change your username to Luxury Italian Mixed Peel now and get it over with.

3 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Interior detail looks pretty nice!

Shame they have no Clogherhead posters, though.

Does anybody here run ACE Trains? Any feedback on them?

Their website is quite nice, well laid out and functions well on the mobile.

I know that @roy mentions them briefly in his Dream City Railway thread, but there's not much more said about them.

Rails of Sheffield have several used listings:

https://railsofsheffield.com/products/pre-owned-br-green-4-6-2-britannia-class-hereward-the-wake-70037-steam-locomotive

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204844195904

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195847390542

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195862386467

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196206029155

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204373112325

Just curious!

14 hours ago, Sea Breezer said:

I see all ICR packs are now listed as “Sold Out”.

Does this mean delivery is close?

I'd speculate that means that production quantities have been finalised with the factory.

Just now, Flying Snail said:

Nice, and its pretty clear whats the genesis of this idea!

I've preordered a LNWR set. I wonder will we get an Irish versions 

Has anyone been in touch? ... @jhb171achill

Shhhhh, he's on the 'phone to them as we speak!

6 minutes ago, amdaley said:

I'll have to take out a mortgage or else find a rich widow somewhere 

My credit card is melting under the strain 

Or, you could be smarter about it, find the rich widow, and then take out the mortgage.

https://rapidotrains.co.uk/evolution-coaches/

https://railsofsheffield.com/blogs/news/rapido-announce-evolution-bogie-coaches-in-oo

Rapido Trains UK is evolving pre-grouping passenger stock in an exciting new way! We are proud to announce that we will be adding a diverse collection of pre-grouping carriages to our OO Gauge range, with the new 48ft Evolution bogie coaches.

With numerous locos and a boatload of era-appropriate wagons under our belt, the pre-grouping era has become a quintessentially ‘Rapido’ thing, so we thought it was about time we produced some more suitable coaches.

Although some have already been seen in ready-to-run versions, it seemed unlikely that all of the well-known pre-1923 companies would receive a wide selection of accurate bogie coaching prototypes in OO gauge. 

We thought we would fill this void with a selection of generic 48ft bogie coaches, each detailed with an array of key features that modellers associate with their railway of choice. We have dubbed this exciting new coach project ‘Evolution’. So what tooling does this entail?

Composite (Top Left) (Four 1st Class and three 3rd Class compartments) Third (Top Right) (Eight 3rd Class compartments) Brake Third (Bottom Right) (Five 3rd Class compartments plus Luggage and Guards compartments)

The coach roofs were one of the most notable features of the era, so we have included elliptical, arc and clerestory designs in the tooling and made the roofs easily removable so that you can fit figures into your coaches. Each roof style will also include fittings for either gas or electric lighting.

We have added some rather nice interior detailing too, including luggage racks, picture frames on compartment dividers and a fully-detailed Guard’s Van/Luggage Compartment. There are also a multitude of separately-fitted parts to bring the coaches to life, including door and grab handles and passenger emergency alarm ‘butterflies’ on one end. 

All Evolution coaches will include fitted internal working lighting controlled by our magnetic magic wand, making it much easier to see these lovely details.

To complete the appearance of different gas and electric lighting fittings, the relevant models will feature separately-fitted parts for battery and regulator boxes, a dynamo, roof-mounted gas lamps, plumbing and gas tanks on the underframes.

Battery boxes and gas tanks aren’t the only external details below the frame. Each Evolution coach will feature Fox-pattern bogies fitted with electrical pickups. Some versions will feature extra footboards on the bogies and there are also additional central lower footboards on some designs too.

Finally, each vehicle is fitted with NEM pockets mounted on kinematic mechanisms and has optional close-coupling bars (modelled to resemble vacuum pipes) included. 

These coaches will be available in three-car multipacks (RRP £199.95), featuring one of each body version. Alongside the multipacks, single coaches (RRP £69.95) will also be offered to modellers who wish to extend their rakes. These single vehicles will each have an alternate running number to their multipack counterparts.

Further batches are planned and will include other pre-grouping, grouping and nationalisation-era liveries, with the potential of future additional tooling for further vehicles. With a growing number of pre-grouping locomotives available from Rapido and other manufacturers, we are sure that these will find a home on many modellers’ layouts.

 

Smashing shots, love the varying depth of focus.

It's Friday!!!!!

On 18/9/2024 at 8:03 PM, Metrovik said:

Nice to see someone else with some corrugated roofing! 

Now that I think about that's a very specific compliment...

Great work though.

If only he had some Italian Mixed Peel for ballast...

The plain white models are excellent for non-descript carriers.

Invoice received today.

Black and orange coaches definitely on invoice.

Haven't had time to check that they combined all pre-orders correctly, but will do so tomorrow before paying.

Looks correct at a glance.

Great job, Rails!

Where's that @Crossley fellow with an update on his order?

30 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

or will there. 

Dun dun duuunnnnnnnnn!!!

5 hours ago, Adrian said:

Thank you very much for posting the videos @DJ Dangerous and for all the kind words folks! My apologies for not updating the thread, I can't believe it's almost a year since I posted, shame on me! There's a big update coming with lots of pics (even more in depth than the videos). I sometimes get lost in the modelling and forget to post updates, which is probably a good thing  Chat soon
 

The layout deserves all of the praise, and more!

Two video updates on YT here:

https://m.youtube.com/@riverbankrailways/videos

The detailing is excellent, @Dempsey. Makes it look more like O Gauge than HO.

Great stuff, Learner!

Hope you like that new nickname. It's a phonetic version of LNERW1...

All I have is a board, slides under the bed, no scenery, no nothing, and it's good enough for me:

I planted a hedgehog tree a few years back and...

As the Gobblers and Gibblers of the world would say; well wear!

2 hours ago, Colin R said:

Do we know who does have the tooling?

"Somebody" does...