murphaph

I love everything about this layout. It is a masterpiece.

Consider it an investment! They'll only appreciate in price

A beautiful loco for a beautiful layout

Yeah of course it has to work with your track. No use to you if it doesn't. Post up some video of the derailments and maybe that will help us identify the issue. Also a "pro tip" from another modeller.... If you have a glass table and some loose track you can video the gubbins from underneath and try to see what's going on. If you notice that it's always the same bogie on a particular coach you could try swapping two of the bogies that don't derail onto one coach and see what happens.

Looks like a brake line. It appears to be out of it's mounting hole in at least one place. Should push back into the chassis, does it? Be a shame to go cutting them if they just need to be secured down.

The bogie touches the coupling but it's impossible to tell from the video if you are already past a second radius curve when it does so. I mean, eventually the bogie has to contact the coupling if the curve is tight enough. A video of the derailment might be more useful. I don't have my coaches yet but I suspect if I flipped one over it would do the same as yours and contact the coupling if I push it over far enough. The "pizza cutter" deep flanges of older stock were able to compensate for rubbish track (I'm not saying your track is rubbish, it might be great) and stop things derailing that really should have derailed but they look awful, so people generally want more prototypical shallower flanges but the flip side is that track has to be laid better. Does it derail at both ends or does it prefer one end? Please post a picture before you go cutting stuff!

Have you got any more to test on the same track or just the one?

Any updates on what specific MK3 vehicles we can expect?

I don't know the legal situation in Ireland but here in Germany if you don't explicity give them the go ahead to drop it off somewhere like behind the bins or in the carport then they are responsible for any theft if it is just dropped off and not handed to the recipient. For this reason I never give them the go ahead to drop it off anywhere when they send that email the day of the delivery.

Were they three separate orders? DPD have done that to me too! Left 3 boxes full of models out on the drive, despite there being a carport they could have at least put them in. Thankfully it stayed dry that day.

Same here. No Park Royal shipping notification yet. What's the logic behind starting on the Hunslets before the Park Royals are done I wonder? My orders weren't combined.

The added high seat backs in the vestibules certainly lend a different character to the model. It would be interesting to know how common they were.

Yeah that's the one! Nice one DJ

There is a picture or video of one in Inchicore. I can't remember where I've seen it but I made a distinct mental note at the time as it "allowed" me to order these

Were the Hunslets delivered by sea directly to Belfast or through Dublin like the 111s and 201s?

The Hunslets were air-braked were they not?

Ok grand. Thanks. I've created a dated list of all the orders and their numbers and totals since the loyalty programme launched and I've sent it to Patrick to let him update the field to the correct value. I think that's easier for him than sending a load of pdf attachments for him to go through himself and extract the totals from but if he needs them I have them also. I still don't get why the spend progress bar seized up for me though. Hopefully he can resolve that too. Cheers

Ok cool, cheers. I've asked Patrick the same question per email and I'm waiting for his response. Initially he reckoned everything looked ok but that can't really be the case at least from a user's perspective, or else the spend progress bar would have ticked up when the Hunslet order was paid for, but in my case it didn't. At least it's my understanding that the spend progress bar should tick up when an order is actually paid for, not when it's placed or fulfilled etc. Is that assumption actually correct though?

Cheers for the info Stephen. Do you have an idea as to why the spend progress bar didn't move for me when I paid for the Hunslets the other day? It was a bog standard pre-order but it was originally made on the IRM website. Nothing was paid in advance or through partially though. Full balance paid using supplied payment link on Accurascale site but the total spend stayed the same.

I think one of the lads maybe needs to write a comprehensive guide to the loyalty programme and have it linked from the rewards page. I can't see how do you fall down the tiers when it's based on accumulated spend? In your example above the chronology also makes no sense because you seemingly fell to no VIP tier three times in a row, then unlocked bronze and then "fell back" to bronze from bronze. I think there are a few gremlins in the thing. That's heljan. com as well, right? So no migration from IRM stuff going on there I assume as they are completely separate shops but I guess it's the same software.

Oh that's really strange. I don't think it's supposed to be possible to drop a tier. Is it just an erroneous email or have you really been bumped down to Bronze when you look in your profile? Patrick reached out to me this evening to let me know they are investigating my case so that's good.

That's extremely useful information DJ which appears to confirm my suspicions. Much appreciated.

I just noticed my order said payment is due and I believe the Hunslets have arrived into stock so I pinged support and asked for a payment link.

It's definitely broken! I just paid €654 for the Hunslets and while my award points did increase x2 as expected, my total spend is stuck at 2,115.49. @MOGUL do you think you could take a look at this for me or pass it on to the responsible person? (Thanks for sending me the Hunslet invoice btw) It's a fairly significant bug if the spend progress bar makes no progress and people don't move up the tiers as promised. I can't say when it stopped moving for me. I think it failed to increase for the Park Royals (another 500 odd) the other day. I am really sure I should have reached gold status by now. See current screenshots below:

So I would have thought at least the 2983 because I hadn't achieved silver at that stage. That only happened after the migration to Accurascale. But then after that I don't know. It depends if the tier points are supposed to follow the rewards points or if they are completely separate. It would be much more transparent if the spend was itemised so you could see how and when you accrued your status points. The "award" points are itemised, so you can see them accumulating and being cashed in for discount codes, but there's nothing similar for status, it's just a "loading progress bar" display with no further details. Looking back at the forum it seems other had issues with tier points not being migrated properly. Can anyone confirm that partially payments were correctly tracked for the purpose of status and award points?