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Yeah great news. I have ordered the flying snail ones. I must be doing something wrong because I don't ever seem to get the partially button. I just opted to pay by card. I also noticed that when you click on checkout pre-orders without opening up the list of pre-orders, it just emties your cart and you have to start again. This happened to me with the Bulleids too. After starting again I was careful to click the drop down arrow to display the pre-order list before clicking on "checkout pre-orders" and then it went to the checkout (but like I said, no partially option was visible there, only the CC option).

Top work!

Roll on March! These will sell out the moment people start seeing them in the flesh, if not beforehand.

They have a speaker fitted in the factory Chris. You just need to pop the bonnet off and fit a sound decoder.

That large circular US layout was Eight Dollar Canyon.

"Honey I shrunk the baby"

My first time at Warley. I'm surprising the young lad on Friday after school when we head to the airport instead of home. Very much looking forward to it.

I suspect regular use was made of the TPO's letter box for urgent letters.

13 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Cue the IRM range of MGWR, GSWR & GNR prototypes!!!

And as an analogue to Accurascale's Powering Britain range these could form part of the Emigrating Ireland one.

I'd probably have to pass on GSR and earlier stuff, for the moment anyway. I will take anything that would have been on the rails in both 1962ish and 1995ish. Seems like the GSR livery would have been gone by the 60's for sure.

Does anyone have more details on the weedspray train's evolution from these triangulated chassis? Did the tanks get removed from the Bulleid wagons and placed directly onto the 42' flats or was there an intermediate 20' wagon used?

Has there already been discussion about which other wagons are based on this chassis? Any pics for those of us with little clue about wagons from that era?

First I have heard of them!

Thanks a lot for organising Paul! Sounds like things went very well and everyone was happy.

Just marvellous. The moss on the roof is a nice touch!

Thanks chaps. A mine of information as always

Did the double decker beet wagons in use in the mid 90s use the same chassis or were the bodies welded onto a later chassis type?

3 hours ago, minister_for_hardship said:

I don't know where getting the flying snail/broken wheel logo bit from. I've never seen a pic of them carrying either of these logos.

These terms (flying snail and cie roundel) are used in the descriptions of the wagon packs according to IRM. 

But the packs with the flying snail description would be suitable for a layout based in say 1962?

I'll be ordering the green n grey era ones. Great to see a new chassis enter the range.

Lovely setup Jack. I hope you find some new fremo friends at the show. It's a great concept.

41 minutes ago, Noel said:

She's very quiet, must be a HFC powered rather than HCE

Yep, says so in the youtube description:

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This vehicle uses hydrogen cells like batteries, drawing from them the energy needed to power the electric traction motors that power the entire locomotive.

Same. I always assumed H would be the fuel of the future for everything but BEV development is clearly moving at pace. There are (admittedly luxury) cars that already have the battery range of similar ICE vehicles. Batteries are becoming more energy dense, lighter, cheaper and even safer (from the point of view of fire) every year. I am pretty sure we will see BEVs with much greater range than ICEs in the coming years. The trend is really clear now.

H remains a viable fuel for those buses and HGVs but even there I reckon batteries will be so good in twenty years that justifying the infrastructure maintenance costs for H will be very difficult. There is already a Tesla truck tractor unit on the market. It doesn't yet have the range but it has the power. The range will come.

Yeah I "model" 1994/1995 (though I may make an exception and allow a 1992 mail train some day!). No black or grey roofs and no Galway livery yet at that stage. The coaches were kept reasonably clean. The orange roofs were even clearly visible on the EGVs most of the time. Living dangerously for me is mixing IR and IE stock together lol.

Nah I sold them in the end and ordered the new MM ones instead