Moxy

Yes, Angel Trains have sold some former British HST's to Mexico. https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/more-british-high-speed-trains-head-to-mexico/

Cambrian Model Rail bought a lot of Eileen's metal stock from the liquidators and have started to sell it. https://www.cambrianmodelrail.co.uk/store/Brass-Micro-section-c151558586

According to this post from the other thread It appears one was repainted as early as 1964.

Corgi do a Morris LD in 1:76 https://uk.corgi.co.uk/products/morris-ld-van-devon-general-dg201017

Pagefield would appear to apply only to the plot of land where the iron works was built, but where the name originally came from I don't know. It wasn't a separate district, it is almost in the centre of Wigan, not far from Wigan Wallgate station. The sidings serving the iron works were off the Wigan-Southport line.

Glad I could help. Walker Bros were based in Wigan, where I now live so I have always had an interest in what they produced. It's not really surprising there is not much info about, it's over 80 years since those railcars were built, and 60 years since Walker Bros shut down.

Don't know if this is the same one, but Grace's Guide https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Walker_Brothers_(Wigan) gives the following. '1936 Made a light railcar for the Paita-Pauira section of the Peruvian Corporation Railway, with a Gardner 6LW engine. A similar pair of railcars was supplied to the Sao Paulo Railway of Brazil. The design was based on that of railcars supplied to Ireland.' Could the above railcar be a Brazilian one, rather than Argentinian? If it is sat on LMS lines, that makes it standard gauge, so likely to be one of the Brazilian railcars. Walker Bros archives apparently went to Wigan Library, but don't appear to be available online.

Yes, they do come with optional lower footboards, original specifications here https://www.hattons.co.uk/directory/versiondetails/article?id=599

That's Kyle of Lochalsh. It could be a Gresley coach, likely to be in Departmental use, it looks like it is painted in olive green. No idea what the coach beyond is.

Cheshire Lines Committee* goods warehouse, Warrington Central Here is an earlier picture, before it lost the wooden goods hoists off the front: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6497795 It still survives, but it's posh flats nowadays. *The Cheshire Lines Committee was a joint line, owned by Great Central, Great Northern & Midland Railways. It remained nominally independent at the 1923 grouping, but it was run by the LNER & LMS from that date.

Excellent stuff. A question for those of us who live on the wrong side of the Irish sea, in the UK. Is the 6 month installment option available to UK residents? I couldn't see it on the checkout page. Thanks

Hi Mike I'm no expert on Irish buses, but this is what I have been able to find so far. Bus manufacturers made the chassis, and with a very few exceptions, the bodies were usually built by separate coachbuilding firms who gave the bodies their own 'style.' The Guy Arab II did run in Belfast. HERE is a link to MZ7421. Belfast also had the later Guy Arab III chassis. I'm not familiar enough with the Farish model to tell if the bodywork is similar to the Belfast version. The Leyland Atlantean. Arguably Leyland's most successful bus with over 8000 built. As you would expect, there have been many different body styles built on that chassis over the 38 years it was in production. The Farish model appears to be based on an Eastern Coach Works (ECW) body, with the separate engine bustle at the rear. Similar bodies were available on the big island from Northern Counties and from Alexander. As far as I can tell, all of CIE's Atlanteans were bodied by Van Hool McArdle, who designed a body without the distinctive rear engine bustle. The answer to your question whether an Atlantean matching Farish's body style ran in Ireland I am 99% sure is no, unless anyone else knows differently. If you want to find details of a specific bus, Bus Lists on the Web is a useful starting point, although not all the photo links from that site to Flickr work. https://www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/ Hope this helps. Moxy

Here you go https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/5602911737/ (not mine I hasten to add) Have a look through Northernblue109's Flickr stream, he has done hundreds of different liveries on trains, buses and trucks. These are the Irish ones: Here's everything

They do indeed, it's Slaters reference 0436. Slater's own website is not the easiest to navigate, but their products are widely stocked by other retailers, it should be fairly easy to find.

I haven't seen or used one, but it looks like a loco chip for the Airfix Multiple Train Control system, an early version of DCC from 40 years ago. http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/MTC.htm You could drive up to 4 trains (out of 16) at once. I don't think they ever got very far with this MTC, I think they went bust only a couple of years after it was introduced, and I don't remember Mainline/Palitoy reintroducing it after they took Airfix over. An interesting piece of model railway history, but unless you already have an Airfix MTC, not much use for anything.