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For general retail: Code 75 FB rail is marketed by Peco, whilst C&L offer Code 83 only. It might be worth seeing whether there's any other FB rail available from HO track suppliers. The finescale societies are not much different in what they offer in the Members' Stores. The EM Gauge Society only has Code 83, which strikes me as a bit "tall", so I held off buying any at the recent annual EMGS show in Bracknell. The Scalefour Society currently stocks both Code 55 and 82 FB. Code 55 would probably be ideal for portraying very lightly-laid lines but may not work very well if you don't use finescale flanges. This weekend is the annual RailEx finescale show in Stoke Mandeville, which is a chance to see if any of the trade stands have suitable stocks of FB.

Dublin Logan. Edit to add: there'd be at least three stations named Logan to represent three EuroSong wins.

Maybe name 'em after Irish EuroSong winners. Plenty to choose from.

Hell will freeze over first

I seem to recall that Lima's early attempts at a Mk1 BG full brake incorrectly came out at a scale 64' instead of 57'. You could do worse than acquiring an old Kitmaster Mk1 BSK or CK kit and using that to break down as per @Mayner 's suggestion

HMRS are not very good at responding to enquiries about drawings they've listed, but not provided a price for.

There's at least fifty shades...

Railway history was always a very poor and distant second

FTFY

Unfortunately antisocial media means that almost everyone does. *shrugs*

I don't think he fully understands it either but, equally, he doesn't really care since it won't affect him personally - his finances (dubious at the best of times) are mostly insulated unlike most of his supporting clientèle.

They don't want to understand it either.

Worst-case scenario: these might be etches from three different types of carriage.

You'd need to find out who supplies the factory in China with its paints. Good luck with that.

I'd be surprised if the chassis has been retooled already.

Probably the best one yet, albeit the centre window on each cab end looks a bit mad.

I have succumbed and booked a pack. It occurred to me that I seem to have quite a lot of IRM stuff to look forward to......

This is exactly the type of thing.

What I was driving at was that, if you designed the layout along the same principles as the Berlin Anhalter project, you would (or should) end up with a lengthy route arranged in a sort of oval spiral. In the space you have available to you, I'd say this is well worth having a go. It would achieve the two or three levels you want in an unbroken run. This would give you the sensation of seeing the trains appear to travel from station to station, running through open sections of line, just as they do when FREMO enthusiasts have a massive get-together and connect loads of different modules together to form a network.

Alternatively, instead of the merry-go-round ovals shown in the original plans, if he builds it as a relaxed spiral end-to-end, the eventual route would be more realistic whilst making his stock actually work for its living. It would be a bit like having FREMO modules all running together at home.

If you do a search on YouTube for BBM Berliner Anhalter Bahnhof, the creator of this quite frankly massive HO layout has built the thing on at least two, possibly three, levels to portray some of the 1930s route between Berlin and Basel, plus an extension to represent the journey to Milan (I think), so the locomotives really do have to work up the gradients. Looks like at least half a lifetime's work.

I expect some of those will turn up on eBay at a significant markup.

Sold out already, apparently. Two hours is a long time in Accurascale pre-orders.

Booked the Railfreight Construction one. Will be interesting to compare it to the very old ex-Triang 31 body I have and see how far we have come in the last 50 years.

I just like the way the roof over the left-hand cab has more overhang than all the others, hence the noticeable shadow.