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You have been threatening to sell these for months on end. I thought you were going to put them on eBay for $1 million each:p

Is there a link to that still? Searched this site and could not find it

Paddy, That's a very nice looking station building. Like the prototypical look of the brick edged in limestone block, Nothing like that available to buy as far as I'm aware. I presume you scratchbuilt it?

Nice job, Eamonn!

Cool!

That was an awful accident, John. Basically the poor guy is a vegetable with a profound traumatic brain injury. The settlement amount imposed on KiwiRail by the court is actually very small despit being the highest ever granted. While we laugh regularly about H&S and the need still-capped boots etc., there are times when it does need to be adhered to and these are the instances where it seems to be more frequently ignored.

Would someone explain what is the difference between MKI and MkIII gangways referred to in the thread? Secondly for clarity are the terms "Steam Heating Van" and "Heating (& Luggage) Van - HLV" synonymous, I.e have a boiler for the production of steam only for train heating, with train lighting being provided by dynamos on the bogies? If so, is the term Generating Steam Van (GSV) synonymous with the terms above or do these vans have both boilers for heating and generators for electricity to provide lighting e.g. Train Line (TL) on Cravens and earlier stock With the introduction of MkIId's, MkIIa's & MkIIIs, lighting and electric heating was by means of the appropriate MKII, MKIII EGV or Converted/Rebuilt Dutch EGV(?)

Saw that. They're green but they don't have the Guaranteed Irish mark :praying::praying:

Nice tutorial, John. Enjoyed reading that for the less experienced kit builder:tumbsup:

The Philly crash is pretty odd, two guys in an excavator that was hit by the train, possibly hit the boom, details unclear. The video of the Thailand crash is like deja vu, no care taken by driver to cross the double line, brakes at last moment but front of bus already impinging onto the second line. Three dead and if any more of the bus had been on the line it would probably been all on board

Yes, that's very interesting. The yellow step and grab handle seems to be common to all the wagons but the new red H&S floor and railings are obviously to provide a safe walkway over the air and vacuum piping/ cylinders etc for access to either end of the pocket. Since I'm not aware of any containers with half-doors:D, I wonder if it's for access for monitoring/control e.g. a reefer placed in the pocket?

That's very interesting, that they had them, lost them, and the explanation of them being used as spares makes a lot of sense now. I can't access my book on Metrovicks right now (it's on the wrong continent) but seems like the wipers were as reliable as the engines!

Any photo for those not so familiar?

You beat me to it, Harry. I've noticed the absence of a wiper on the 'fireman's side' many time before but was saving the question until we were quite done with headlights. I presume they were all retrofitted at some point but wasn't sure when. It's interesting that the fireman was there as another pair of eyes in some/all circumstances but had no wiper when it would have been most needed, and that 121's had wipers both sides but were (initially) running bonnet first!

Yes that's a problem alright. I need to finslise delivery details with them but they have not responded to emails that I sent several weeks ago and this week. With an 11 hour time difference, it's not possible to get them on the phone either. Not too happy about thta at the moment:mad:

Some great shots! Thanks for posting:cheers:

Still scratching my head like Stepehen. Were you planing something for here?

That's a shame. Nice looking tram. Luckily no one more injured than the vehicle itself!

Kieran, I think the plan is for release later this year. John will be on line shortly, no doubt. Looking forward to these

Bus depot is superb. Before my time in Belfast but fantastic job and collection of buses=D=D

Well it's Mac compatible for a start without having to run Windows Parallels or any other malarkey, so I'm going to be giving this a go, methinks:tumbsup:

Understood, hoping the 'Centennial' might agree:praying:

John, sorry to go back to the previous post but did you do up the scale plan of the interiors or does it come from Comet? Ok, it's close but not quite April 1st:confused: So this is to stop it falling into the sea?

Love that shot through the window. Excellent effort! Any chance of posting the interior shots as a resource for others?

It's self weathering especially around the exhaust, a slow starter, but definitely ready to run eventually.