81F

Just bought another two corridor Midland Clerestories. I will soon be polishing away the "Midland" and the class designations (which I have already done for anther 3) and fixing GWR and Garter transfers as per the 1908 Olympic GWR clerestories. Once re-varnished these make quite a passable representation of the 1912-1922 GWR maroon and looks quite presentable alongside the 1908 coaches. The only tip I have is don't polish away (with Brasso)the old markings too hard otherwise you'll go through to the black plastic.

81F said: Not really a new acquisition but I've just taken delivery of a Blue B12 body and tender. I am now combining these with an old Triang Hall chassis with some other B12 bits in my bit box to make a whole loco.- just need to find some short crank pins screws to finish the job before servicing. Typical - Just ordered some new body screws (about 10! only to find the now surplus one holding the Halls plastic cylinders to the frame extension is the same!

Not really a new acquisition but I've just taken delivery of a Blue B12 body and tender. I am now combining these with an old Triang Hall chassis with some other B12 bits in my bit box to make a whole loco.- just need to find some short crank pins screws to finish the job before servicing.

Just got the new Star lovely runner but I nearly dropped it. Caught it but managed to break the rear of the Cylinder and slide bars off. I stuck them back together and all works well but have damaged some of the lining. hmmmm Now if I were to graft a front buffer beam from my spare County 4-4-0body and het some Grange cylinders,piston rod and pony truck I might end up with a decent Saint!

According to the post office tracking system my blue box company pannier was delivered and signed for by GK at 12:45 yesterday, I even got an email to confirm this. However, despite being in all day and signing for another package I haven't got the pannier and no one here has the initials GK! This is also the second parcel to go missing, the first was around this time last month (a red Hornby LT pannier body), when I took the card to the local delivery office 24 hours later they had already given it to another customer! Fortunately the seller sent me another. As this is also the third package to go missing this year do people think this is odd (note I am lodging a complaint) but I am now worried about my pre-ordered star and other items.

walkingthedog said: Which one is it 81F?36-558A.

poliss said: Have you got time to un-order it? There are a lot of things you can't do with it. Ordered it new on ebay so I don't think I can un-order it. However, I only want it to go backwards and forwards, program it with the locos number and hopefully switch off any acceleration settings, so I hope it will be OK. It is also of the direct plug in type.

poliss said: Don't use the 6 pin decoder from the B Team. Why? - You have me worried, I've just ordered one!

PS probably should have said this I think this was a special from On Tracks - I placed a pre order for it probably around a year ago!

Just taken delivery of an Electrotren Great Western 0-6-0 saddle tank, based on an ex Taff Vale loco. see http://www.modelrailforum.com/images/OnTracks/GV2005.jpg It is a really smooth runner and I hope will be easy to convert to DCC. The only trouble is I couldn't see if it was DCC ready. However, when I took the body off there is a six pin plug that pulls out at the front of the chassis which I assume is for the decoders usually used in n gauge. Looking at the chassis I wonder if Hornby could use it to make proper British outline models - The small outside cylindered panniers for example or even a Pecket 0-6-0ST

I had the same problem with my Midland Compound and County, These tender bodies are really stiff

An alternative might be to do what I have done with my Railroad Flying Scotsman and County 4-6-0 and that is buy a detailing pack off eb@y (assuming one becomes available)

On the old Hornby Triang pannier GWR 8751 (and probably the red L90) the body screw is definitely on the left hand side (looking to the front of the chimney just behind the front splasher. Sorry but I do not know where it is on the jinty as I never had one that old.

As mentioned elsewhere the 52XX and 42XX

Just had to get the Scaledale City Dry Cleaners - it is so like a building I was trying to scratch build it will save me the difficulty (particularly as its on the far side of the layout with another house in front! All I have to do is add a window, a chimney, repaint the roof Change the shop type and possibly render the walls!

Last thing was the Hornby L&Y pug and a blue boxed Ivatt class4 260 sometime last month. Am not buying much at the moment as I have the 42, 52 and 72XX on pre-order as well as the Star. As I am having to save my spending limit each month any delay in the release date is somewhat beneficial!

Sorry should have said my post was about the Arthur Askey Ghost Train

Just been looking at the DVD to try and identify the locos. In the opening credits there are 3 of what I am sure are Kings. The first exiting the tunnel looks like 60?2, Could be 6002 or 6022 the ? figure looks too rounded for a 1. Then I'm almost certain it's 6004 on the sea front followed by the GWR streamliner King Henry VII (I don't think its the castle as the name plate seems to be made up of three shortish words. There is also a shot of dean Goods 2441. The only other one I can be positive about since there is a good shot of the locos bufferbeam just before the switch to the model going off the bridge. How about a limited edition with a loco powered dean standard goods and a few toplights!

Just looked at the item on this website and I wonder what you actually get? The illustration shows a GWR 14XX not the one in the film and a GWR brake van (not a BR(W) liveried one. However the illustration on the box looks right. This dicrepancy certainly outs me off ordering one. As an aside I think a resin coach body more akin to the "stagecoach" style one in the film would have been better than the horrible hornby four wheeler - could they have used a Liverpool and Manchester (ex Rocket) coach body instead? Having said that it is good to see Hornby commemorating this film - Funny thing is I was actually walking along one of the Streets the stolen loco was driven through lastweek!

I would like to see the old LIMA GWR siphon G re released, but possibly on a new underframe either using the old Airfix GWR bogies or the new Hawkesworth ones. This would be a very nice model as the lima body diesn't look too bad. The only drawback with the original was the BR Mark 1 Bogies with their moulded plastic couplings.

List a smokebox dart from one of my granges - spent ages fabricating one from handrail wire and part of a broken screw link coupling. Although it looks OK from a distance I would have liked a proper replacement.

You could always couple them up to a non motorized tender and use them for double headding. Once I have received a spare cab and a few other bits I will be joining up a spare Hornby catle body with a Hawkesworth County tender and my old Airfix castle chassis. Having said that my castles will pull a five coach train (the maximum allowable on my layout) with ease so a double header with only four is going to look decidedly odd!

The ex Airfix ones will probably not but with the ease of servicing and spare consumables (carbon brushes/traction tyres) I will probably be able to keep mine going for that long providing I don't burn out the armitures.

In reply to "Conversion to DCC is possible for all types but the criteria is the loco/motor combination MUST perform faultlessly before conversion." Providing you can totally isolate the motor from the wheels and find space for the Chip.

Tried to reply to da4472vid's posts but won't let me add anything, so here goes. The second loco is a County tank - I've always wanted one of these. In their later form they received extended bunkers and curves just in front of the cylinders so that they looked vey much like the 61XX prarie. Indeed I have the body of a hornby prarie purged on one of the redundent tender drive 440 counties on a spare corner of my layout!. If I can source a suitable set of rear wheels I mighttry to cobble one together using the Railroad county chassis as soon as I can obtain one.