Silver Fox 17

Since TT 120 was announced nearly everyone shouts "at last, true scale", well have scale gradients then. Keep tyres for the roads (and European models if they wish), I have read the European 66 will have tyres, thankfully I will have a British one without.

What do you mean 'traction tyres are nowhere in sight for the A3/4's"? Are they looking at putting them on? I certainly hope not, tyres are okay for cars and the Paris Metro but definately not for our trains.

A friend of mine, who is 3mm only, was talking about this for his exhibition layouts last October at Gaydon, so, I sent him a Hornby one and within an hour or so of receiving it the rerailer works on any ballasted track. From what I remember it did not take too much to modify.

Yes, I did on some Shapeways items until I found out so keep my value below the threshold £135 mark.

In the October 22 catalogue Mk1 full brakes and open seconds were mentioned. February 2023 Gresley coaches were seen at the Glasgow show so hopefully at least one of those will be in the new list.

A bit of a waste in my opinion, model wise they are telling us the HST's are nearly ready as they have the final painted samples yet we already have the production models now. Other than that details of an exhibition and the new announcement date.

Ha ha, dont worry, I personally don't watch these anyway lol.

I already have 2 of the flat wagons, very nice and easy to put together.

Three Peakes models are bringing out another new wagon in TT 120. The advert states 00 and N but the order page has TT 120 on so I have ordered mine. From the description these were L&Y with a few going on in LMS days until about 1930 although a small handful made it till 1970 for companies like Cabury's. For modellers with set periods it might not be appropriate but for me who will run anything it is yet another variation to add to the goods yard.

From being on the track they did seem to be random heights, not much in it but not like all the others. The main difference is they dont seem to centralise as they should and seem more softer in the lateral swing. Certainly different to everything else I have, which is a lot.

I received 6 HST coaches today and not one would couple up like the Mk1's or Pullmans. Trying to couple normally they would randomly uncouple, an issue which I never had with any others. To cure this I had to physically hand push each pair together quite hard and since I have had no problem being able to leave the set running like I can with all the others.

Dodge, I have come across these in my spares box and willing to swap if you want? The only thing is I would want a black set, are yours green or black? Getting a black set would save me painting these.

The A1/3/4 are the same parts, it is just colour that is different and Peters spares have one set of wheels, one set of valve gear and 9 bogies in at this moment in time. The problem is really they have not differentiated to the A4. I will say I have no idea about the rear set of driving wheels as the A4 has the lubricator drive attached but the wheel sets I get do have 3 different ones, the front set with shallow depth crankpins to fit behind the valve gear, centre ones with longer crankpins and gear wheel, and rear set with longer crankpins than the front which could be for "play" and or lubricator drive. I only use black to replace green on the A1 and painted some red, green and silver for the Corgi models.

Driving wheels, bogies, trailing wheels, tender wheels, tender frames, tender keeper plates, loco keeper plates, loco gears, motor holding plate, loco pick up plungers, loco/tender connectors, valve gear assembly are all available from Peters spares. I have had a few driving wheels and bogies from them, in fact this week just bought 3 sets of driving wheels.

Here are the two different curves of stressed and destressed.Here you can see the overlap of stressed curves giving a smaller diameter than it should be.

The curve was not the same, you could actually see the stressed curve was slightly tighter than it should have been.

Without destressing the curves the track diameter is less than its specified radius by a considerable amount, and, the ends of a circle overlap by about an inch or more. Once destressed, and without cutting/filing any rail, the circle was the correct diameter, the rail ends met, and there were no gaps in either rail at any of the 12 joints. There was nothing wrong destressing the curves, nothing was broken, many did it and we were all happy with a full and correct sized oval of track.

I had 4 sets which equaled 48 curves and everyone had the correct length rails, both inner amd outer, and when destressed there was no need to file anything off with all rail ends meeting as they should.

The advert states "unveiled at Model Rail Glasgow" which is wrong, I and many others saw it at Sheffield the week before and it is possible others saw it before that.

Mine didn't. I pre ordered 6 early last year, then, when they arrived in this country I quickly ordered 3 of another and 3 of the third version and all 12 came at once. I was surprised but postage itself would not be an issue anyway as each set were all over the £50 anyway.