RoacIslandRay

I am sure when these were first announced East Anglian was to be in wartime black. Now it seems to be in LNER apple green?

Think I've found it - slight contact between wheel and fitted front steps. Shaved off a mm from back edge of steps seems ti have done it but will test properly tomorrow with better light.

Thanks for tip - I took bogie off this morning can't see any obvious distortion. b2b are 14.2mm as are the drivers. Might be some fouling on the front steps meantime ordered a new bogie just in case. She seems happy enough on my own layout with 36" curves. Halton - I remember a navigation course there as a cadet in school CCF great fun lots of flying.... happy days.

Built a first layout for great grandson - all Hornby track - and am using it as a test track to give some of my locos a run round the radius 2 track. R3000 Sir Harold Mitchell will not run anticlockwise; as soon as it moves onto the left curve the front inner bogie wheel lifts up and the whole bogie slides off to the right. Run it clockwise - no problems. Sister engine 61310 R3318 runs perfectly either way. Can't see any obvious fouling of the bogie truck. Any ideas anyone?

Trying to rebuild grandson's old Hornby layout for a great grandson, I've hit a problem with crossings - R614 or R615, not being familiar with the Hornby system. Assuming a mainline running horizontally across, and a crossing track coming up from bottom right to top left - do I need R614 or R615? Cannot tell from the track geometry plan, but I think R615??

Arrived today R3704 R&H 48DS - lovely little loco. Can imagine there will be a demand for V-Tipplers etc to tow behind it. Ray S

A Hornby Peckett B2 arrived this morning - lovely little loco, companion for the W4. Already renamed - thanks Modelmaster for the plates - now how do I lose the APC roundels without wrecking the Hornby matt paint?

Sympathise with LCDR over the parcel problem, but the two B12's got smuggled in safely and only the little Peckett caused an upset. Expensive year - 2 x J15, 2 x D16/3, 1 x 7MT, 2 x B12, 1 x J50 and the Peckett for my yet-to-be-bult sugar beet plant. Ah well, next year looks to be quieter !