Hornby LMS Brake Van R6079U
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:16:42 GMT
I have often done a search on Hattons (as well as others) for 00 LMS
liveried brake vans and come up with nothing till now, and they only
have one left. R6079U.
How come I have not found this before, is it a new release, how come
nowhere else has it?
Dobbin
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NEWS - Going loco for bank holiday
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:54:33 -0700 (PDT)
Ripley Today
26th August 2009
" The Midland Railway ? Butterley will recreate the traditional
locomotive works open days over the bank holiday weekend ...........
............ Various model railway groups will put on special
displays and the Garden Railway will be up and running, as will the
Butterley ...
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NEWS - UPDATE... Spoilsport thieves de-rail James May's model railway
record attempt
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
North Devon Gazette & Advertiser
25th August 2009
Dave Tanner
" Spoilsport thieves have been blamed for de-railing a televised
record attempt to build the world's longest model railway yesterday
(Monday).
Sections of track and batteries were allegedly taken after television
presenter James May and arou ...
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Bachmann Class 04 motor
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:58:14 +0000 (UTC)
Can anybody identify the motor inside the Bachmann class 04? I have an
old 04, but the motor is burnt out. Bachmann call the part 350-106.
A photograph is here: http://jgoode.co.uk/imagepreview.php?/Misc/P8250040
Thanks,
--James. ...
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AnyRail
Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:27:39 -0700 (PDT)
Anyone used this ?
http://www.anyrail.com/index_en.html
¡ê35 to buy
Chris ...
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Long shot - looking for a plan of an oval with central shared terminus
Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:04:59 +0100
Some years ago I remember looking at a layout with a central terminus,
surrounded by an oval.
Train left, orbited for a bit, then arrived on the other side of the central
platform.
Meets the needs of a local lad, but I cannot find anything on any such
layout on the web.
Anyone seen such a things, I'd like to ...
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Political Railway Joke
Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:22:29 -0700 (PDT)
Went to Butterley the other day and was told this joke.
It's coming up to the next General Election and Gordon Brown's
publicity team decide it would be a good idea for him to travel the UK
by train..
They visit the National Railway Museum to discuss hiring a suitable
locomotive. The curators at the museum w ...
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Model ( German ) Citizens
Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:01:55 -0700 (PDT)
Spiegel Online
21st August 2009
Emma Bullimore
German Politicians Create Their Own Utopia
" Miniature railways and model villages are rarely the venues for
political campaigns, but a new exhibition in Hamburg is seeking to
change that. German political parties have created diminutive visions
of utopia ...
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Railway museum offers train fan Sam, six, from Leicester, a job
Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
Leicester Mercury
Saturday 22nd August 2009
" He is a frequent user of the railways and runs his own electric
model train track at home.
So when the position of National Railway Museum director became
vacant, there was no doubt in Sam Pointon's mind that he was the man ?
or rather the boy ? for the job. ...
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Re: Hornby live steam.
Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:12:16 -0400
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:41:31 +0100, "John Turner"
<nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
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>"MartinS" wrote
>
>> The valve gear was too complicated to replicate in 1:76 live steam.
>
>Why would LMS valve gear be any more complicated to replicate than the LNER
>pattern of the A4 & A3???
He was talking about 1:76 ...
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