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hey best wishes Steve, keep us posted

I am very sorry to disappoint you. I have two of these wagons, still in original blue Airfix boxes. They still have Beatties price stickers on them and have been in my loft for 20-25 years. Never been run as far as I can remember. Both are missing the bomb in the wagon which I find a bit strange be...

Hello John
Happy 2020

A garden layout would suit me fine, long summer evenings sitting and watching the trains with a drink of course

Welcome top the site.

Duncan

Hi all. Happy New Year to everyone. Please can anyone help, I'm looking for the missile that was originally part of the Airfix Dr X set, while there are plenty of wagons available from the usual source none seem to have the missile included. Has anyone got any spare's or unused one's lying around th...

We lived alongside the main line in Macclesfield, south of the station, we had a huge garden that sloped right down the the railway bank and we used to run to the fence on hearing a loco working hard up the gradient on the up line towards Stoke on Trent, they were usually assisted by a banker so it ...

Heljan had motor issues with the Class 17 regarding slow running and I seem to remember a lot going back because of this, your Class 35 may be suffering from a similar problem. I own one that's a slow runner, fortunately it didn't cost me anything as it was given to me to use it as a test bed for de...

brilliant layout, very well done

It not exclusive because on the Dapol site it says register your interest with your preferred Dapol stockist. https://www.dapol.co.uk/You-asked%20for-it-now%20is%20your-chance yes WTD, after a chat with Rails earlier they have had notification from Dapol but have not yet announced it officially yet.

If anyone missed out on the Rails Calendar offer for the Midland 4F today @£59.50 plus post, I have seen a couple available on Ebay for the same price if anyone is interested. I believe Rails have now sold out. Just search BACHMAN 31-883 (yes spelling mistake is correct :D ) seller has 100% and pric...

Had an email earlier from Hattons advising that Dapol are doing a OO gauge re-run of the popular Class 68 in Trans Pennine livery. They are asking for pre-orders to see if there is enough interest to do a production run. For anyone interested due to missing out on the first production Brutus, now is...