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I heard about this first on Twitter and I was definitely shocked about this at first, but I'll be brutally honest and say I'm not entirely surprised by this announcement. The cancellation of the Beilhack Snowploughs & the Plasser 12 ton crane should have been (to be honest) an early sign that...

I'm assuming that the Nova 3s will be withdrawn on the 10th of December? As that's when the December Timetable change occurs.

You'll have to ask Matt about that I think, I have no idea unfortunately

Okay so I turns out (and I clearly missed this) the files & apparently all the forum posts themselves are not actually permanently gone, according to Matt they're still there but it's just the servers themselves that have now gone offline. So all the 22 year odds worth of content is still...

Just gonna bump this thread slightly, about several minutes ago (as of writing this) UKTS has now officially died marking it's 22 year lifespan. Many many MSTS files hosted on that site now lost to time which is just a massive shame. Some great memories downloading stuff from that site plus...

Yes, both the DVT & the 91 have a Day & Night switch at the bottom of the underframe, still sadly not on a function button from the decoder

It did surprise me somewhat that trains with still a lot of life left in them are going for scrap, but clearly seems it was inevitable. They've been sat in storage since they last ran on the Heathrow Connect (TFL Rail) services back in 2020 and have nowhere else to go. I would imagine that...

Each coach has a special semi-permanent coupler that was made specifically for the mk4 sets so you can close couple as the standard tension lock coupling distance is diabolical (pics below). It's not perfect however as it's a bit of a faff getting them into the NEM socket (reminds me of...

Just received my first lot of new Mk4 rolling stock to go with the LNER 91. Will be getting a full rake pretty soon.

It would have been part of the Stobart Rail Pullman Charter Service which would have usually been sandwiched between mk3as

A couple of days ago I went up to Scotland to stay in Fort William for a short holiday. On one particular day I went down to Inverness and made a small 'detour' onto a Scotrail service for a short hop to this small town called Dingwall which had a model shop named "Sports & Model Shop" I picked...

I just found out what it means LOL

What does that mean, enlighten me please :P

A new purchase for me (not actually in brand new condition, second hand) paid what I consider to be quite a reasonable price for this considering the newer tooled ones are over double the amount. Will go with some new coaching stock that I'm currently awaiting.

Surprisingly it's quite a nice model for it's price, it's definitely better than the old 80s tooling one which is becoming massively out of date. Hornby have started to step up their game by having lights which are actually controllable (Head & Tails etc) and a 21 Pin DCC socket which is a...