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**ALL REMAINING MODELS ARE NOW SOLD** Thanks for your interest. Happy Xmas

Many thanks for your kind replies 30907 and IsLineclear - sorry for the delay but loads of Hospital Appts. The SR ground disc signals have gone - so sorry, as has the 4 CEP unpowered motor coach, and the Western National Bedford OWB bus/coach 'Padstow'. I do have a local chap down here near...

Good morning to you all, UPDATED 12/12/2022 I would like to let you all know if I may please, that my recent Southern Steam models Auction with Cottee's in Poole went splendidly well and almost all models were sold. For you budding Modellers out there I do have some special items left to sell...

Edited original title today 05 DEC - to reflect Auction sale has now past Please see new Post below for updates thanks Good morning to you all and hope all are well. I do hope that my models for sale is permitted to be shown here. Due to a Sarcoma Cancer diagnosis I have to sadly see my...

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Lyme Regis branch may have had some success as a steam heritage line -- but like sidmouth the station is not well suited for the town and seafront unlike swanage nothing at combpyne - camping coach there in old days I do not think under pre or post privatization that lyme or sidmouth would...

lol i seem to remember Hoover offering 'free tickets' to the USA some years back upon a purchase of one of their products and the take-up was so huge and Hoover tried to wiggle out of it...they could not...they had to transport the customer from the UK to the USA and back...even putting many of...

yes i see what you mean...but its very clouded in the OP situation don't you agree>? thanks

it seems like megabus.com want to act as agents to sell cheap tickets. just like say thomas cook or bath travel could...ie bulk buy a contract block of seats from a rail or air operator. note that you are not buying it from the actual rail line. if that rail line then tears up that cheap seat...

the crash was when operated by British Airways' (BA) ownership of the routes. Then Bristow took over then became BIH. yes this is a real blow to both communities and the supermarkets greed is rather unpalatable. same big legal wrangles happened in another west country town of Seaton...

Hi Jimm and thanks for your reply, i will just add my comments against yours in quote below in reply (next to each para) cheers! from rog, well you said it lol...''180s a disaster? Not when they WORK they're not, reliability has always been their Achilles heel'' personally i do hope the latest...

i thought that FGW seated advance tickets on the Nt Riv were not upgradebale to buy berths? am i wrong there? and also re the Easement 20004 to back track from PLYM to EXT does that apply to the seated pax as well as berthed? ta

some good reading here... personally i hate the idea of a fragmented half electric and half diesel railway which FGW will become... if this whole package is not correctly purchased now at this stage with the right number of trains at the right length needed then the fiasco will be like when...

yes i loved the 5-WES class 442 too... Southern/GEX have done a great job on the 2nd life re-furbs so SWT should get them back ruddy asap for Weymouth! now i live in Dorset i prefer to go from Dorchester West to castle cary then change and get a FGW HST to Paddington than run the risk of a...

the ''new'' Mk3's with Chiltern look very nice (have yet to try as i now live in Dorset) superb passenger appeal and a ''real train''. my only small concerns (am i correct here?) are now no luggage racks and no vestibule door to separate saloons. only time and in-use experience will tell if...

i love FGW hot grub in 1st class but sadly its only on a few trains now still the bacon baguette from the buffet car is the best around rather yummy (£4)

glad to see the swanage belle ran all ok albeit a wee bit late... saw the black 5 go thru ken olympia 0800ish on her way to pick up pax. re above post from 455driver, slight correction... tornado was taken off the 2nd leg of the excursion but was not rescued by 66018, the class 66 took the...

best of luck, more railways need to re-instated to get rural folks especially out of their cars where possible and for tourism as well. i have just spent 2 weeks on the Minehead line with Tornado (ok, we had a celebrity with us lol) but the line was mobbed. they have a 4-500 team of...

he def said 3 yrs old... i just watched the show again and at 51 mins the tender shot from the air (tyne yard, NCL, coaling) Tornado looks like she has about half a tender of coal left? i know the bunker slopes down forward so there is not half a full tender left but quite a lot is there.

told you it was gonna be good,:D the chopper shots are amazing ! we saw the chopper at 50' above, alongside and all the way! only one glaring error he said the loco was 3 years old, shes not shes not even 1! btw we had a fantastic run last night back from folkestone on tornado we tore up the...