GrandBealette finished her first year of school today. Here she is with her teacher.



A long road ahead, but a great start.

Quote from: Newportnobby on December 18, 2025, 10:35:28 PMJust in the interest of fairness/balance RM did deliver exactly as they said they would this week
Strangely, they got it right but never requested feedback

Me too. Also haven't requested feedback yet.

I used to travel from Bristol to Crewe during my college days. In 1966 and 1967 the 'recommended' route was via Newport and Shrewsbury but around 1968 this changed to using the NE/SW trains via B'ham NS. The motive power via Newport was almost always a Western hydraulic loco but via B'ham it was almost always a Peak (although I can remember a Class 31 being used from Birmingham to Gloucester on one occasion - possibly a failure substitute).
I honestly cannot imagine a regular service from York to Cornwall using Oxford although my girlfriend (now wife of 55 years) did get diverted that way on one occasion following a crash.
Earlier this year my train from Bristol was diverted through the Severn Tunnel and Chepstow following a bridge strike. Even that short diversion added 75 minutes to the journey!

Just in the interest of fairness/balance RM did deliver exactly as they said they would this week
Strangely, they got it right but never requested feedback

My recent "lightly weathered" Class 41 was just fine.

I doubt they test them. Spray, box, go. Not surprised there's overspray on the wheels, disappointing as that is.

After the madness that is Mr Blobby, let's return to some serious love song stuff.......

I believe @Hailstone has had something weathered by Rails so maybe he could comment

Quote from: Stevie DC on December 18, 2025, 04:38:18 PM

Quote from: madchadbrad on December 17, 2025, 01:27:59 PMI just tried to express my interest in some BR lined maroon versions but cannot get their system to register any number other than "0" for the DBT 2P-010-404. All the other ones I selected had a pull down menu for the quantity but not that one!
Anyone else had a problem?

Hi, I've just tried this on my computer and didn't find any issue with the drop down menu. Could you try again please?

If you keep experiencing the same issue, let me know and I'll raise this with the marketing team to see if it is an occasional glitch.

Many thanks.

I just tried again on my laptop, rather than my iPad, and it finally worked OK.
I had sent Dapol a message about it and they said it had been a problem on mobile phones and they thought had been fixed but they would check it again.
Maybe it had been fixed or maybe it was my iPad!
All sorted now anyway.

Well that takes the biscuit! Let's have a bit of class, loved her since the 1980s so here she is live...


Phew...

Tim