I've got one. It's more detailed than the Farish model (not hard). It has a representation of the buffing plates and the drop head buckeye couplings.

It looks a bit over scale, but I've not measured. I plan to finish mine in Europhoenix. I'll get to it one day.

Here are a couple of anthemic Snow Patrol songs I'm listening to amongst others tonight

What an inspiring example of sacrifice for the greater good!

Mind you, many of us thought the bus stop was entirely mythical, what with the UFOs and all. Now we will never know for sure. 

Cheers,

Chris

Did someone make it? Farish's class 91 is too scarce and expensive, and although they didn't have interior, CMAC model offer class91/dvt and MK 4 coaches on ebay.

https://ebay.io/m/QWt3FT

Bus stop pics.

Please note that I recently deleted a whole heap of photos to free up the forum server. Unfortunately, just about all of the pictures on this thread were the first casualties.

Sorry!;

Quote from: Papyrus on September 20, 2026, 04:01:36 PMAnother plea for help, I'm afraid.

We have a Brother L3210 laser printer which has developed a fault I can't seem to rectify. Most of the time now prints come out with a band of smudges down the left hand side:


I've gone through the troubleshoot pages and tried everything they suggest - I've cleaned the corona wires, cleaned the drums, changed the toner cartridge but nothing has made any difference. Mrs P is getting frustrated because she has a lot of printing to do - she's never liked the printer anyway - but I'm reluctant to shell out for a new one. Has anybody come across this before, and if so, what did you do about it?

Curiously, I printed off a photo on to photo paper this morning and it was absolutely fine.

All ideas considered!

Cheers,

Chris

You mention it printed a photograph OK which would use the three colours (if it was a colour picture  ) So it could be the black toner cartridge has a fault, especially if it's one of those off-brand or re-manufactured ones.
Worth a try rather than splashing out on a new printer and inks, especially if you don't print much, as I tend to agree with others that inkjet dries out too quickly if not used regularly.

Quote from: ntpntpntp on September 21, 2026, 06:55:54 PMWe moved to laser printers many years ago due to infrequent use but sometimes print in volume.  Inkjets just kept getting clogged through lack of regular use.

I agree that inkjets are still better for photo quality printing but it's very rare that we bother to print photos.  We do have an inkjet sitting in a corner, which reminds me I should fire it up and put a test page through it.

Likewise - I use an old HP CP1515N colour laser which, on decent paper/card, does a reasonable job of photos and does a nice job of model railway scenic paper. I can also refill the cartridges up to 3-4 times before they lose quality.

I got it when I was still doing a lot of photography and it was fine for, say, calendars. If I had any images that I really wanted as large, top quality, prints I used to send them off to a company that did them for me on proper chemically processed photo paper at a very reasonable price.
I had an A3 inkjet printer which could produce beautiful prints but would frequently stop printing one colour partway through, wasting both the paper and all the other inks - hence sending the images away to be done.

I do have an inkjet printer sat in the corner but I only use the scanning facility on it as it's LAN connected so I don't have to faff around swapping USB leads. I'd be extremely surprised if it could print anything without replacing all the cartridges.

We moved to laser printers many years ago due to infrequent use but sometimes print in volume.   Inkjets just kept getting clogged through lack of regular use.

I agree that inkjets are still better for photo quality printing but it's very rare that we bother to print photos.  We do have an inkjet sitting in a corner, which reminds me I should fire it up and put a test page through it.

Our old Canon inkjet was a pain in the neck to keep the nozzles clear, which is partly why we were persuaded to switch to a laser. However, we have found the print quality to be poorer - the supposedly black print is barely better than dark grey and photo printing is awful. Whether we were just unlucky or they are all like that, I don't know, but we are hoping that an inktank printer might give us what we need with fewer maintenance problems.

Cheers,

Chris

As long as your Inkjet printer is used frequently then that should be fine.

But for infrequent use a Laserjet is a better deal as the toner cartridges don't dry out like Inkjet cartridges.

Regards,

John P