Quote from: port perran on Today at 09:29:15 AMWhat are the first and third vehicles behind the Clayton please?

@port perran Hi Martin. They are both Farish CCTs. One is 374-785 and the other is 374-641

I tried watching this last night with the sound off as SWMBO was watching telly. Some interesting auto-generated caption!
All very interesting to see what is considered modern, but I think the prices are getting too high for me.
I hope this will encourage more under 50s modellers to join our hobby.
Cheers

Quote from: Carmont on Yesterday at 02:01:49 PMI understand that the yellow triangle on the 24.5Ts was to enable easy identification between them and the lower capacity 21Ts.

Does anyone have a date in respect of when the triangle started to be applied?

Trying to find that myself: Without indicator They come onto the rails early 50's ( Era 4) - Farish lists the yellow triangles as 'Era 5' =  post 1956, AI suggests 1959 but not surprised if it wasnt earlier as the the new wagons were soon found not to fit under a lot of existing colliery loaders that the old 21 tonners would, and later auto loading the same as 21t would have defeated the object of the higher cap - so marking them up would have been important... Suggests to me that these wagons would have tended to be marshalled together , rather than just allowed to mix willy-nilly with 21 and 16t opens

I need to vent.

I like this forum. I do, I spend a good bit of time here. It's a nice community and shows some terrific modelling.

It may be the hot weather we've been having, but...

Why when a new model is announced is it swiftly followed by twice as many negative comments as positive ones? - even when many of the comments apply to existing versions of the same model.

Then there's the comments along the lines of "I won't be buying one - wrong colour/wrong era/wrong number/wrong newspaper on the drivers desk". Great, thanks for letting me know - that's added nothing to the discussion.

Bamboozlement - a number of times questions have been asked, detailed replies have resulted followed by the original question asker coming back with "Erm, thanks but I don't understand a word of what's been said". Often a reply is offered aimed more appropriately to the OPs knowledge level which is great. However, further advanced replies still are still made, which while correct will still be way over the head of the OP and only confuse further.

It's really easy to reply to threads. But pause. Think. Does what I'm about to say add anything useful? Will what I'm about to post confuse rather than clarify? If I'm posting something negative, does it really need to be said? If I do think it needs to be said, has someone already said it?

What are the first and third vehicles behind the Clayton please?

No need to apologise Martin @port perran , it would be very boring if we all liked the same thing! But it is interesting how music often draws different emotions and reactions from individual listeners, much like other art forms.

Tim

Quote from: Newportnobby on Yesterday at 10:28:13 PM

Quote from: Moonglum on Yesterday at 09:28:14 PMI give up... I bet Mick @Newportnobby likes it!

I did, but prefer the version on Seconds Out with 2 drummers instead of 1½

@port perran
Maybe this will chime more with you........

Sorry Mick @Newportnobby it's a  again to that although it is, as you say, a bit "chimey".

And sorry Tim @Moonglum, I was a little too harsh and flippant in being dismissive of your live track so I offer my apologies.

I'm sure Genesis are/were a superb band but none of their work really strikes a chord with me I'm afraid.

British N Gaugers are a bit morose.

This strikes me as great news!!

Personally I thought it was an excellent set of releases, Bachmann showing commitment to the scale. Even if a 37/7 is not what you are after, it's clear many other 37 variants are going to follow.

Appreciate I am new to the hobby so only just starting to build my collection, but the fact my wishlist from releases from over the last 18 months is very long suggests to me Bachmann are doing something right. I get that people who have been in the hobby far longer than me will have less gaps to fill, but I do feel Bachmann get a hard deal sometimes.

Quote from: jpendle on Yesterday at 10:33:33 PMI'm not sure that CL37's count as "modern" these days 

Quite amazing that some of them have now operated as long with private operators as with British Rail in all its forms.