Quote from: Papyrus on February 05, 2026, 09:47:09 AMThe most amazing thing has happened!

After months of heavy rain our reservoirs have been full for weeks, so finally, after intense pressure from our MPs...

SE WATER HAVE FINALLY LIFTED THE HOSEPIPE BAN!!

Huzzah!! We can now go out in the rain and water our gardens again.

        

Cheers,

Chris

I think you should now go out and hose down the car, the wife and the cat (not necessarily in that order), just because you can

The most amazing thing has happened!

After months of heavy rain our reservoirs have been full for weeks, so finally, after intense pressure from our MPs...

SE WATER HAVE FINALLY LIFTED THE HOSEPIPE BAN!!

Huzzah!! We can now go out in the rain and water our gardens again.

        

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: Steven B on February 05, 2026, 09:15:29 AMThat said, I'm very happy with my EFE J94s and hopefully the Baby Deltic will be just as good.

If it's anything like as good as the class 17 and class 41 (grounding aside) it should be a cracker

Quote from: EtchedPixels on February 04, 2026, 03:15:51 PM

Quote from: Steven B on February 04, 2026, 03:07:08 PMLikewise, the EFE Rail J94 claimed no links with the proposed DJM model yet if you looked at the CAD there were a lot of differences.

I don't believe Kernow/EFE bought the DJM CAD, however I do suspect the Chinese designer went off and copied someone else's work.

It's a model. Isn't that the whole point of a model 

It can be very hard to tell what was copied.

I meant I felt there were a lot of similarities between the DJM and EFE CAD - and not just the important bits that make it look like a J94. The moldings around the coupling mounting looked identical for example.

That said, I'm very happy with my EFE J94s and hopefully the Baby Deltic will be just as good.

Sad

https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/
Adrian has done a great job for 25 years  and various issues he notes

A couple of people at our club tonight said they believed the site had been closed by the owner owing to their age and the workload involved. I just tried it and the site just says 'Site Closed'.
A sad day, indeed, for a very useful reference tool.

One depot I never got to. It seemed to be miles from Stratford station, which itself was an Art Deco marvel complete with Clacton Units seemingly doing a ton through the station with no yellow "stand back from the edge" markings at all.

Those were the days.

Quote from: Skyline2uk on February 04, 2026, 10:06:09 AMWas going to say the Bachmann announcements was poor for N.

Farish only doing new run of (sound fitted) 101s, some postal coaches, old coal and modern coal hoppers (GBRF).

Really? Admittedly it wasn't exactly a feast of new releases, but at least they are releasing some useful mainstream items. Have we already forgotten about Toiletgate? 

Quote from: martyn on February 04, 2026, 01:53:11 PMThe cl 23s stood outside the works, a different place.

Martyn

The don't works presumably 

Sadly one depot is now under a station and the other under a load of flats.

Quote from: Steven B on February 04, 2026, 03:07:08 PMLikewise, the EFE Rail J94 claimed no links with the proposed DJM model yet if you looked at the CAD there were a lot of differences.

I don't believe Kernow/EFE bought the DJM CAD, however I do suspect the Chinese designer went off and copied someone else's work.

It's a model. Isn't that the whole point of a model 

It can be very hard to tell what was copied. I've seen a load of OO gauge kits and RTR models of things like the class 29 that all have the same mistake, but you can often chase the mistakes back down to all using dodgy sources in the first place. My favourite being a book that had a drawing of a class 29 directly opposite a photograph clearly showing the drawing was wrong