Looking forward to it, John.  

Quote from: Cols on November 21, 2025, 03:38:25 PMIf I remember correctly, the Dapol Gresley 61'6" stock has an error in the bogie centre to centre measurement (too short). (Minitrix apparently got this right.)
Will these new Buffet Cars and BGs have the correct 43' centre to centre measurement? 
Just wondering... or is an error being perpetuated..?

I believe (others can step in here) the first batch was the worst with the bogies about 2mm inward of the correct positions. Later batches corrected the error to a degree but still about 1mm off. As far as I am aware Dapol will be using existing tooling for the underframes of these models.

Speaking for myself, having many Dapol Gresleys (and indeed some maroon Minitrix ones) it is a compromise I am happy to live with on these newly announced models and isn't all that visible except on the very first batch which do look a tad "tippy-toe".

I am wondering when we will get a further update...

Roy

If I remember correctly, the Dapol Gresley 61'6" stock has an error in the bogie centre to centre measurement (too short). (Minitrix apparently got this right.)
Will these new Buffet Cars and BGs have the correct 43' centre to centre measurement? 
Just wondering... or is an error being perpetuated..?

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such an informative set of postings !

TY

John, I do hope you can post some more!!
I can say every part of you series provided me with knowledge which was new and I am now looking forward to some extra 'special editions, in the future.
BW
Firstone18

Quote from: Train Waiting on November 21, 2025, 10:17:49 AMBut first, I'll need to consult our SussexSage and Bluebell Railway correspondent - Floreat vapor!

John

I've been called a lot of things in my time, but 'sage' is not a description that has frequently been applied to me!

  

Cheers,

Chris

Yeah, I have had issues with Royal Mail as well. When I log in, nothing works. When I don't log in, then tracking works. I finally found  their contact info after weeding through all their "we don't want to hear from you" BS and logged in my complaint. What I get back from them several times, is the canned BS message of sending them the instances of the issue and  screen shots. What operating system and what browser I was using. I sent them screen shots, what browser, what operating system and what the issue was. Their response several times was to send the canned BS message asking for the same stuff. I responded  telling them I had already sent them that, and that they should read the history file, if there was one. I finally received a different email stating that everything was working as it should.

So basically, if you want to track your history of your shipments, don't log in. Are you kidding me? It seems they dropped my case as they haven't responded. I asked them to send me a customer feedback form and they have declined to do that as well. very weak.

If I can find their CEO/President/Head Honcho's contact info, I'll send them the entire thread and history and let that person know that their employees don't know, don't care, or what ever, and that their actions is severely marring the company's reputation.

Did you cover the "ancillary" parts, like injectors, ejectors (other than the Geisl one which is for a different purpose) and braking systems?

well, I wondered how long it would be before I ended back on here.

the reason, Royal Mail, or as I prefer to call them royal snail.
this starded with Tesco Mobile advising me that my flip phone was not 4G compliant, and I would need to get a new 4G phone as they were sloly disconnecting their 3G network, due to be gone by the end of this year. shortly after this I got an e-mail to offer me a free upgrade to my handset to 4G. my favourite word, FREE.
I phoned them up, discussed this and explained I was very happy with the phone I have, but if they could give me a new one that would work on 4G that would be great. the advisor found me  what I wanted, ordered it and said that as he was unsure if my present SIM card was 4G compliant he would order me a new SIM as well, and when it arrived I could phone cutomer services and they would transfer my number to the new SIM.

so why, you are asking, am I on the Angry thread, and moaning about royal snail.

this now gets involved. the phone arrived a couple of days by DPD, who are great around here, but no SIM card, but I thought it would come by post, so left it a few days, and when it had still not arrived phoned customer services again.

I was then told that the order for the SIM card had not gone though, and the guy I was talking to said he would reorder it, and to save me having to phone up again, he would arrange for it to come out with the new number, he also explained that it would come by RM24, and my present SIM would be deactivated around lunch time on the day the new one arrived. I would then just put the new SIM into my new phone and be back on line.
the next day I received an e-mail to tell me my new SIM card had been despatched and giving me the RM24 tracking number.
ckeck tracking and sure enough despatched at 15:42 monday 17th, and arrived at Croydon MC at 19:23, due to be delivered tuesday 18th.

tuesday dawned, the morning passed, dogs were fed, lunch was eaten, post van was seen driving by, so I again check tracking, luckily by computer, as by now my SIM was deactivated.
my RM24 item was still at Croydon MC, and it stayed there till it was received at Gatwick MC at 19:48 on tuesday 18th.
many curses were called down on royal snail, but no doubt it would now arrive wednesday.
wednesday the 19th I checked again and yes, it had been received at Burgess Hill DO at 08:08 that morning, and was due to be delivered that day.
on thursday the 20th I laid in wait for the postie, stinger in hand to stop the van, taser ready if he ran, and around 13:25 I caught him, and finally got my RM24 parcel 3 days after it was posted.
no excuse as to why it had sat at the delivery office for over 24 hours, "Iwasn't working yestertday, I don't know" and apparently also didn't care.

needless to say, SIM into phone, now working, called royal snail so called customer services.
43 minutes listening to "unusually high volume of calls" or as I assumer, complaints. only to be told when I finally got hold of someone that the 24 hrs is only a target. in other words NAAFI, many will know what that means, though the forum would change it, it even changes Ria's description from the correct word to 'female dog'
so I am now in the process of trying to escalate this, but I will not be responsible for my actions if they offer me a book of stamps  

After England's shambolic innings in a series we are certain to win as the Aussies are a shadow of their former selves (allegedly) and they've lost all their bowlers I thought here we go again, failing to live up to the hype!
By the end of the day England's innings doesn't look so bad.......