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Hello Lance, give my regards to Tony. Tell him that 70 is in good hands, but restoration will take a while yet!

I thought you'd also bought Rochdale 235 recently, or was that your brother?

All the best

Paul

I have it all right, in fact it gets an outing quite regularly... <IMG width="502" height="344" SRC="http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/46744/SFCAN002.jpg"> ...and I'd be happy to upload it, if I had Steve's permission (which is going to be difficult as his website doesn't include a contact...

Hello Bob, and happy new year. The easiest way - by a long, long way - to swop stock in activities is to use a freeware program by Mike Simpson called Route_Riter (UKTS file ID 2588). Once you have downloaded it, when you open it you'll see a series of tabs with 'MSTS routes utils', 'Activities/stoc...

Nice activity Paul, but how about a bit more shunting next time. Simon Thanks very much! I'm keeping my powder dry for v2 :wink: - in the meantime watch out for a couple of nice 'n' easy passenger activities on NWE, one taking a local Pacer from Preston to Ormskirk and the other a Pendolino from Wa...

3. "Independents" such as Lancashire United. Presumably these were not nationalised as they were not large enough to warrant attention? Or was there another reason I'm missing? Were there many big independents, or just a few? Independents weren't nationalised for one basic reason - they were not pa...

snowcrashandy wrote:

jp4712 wrote:I bet I've missed one

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Gaaah, curses! Of course, Andy, thank you. Also at this date Tynemouth, Gateshead, Tyneside and Wakefield's were all operating subsidiaries of Northern. Also Red & White of Chepstow. And I bet there are still more.

Phew, that's quite a question! Below I've listed all the fleetnames that I can remember off the top of my head that were carried on NBC vehicles in the mid 1970s - I've used that era as the 'heyday' of NBC. The list is necessarily a fudge - for example I've included Sunderland & District and Venture...

We will not let this one beat us! 1. Try running through the whole Ordsall Lane sequence without saving or exiting, at least up to the point where you couple up to the brake van. 2. Change the brake type of the brake van to 'vac through piped' - BUT be aware that doing this may not allow you to resu...

Mmmm, Snow Hill...lovely model, my sincere compliments to you. Can we assume that you WON'T be producing a multi-storey car park with an apology for a station underneath with the same name?

Well done - it really does look a treat. I hope someone fancies puting it in a route.

Yes, as Ian says you should really uncouple the van, then move the rest of the vans forward a few yards and only then uncouple the loco. This is at least partly because the F9 window can play up when you couple up to the back of a long consist and won't let you uncouple the stock you want. Are you d...

I take it you have downloaded the front coupling patch, by the way....? Also, if you saved the activity and exited after uncoupling but before recoupling, you may have hit the old 'loose consist' bug. This is a well-known 'feature' :evil: whereby a loose consist with vacuum brakes acts as if it were...

Simon

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Paul

basildd wrote:Anyone know how to get a congealed christmas pudding off of the ceiling without leaving a mark?

Is that on the pudding, or the ceiling?

32 mph is plenty when you have vacuum brakes with old-style woven brake linings that fade coming down hills! I'm pretty well-acquianted with a K5G, the double decker equivalent, built at about the same time as the one in the photo and believe me, 32 is enough! And I reckon in the blackout the driver...

Definitely a Bristol L5G. Not sure about the body, it may be Brush. It would have been awful to drive, all solid engine mountings and governor cut-out at 32 mph. Not like a lovely Leyland... :wink: All we need now is for cousinit796 to ask a question about his bituman tankers and this thread will im...