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I did see a picture on some forum and it was rather obviously someone else's GW 4-6-0 butchered to take a headlight and to run on 3 rail
Not sure who did the mouldings, but its not going to be much use to you I'm afraid
I hope someone (which will now inevitably mean Margate) sorts out the HO Eurostar. I'm been driven to the conclusion the most modellable bit of LGV Nord /CTRL is from Calais Frethun to the French Portal and without an HO Eurostar you're stuffed. In fact without an HO Eurostar the only bits of the route possible to model are in the UK - you can't model LGV Nord or the Belgian high speed line at all.... Everything else is there but....
In HO it's not as if you can phone up Hurst Models for a set of etches for intermediate vehicles
Not sure who did the mouldings, but its not going to be much use to you I'm afraid
I hope someone (which will now inevitably mean Margate) sorts out the HO Eurostar. I'm been driven to the conclusion the most modellable bit of LGV Nord /CTRL is from Calais Frethun to the French Portal and without an HO Eurostar you're stuffed. In fact without an HO Eurostar the only bits of the route possible to model are in the UK - you can't model LGV Nord or the Belgian high speed line at all.... Everything else is there but....
In HO it's not as if you can phone up Hurst Models for a set of etches for intermediate vehicles
One striking result is the very poor showing of France as a prototype: on a par with the Netherlands, slightly ahead of Belgium and Australia
This despite it being on the doorstep for British residents , having through trains to Britain, attracting a lot of Interrailers and despite the SNCF being widely regarded as Europe's leading railway (Whether accurately or not is another issue - but French railways are generally presented in the media as one of France's major national achievements)
It's an odd result. It will be interesting to see whether the fact that the major French outline HO range is now owned by a British company with extensive British retail network , and should in theory now have a much higher profile in the British market, has any effect on the popularity of modelling France
This despite it being on the doorstep for British residents , having through trains to Britain, attracting a lot of Interrailers and despite the SNCF being widely regarded as Europe's leading railway (Whether accurately or not is another issue - but French railways are generally presented in the media as one of France's major national achievements)
It's an odd result. It will be interesting to see whether the fact that the major French outline HO range is now owned by a British company with extensive British retail network , and should in theory now have a much higher profile in the British market, has any effect on the popularity of modelling France
Very much a personal view, but once it's imported , it's imported and doesn't benefit our economy or us. I'm not really prepared to pay more for goods on the basis that one foriegn country should be supported as opposed to another - unless we are getting into directly supporting oppressive regimes (eg Zimbabwe , or in a past age the Soviet bloc.)
I would have had serious qualms about buying Berliner Bahn or Piko in the days when it meant hard currency for the GDR, but I'm not sure that's quite what you had in mind
I would have had serious qualms about buying Berliner Bahn or Piko in the days when it meant hard currency for the GDR, but I'm not sure that's quite what you had in mind
Exporting our jobs somewhere else is regrettable, and E.Kent wasn't the most prosperous part of the country to start with. Its just I can't see that exporting jobs to Northern Italy (where folk are already wealthier and have less unemployment than in Thanet) is very different from exporting them to S. China.
And while I'd certainly not class China as a particularly nice regime, yes I would call them less oppressive than the Soviet Union , (or indeed Mao's regime) . We aren't talking about buying from state-owned companies
And while I'd certainly not class China as a particularly nice regime, yes I would call them less oppressive than the Soviet Union , (or indeed Mao's regime) . We aren't talking about buying from state-owned companies
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