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  1. RichJF

    HSTs in Mexico - news and progress updates

    Looks like one of their SD70s.
  2. RichJF

    Conscription.

    As someone who works in an industry connected to defence DO NOT worry or let it affect you. You shouldn't let anything you see in mainstream media scare you. A lot of the time the journalists writing the stories don't actually know what they're talking about. 90% of the media are out for...
  3. RichJF

    East Grinstead - wrong branch closed?

    In my SR150 book it's mentioned a couple of times that the Southern proposed electrification in 1939 from South Croydon - Haywards Heath via Horsted Keynes with additional plans to T Wells West. Ultimately scuppered by WW2. Had those plans come to fruition I reckon we'd still have the line from...
  4. RichJF

    Most exotic licence plate personally spotted on UK road

    Turkish-registered lorry in a popular bacon butty layby on the A22 in the summer. Overtook a Georgian-registered van on the M25 heading eastbound near the M26 3-4 months ago. Handful of Ukrainian plates in my local area. Mainly on VWs & Skodas.
  5. RichJF

    St Pancras before HS1

    This video might interest you. From the wonderful Soi Buakho channel. Gives you an idea of the 1991 layout of the station.
  6. RichJF

    News and updates on model railway products

    Speaking of Accurascale...Their class 50 decorated samples have arrived. They look absolutely beautiful! Quite excited to get my 50149 'Defiance' when it arrives. Might even be tempted to order 50008 when I get paid too!
  7. RichJF

    Future of Class 379

    They sometimes do! A 377/1 was plastered all over the side (minus windows) a few weeks ago at East Croydon
  8. RichJF

    Favourite music genre for rail enthusiasts

    Quite wide taste personally. Old skool house/techno, 90s trance, older rap/hip-hop, retro/synthwave.
  9. RichJF

    CAF donations to the Conservative Party

    Welcome the UK. It happens with every political party, regardless of their position on the political spectrum (left/right/centre). British political culture is broken & rotten. Then we have the cheek to lecture other countries about corruption.
  10. RichJF

    Why are we hearing more about AI now?

    The mainstream media is more aware of it. They have also got hold (both rightly & wrongly on varying examples) of buzzwords & are slinging them into stories, therefore the general public absorbs it more.
  11. RichJF

    What's your latest acquisition?

    Can you tell what my favourite loco is? :D Both blue box Limas. Both obtained for <£85 combined & I've put slimline couplings on them!
  12. RichJF

    Storm Ciarán: Weather related disruption 1/2 November

    Other than a bit extra surface water & a few twigs down it's relatively normal & calm here in Sussex. Eye of the storm must be passing over as there's not a breath of wind!
  13. RichJF

    Frighton (Brighton given a spooky temporary name by GTR)

    Yes my date in the marina last night was a bit scary! :D:D I do feel like the UK is increasingly trying to to embrace American culture though.
  14. RichJF

    What's your latest acquisition?

    With Lima you can give the motor a service, superglue/araldite some narrow couplings on instead & weather up the loco & you have something that will look very resepectable.
  15. RichJF

    Elizabeth Line: Passengers confused over whether it's a tube or train line and what should be done about it.

    But it would be easier to follow & have a network of cross-London train lines and be similar to Paris' RER lines. While we only have one "Crossrail" naming it is fine, but if the cross-London train network expands it'd be much more straightforward to name them together. Crossrail = East - West...
  16. RichJF

    What's your latest acquisition?

    Is that on approach to a station somewhere on the West of England line?
  17. RichJF

    Does Southern ever use their class 377/6 and 7s on non metro routes?

    We had a 9 car combo on the East Grinstead line on Saturday. Old school 377 + 377/6.
  18. RichJF

    Hornby 2024 range

    Going on Hornby's form & history, it'll be a few random steam engines that very few people saw/experienced. They'll rush it through QC & production with multiple errors & issues. Then the management will wonder why they made another annual loss as nobody buys it. The other releases will be...
  19. RichJF

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  20. RichJF

    What's your latest acquisition?

    Preowned Bachmann class 25 (2003 moulding) from Hattons for £60. Cheap because the snowploughs were absent however no issue it's being renumbered into a non-snowplough 25/3.

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