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« on: January 27, 2010, 11:46:23 » |
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From This is the West Country: A picture of Truro Cathedral features on a new Hornby model train.
The train is a model of a real single-coach-class 153 train, which was seen on railways throughout Cornwall between 2001 and 2006, run by Wales and West and Wessex Trains.
The model is of the livery produced in association with the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, which promotes the Truro-Falmouth Maritime Line and other rural railways in the two counties across the country and oversees, under the slogan ^great scenic railways of Devon and Cornwall.^
The original initiative was the brainchild of Jeremy Whitaker, now director of marketing and student recruitment at University College Falmouth but then commercial director at Wales and West.
Jeremy said he was ^delighted^ to see the project immortalised by Hornby.
Jeremy worked with Richard Burningham, manager of the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership.
Richard said: ^I was very proud of the real trains when they ran and am delighted to see this new Hornby model. There can^t be many people who can say that their office telephone number can be found on the side of a model train.^
The class 153 trains still run on the Maritime Line and other local railways, operated by First Great Western. They were refurbished with a new livery in 2007.
Julian Crow, First Great Western^s general manager for the West of England, said: ^The Cornish branch lines are going from strength to strength and now have more train services and passengers than ever before. It will be great to see this model advertising them in shops and on thousands of model railways across the country.^
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 20:07:28 » |
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Photo shoot at Truro yesterday (Tuesday 26th).
Shame they didn't do it before FGW▸ did away with them with their refurb.
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8 Billion people on a wet rock - of course we're not happy
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2010, 06:39:42 » |
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How much???
I didn't realise these were that sort of price these days. I must dig out my old locos....
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8 Billion people on a wet rock - of course we're not happy
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2010, 19:41:58 » |
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Apparently, their version of a 153 is, Finish:
Pristine
Just like in real life, then. (cough)  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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basset44
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« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2010, 21:23:53 » |
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Hi,
Some specialist dealers do weathered versions of models dont think they yet managed to put miniature copies of Metro, coffee cups, sweet wrappers on the inside of the carriages!!
Basset
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caliwag
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« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2010, 21:39:53 » |
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So is there one, or more, running on the Maritime line in that livery?  |
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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2010, 21:53:38 » |
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So is there one, or more, running on the Maritime line in that livery? No longer. |
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inspector_blakey
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« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2010, 22:30:09 » |
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Call me a cynic but I'll take the refreshed version in FGW▸ livery thanks. I had the dubious pleasure of a trip on 153 380 shortly before it was refurbished (can't remember which of the Wessex "commemorative" liveries it was in, but it was one of them) and it was disgusting - torn seat covers, seat cushions missing entirely, coverings peeling off the bulkheads etc etc. Fortunately I was only taking a 6-minute trip (BRI» - KYN), but if I'd had to stay on that unit all the way to Weymouth I'd have been less than impressed.
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RichardB
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« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2010, 02:06:06 » |
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I take your point, Inspector Blake, but I am celebrating the five years before they got that way.
The liveries were a great idea and I was very proud of them for the years they were kept in good condition. I also like FGW▸ 's refresh of the 153s and look forward to Hornby's model of them in due course.
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inspector_blakey
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« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2010, 04:39:19 » |
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It's probably not very PC to say so, but I was rather taken with Wales and Borders "Ginsters" liveried 158 (think it was 158 825, but we're going back a few years now) when I travelled on it from Swansea to Whitland, circa 2003. If memory serves that staff had nicknamed it the "Cornish Nasty"...
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