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John Turner - 30 Mar 2005 11:24 GMT

Just arrived into stock this morning:-

EWS class 66 diesel - but in VERY limited quantities all of which are spoken
for.

BR black Hall class 4-6-0 "St Edmund Hall" again in limited quantities.

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Best wishes,
John Turner,
53A Models, Hull, UK.

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:::Jerry:::: - 30 Mar 2005 12:13 GMT

> Just arrived into stock this morning:-
>
> EWS class 66 diesel - but in VERY limited quantities all of which are spoken
> for.
>
> BR black Hall class 4-6-0 "St Edmund Hall" again in limited quantities.

John, do you have any dealings with, or info on, the USA Bachmann
models ? They seem to be listed and priced on the Bachmann UK site but
availability seems to be a problem, any idea as to what the true
situation is ?

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John Turner - 30 Mar 2005 13:26 GMT

> John, do you have any dealings with, or info on, the USA Bachmann
> models ? They seem to be listed and priced on the Bachmann UK site but
> availability seems to be a problem, any idea as to what the true
> situation is ?

Availability tends to be sporadic and generally we get these models to
specific order from customers. Got some used examples at the moment.

John.

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crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk - 30 Mar 2005 19:42 GMT

> > John, do you have any dealings with, or info on, the USA Bachmann
> > models ? They seem to be listed and priced on the Bachmann UK site but
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>
> John.

Oh well, no sign off the Ivatt 4MT.

I will have to wait for the Summer, but it will give me more time to
save up for loadsa locos.
(You cant have an early 60s Lincs layout without at least 10 of them,
trust me,)

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Piemanlager - 30 Mar 2005 20:47 GMT

> Just arrived into stock this morning:-
>
> EWS class 66 diesel - but in VERY limited quantities all of which are
> spoken
> for.

Hi John,
I tried to log onto to your website to look at pics of the real
66's but ended up on some hosting site, are you charging for people to view
the photos now?

Picked up a model locally tonight, looks ok i think but If i were giving
hornby9/10 for their 31+50, this would be about 7.5?

> BR black Hall class 4-6-0 "St Edmund Hall" again in limited quantities.

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John Turner - 31 Mar 2005 00:22 GMT

> I tried to log onto to your website to look at pics of the real
> 66's but ended up on some hosting site, are you charging for people to view
> the photos now?

Nope, you can access through www.bluediesels.co.uk or www.53a-pix.co.uk
completely free of charge.

> Picked up a model locally tonight, looks ok i think but If i were giving
> hornby9/10 for their 31+50, this would be about 7.5?

I don't rate the 31 quite that highly - say 8/10 but would agree that 7½
would be about right for the 66.

I reckon the 31 though is better than the Hornby 50.

John.

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:::Jerry:::: - 31 Mar 2005 09:49 GMT

> > I tried to log onto to your website to look at pics of the real
> > 66's but ended up on some hosting site, are you charging for people to
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> Nope, you can access through www.bluediesels.co.uk or www.53a-pix.co.uk
> completely free of charge.

Not sure why but both sites / index pages were taking a awfully long
time to resolve (DNS look-up and load) yesterday, in fact
'bluediesels' timed out the first time I tried.

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John Turner - 31 Mar 2005 10:51 GMT

> Not sure why but both sites / index pages were taking a awfully long
> time to resolve (DNS look-up and load) yesterday, in fact
> 'bluediesels' timed out the first time I tried.

The internet does weird & wonderful things at times, but I had over 500 hits
on www.53a-pix.co.uk on Monday last and that might have restricted the
available bandwidth. 500 hits doesn't sound a lot, but when they're all
downloading 350Kb images it certainly gobbles bandwidth.

John.

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:::Jerry:::: - 31 Mar 2005 11:05 GMT

> > Not sure why but both sites / index pages were taking a awfully long
> > time to resolve (DNS look-up and load) yesterday, in fact
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> available bandwidth. 500 hits doesn't sound a lot, but when they're all
> downloading 350Kb images it certainly gobbles bandwidth.

Time to up your bandwidth allowance then, and probably charge for high
res' images !.... :~)

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John Turner - 31 Mar 2005 13:32 GMT

> Time to up your bandwidth allowance then, and probably charge for high
> res' images !.... :~)

Bit of a blip on Monday; the sites do not normally get so many hits, but I
did a fairly major update, the first for many months and maybe publicised it
a tad too widely.

John.

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