{"id":3042,"date":"2023-08-06T01:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T01:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-14\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T01:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T01:38:04","slug":"sunday-variety-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
It Was To Be he Future Of The Railway!<\/span><\/p>\n But it didn’t work very well and was heartily ridiculed by the press. Even Private Eye put in on their front cover …<\/p>\n … complete with jokey speech bubbles. The train (as usual) was delivered late …<\/p>\n … and breakdowns were common, even on the trial runs with “volunteer” passengers.<\/p>\n There was even a feeble joke at the expense of the technology.<\/p>\n As least the “Eye” used a genuine photo!<\/p>\n The tilt technology was sold to the Italians and then the UK had to buy it back for the Brit version of the Pendolino!<\/p><\/div>\n What helped was its visionary but very simple technology. Take a rake of “ordinary” coaches, have a powerful diesel loco on each end and “sapristi” the High Sped Train! Literally “seemples”!!<\/p><\/div>\n If you want to be really daft, you can buy one in the yellow, blue and grey livery of the HST – which never existed on an APT! The blue\/grey version is accurate!<\/p><\/div>\n You may still be able to buy extra cars to extend the model to the full 14 coach version; far too big for most OO layouts!<\/p><\/div>\n Then along came Triang with plastic and an upturned “gutter” of clear stuff which didn’t quite fit!<\/p>\n Dublo had shiny metal bodies but with better fitted “glass”. But Triang’s design soon improved, but the thickness of the body side meant that the window “glass”<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n It was probably Kitmaster coach kits that started the revolution. As on Airfix buildings, the windows were individually glued into the openings and thus looked loads better – if you were skilled enough to paing the opening frames – which were clear plastic.<\/p>\n You could by kits for the interiors from other providers but you can see the separate window “glass” added from the inside.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … which stil looked unrealistic but it was the best that could be achieved cheaply!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … but you felt that just a teensy weensy bit of depth would be better.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … soon followed by Hornby.<\/p>\n But, of course, as detail increases and production needs more skill and build time, so prices escalate.\u00a0<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n One of those will set you back \u00a360<\/span>. Yikes. But the windows are accurate!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n There is still one of those cars around, from a slightly later batch …<\/p>\n … which comes out of retirement for special occasions as above to launch th latest in fast, quiet and smooth transit for Toronto.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … brief stop at the lights …<\/p>\n … which turn quickly to green …<\/p>\n … and off up George Street the bus speeds.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n Canal cruising at Matyhill – 1950s style\/<\/p>\n Easy Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p><\/span><\/div>\n Lacking Lovely Livery<\/span><\/p><\/span><\/div>\n
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