wp-gdpr-compliance domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/camcab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats<\/span><\/p>\n To create a wide aisle for standees, there was no gap between seats, leaving inadequate width for fbb’s admittedly ample posterior.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n UIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n … but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n So why all green?<\/p>\n A Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n When Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\n …\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n The terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n Transfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n The rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n Later you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n By the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n The print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n The new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n The phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n … but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n Astounding!<\/p><\/div>\n
![<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the non-Circle Line of the Underground but was hopelessly inadequate for a lengthy trip to rural Cambridgeshire or the bucolic greenery of Sussex.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTo create a wide aisle for standees, there was no gap between seats, leaving inadequate width for fbb’s admittedly ample posterior.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThere are very few poles and no straps for hangers!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFortunately fbb was only going to St Pancras!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThere has been much correspondence on-line on this very topic, recently rekindled by a cynical note from super blogger “The Man in Seat 61”.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe is a sad lack of enthusiasm for these trains!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nAnd more cynicism!<\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nBit a timely word of advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nTo create a wide aisle for standees, there was no gap between seats, leaving inadequate width for fbb’s admittedly ample posterior.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThere are very few poles and no straps for hangers!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFortunately fbb was only going to St Pancras!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThere has been much correspondence on-line on this very topic, recently rekindled by a cynical note from super blogger “The Man in Seat 61”.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe is a sad lack of enthusiasm for these trains!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nAnd more cynicism!<\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nBit a timely word of advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe is a sad lack of enthusiasm for these trains!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nAnd more cynicism!<\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nBit a timely word of advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe is a sad lack of enthusiasm for these trains!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nAnd more cynicism!<\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nBit a timely word of advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nAnd more cynicism!<\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nBit a timely word of advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nAnd more cynicism!<\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nBit a timely word of advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nBit a timely word of advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIt does appear to be true. For reasons which nobody seems to know, the rear First Class chunk of the 700 is always (???) declassified; so NOT First Class.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nComfy seats, wider seats, armrests and tables<\/span>. Luxury beyond belief! Hmmm, maybe not that good!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOne comment writer is in reminiscent mood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nDoes he mean the Buffet Express of the 1970s …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhEh6xox1O4RkorJjWw3uZUpgHI-NxtennssOyPTw1JhG-3yjBnAyzQv_syjml_wMmwGWzkoerxeWenoHFBxrXKAr5nrtKLXNW1VdVlj4BzWUphY9DFJp2-qaeoRQVPRIZNz29rRjWF8LN_m33Q_IhKl6pdMKA7QO69UKfqSDVbtFU-tsSUPFQgcn2CYey0\/s551\/Screenshot_20240202-140411.png\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n… sometimes including a Gresley buffet coach?\u00a0\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh4qtOupiu_hM1BiUlUDr6ZZeeLiEhdSBpFAmRei-JtwuK4ieBMz2qG2S2ta8J3jEz4NrERBO0R7V7ogTFMSIL6hrgfGEjrZq83kZxLPUoOsyHqf6a2xqxIxgRZeekGErk67DbaxiTjKTT8HFcLFbI1Dw_xbOePKyHBu4dMjnn9N7WYkQB1q9WjgSUg5jO9\/s711\/Screenshot_20240202-114423.png\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOr does he harken back to the 1930s when trains with similar names were ALL Gresley coaches and hauled by a smart steam engine?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou could enjoy a buffet car plus internally sprung seats and the ability to open the window and breathe fresh air, possibly with an added taste of steam, coal, oil and soot! Aaah, those were the days when train travel was a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA buffet car has been restred to full “art deco” interior by the North Norfolk Railway.\n<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nUIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n… but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThames Travel : Going Green …<\/span><\/div>\n… But Not Green!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nWhen fbb were nobbut a lad, Thames Travel buses were a rich and glorious shade of blue with small green touches.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nThen they gained majority green and a weird but not unattractive wiggly white line.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. 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Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nBut the bus at the top of this item is almost all green with some odd slashes in grey and black.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe bus makes no pretence of being green despite being painted green. It is a bog-standard GoAhead London Bus cast-off seen here in its “natural” red.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. 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Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nSo why all green?<\/p>\nA Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhkqeqMdinFhtQ39vke56IHviS7Mp0xEsdgULuh7F3I5bUpNdlksTHHeThIkYqM6772hSIKckDgaAVGjUh7qdpbVtkOpHluJsTsWCH2kDUBhHkYsiEhpffRGESR7piI0QBUhK7poWo9GPCUhRjIoefFltmKO-A_g_5FImRlb-zF8Nia2AbDdl1gF7Ha2-WX\/s720\/Screenshot_20240201-184432.png\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nYou may be able to guess what<\/span> it is; but can you work out where it was<\/span> because it isn’t there any more<\/span>.<\/div>\nWhen Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\nBecause fbb has recently written about trams, buses and trains in Birkenhead, the Deep Throat computers of the interwebnet, in he form of Pinterest, keeps sending fbb yet more pictures of the Wirral.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the days of the Mersey Tunnel you would cross on a ferry …\n<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgV5GK5evDWgArGhvZHjSb2yZS9TDtRIVypQZ_7PG_Bi0msuMm1h1e-LC2-p1REjQ4bDjLwXDg9qxzYcEP7POjjyTulezRci0TuXcSXHgcvJygOw4V19q9R6cSWbUEnqb3UAgQu9X1IIsskOA-nPbwi4LG5jGLvTkZffD3o8jZ7PYa3cUt2K8hvG45RpJ0N\/s982\/Screenshot_20240201-182355.png\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n…\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjaumEQtQF3gaAMoqFTqj9jNQWFCk6W515_vurAwO3Ert6JnfnjUmQycaf2lqx18jbx7nQZGar_I3-8FJtTbqAqHGs2lWOjRAx_QMpOLoYrwBarjo5V-PPigkdPGex4pjK6Dk49MEsFx0Xrej_Lj9kUBdD5cmRhd-SawOF_TxDfKXdYbAfxOKBQVfU-URH0\/s480\/screenshot.26573.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThe terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEggTWQYsH3RGwZZnAMa3MJKyLfRfw-L7Ix8eizkELcxm3SiVsarDLQ1MLsnxZlflrYHaBLgIUP_GkJXdEBdufxuz9vAtFs2XlcrmZcoEa5tA-UcyXw4yx2u520hjwANOSjdqy7TigDxmLxBHKtZLM29svRBjxkBQ2vExHwlSRlm1w9glMgzROstb2RRkoXS\/s1110\/screenshot.26572.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat’s when transport was<\/span> integrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTransfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\nOver the 50 years or so that a TTA tank wagon model has been available, the decoration on the tank in particular has changed its technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLook at the Shell logos on this aged Hornby model.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgYhUHSVpllf6TRpQ61BK0DgiWSHp2RX-rXeINrt6bsJdyJSM0ZMlYzNdbijmaskenaAtxUXEGFvvQvahLsGpyY9lq1uIJoHdLeqWJGlxrav2St9t3qKyIvJTTn_69tdZiS4r1rBnmRJZuPwVqzWx1I1NnuNcjGPfJyV206URpqSIrP1DVTXdlU8wVyr10h\/s673\/Screenshot_20240201-175904.png\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThe rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg79S8vyxop5GdOmldlPvy1zH6RB4oKDQZDgqJ8OvFvfefoUYoGkiCyTz2fa2AYy4nhDcyXpfJkDzCq2_0Nje7FJ_C820rYZXyfCFrq_O9Biz89u5o0hovDz2ToL2FJZL6iJeaOiBbAcs5waghvYeLilI7NZCUkaJdWwGf8DwjbSIYn07T7bklxN1PIR_ra\/s3120\/IMG_20240202_085914_608.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nLater you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhezN5Lh1Ui3yK_IBU5WO7vcP1wRbCnt1Ux7mOx86mrjlDyVtbRpQhNEnotWfjb-Ql9Is1eLFlzdr2YNqhIp0_MbEWHxnRygr33UbYCZqNXNtTDXPGsNFiueuyGCW3jbCzmnu5vmJkD_of6q-BVOQiOSNMBXIlpNTxHhvaauvGV9tKi2piBT3KFTzr-jODZ\/s1654\/IMG_20240202_085955_1.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nBy the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEizQPksTV6hu0Yjt4vZIb_xlL_5VpTQn94K6f-8_bUcNDvQ_E0Oi1a_QIvABso8jCtkA5BjV55MjX-_zy8ALr7zHmyOLHg8sIws7OjbC8W5nf9Z-px65E16cwCzCWbwSByTH2zPxTj54qgwLmpL8EvUszqt0G1qo-NNrDf5YlJMac4Yah_AqOkvy8YdSFmw\/s2219\/IMG_20240202_085853_690.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThe print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEih9wfzutrOYoOlj1GJmhXkhTWdYnqdSaLSV3zwCWTBiGLnwYZU2t8Y0VMoVtnegWaz_6shYKhR3wrM_A0h_aoAE-IxfuSPp7ap_3R7hRRrRYlXkcigN2st5NiUKjA-TSnvhE5O85YmaLtQOsUPDDlz0SZdRnIxyoY976U4fbtslACAQifLpHPuE5pHiXZU\/s985\/IMG_20240202_090058_235.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThe new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAstounding!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd the price?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWell, there’s a thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Bachmann model has an RRP as shown here …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… although many retailers do offer a few pounds discount. From frail and fading memory, fbb paid about \u00a329 for his, a couple of years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Hornby, a far superior model, is …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… one quid cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nfbb paid about the above but with free postage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTherein lies a problem for fbb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor the problem and for prices of the old Hornby see tomorrow’s blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Sunday 4th February\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats When fbb took his first ride from the new London Bridge station and through the Thameslink tunnels, we was profoundly disappointed in the ambiance of the train. It had “ironing board” sears with no arm rests, no wifi or chargers and no tables of any kind. The seating would have been OK for a whizz round the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjopzZ7V5CFlCiUEz9Jn412Aem-HKjZua19r6ke7fR3E-To5sYJBxu-s8t_wV_XCgn5_J4jI0ZiDEuG9UjGD1nIJ8LltazffN34nrubnJgBfHIPXos5rKB-1Mfe3VjXAbqeDGsbSvy5-Lcolr4RhYYLXoWMlK7zh4pUJz_QwIm9n5gDnXJwpl3Ljpo4f_eA\/s595\/IMG_20240202_090201_877.jpg\"){kind=link}
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