RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted November 4, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2014 Think I'll just go off to count some rivets before I get drowned by the froth about how much detail is missing from a model we don't know about yet and have only a spoiler of photoshopped fog to go on. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 There's ANOTHER line!!! Where will it all end? (Ok I know, mid-day Saturday, but its too, too much.......) Still the same image, fog3.jpg Froth, froth, froth away Gently down the stream Oxfordrail has done it again Isn't it a scream! *sigh* now they've got ME doing it..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf27 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I'm half expecting that Oxfordrail will announce a new model to be produced exclusively for them by DJM. Cheers Shane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I think there will be universal derision when it turns out to be 4mm scale model figures of John Betjeman and other famous poets. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Turtle Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I'm still concerned that no one has adequately explained the laser beam hitting the side of the locomotive. 'War of the Worlds' describes a train wreck lying on it's side in Woking station, destroyed by the Martian heat ray. Woking was, in 1898, served by the LSWR.... Technically the heat ray is invisible apart from the visible effects on what it hits but hey-ho There's also a bit later on referring to I think the GNR line with people trying to escape stood on the tender amongst the coal, and the engine running over people in it's path as it heads northwards from the starting point on the outskirts of London too 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy P Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I think there will be universal derision when it turns out to be 4mm scale model figures of John Betjeman and other famous poets. Oxford Diecast made a model of Ivo Peters' Bentley that could be posed in the landscape while he was off somewhere filming one's trains going by. Therefore I won't deride a little Sir John Betjemin standing there admiring the architecture. Then again I should be mindful that he might be carrying "Friendly Bombs" left over from his trip to Slough. RP 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted November 5, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2014 Hmm - Betjeman's best known railway films must be Metroland (Metropolitan Railway) and John Betjeman Goes by Train (Great Eastern Railway). So there's some more nice tenuous connections to froth over (though to my eye, the OxfordRail image looks more Midland &Great Northern...). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 To quote a phrase: "Frankly my dear.........." That's my contribution to a thread I vowed I wouldn't get drawn into. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy P Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Once someone explains the laser beam, I'll stop caring. Still the same image, fog3.jpg Taking the image and the poetic imagery together; I think someone wants to shine a light through the mists of time. Personally, I'm not too hung up on the relevance of the image but am intrigued as to what Oxford feel they can "bring to the party". Only when they have enough product to fill a few pages of their catalogue will we really get the picture. I hope their tag line "In Pursuit of Excellence" is a true statement of intent. RP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Who is this man that I can't see.Who is this man who lives in me?His life was short and didn't last.An engine driver from the past. I wondered whether the "orphan son" could be a reference to William Bridges Adams (who invented the radial axle) and William Adams (whose name became associated with the use of the radial axle). However, both Adamses lived to good ages (75 and 81) so the above stanza doesn't fit. Massey Bromley (who succeeded William Adams on the GER) died young, in the accident at Penistone (let's see if that gets past the censoring software), his death leading to the suicide of Charles Sacré - but these were locomotive superintendents, not "engine drivers". However I think I'm trying too hard to fit a pre-conception into a wrong-shaped keyhole (and mixing metaphors to boot). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWeatheringMan Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Hi, I suspect the secret will be out tomorrow, Friday, rather than having to wait till Saturday as the digital edition of BRM is tomorrow and it appears it will be in the news section, unless i've missinterpreted the post elsewhere from the Editor of BRM. What a shame all the entertainment will be over!. But then, the world being what it is, once the truth is public knowledge, we are bound to see much frothing over what they are producing will we not. Looking forward to even more entertainment. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 6, 2014 It will be an enormous heap of froth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I think there will be universal derision when it turns out to be 4mm scale model figures of John Betjeman and other famous poets. Wouldn't William Topaz McGonagall be a better choice, given the slightly dodgy poetry? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frappington Jct Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Um, it's now signed Taff... TVR loco anyone? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I think there will be universal derision when it turns out to be 4mm scale model figures of John Betjeman and other famous poets. Now, a DCC Sound model of John Betjeman reciting selected quotes from "Metroland" would be ideal for a layout featuring Heljans "Sarah Siddons" and Bachmanns London Transport Pannier Tanks. A pity that 4mm scale is a bit too small for effective animation..... Looking forward to the Big Reveal! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianbs Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Hi All The picture is credited to Lyndon Davies who may well be Welsh and might therefore be known as Taff. There is a Welsh songwriter/poet of that name if you Google it. Bye adrianbs 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I wouldn't read anything into the signature, the producer of the Oxford Diecast "Globe" newsletter is usually signed "Taff", and Lyndon Davies is is the owner of Oxford Diecast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted November 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 7, 2014 He is a director of Oxford Diecast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Hi All The picture is credited to Lyndon Davies who may well be Welsh and might therefore be known as Taff. There is a Welsh songwriter/poet of that name if you Google it. Bye adrianbs I would guess there's a lot of Welsh songwriter/poets who would go by the name of Taff . . . . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Whether or not this is an LSWR 0415 Adams Radial 4-4-2T, we'll know on Saturday, but it sure is a consistent poll performer in the annual wishlist poll: Of steam locomotives in the poll it ranked: 2012 ... 4 2013 ... 4 2014 ... 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 7, 2014 I wouldn't read anything into the signature, the producer of the Oxford Diecast "Globe" newsletter is usually signed "Taff", and Lyndon Davies is is the owner of Oxford Diecast. He goes by the name 'Taff Oxford' on Facebook. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Izzy Posted November 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 7, 2014 Just wonder if, perhaps, the image isn't about any particular loco they might be going to produce, but a trademark image to be used on all the packaging........ Izzy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 7, 2014 He goes by the name 'Taff Oxford' on Facebook. So does that mean he's a Welshman, then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Well the company are listed as being in Swansea so I would sayYes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 So does that mean he's a Welshman, then? Could that explain why we're missing a leg of beef? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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