Things have been very quiet on this long-term project.

New locos have been brought out which look more desirable and appropriate for future additions to the collection (LNWR Coal Tank)
However I scored a find at the Pontefract event yesterday.



A Midland & Great Northern Joint Rly Johnson 4-4-0 no. 42 in their mustard livery, prior to being rebuilt with an extended smokebox.

It looks like someone put together a Ratio MR Johnson 4-4-0 body and tender and hacked the tender body to fit an early Lima HO 4F tender motor drive unit.
The loco chassis is scratchbuilt from brass strip with what appears to be the original Ratio front bogie and wheels.



Here it's posed with the GER G58 (LNER J17) a Bec kit on a Triang 3F chassis.
It might be the only opportunity to display them together as they stand in model form, because the GER loco should really appear in black and the previous owner amateurishly hand-painted the lettering.