The past couple of years have seen a number of exciting modifications to the railway that have so far passed unrecorded.
I was first alerted to the misuse of the initials GWR by George Behrend (Ref 1) in his 1966 book Gone With Regret. In his recollections of the Great Western Railway he extols the virtues of God’s Wonderful Railway and notes that opponents of GW methods would dismiss the company as the Great Way Round. (Something about Brunel’s original route to Bath and Bristol via
I have lost count of how many Black Fridays there are in November but I used each Friday (and some of the other days) to stock up on more of Hornby’s Super Detail Black Fives.
One of Hornby’s newer models with Combined Top Feed, 45190 aka R2904
I bought 45190 my first super detail Black Five back in 2011. I was underwhelmed by how lightweight the engine was and how little it could haul. As a result it spent the next few years resting at the end of the engin
A conversation with a friend about changing names and numbers on old Bachmann or Mainline Jubilees prompted me to dig out some etched plates I bought perhaps two years ago, and get on and fit them!
Mainline Orion with 247 Developments etched plates and newer Bachmann split chassis
One of my all time favourite models was the Mainline Jubilee ‘Orion’. I think ‘Royal Scot’ was my first Mainline model but Orion followed soon after in June 1981. Pallitoy must have made
I have been taking advantage of the Spring Sales and have bought myself a BR black engine driven Oxford Rail Dean Goods.
I bought my first Dean Goods back in 1985. It was a Mainline model with a tender drive. The perceived wisdom was that the model was conceived and designed by Airfix just before that company folded. I thought the tender drive came with an unrealistically high mound of coal, to hide the motor, and it could be noisy. It did have a good haulage capacity.
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