FrankS

Another one I had! That 0-4-0t is a Triang Nellie, perhaps or Connie. I Still have one wheel and the coalbunker and cab back - the rest of, who knows where! What are those rectangular bits hanging down front and rear by the steps? Are they an add-on, I don't remember them on the original?

Triang 1960s - I had four of them, plus Lord Of The Isles (which I still have). In and old Railway Modeller (which I no longer have) Rev Peter Denny showed how he had converted these to a rake of GCR coaches. A simple 'bash' is to scrape the cream paint off the raised beading, to leave cream panels with brown outlining.

I was interested to see in the chapter on model railways a healthy representation of vicars - a profession which seems fertile ground for railway enthusiasm. I wonder if contemporary vicars are keeping up this tradition - and (while hoping not to prompt sectarian rivalries) whether ministers of other denominations are as partial to trains as their CoE counterparts?

Googling for a railway related question, I came across this site: www.railwaywondersoftheworld.com/ - recycling a railways part work from some 80 years ago. An enjoyable read in its own right (not that I've read all of it!) and an archive of railway history. (Apologies if this was already well known to everybody but me!).

I was interested to read this - it appears to confirm what I figured to be the case: that to isolate a motor, it's only the armature/commutator/ brushes that need to be isolated as they have no electrical connection with the magnet/pole pieces etc, which sounds simple on those old Triang motors. (My first post here, btw, having recently become interested in model railways after 50 odd yeas away - things have changed a bit, haven't they!)