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I do wonder, given their range of gwr based laser cut kits, if Peco were 'testing the water' for' another go at the Collett goods - or did perhaps the n gauge offering put them off forever...?

I reckon that that is a pretty fair survey.

I think I have just answered my own question, because I have noticed the picture of set 130 in Fareham station in 1953 on the 'Blood and Custard' website, and the suffix 's' is there. along with notes on the absence of First Class '1's on the composite. Most useful site, and I should have checked there first! https://www.bloodandcustard.com/SR-CoachingSets-LSWR-CrossCountrySets130-324.html

Shouldn't the crimson set be carrying both an 'S' suffix as well as prefix or have I missed it somewhere in the discussion?

In recent years I have been an impulsive/compulsive buyer of new locos - but thanks to the recent Heljan price rises, and various very helpful comments in this thread, I have at last succeeded in putting my flexible friend back in the wallet, where it can reside between the ten shilling and pound notes Thank you to all contributors - I don't need a class 14 after all... :-)

Well I remember TT first time around, which probably means that eyesight is no longer up to it. If Heljan devote some of their Krone to small, detailed locos in OO which can run well on a shelf layout then that is indeed a silver lining I reckon....

Interesting that. In the pictures I have of D2201 it seems to have a very 'straigh't pipe, whereas D2281, also with skirts, seems to have the more traditional conical shape.

https://nevardmedia.blogspot.com/search?q=concrete in Model Rail number 152 if you can find one

I have to agree. I was at Uni there in the early 70s and I really liked the place. Went back for the first time in 45 years last year.......one really should not go back....!!

Hooray!! https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/catalog/product/view/id/90092/s/-Heljan-HN3160/?utm_source=Retail+Newsletters&utm_campaign=58d0f1e43f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_06_13_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dbefa464fd-58d0f1e43f-318089277

Strange they have Collett 2251 reproduced at 1:120 in todays Railway Modeller....and is that a Grange tender...?

Wow... the texture on that tree trunk...amazing!

Yes I sent one back to Dapol, and asked them to replace or 'sort it out' - it took about three weeks, and I'm pretty sure it was the original engine I got back - but it is now a superb runner.

Bradford Barton meets Ben Ashworth - lovely pictures!

Yes that's true - and I hadn't noticed that the discount is going on for a week, so there is plenty of time to put several of those 'bits' that you need into the basket and get a discount on the whole lot - that certainly makes it more attractive....