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Looking for a super accurate model I have a couple of PL1 designs for sale . The original CEGB drawngs were used while each model features between 350-450 individually cut components . Collection from Surrey as they are too delicate to post . Open to offers .
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8 minutes ago, Daniel Beardsmore said:
What is the model based on: drawings, or the actual tower?
Both the actual tower as well as the engineers drawings . Essentially a PL1 D30 design with 6 foot top (pyramid) instead of the usual 4 foot .
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On 07/01/2024 at 14:00, Daniel Beardsmore said:
OK, left is fairly easy. PL16 DD30, specifically the earthwire changeover variant.
Second one appears to be CS-PL1 D2. SEE PL2 seems to have been the same suite. Other Milliken PL1 suites used the later SS-PL1, the one with the funky S10 and D10 towers.
What is 3? That looks like SEE PL1(b), down-rated to a lower voltage and adapted. That would imply that more details are known about PL1(b) than anyone has thus far indicated. The industry consensus was that “PL1” and “PL1b” were the same, but that is not even remotely true. SEE PL1(b) is still around but entirely omitted from the tower bible.
(The final one is going to be CS-PL1 or SEE PL2 S2.)
The prototype for the third pylon is located just behind the Hornby Margate factory, 33kV route at Westwood and features feeders to the substation opposite.
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The world of Triang covered such an extensive variety of products which have fascinated me since childhood. Due to space and storage I built a small compact diorama to capture those wonderful catalogue images , even the scenic scatter materials are Triang/Hornby while several of the Model-Land buildings are original preproduction samples . Rovex were certainly responsible for enlightening the minds of countless children up and down the land .
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Substation late afternoon.
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1 minute ago, Daniel Beardsmore said:
While you’re there, what source material do you use for the dimensions and details of your excellent models?
I know a couple of people who work in the industry, they supplied the engineers drawings and blueprints .
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Substation feeders and grass feeders in perfect harmony .
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Substation feeders and grass feeders in perfect harmony .
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Substation feeders and grass feeders in perfect harmony .
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On 09/01/2023 at 23:17, 'CHARD said:
I have one here, mint but opened, ready to build!
The shops and townhouses have a real charm about them , still very sought after to this day they fetch a premium made or unmade .
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2 hours ago, L2's are great! said:
Ooh one of those 2 D90s! Isn’t the other one right at the start of the 2nd section of 4TE?
Yes , it originally took the conductors down from 4 to 2 just before the junction .
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4TE route at Oxford back in 2021 .
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3 hours ago, BernardTPM said:
Wish I did, but it was lost in my disasterous move in 2013.
Hope one day you can recover it , those buildings are getting harder to find in good condition. Triang only produced relatively few of each kit .
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50 minutes ago, BernardTPM said:
Yes, that was the Model Land RML45 kit, fitted out as Woolworth.
Do you still have that model ?
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1 hour ago, BernardTPM said:
The ladder trailer was featured in one of the Playpacks sets. These included Model Land figures and a few other items, like the tent. I did have some of these packs bought from Woolworths back in the day.
The trailers (car ramp, ladders and boat) used the caravan chassis.
The yellow petrol pumps in front of the Airfix garage came from one of the packs. I had others but can't find them in pictures.
Bottom right appears to be a Model Land medium shop featuring older Victorian upper levels.
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On 12/12/2022 at 13:18, fodenway said:
Some rarities there - the Cresta estate (I have two in white), the ladder trailer and the Thames van in yellow, neither of which I can recall seeing before. Congratulations !
The ladder trailer only made a very brief appearance in the 1972 Triang Hornby catalogue, blink and you’d miss it . As far as I’m aware the white base trailers (caravan, ladder and boat ) were exported to the US .
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On 12/12/2022 at 18:48, ianmacc said:
Fifty or sixty years ago we had a lot more scenic accessory availability than is really realised. It looks like a Triang Hornby catalogue of the time!
I also liked the Lego 1/86 accessory range too which was a similarly comprehensive system.
I think you just wanted somewhere to show your Crestas!
It was possible to recreate proper paving as I think the super quick range was out then too!
Not too sure on paving choices available back then , Triang/Hornby catalogues at the time used their own range of scatter materials which were a little basic but certainly added a unique character/charm to those scenes . The ballast grey they used was an unusual colour , appeared to resembled crushed biscuits . I managed to take a few more ‘Triang Town’ photos over the Christmas period .
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On 02/01/2023 at 20:36, L2's are great! said:
It is bizarre how difficult it is to find certain D90s but then again if D60s can be used then that's usually the more common alternative approach I'd say.
The most common L6 D90 is the BICC design, followed by balfour beattys version and the blaw knox variant for which, I only know of 3 in existence. Even with L3 for example, there is no L3 D90, most D90 towers in L3 routes are L2 D90s
I could be wrong but there are possibly three to four Blaw Knox D90’s along the Streatley Hill to Bramley route .
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Always loved the Minix range ever since I was six years old . I recently built a diorama incorporating several pre release/preproduction sample Model-Land buildings , Triang-Hornby scatter materials, Britains Trees , Model-Land figures to capture how the Minix and Model-Land ranges were promoted during the 1960’s and early 70’s.
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On 05/10/2022 at 10:08, Legend said:
I studied that picture for what must have been hours in the Tri-ang Hornby catalogue . The interesting thing is that the OO buildings are actually shown with the TT track . You can see the TT Prairie on the right and just out of shot , but on the original picture was what I now know as a 104 dmu.
Model Land , Minix and of course Tri-ang and Tri-ang Hornby just take me back to my childhood . My own layout actually resembles the layouts you used to see in these catalogues rather than prototypical practice . I do have the factory units which command high prices on eBay . I've always fancied the shops , especially a Woolworths (another blast from the past heading down to Woolies to buy an Airfix kit) but these are also pretty rare .
My father had a Ford Thames minibus which he spent most of his spare time patching up with fibre glass , so these Minix Thames vans have special appeal . I recently bought a transporter van with three of them as a load .
So yes I still remember and use Model Land and Minix !
The catalogue scenes have always been so captivating.
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6 hours ago, D9020 Nimbus said:
The kits did certainly become available; I have several still, I think, in a box somewhere (all built). I never saw the Model-Land catalogue referred to, but the photograph also featured in the Triang-Hornby Book of Trains — I still have my copy but, like many perfect-bound publications of that era, most of the pages are loose…
The high street scene is one that really stands out in TH Book of Trains . I still have the original studio master colour transparency for this wonderful scene in my archive .
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