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Purple 4MT tank, perhaps? Repainted for a Cadbury's advert, then livery slightly modified for the Santas. Will be reverting to black at the ad agency's expense in the new year. Photo by Heidi Mowforth.

Curiously enough the Hornby model is closer to the TARDIS prop used during most of the Tom Baker era than it is to the Met original. http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-police-box.html

Speaking of which, whereas it has now been superseded by a Hall, the older Lionel Harry Potter battery sets contained a coarse scale O gauge V2.

Glorious. One wonders whether a OO replica could be constructed using a couple of old Mainline N2 bodies...

Jobs which reportedly are not now being done since the big I Ams evicted the station's dedicated volunteers. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g191269-d261307-r901495338-North_Yorkshire_Moors_Railway-Pickering_North_Yorkshire_England.html

It's actually maroon, but the lighting makes it look darker. It was done for me by a friend in (IIRC) 1987 using a Hornby Railway Children Jinty which had been bought very cheaply because one tank had a huge crack in it; that was the year in which Butterley painted 47357 in BR lined maroon and this was done in anticipation; I will say that mine entered service first!

Faraday - or at least an ex-CEGB HL with that name - survives and is currently at Preston. http://ukprsl.uk/final-results.asp?action=display&Id=3089

This is rather interesting. It looks as though it was built using 1950s windscreen wiper parts and the like. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266502864185

As something of an afficionado of the late GP Keen's K Lines layout I find myself hankering after a version in his house livery. Bit niche though. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co211336/model-locomotive-o-gauge-london-north-eastern-railway-model-representation

Unbuilt ones seem to be going for around £25 on ebay; double that for a well built one.

I wonder if it would be possible to use the Tri-ang 4-6-2 chassis to motorise the old Kitmaster New York Central Hudson?

That's the one. Am now starting to wonder if it actually is the one made by NB Collin (although if it is then the cab glazing has fallen out).

A few oldies from my collection. Jinty conversions, an early diesel on a Hornby Ringfield tender chassis, and the humble Tri-ang clockwork tank

If this helps, a couple of shots of my 4' x 18" N gauge roundy roundy. I only realised that the battlements didn't all face the same way after I'd glued it in place. I blame overenthusiastic Victorian restorers.

The pattern has changed in recent years though. Nowadays Hornby observes what other companies announce and then announces the same thing, either an inferior new tooling or a reintroduced inferior old one, and rushes it to market before the rival firm's due date. The Austerity tank, the Class 71, the King, the 14XX, the Adams Radial, the rebuilt Scot, the Standard 4MT 4-6-0, the 59 and 66, the 20, the Terrier, 'Lion,' and so on. Typically the spoiler model is released for a couple of years in all the most popular liveries and is then never seen again.

The Daily Mail is on the case, complete with a photo of the wrong station and a caption describing Levisham station as a 'depot.' Strewth. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12758599/Heritage-railway-rocked-abuse-claims-Five-volunteers-suspended-threatening-kneecap-managers-police-launch-probe-accusations.html

I don't like to think ill of a railway which I have loved since I was a very small child, but the word which keeps coming to mind is 'Washford.'

A wagon turntable had been acquired for Levisham station yard. Anyway I was wondering where all the station group's wagons had gone and why there wasn't a Levisham update in the latest Moors Line.

Thing is, they haven't made their own Western in ages either, while Heljan and Dapol have both produced OO models which given Hornby's usual piratical business practices would have seemed obvious targets for sabotaging with a cheapo Limby product.

Speaking of the Hong Kong pirate copy of the Lima clockwork train set, here it is. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375053045733?hash=item5752e74fe5:g:iuoAAOSwkhllUcRf

Although why they've produced the Lima Warship, which was inferior to the Mainline one, but not the Lima Western, which was superior to their own one, is a mystery.

Narrow Minded Railworks produces a model of that, albeit in OO9. https://narrowmindedrailworks.com/collections/009-locos/products/oo9-009-doble-sentinel-steam-7192-locomotive-fits-the-kato-chassis-11-109_304828119424_

Also, the French have an approach to dealing with people who sack large numbers of workers which goes some way beyond lighting up the braziers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/17/newsid_2540000/2540123.stm