Hroth Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, ianmacc said: Needs to go in the prototype for everything thread what with the bogieless DMU too!! Thats the remains of one of the DMU coaches that survived the fire... If you read the link under the photo, it sounds like they had fun'n'games at Chester General that evening! Luckily there were no fatalities. Thats the other thing, you don't get stock waiting to be scrapped in a scrapyard, you just get stock waiting to be taken to the scrapyard... Edited November 16, 2022 by Hroth 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 29 minutes ago, Hroth said: Thats the other thing, you don't get stock waiting to be scrapped in a scrapyard, you just get stock waiting to be taken to the scrapyard... Woodhams had stock waiting to be scrapped for 30 years Then there was Vic Berry's, literally piled the locos and units on top of each other like a second hand stall at a bring and buy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted November 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2022 5 hours ago, Peterem said: Anyone tempted by this bargain in Hatton's sale? https://www.hattons.co.uk/971047/hattons_originals_h4_p_004_po08_secr_p_class_0_6_0t_a325_in_sr_lined_maunsell_green_with_maunsell_lettering_pre/stockdetail 90 sovs for a non-runner with "heat damage" but a very good box - clearly worth less than a tenner off the RRP. Just make sure you check the small photo of the other side, which suggests the heat damage was the result of a stray Russian missile. I like how Hats have managed to ‘forget to mention’ that the mech is hopelessly out of quarter, and probably irrepairable. Motor might be salvageable, worth about a tenner, tops. Completely worthless junk from mendacious chiselling scouse b*stids. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 25 minutes ago, woodenhead said: Woodhams had stock waiting to be scrapped for 30 years Then there was Vic Berry's, literally piled the locos and units on top of each other like a second hand stall at a bring and buy. Yes but. That glut was the result of insane management decisions by certain politicians and BR. In the case of individual fallen stock, they seem to linger in a siding near where they met their maker for a relatively short period while local management decide they're not worth fixing, then they're dragged off to the knackers pronto! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted November 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2022 (edited) 36 minutes ago, woodenhead said: Woodhams had stock waiting to be scrapped for 30 years Then there was Vic Berry's, literally piled the locos and units on top of each other like a second hand stall at a bring and buy. Dai Woodham had storage space ‘the field’, and kept the locos as a ‘banker’ (his own description) to keep his boys in work if the wagons dried up, because wagons could be cut quicker and realised cash sooner; compare Cashmore’s in Newport which cut locos within 48 hours of arrival, very efficient. Correctly modelled locos in scrap condition should have the regulator, reverser, gauges, other cab controls, any name/number/works plates, and cab window glass removed, and safety valves taken out in case some idiot tries to raise steam* , and the motion taken off and stashed in the tender or bunker, but do not take on the Woodham’s derelict look (rust livery, bits missing, and painted signage) for some time. Locos at Woodhams in the mid 60s often looked better externally than many still in service, and liveries could still be discerned a decade or so later, though the deterioration was setting in by then. Withdrawn locos do not turn orange with rust overnight at the transfer to scrappie stage, takes a couple decades of abandonment for the full Woodhams effect. * We sometimes lit fires in the fireboxes to get photographic smoke from the chimneys, and/or to keep warm on cold days. We once rescued a couple of lads who’d taken shelter from a squall in the smokebox of a spamcan and the door had blown and slamjammed shut on them, took the combined strength of 3 gricers including Graham, a rugby forwatd of the sort that is handy for shifting things, and a crowbar borrowed from Dai in his brakevan office to open it. Edited November 16, 2022 by The Johnster 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 7 hours ago, MrWolf said: I think that I'll get a busted loco from the car boot for £3, get it lightly toasted as @Bucoopssuggests and stick it on eBay for £90. If only for everyone else to have a good laugh. Toasting fork and an open fire?? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 6 hours ago, Peterem said: Anyone tempted by this bargain in Hatton's sale? https://www.hattons.co.uk/971047/hattons_originals_h4_p_004_po08_secr_p_class_0_6_0t_a325_in_sr_lined_maunsell_green_with_maunsell_lettering_pre/stockdetail 90 sovs for a non-runner with "heat damage" but a very good box - clearly worth less than a tenner off the RRP. Just make sure you check the small photo of the other side, which suggests the heat damage was the result of a stray Russian missile. Looks like its been poked with an hot soldering iron! The image does funny things to my brain - like being weirdly drunk?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 5 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Toasting fork and an open fire?? Thats an old chestnut! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 2 hours ago, MrWolf said: Seriously though, what can you realistically salvage from it that won't just end up in the bits box? Siding fodder for a 'War of the Worlds' layout? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted November 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2022 37 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Siding fodder for a 'War of the Worlds' layout? No-one would have believed.... The price of the thing. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Bucoops said: No-one would have believed.... The price of the thing. i think someone may have been smoking the red weed while pricing it up! it makes me wonder if they deliberately price items like this to get people talking/clicking/sharing which directs people to their site, if one person spots something else they have been after then buys it then it a bonus sale for them…… ……then I see how much everything else is being touted for and realise, nope, that’s not the case at all! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 5 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: Siding fodder for a 'War of the Worlds' layout? If that was the best the Martians could do with their heat-rays then they must have been on their way out. Earth 1:0 Mars 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Hroth said: If that was the best the Martians could do with their heat-rays then they must have been on their way out. Earth 1:0 Mars "I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a [second-hand model] steam-engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal.” 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 3 hours ago, Hroth said: If that was the best the Martians could do with their heat-rays then they must have been on their way out. Earth 1:0 Mars I scrambled up to the crest of Chesterfield Road, and the RoS camp was below me. A mighty space it was, and scattered about it, by their overturned display cabinets, were the second-hand models- dead... slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things upon the Earth. Interns. 3 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 7 hours ago, Bucoops said: I scrambled up to the crest of Chesterfield Road, and the RoS camp was below me. A mighty space it was, and scattered about it, by their overturned display cabinets, were the second-hand models- dead... slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things upon the Earth. Interns. Gawd! This is SO exciting! 😎👽🚆 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Bucoops said: I scrambled up to the crest of Chesterfield Road, and the RoS camp was below me. A mighty space it was, and scattered about it, by their overturned display cabinets, were the second-hand models- dead... slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things upon the Earth. Interns. Pedantically, if you scrambled up to the crest of Chesterfield Road you'd be at Abbey Lane and RoS would be nowhere in sight, The Abbey and The Big Tree maybe, but not RoS! Mike. Edited November 17, 2022 by Enterprisingwestern 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 6 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Pedantically, if you scrambled up to the crest of Chesterfield Road you'd be at Abbey Lane and RoS would be nowhere in sight, The Abbey and The Big Tree maybe, but not RoS! Mike. These RoS guys are cunning monkeys, they probably have cloaking technology! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Paul H Vigor said: These RoS guys are cunning monkeys, they probably have cloaking technology! Of course, they hide junk in a shiny looking box... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Rich_F Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 17, 2022 Another invasion of War of the Worlds...https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204156063688?hash=item2f88a64fc8:g:oEgAAOSwIe1jdh4- 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 15 minutes ago, Weeny Works said: Another invasion of War of the Worlds...https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204156063688?hash=item2f88a64fc8:g:oEgAAOSwIe1jdh4- Spoiler alert, it's not a class 27. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 15 minutes ago, Weeny Works said: Another invasion of War of the Worlds...https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204156063688?hash=item2f88a64fc8:g:oEgAAOSwIe1jdh4- Mike. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 UNKNOWN MAKE 'N' GAUGE BR CLASS 27 DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE SPARES OR REPAIR BOXED CONDITION NON RUNNER - NEEDS ATTENTION SOLD AS SEEN Boxed: YES - WRONG TIRED BOX What's "Boxed Condition"? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madreddog Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 12 minutes ago, PieGuyRob said: Spoiler alert, it's not a class 27. Looks like a Lone Star body on a different chassis. Originally it would've had overscale tension lock couplings. The original chassis was gearless and used two little bands to drive the axles direct from the motor shaft. These run faster than a rat up a drainpipe! 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Madreddog said: Looks like a Lone Star body on a different chassis. Originally it would've had overscale tension lock couplings. The original chassis was gearless and used two little bands to drive the axles direct from the motor shaft. These run faster than a rat up a drainpipe! It isn't even fit for going down a drainpipe, never mind up one. Even moving the decimal point 4 places to the left........ . Edited November 17, 2022 by 96701 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madreddog Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 12 minutes ago, 96701 said: It isn't even fit for going down a drainpipe, never mind up one. Even moving the decimal point 4 places to the left........ . Do you think giving it six decimal places would be fairer?🤪 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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