A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[gwrrob]

3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Rob, are you going to model that thingy on the chimbley (technical terms)?

 

Most definitely not.

[GMKAT7]

Good afternoon folks,

 

Spark arrestor?

 

Cheers, Nigel.

[gwrrob]

Page 1947 😇

[Captain Kernow]

On 26/04/2024 at 17:36, gwrrob said:

I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160.

 

They used to double head the Pines Express over the Mendips...

[BWsTrains]

more likely tunnel through the Mendips I reckon

[Mallard60022]

3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

They used to double head the Pines Express over the Mendips...

I saw one on the ACE at Axminster in 1971. I was drunk.

P

Edited April 28 by Mallard60022

[TrevorP1]

1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said:

I saw one on the ACE at Axminster in 1971. I was drunk.

P

I saw it too…. 🍺

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, TrevorP1 said:

I saw it too…. 🍺

So it was you on the floor?

P

[TrevorP1]

41 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

So it was you on the floor?

P

 

Hic...

 

Before I collapsed a fellow grocer told me they were kept with the strategic reserve of Grange 4-6-0s in that siding inside Box Tunnel.

[St Enodoc]

5 hours ago, TrevorP1 said:

 

Hic...

 

Before I collapsed a fellow grocer told me they were kept with the strategic reserve of Grange 4-6-0s in that siding inside Box Tunnel.

Grocer Heath or Grocer Jack?

Edited April 28 by St Enodoc

[MrWolf]

1 minute ago, St Enodoc said:

Grocer Heath or Grocer Jack?

Arkwright or Margaret Thatcher's dad?

[MrWolf]

5 hours ago, TrevorP1 said:

 

Hic...

 

Before I collapsed a fellow grocer told me they were kept with the strategic reserve of Grange 4-6-0s in that siding inside Box Tunnel.

 

I thought that was the armoured train full of German loot? Or is that in the siding on the down line?

[TrevorP1]

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Grocer Heath or Grocer Jack?

Bledy automistake. That’s how rumours start!

[Coach bogie]

On 27/04/2024 at 02:36, gwrrob said:

I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160.

 

Of course they announced it after I had bought a Roco one!!!!

 

Mike Wiltshire

[Nick Gough]

9 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Arkwright or Margaret Thatcher's dad?

 

For F-F-F-F-F heaven's sake!

[Mallard60022]

10 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Arkwright or Margaret Thatcher's dad?

Same person I was told.

Yo.

[Ian Hargrave]

 Some news of interest from Dapol just announced. A 14XX ….and a 517.

[checkrail]

9 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

Some news of interest from Dapol just announced. A 14XX ….and a 517.

Good news indeed, not just re these locos but, in the case of the 517, to see a manufacturer announcing a new RTR model of a loco class that didn't make it to nationalisation.  Bodes well for the future for us pre-war period modellers. 

[gwrrob]

1 hour ago, checkrail said:

Good news indeed, not just re these locos but, in the case of the 517, to see a manufacturer announcing a new RTR model of a loco class that didn't make it to nationalisation.  

 

Interesting news this one, again we thank Richard Webster's @coeurdelyon influence at Dapol to do these. I'm sure Brian @BMacdermott will tell us how well the 517 polled last time.

[Ian Hargrave]

Having had some insider information about a GWR tank last September,my source got it wrong by a degree. It was a Metro Tank. Hey Ho.

[BMacdermott]

Hello Rob and everyone

 

The 14xx was listed for the first time in The 00 Wishlist Poll 2022  (the last poll to run before we run again near Christmas this year).

 

It was in The Top 50, being the most-wanted GWR loco. The class came in at overall position 6th.

 

The 517 has been steadily climbing the echelons. It came into High Polling - at the lower end - in 2016 and remained there in 2018. (We didn't run in 2017.).

 

The class climbed higher in 2019 and was just four votes short of The Top 50 in 2022.

 

Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

[45568]

Fittingly launched where I saw so many of my 'Granges' all those years ago!!

 

 

Cheers from Oz,

Peter C.

[Bulwell Hall]

5 hours ago, 45568 said:

Fittingly launched where I saw so many of my 'Granges' all those years ago!!

 

 

Cheers from Oz,

Peter C.

Absolutely magnificent!  Fantastic achievement!

[Ian Hargrave]

I wonder if Hornby will be tempted to produce a special edition…..but without headlamps. Though I should imagine the tooling is either worn or disappeared by now. In which case,step forward Dapol,Accurascale or Rapido.

[7802]

Three diagrams of Bloater in the EFE rail announcement today, could be tempting for several round these parts.