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Any chance the photos could be restored?

Often wondered about cutting it down, just in front of the radiator and behind the cab then reattaching the buffer beams, with simple wire loop coupling bar. May help to anglicise it more and improve the proportions. One day.... Don't forget to glaze, and crew, the cab!

And a couple more because they were cheap, interesting and the last was my very first Hornby electric train set! Just going to change my trousers....

A couple more, again, the art!

Couldn't use my arm whilst off sick but, could use a finger (oo-er!)...and bought the train sets i always wanted. Average price was around £30 each. The artwork always did it for me!

Must do some Indian locomotives, I've got the bits but no time! Cheapo train sets coming out my ears but work is getting right in the way! Still, every day is nearer retirement just got to remember to wake up breathing....

Indian Railways WP?

Gerry would be proud. Top work.

Try a restricted nerve. I would happily swap. After my NHS dentist retired, I went looking for a new one. No dice. All full up. Nearest vacant, 159 miles away! And then they closed/merged. Looked at private prices nearby and was surprised that for most work, it was a third more expensive than I was paying for NHS treatment. (Yes, no free for me!) I can book and be seen within the week, the service is excellent, the building is beautiful. (Not relevant but true and there is an interesting library!) and I can walk along the beach to get there in 20 minutes. 3 monthly check ups keep the big bills at bay and a tin on the side pays for them if they do. I had 2 check ups, 4 x-rays, full tooth enamel clean/whitening. £250. £39 cheaper than my last NHS appointment. May be expensive to some, but shop around. Just happens they were the best for me after a lot of searching, and don't leave it 10 years!

"Batman returns" to the loft? Garlic bread?

"Free the loft two!"

0-4-2 looks OK, 2-4-0 looks a bit anorexic.

That's the kind of thing that could reinvigorate the trade. I love it, kids should love it, roaring around at 100mph! A shed full, in all different colours, eye-catching too. As a body/tender "kit", keeping costs low, and/or to be the add-on to juniors first train set, even as an armoured train, to introduce the "vintage classics" kits to a child's play, and making the triptych of rail, road and air! Could, at a stretch, encourage learning if the packaging had a potted history of the real thing and suggested liveries and other products to incorporate in play, like the old Matchbox kit boxes that used every surface for information and were artistic and genius.

Imagine "starter sets", containing chassis, choice of bodies, (steam or diesel), pack of options and paint, glue, brush and transfers. How much? £20-25 fair? Some great artwork on the header and, in a blister pack style, Airfix style, so you see what your getting. Almost a CKD or pocket money kit. (Hornby can nick this idea...)

Agreed. e.g. Airfix Tiger Tank, and P1127 @ £6.99 each. Hornby, "Triang commemorative", 0-4-0T, £17.99. (For the chassis) ......i'm now thinking how to combine all three.....a vertical take-off, heavily armed, TANK locomotive. New "BATTLESPACE" or the current "Thomas" cartoon...bedtime methinks...

It occured to me that, in the spirit of the thread, a pack containing a crane jib, large buffers, side skirts, extra cab and pony trucks, would be a great compliment to the current, Dapol, "Pug" kit, as a taster for bashing....

Just body and tender mouldings, designed to fit on proprietary chassis. We only wanted to motorise them back in the day anyway! (New York Central Hudson)

You mention "a modular kit". This sounds a great idea. A couple of stock bodies, (Tank, saddle, well or just boiler). Separate boiler mountings/fittings on a sprue. Sold together or separate, would cover a panopoly of classes. Even some colonial fittings, (Large Headlamps/cowcatchers.) would increase sales. Body interiors could have recessed guidlines, to show how much to cut out/away for your chosen 00/H0/009 chassis, so you would not have to faff about with body mounting points. Cab sides could be a large, flat, surface with fine lines prominent, to show cab design, and the purchaser cuts away until they have their required style. (The fine lines left are sanded smooth.) But, is this possible in the home printing world? Are YOU the next Kitmaster?!! (H0rn8y are nicking these ideas as i type, probably...)

It stays fresh right up to the day you throw it in the bin.......

If your a dab hand with this 3D printing malarkey, why not "Ivor the engine"!

You could lose the steps, buffers and the boiler mountings and add a selection of different types on a separate print. E.g. dumb buffers, sand boxes, ogee bonnets and giesel ejectors. The bunker looks a bit anorexic and would probably require an (internal user only?) auxiliary tender. Only my opinion!

I can't wait!

High winds and kilts don't mix!

Ockendon has this layout and 99% of the time we are signalled on the straight through platform, until peak periods where we revert to type to cross at the station. It can catch out irregular passengers who stand on the "up" platform, look confused about the amount of people on the "down" platform, and then do the mad dash over the footbridge. If they make the effort, we wait, if they dawdle, we don't. We have to clear the single line and junction on time otherwise there's a knock on. Moral: read the boards, all of it!

Is the view as good out of your office window!