Coppercap

Like I said once before, the foot steps up to the cab and running plate are rather short in the treads - a bit 'Triang Hornby' in appearance. I wouldn't like to be the 4mm scale crew having to use them!

Have you ever seen the Flying Millyard in action? Remarkable contraption (that's the sort of description it would have been given back in the day it's styled in). Most of his motorcycles are interesting engineering projects.

Right, with you now!

Do you mean JAP or Jap?Jawa? Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Honda's better at making 4-strokes. Those NSRs were great when new and expensively and correctly maintained, but were too fragile when in the hands of the cash-strapped hooligan fraternity!

So, a typical Yammy hooligan then! I've always stuck to boring but reliable Hondas myself...

I agree, the original LC was much prettier than the later, YPVS model, and that's a more interesting colour than the originals. Over 25 is going some! So, how many of those did you crash or blow up then?

Is that a later YPVS motor in an earlier Elsie frame?

Obviously improved by someone who knew what could be done to make a toy look like something half decent.

(It was my great grandfather.) It occurred 13th December 1879, Morbath to Wiveliscombe. He was only nineteen at the time with his home shed being Yeovil, and still a temporary fireman, being made a 3rd class fireman (ie. goods) in February 1880. Now, elsewhere and much later in his career (3rd April 1911), he was driving a passenger train to High Wycombe out of Paddington on the down main which when it was passing Subway Junction a ballast train was shunted into it from the Crystal Palace loop, ripping into several coach sides and parting the train. One fatality resulted (Frederick John Palmer). The ballast train crew were at fault, and the junction was subsequently remodelled with catch points and extra signals provided. Sadly, the report while it lists the damaged stock, it does not mention the engine at all (probably because it was undamaged), but I guess it could have been something like a County tank.

Ooh, I'll have to look out for those. My great grandfather worked on the line in broad gauge days. He was once disciplined as a young goods fireman for not checking they had the correct single line token, only found out at the next station. I've often wondered what the loco was, but I'll never know.

Even then, Dolgoch has outside cylinders. There would surely be no room for even the 'Fletcher, Jennings' motion on an inside cylindered 0-4-0.

and there aren't usually lots of added bits to fall off the toys for younger people........Polly has nothing to fall off, except the track!

I'm pretty sure one of the YouTube reviewers showed it.

Yes, there was a small bag of small parts.

Surely, if paul 27 had the bag he wouldn't have to ask what was in it?

Why? Is yours missing? If it is, firstly have you contacted where you bought your BP from, or secondly, try Bachmann.

And it looks very much like a Collett 4000 gallon tender too!

Its got a lot of printed detail and evens has more realistic looking buffers than those on that Playcraft diesel thing.

See post #4....

The "valuations" in these guides are not worth bothering with. Just look at the Model Price Guide for another laugh. It's not as though they are the Glass's guide for models.

If that's the price (and I'll take your word for it), it doesn't mean anybody's ever paid that for one.

Only two places?

Pull any book on the GWR off a bookshelf and look at the passenger train photographs, particularly those on main lines. Unless it's an official GWR publicity shot, the coaches will almost certainly be a varied collection of sometimes very different ages. It seems only some branch and suburban coaches ever stayed in the sets they were originally part of, and even a branch train had odd extra coaches (sometimes though 'through' coaches were added to branch trains which would obviously be different). On the main line it seems trains were made up of whatever coaches were available from the sidings.

Not quite...........the GWR received its Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838. It only opened all the way from Paddington to Bristol on 30 June 1841.