Limpley Stoker
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My 5yr old grandson has just been to stay for a couple of days and for the first time he hasn't wanted to see anything of my trains!
I blame Tractor Ted-- he now wants to be a tractor driver when he grows up.
Having said that I used to be fascinated by the working model tractor dioramas in the science museum - but you couldn't own a decent model of one in the 50's, (unless my mother didn't tell me).
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OK fellow GWR/WR admirers, I have a serious question (OK, stop howling with laughter).
Being a tight arse wad, I don't really want to buy 4 Comet kits just to supply some dining coaches for an ECS working that may or may not have been diverted through SJish and may or may not have run in my timescale in any case! The coaches would be and H39 + H40 (less essential as I could use a MK1 RF + a SO) and an H25 and H33 (probably more of a 'need'). Any chance I could do 'conversions' using some existing RTR product for the H25 and H33, or is that a complete b#####d to carry out or waste of time. Suggestions (about this, not what I can do with myself) on a napkin please.
If I had to build and finish 4 full kits that probably would never ever get done and I can't justify paying some other poor ######## to do them for me when SWMBO has not got any shoes to wear.
Ar$e
I have a railroad H33 on my back burner. I have sanded the roof to a more agreeable profile and inset the ends and plan now to custom flushglaze the existing body.
I see the refurbished H33 had longitudinal gas tanks but didn't the original diagram have transverse gas tanks ? .
The Hornby paint job matches my new Collett coaches so well I couldn't bear to cover it with brass!
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It looks as though the lady wished she hadn't eaten one of those!
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Oops-- but it's not seen very often !
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The more you see of a layout, the better it usually gets. If not, the good bits outweigh the bad. Over the years, Brent, model and real, have become as familiar to me as memories of anywhere I used to frequent in my trainspotting days. Maybe more so as probably most have disappeared and are fading in my personal hard drive as time passes. Luckily Brent and its trains represent the final years of my youthful interest as in a few years time, steam and I would go our separate ways.
Brian.
How true !
Looking over the fence to watch the trains at Brent is better than a heritage railway- no Mark 1 coaches and no expense. Only the smell and the sound are missing !!
Long may our host keep adding to the excitement!
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They've moved again- now they're amongst the festive lupins!
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Everyone loves the Pigeon Van (and the Finching sisters, of course) ... apart from Ben Jones, shame on him!
Glenn
" I say, Minnie, those new signal thingys seem to have blown away, and there's no hole in the ground- isn't that wierd"
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Christmas prezzy Rob????
Cheers from Oz,
Peter C.
I wonder if those couplings are commercially available?
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No stoking there! they's oil fired, just adjust a couple of valves. First time I've seen sprayers on a smoke tube boiler.
So oil-burning Castles are appropriate for 1947 - but not a pretty sight!
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There is an old boiler in a castle sometimes in Scotland at Christmas and new year.
I suspect I shall now be 'eliminated'.
Charles Windsor.
Sandringham now runs on biomass boilers so one no longer sees one's breath while giving the Christmas Message to camera !
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Absolutely but I can't promise any newly announced model will be kept in the same state.
Well I can't get my cattle into my new SR cattle wagon because to they are spooked by the satin finish and the orange floor. Poor things thought they were going on a holiday to Devon!
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Ho ! Ho ! Ho !
Is that the Lions' float collecting already ? I'm glad I can't hear the music!
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Never mind a fan heater, this could warm your Christmas up in the garage ......
Too cold even for bass instincts....
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i wish I had insulated my shed- it's too cold even with my fan heater on
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I bumped into this threads coaching guru [Chris F] yesterday and thanks to his information I picked up the last one of these on sale at Warley.Sorry for the straight out the box sequence.
Underframe detail.
With my other vans.
Thank you for the tempting photos- have you asked your small herd what they think of the insides?
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I have one of these. All I need is a roll of Izal to go with it.
If that's what Jeyes call Soft...............
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There was a young fellow called Yates
Who could dance the fandagio on skates........
Til he slipped on his cutlass,
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I carried a cutlass once, into A & E as she had had a nasty incident.
S.Wordsman
There was a young fellow called Yates
Who could dance the fandagio on skates........
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Looks like Dresden to me rather than Brent - just saying!
Could they be very smart Morris dancers?
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Perfect in my iPad using the Issuu App.
Having clicked the ' keep me updated'' button I'm hopeful of being informed of the resumption of HYS.
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Mr Warburton is a very patient man, he has posed for a very long time for that photograph. I'm sure he is a recently demobbed RAF chap with that moustache! He is probably carrying some victory rolls in his case.
He wants you to know that the MREmag site is now active and the first issue is available!
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Pity it has Airfix sized rims to the driving wheels- I thought it was OO at first glance.
Sorry, wheel obsession aired- back to nodding.
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Please do not under any circumstances type Finching Sisters/ Mayfair into Google.....
Could we be reminded who the gent on the seat with the Sisters Finching is ?
He doesnt seem to have offered them one of his chips and I can't see any seagulls!
A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.
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Hmm. NumberPlateGate seems to have been resolved! That's the power of social media!