Captain Slough

Farnby-Dublish

Somewhere on RMWeb theres a pic of a Farish 5 running with a Dublo castle chassis (early type with "half-inch" motor rather than Ringfield, a ringfield would never fit), and Dublo 8F tender Which gets rid of all the metal fatigue and chassis problems, at least.

just an additional thing I could have put into my message convo with hacksworth' but which may be of broader interest & that I just remembered. Due to a decision to share parts (specifically the side-rods), Hornby-Dublo/Wrenn R1s have exactly the same wheelbase as the Hornby-Dublo N2 0-6-2T. Dublo N2s may also be useful for motorising Kitmaster/Airfix/Dapol GWR Prairies as a result.

Dublo 8F tender body might be a good replacement

frequently discussed in Vintage / Collectible rmweb subforum...

~its a Dublo deltic. There are limits to whats achievable in terms of accurate representation....

authentic livery from about 2002 when Porterbrook bought it out of preservation and put it into their active fleet

Kicking myself now as in 1996 I decided not to buy a roller pickup Princess from Hemel Hempstead antique market due to the deformed Cellulose acetate body It was marked as about £18 from memory and my logic was that i could get a more modern one for that much...

Hacksworth, I have a pair of seized-up Dublo R1s that last ran in the 1990-s and have gone solid during the subsequent 25 years in storage if you need some to play with...

Nice Saab stuff.I have 2 of them - a '98 convertible and an '06 estate. they are worth the trouble

somewhere I've got one of those early plastic 0-4-0 chassis which I spliced a 3 volt motor into to make a battery powered loco. Was surprlsingly easy as the 12v can motor they used in that chassis run has the same external profile as a lot of 3v motors, just longer. I backfilled the space with milliput

You'd just need Nanking Blue and White paint, and a midland pullman transfer set, surely?

the Hornby-Dublo travelling mail coach in the background is looking pretty good for its 60 years, too

lol.. Llamedos / Sod'em all. DT fan? There's a cottage called that in Llan Ffestiniog

Triang (Triang-Hornby actually as it came out in early 1966) model was actually class 82 bogies - badly proportioned, using the Hornby-Dublo Class 81 body on top. Their class 82 as pre-announced was never released and the issued model was numbered E3001, same as Dublo's