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  1. Captain Slough
    Yes. Same tooling apparently
  2. Captain Slough
    Not a Nellie-bash but thought it might interest: This is a bodyshell for the freelance 0-4-0 steam locomotive which Hornby-Dublo introduced in 1963 to compete with Nellie/Polly/Connie Nowhere near as common though. Was only sold in train sets and probably to be played with hard rather than treated nicely.... Pics from eBay. For disclosure, I'm the seller. Never managed to find a matching chassis for it so hoping it's of use to someone who has one
  3. Captain Slough
    just had to cancel a sale after the end of the auction but - fortunately - before payment,. because unknown to me, eBay automatically allows overseas bidders to bid & I don't do international shipping. Winning bidder was in Ireland and hadn't even contacted me in advance to check if this was OK Should at least be fairly easy to resell - bodyshell for the Hornby-Dublo "starter set" locomotive, which is pretty rare in decent condition. Now changed my eBay settings to restrict my auctions only to the mainland UK.
  4. Captain Slough
    there are photos in a related thread in RailUK forums showing one proceeding very slowly on the outer radius of a street corner curve Edit: Were. And I can't find them now.
  5. Captain Slough
    yes - British Rail 350bhp diesel shunters have actually worked through the street running sections of Metrolink into the city centre during engineering possessions for track relaying
  6. Captain Slough
    I think that Lima box originally had the 2 101 driving cars and the centre car in and the HST was an unboxed set of just power cars & he's switched them
  7. Captain Slough
    The description says it has lights in direction of travel,which was a Hornby HST feature not Lima. Looking at the bogies I'd say there's a Hornby power car and trailer in there and the only Lima part is the box and the Metro-Cammell DMU centre car
  8. Captain Slough
    thats true - I sold a badly repainted GF 00-gauge pannier a few months back, had a crooked wheel,a missing set of steps, a warped running-board and a VERY noisy motor (all declared clearly in the advert) and it got a good offer within hours of being filed, and good feedback too after the buyer received it. Feedback said "better condition than expected". It was borderline scrap....
  9. Captain Slough
    Farnby-Dublish
  10. Captain Slough
    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.
  11. Captain Slough
    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.
  12. Captain Slough
    Dublo 8F tender body might be a good replacement
  13. Captain Slough
    frequently discussed in Vintage / Collectible rmweb subforum...
  14. Captain Slough
    ~its a Dublo deltic. There are limits to whats achievable in terms of accurate representation....
  15. Captain Slough
    authentic livery from about 2002 when Porterbrook bought it out of preservation and put it into their active fleet
  16. Captain Slough
    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...
  17. Captain Slough
    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...
  18. Captain Slough
    Nice Saab stuff.I have 2 of them - a '98 convertible and an '06 estate. they are worth the trouble
  19. Captain Slough
    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
  20. Captain Slough
    You'd just need Nanking Blue and White paint, and a midland pullman transfer set, surely?
  21. Captain Slough
    the Hornby-Dublo travelling mail coach in the background is looking pretty good for its 60 years, too
  22. Captain Slough
    lol.. Llamedos / Sod'em all. DT fan? There's a cottage called that in Llan Ffestiniog
  23. Captain Slough
    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
  24. Captain Slough
    @Clive have a look in the "modelling BR Blue" subforum to see my attempted Cl 310 EMU done by similar methods to your models here
  25. Captain Slough
    28, 29 were both already RTR - the 28 in 1961 by Hornby-Dublo, the 29 by Hornby around 1979
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