Captain Slough

I had a never-started plan to build one of these using 1960s Triang pullman cars as the body source for the driving cars - they have about the right body profile and if extended then the window toplights were filled in then the main window extended up a little, wouldnt have been far off - although I never decided how I'd handle the end doors at the non-driving end. I'd already made a 5-BEL out of pullman cars so knew I could build a driving cab easily enough.

ideally a paid of Cl.58 bogies as well as they are fairly close in frame design to the LMS 10000 design that was reused by both NBL for the Cl.41 Warship and Metro-Vickers for the Cl.77/EM2

I actually have an NBL D600 warship - built by my dad using 2 Hornby Class 29 bodies, a Triang 37 chassis, part of the nose of the Class 37 and some plastikard..... (The class 29 bodies and the 37 noses and chassis were left over from "Monty Wells" Baby Deltic conversions) I imagine an actual RTR one would have all the grills in the right places and nose-end detail but at speed this wasnt as obvious, and standards were a bit lower in the 1980s...

well the £31 bidder was outbid in the last seconds by someone who bid £36, and paid minutes later... Guess I'll find out in a few days when its delivered, if he actually had read the description or not (even the header said "not motorised.." and one pic showed it with the body removed and no motor ) To be fair it had immaculate lining and bodywork as well as a complete original box, I'm just not seeing the value being realistic. I filed it with a starting price of £9 expecting it to go for no more than £12

This is ridiculous, my "connie" (unpowered,clearly says in title and description and photo shows it has no motor) is currently at £31 on eBay is a good body and original box really worth that much? or do I have an idiot buyer who hasnt realised he or she isnt getting a running model?

When I list items I always set the minimum offer price at a fair market value so as to prevent these timewasters outright. I have had one angry Scottish guy message me twice to say my minimums are ridiculous, but I just blocked him as I'm perfectly capable of seeing what other items actually sold for...

the first one with the obviously GWR engine has MK1 coaches with 5 windows between each door set..... 75ft chassis version? AI is weird.

Working 4mm scale London Trolleybus, built by me circa 1996 Body adapted from Tower Models RT kit, motor and gearbox from Tyco slot car, front axle from Corgi car, spring power pickups actually wired to the motor. This was set up to go in a straight line down a bit of road on my layout guided by 2 ridges in the road surface, actually takes power from the overhead wires

I should dig out my FEVA/Street Scenes 1992-stock diecast tube train and put that on sale... its about the only LT themed thing I havent sold yet and everything else really sold easily

Last year I sold 5 Ever-Ready tube train vehicles in far worse condition than those,and unpowered and with partial repaint restoration and crumbling wheels, for a total of £63 - I started the auction at £50. Thats a really good deal and a working one with box is hens teeth nowadays Bodies are stamped aluminium and are banana shaped from new. Design is clearly based on Bulleid 1940 Waterloo&City Line stock and shouldnt be in LT Red

this talk of ridiculous prices for Connies and Pollies has prompted me to file my unpowered one on eBay, have at it lads, I've given it a cheap start.....

it was commented on here once that the Airfix class 31 has the same axle and gear size but bigger, finer scale wheels and may be a direct swap, but thats a 40 year old loco thats also getting rare now. I've never seen that actually done

the inner sections on mine are exactly the same colour as the outers

while it looks like that,its a trick of the camera. I had the body off and every surface inside and out is exactly the same colour - I thought it might have been sunbleached but ruled that out after checking the inside edges Colour shifting plastic is probably the explanation, thanks

I'd like to hijack this thread to show this oddity I just discovered in one of my boxes of Dublo wagons Its a Hornby-Dublo 4310 Midland Brake van (M730012) moulded in what seems to be light olive green plastic. It should be grey and placed next to a standard Dublo GWR "Toad" brake van its tangibly different in tone Could be a Wrenn body on a Dublo chassis I guess.

Nice. did you use the 1970s/early 80s Lima Long-Wheelbase shunter chassis?

Sold a couple of spare bogies several weeks ago and never noticed that the status had never changed to Delivered from Dispatched. So the buyer was justified in sending me a somewhat abrupt message asking if his goods were ever going to arrive. I replied within minutes giving an apology and stating that clearly the courier had lost them as it did show in the tracking that the item was collected by them from the parcelshop and then stopped updating . I gave him a full refund and advised that the goods might yet arrive and if they did he could keep them for free as compensation for the irritation. M**********r waited 24 hours until the refund had gone through then left bad feedback stating that I'd never sent the goods and had refused a refund. Actually going through eBay about this to try to get the feedback removed as they will at least be able to see the messages and transactions

mk2 has clips at the end and a screw fixing in the middle, relied on that, was never an issue - see my thread about it in "modelling BR blue era" subforum you can see it in the first picture - motor bogie retaining frame isnt even connected to the chassis.

when I built my Class 310 out of Mk2s, using an HST bogie and frame, I glued the retaining frame to the bodywork instead of the chassis. After all, the bogie is removable, Just cut the chassis off 2/3rds of the way along

Model Railway Collector magazine issue no2 in about 1993 had a full article on Grafar 00 including what they believed was the full range of locos I doubt anyones ever documented the full range of coaches and coach kits, and wagons, they produced as some of those came out as late as the 1980s

TTR transformers were a bit of a hassle even before the insulation degraded and flaked away. Owing to each motor having a field coil as well as a armature coil and the range including lighted passenger carriages and brake vans, they were *generous* with supplied power. Up to 4 amps at 16 volts AC. you'll notice that if you touch even the low voltage side.

I am presently collecting, checking and disposing of my 1990s model collection. i went a bit nuts and tried to build a world in which everything worked Link to Youtube video: Working model lorry based on slot car chassis Also got working London trolleybus (used Eheim/Brawa catenary) and various double decker buses built on the same basis, scaled between 1:76 and 1:72 depending on parts. These scudded along one edge of my layout back in the day

has also been used on every one of the now seized-up Dublo engines

My first thought was that that box looked way too bright for a 60+ year old product. conveniently the only part of the 8F that would prov it really was a 48094.. is the body, which is missing

What IS IT with the mechanisms binding up over time though? Over the last 2 weeks I'v been through a box of mixed Triang and Dublo engines that have all been in that box in an attic since 1999,with a view to eBaying them. Every single one of the Triangs ran straight away. Not one of the Dublos did. they do seem very vulnerable to the worm drive locking onto the axle gear as the lubricant dries up. I took a few of them apart and if you turn the motors the wheels turn but they are ridiculously stiff.. almost wondering if theres corrosion inside the axle journals. I'll strip them all down (2 N2s, a 4MT, a Class 20, 2 R1s, 2 8Fs, a diesel shunter & an A4) to clean up and lube up when I have some spare time. I know they'll run after that as they buzz when power is applied, the motor wants to spin but can't