GeoS

Would love to see one of the first batch (D5500-5519) in green/SYP!

Seconded!

Just leave instructions with a trusted person " not to let the wife sell it all for the amount I told her it cost"!

My dad bought my first train set, Triang, no doubt price / value influenced this.  For my part though, although Dublo metal bodies looked good I had never seen a three rail railway in real life and I never understood why anyone would want one.  I progressed with Triang very happily and ended up with 8x4 TT gauge layout, which I came to regard as the ideal scale.

In my second phase of railway modelling, in retirement, I now realise that 009 is the real deal!

If a shop is devoting significant space to Corgi and Scalextric, is it really what you want a model railway shop to be doing?

See LNER Encyclopedia online for class details and variations.

No. 1662 was purchased by the British Sugar Beet Corporation who used it at their Cantley factory near Norwich. It was withdrawn in 1955 and scrapped by 1957.

Interesting idea for a layout!

17 minutes ago, Legend said:

As this is a fairly long thread which I'm sure will contain the answer somewhere, will you forgive me in asking , how do we get the name "basil"?

By being faulty (fawlty) boom boom

Getting back to the J72, does anyone yet know if the chassis will fit the Wills Finecast J69 body kit? Wheel diameter and spacing almost spot on.

G

17 hours ago, Satan's Goldfish said:

 

For some reason I thought they weren't yet cleared for the ohl between Ely and Cambridge. 

 

Useful to know they've started the Stanstead services, hopefully it's a path that stays. I can remember it being spoken about a while ago, I do like the idea of being able to walk up the road to the station and get to Stanstead easily, no worrying about driving or parking costs. I think the most difficult bit will be persuading the wife she can walk the 30min to the station next time we plan a holiday...

Friend of mine has this sorted, drive wife and luggage to station, drop off, drive car home and walk back.  Repeat in reverse order on return.

On 04/11/2019 at 08:55, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

A J72 carves up into the ex-GER J67/69 reasonably well. The Worsdell connection.

Can anyone say if the chassis will take the body from a Wills Finecast J69 kit?

New trains on Greater Anglia now reportedly known as "Basils", because they are so faulty!!

So that's full circle then! My first train set in mid 50's was 46201, later I (or dad) added a Jinty. I referred Triang as I could not get my little head around the other track system with three rails, down at our local station they only ever had two.

But I am not in the market for this new one, Great Eastern for me these days ( and freelance 009).

Geo Norfolk

Last year at an exhibition I asked Precision Paints if they had a GER blue. The answer given was a choice of two...the one they had always sold as such, and a lighter one as recently suggested by the Great Eastern Society to be more accurate following some new research. From where I am now I cannot give the reference for the paint but asking PP hopefully will. I actually thought the new one to be rather bright, but of course there are ways of dealing with this.

Geo

Norfolk

When mentioning the model railway layout / collection in the Will, remember to specify " do not dispose of it for the amount I told my wife I spent on it".

Geo S