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I’ve not got one to hand. I’ve got a 1/87 under scale high viz attired Noch track worker with a hydraulic pile driver I can put there. I think it adds even more incredulity to be fair.

Definitely early 1900s. i just need to spray it all one shade of unsuitable brown and glue some tufts of static grass on it.

I am getting proper into this folk art lark! Easy innit?! The difference being this actually has some value for the bits!

Rare 2022 folk art. Phone case with plastic eye. Name your price, Phone not included Or laptop

The trouble is, I am now looking at my inadequate sheep on my layout…

Quoting myself is poor etiquette I know but the modular element of Lego lends itself well to concrete buildings such as that magnificent bank at the back and I’m getting inspired to commandeer some of the little ones blocks and with a bit of detailing such as replacing the bobbly boards with proper roofs has potential!

I mentioned the Lego 1/87 range of the 50s and 60s earlier. Here are a couple of shots of it. A very attractive little range and would also look great like the triang stuff. I have had bits and bats of this over the years and modified and chopped it up unfortunately such as taking the bases off the little scooters and cyclists. These items still have valid use on layouts of today with a bit of fettling. The price or the cars and vans etc though when people who know what they have put them up for sale is eye watering and in Rambler territory!

Also is that second Siphon(?) still in brown livery?

Domino headcodes on an 86. Probably commonplace but just looks odd…

I’ve had a couple of Crestas. In an act of sacrilege I detailed up one with Oxford Diecast wheels etc but was careful to make it reversible if needed! I have never seen the Rambler in the flesh. To be fair I’ve never chased after one either as it’s not of modelling use. If one turned up in a job lot cheap it’s a seller onner.

Most of that would not have applied in 1973! Grubby donkey jackets and live line working with cloth capped lookouts… However, child labour laws were in force so he couldn’t have worked. My mum told me that in the 1950s my grandad would take her out with him to walk his mile on Sunday mornings with a bacon sandwich in a platelayers’ hut as a treat.

Time to come clean and say I bought 33025 and the equally fictional 87022 both secondhand in 2017!! It took Google to see I was still gullible!!

I did wonder that hence my question,

It makes me chuckle actually as I was 10 in 1986 and believed at face value and without Google assistance that all these liveries were prototypical! How I was misled! Lima were also guilty with their (for example) large logo class 33!

That’s one for the completist collectors and of the same ilk as their RTC variant.

Just observing the cover image on the catalogue in the welcome pack. Not particularly bothered but is that still a 4mm model masquerading as a 3mm one? All the scenery including buffers overall roof and platform accessories are from the train set 00 range and it isn’t dwarfed by them.

Incidentally I recall having class 85 and mark three IC executive livery haulage on a footex to Wembley in 1989. That was a rare treat then. I pointed out recently that I rode a scrapped locomotive/ train to a demolished stadium to see two defunct teams!!

It’s really interesting to see the mixed marks of coaches in these rakes. I knew mark ones mixed with mark threes in the capacity of full brakes and buffets until the mark three buffets came about (latter before my time) I didn’t realise mark threes got mixed in with twos etc so readily. False memory assumed they stayed “pure” due to their modernity and other characteristics.

Fifty or sixty years ago we had a lot more scenic accessory availability than is really realised. It looks like a Triang Hornby catalogue of the time! I also liked the Lego 1/86 accessory range too which was a similarly comprehensive system. I think you just wanted somewhere to show your Crestas! It was possible to recreate proper paving as I think the super quick range was out then too!

Whilst not particularly a problem for me that is poor. They had it right in 1977 so why not a few decades later!?

Just picked up the railroad intercity executive power and dummy car pack as with retailer discount it was a pocket friendly (by 2022 standards) £123. The power car white lights work but obviously not the dummy car red. Strangely though the power car white lights still illuminate in reverse direction! Is this a design fault or just my set? I just run the detailed buffered DVT at the rear so this isn’t an issue to me.

Sad no 310s exist. Quite a good looking design as EMUs go.

I remember seeing that with my mum in the 1980s and it being the first time I took notice of a locomotive to the point of reading its number and name. Almost 40 years ago….

As a competently 90 percent complete DPU body and a I assume useable class 47 chassis 25 quid is actually good value. However I suspect the likely presence of copious amounts of UHU or Bostik holding them together renders both unusable!!

That was quick thank you guys. I assume the firebox door thingy is aftermarket?