andytrains

Should a member of the Brethren also be an arm chair modeller?

The cab handrails on these appear to be quite chunky. Wire would have been better, if they are plastic.

D12040 at Crewe.

15 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Just a note of possible interest...........

 

Geoff West, the current owner of Hadley Green is offering the layout free to a good home. 

 

Anyone interested, please PM me and I'll inform him.

 

Thanks in anticipation. 

Tony.

I am the Secretary of the East Ham and District MRC, and we were, together with Rob Davey co-owners of it. We would be interested in getting it back to the club.

My email is andyneilblaxell@gmail.com

Andy Neil. 

The rear rod on 7120 seems a bit bent. Otherwise looks nice.

A Copper with the Coppers!

They keep mentioning the WC. I get my hopes up that it will be a Pacific. Then I realise they are going on about 22 grown men chasing a bag of wind around a patch of grass.

44 minutes ago, Vistisen said:

I live in Silkeborg. i used that line 33 years ago, and we are still married 

Well done. You're partner must love/hate model railways then!

I talk two languages, English and Bollucks!

Both Maths and Arithmetic's have an 'S' on the end as far as I am concerned. 

Well that is the way I pronounce them.

I went to Denmark in 1974 involved in a project to build a kindergarten playground near Silkebourg.

I met some Danish lads on the train on the way there and they taught me my best ever opening line:-

"jeg elsker dig"

It almost worked once.

Quote

 

'en øl'

worked better

1 hour ago, newbryford said:

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That would be a pint of soft drink/water and no pork in the hot dog!

And Trevor Cousens of Mercian Models.

Then there's the myth that Swiss trains all run on time. They hold trains for connections, as we found out when on a rail trip based near Chur. Luckily they did as we would have missed our connecting train, but the train delayed by the previous one always seemed to arrive at it's destination on time. No doubt some very slack timetabling I should imagine.

13 minutes ago, Vistisen said:

My teenage son has a walk on closet.

So does my Fekking 32 year old that's still at home!

2 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

This how tight my weekly budget is now, following the chancellor's recent announcements...

 

@rse eating trews!

On 08/11/2022 at 23:04, 46256 said:

Hello Andy

 

The locos are superb. I did a Scottish rail rover for a week in 1971 with other Water Orton based train spotters. We travelled overnight to Inverness then down the East Coast….Aberdeen ..then Edinburgh. We stayed most of the week in a B and B in Haymarket, often catching the class 27 push pull to Glasgow. Great memories

 

best wishes Brian

 

 

We used to go to Glasgow, (Toryglen), to visit my grandparents most summers in the industrial two weeks. My dad was an apprentice electrician in the Glasgow shipyards at the start of WW2. He joined the Royal Navy as soon as he was 18 and served 26 years.  This is where he met my Mum, who was a WREN. (From Birmingham).

So visits up to Toryglen most August's were to see the Grandparents on my Dads side and the rest of his family.

We went on the train most times and I can vaguely remember going through Carlisle with loads of steam engines on shed.  And also the stop at Crewe, where the train stopped for ages for the passengers to go and get some relief and refreshment! It was an overnight train.

Great Days.

Graffiti artists get everywhere these days, even the photo lab it would seem - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115257183352

And eye wateringly expensive D&S kits.

40 minutes ago, Weeny Works said:

Errr what the hell is this? 🤯

It's, "GOOD BOXED CONDITION".

Fit for the bin.

It looks rather smart in Maroon!

Looking good, nice to see more Scottish stuff.

1 hour ago, BoD said:

Every Toby Carvery breakfast comes with a free Peppa Pig Jigsaw.

More healthy eating education for kids!

35 minutes ago, John M Upton said:

...and as a former qualified electrical safety and PAT tester I would not touch it with a well insulated twenty foot barge pole!

Barge poles are normally 12ft!

Hat, coat, door.......................🤣

1 minute ago, John Besley said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115453401326?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7njDd0E0TKO&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=mAE25Fz1QpK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

Our friends Rocket Railways... it looks about as old as The Rocket...

 

It's well worth checking the regulations on sale of second hand electrical equipment... makes for interesting reading

As a seller wouldn't you at least clean it up a bit!

Madness or Way Out?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155230938234?hash=item24247c247a:g:FDIAAOSwzaJhIhuD

69508 at Eastfield 1954 with the unusual placing of front number plate just above shed plate:-

On 10/11/2022 at 15:04, 46256 said:

Andy I know from my own experience that memory can play tricks…perhaps they were 76xx locomotives of which Saltley had a few?

 

One entering Water Orton yards from Birmingham direction photo courtesy of J Griffiths

 

We used to groan when 76043 came through.

I would like to groan again!