andyman7
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Someone's selling the rare fuzzy version of the Triang Mk1
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Congratulations - its good that a voice from my youth is still going strong, long may it continue!
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Blimey, I see from this old thread that last year that I was promoting the fact that these sets were available in Modelzone in High Holborn. What a difference a year makes.....
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The HSTs are painted plain blue with just the coloured lines stuck on as vinyls. I've not seen a 166 for ages, but it sounds like they are the same as the TPX 185s, where the whole train is covered in vinyl, with the shade of blue getting lighter from bottom to top. I can quite believe that this would be very difficult to reproduce on a model.
EDIT: Just had a look on Flickr and the 166s do indeed appear to have the same graded blue livery as the 185s.
You'd probably need some sort of newfangled technology, like waterslide transfers.....
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I reckon this box of landfill will go for something silly. Just a feeling...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380717284018?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Yes, the use of 'shouty' capitals is annoying - and I agree that this will go for more than I think its worth. But I can see straight away that there are a lot of parts in those locos that can very usefully be stripped and used as spares for those of us luddites that like running, fixing and restoring old Triang locos, and at the £15 start price it was well worth it. A far cry from the likes of our old friend Cartmel listing old A1As at £59.95 - and not 'landfill'!!!!!
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You can't get much better than that. Absolutely true to prototype in looks and behaviour.
Well, to be accurate they would both need to have expired!
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You can't run any of the Dapol Blue FYE Westerns alongside main line steam which had gone by the time the Talisman clips were introduced.
Geoff Endacott
You can, it just wouldn't be prototypical.....
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Some great Western and hydraulic pictures there. Just out of interest does anybody know how many Westerns Heljan have produced to date? I've only got the early BR Blue Western they made myself Druid, I am hoping the prices are going to drop with the Dapol Western out now so I can extend my fleet by a couple but prices seem to be pretty stable at the moment.
The going rate on ebay seems to be around £50 if you're not to bothered about name or number or so which isn't bad given the innards
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I've just checked my blue 31 and it looks like your 5512.
So I must photo it now and then get the body off before it cracks.
I take it that getting the body off is quite straight forward?
Kev.
Normally getting the body off is straightforward but if the chassis has expanded it is likely to be tight on the body which will need careful easing off. The cab floors will almost certainly break off if not already detached but they're not part of the body.
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I'd get the body off quick though - undamaged D5512 bodyshells are quite hard to find!
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You wouldn't want one on your worst enemy's layout TBH. The seller's name may refer to something between the ears, like a brain.
This one keeps being relisted, You do wonder how long it takes to get the message!
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Does anyone have any pictures of what the adapters look like?
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sounds good - whereabouts in Sidcup is it?
Thanks,
Steve
130 Station Road, less than 5 minutes from the station itself...
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As I understand it, it is either owned or managed by former senior staff from the Signal Box...
Yes it has been set up by two former SB employees
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I visited Invicta Model Railways today to pick up a Bachmann Mk1 Sleeper. Although just opened the shop was better stocked with RTR than many longer established shops, and is clean and well presented. They had another Bachmann loco in the cabinet that was on my wants list so I bought that too. The service is very friendly, and the prices are keen enough to make me happy to support this shop - especially as goods can be examined and no postage is required.
As a new business I'm keen to support them especially in view of the MZ/Signal Box meltdown!
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The rear of the original train definately did not derail, as there are video shots of a cut sitting on the track, silhouetted against the fire with the trains FRED blinking away...that cut seems to have been pulled clear at some point which would produce something that looked like that...
http://www.mmarail.com/sections/news/files/MMA_7.7.2013_Press%20Release_1415.EST.pdf
This is from the company's own website and indicates that after the derailment, a number of cars (presumably intact and on the rails) were detached and drawn away. It isn't clear whether the locos used for this were the ones originally hauling the train.
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One of my very first tasks on joining the railway at Dorking North in 1966 was to send out a taxi with a message for Relief Signalman Johnny Knightley to take duty the next day - at Knight's Hill signalbox! I think it was abolished when a mini panel was added to Streatham Junction box in 1969. When Battersea Power Station closed in the early '80s, a housing development on the other side of the river would lose its source of heat, which was pumped under the river. So a new boiler room was built at the end of the headshunts by the river, which needed alterations to the yard layout. By that time traffic was distinctly thin - including the adjacent South Lambeth yard, which was of GWR origin, so another "foreign" depot. That was just before the era of Alton Towers promising to take over the power station, gut it and make it into Battersea Leisure - an idea that partly perished because the railway couldn't help with handling visitors, due to lack of capacity, and planning permission became harder to obtain.
My railway career started a bit later (including a stint as SM Sutton, which covered Dorking at that time as it had been placed under the Central division by then). Even the carriage sidings there were out of use but not yet lifted. When doing Ops training on the Eastern division, working in Chartham and Canterbury West boxes gave me the only opportunity to see something other than class 1 or class 2 passenger trains signalled through under absolute block because the latter still had the oil sidings in use - and even they're now long gone....
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Close to me are the mortal remains of Knights Hill (between Tulse Hill and North Dulwich) which closed in 1968 (and which was one of the 'foreign' depots in South London that handled goods transited from the north of London railway companies) - it was in a fairly compact location with a tunnel mouth at one end.
At one time there were lots of goods facilities in South London (beyond the standard issue goods yards) which all disappeared between 1960 and the mid 70s. There were extensive down and up yards between Loughborough Jn and Herne Hill; the coal depot at Walworth Road survived (according to my gazeteer) until 1973; there were the Battersea wharf and power station sidings which I can dimly recall still being in some sort of existence until the early 1980s. In the South West of London there was the enormous Feltham goods yard that lay derelict for decades after closure in 1967 and is still partly empty.
West Croydon - Wimbledon is an excellent basis because in its (old) heyday it had so many sidings and goods operations. Olddudders recollection of the Merton Abbey line seems to sum up the fate of much of this infrastructure in that it fell gradually out of use and then lingered for some years in many locations in a semi derelict/disused state. However it's all been pretty much redeveloped now and an eagle eye is required to spot the tell-tale signs of former life.
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And now another "valuable collection" being offered as a "job lot" by someone living in a remote area. I mean - Padstow is lovely, but try getting there and it takes time!
According to my timetable there's a through train portion from Waterloo (but it is dated Summer 1963).....
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If it is, I wonder how well it'll go 'round curves with a Co configuration.
The Triang EM2 motor bogies only actually have four wheels - the centre ones are dummy half-wheels moulded to the keeper plate
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All their BILs now look (unsurprisingly) sold out at those prices!
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Do I not recall that Trix produced UK models to a really unhelpful hybrid scale of 3.8mm: 1 foot? If so, the claims here are a bit misleading.
As noted elsewhere, the AL1 was actually made to 4mm scale. This guy originally listed these as Triang, I messaged him to advise that they were Trix/Liliput bodies.
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Not eBay but an extreme example of wishful pricing,
OK it's out of print but £1500!
Will it ever sell? 
I've noticed that there's quite a bit of 'kite flying' on amazon from business sellers that list thousands of out of print books a daft prices, presumably on the basis that once in a while some daft or desperate person actually pays. Of course, this one could be a typo....
Hornby corroded class 31 chassis
in Hornby
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Don't panic, talk to SK if he's at Peterborough or if not write to him. In my experience Hornby are very good with customer service issues and I'm sure something can be worked out for your model and circumstances.