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That's not how BR's loco numbering worked at the time. The first two digits weren't a class number like they are these days, it was just a number in a series allocated on a regional or loco type basis: 1 - 9999 Western Region steam locomotives (no change from their original GW numbering and thanks to The Johnster for the reminder) 10000 - 19999 Diesel and gas turbine locomotives 20000 - 29999 Electric locomotives 30000 - 39999 Southern Region steam locomotives 40000 - 59999 London Midland Region steam locomotives 60000 - 69999 Eastern Region steam locomotives 70000 - 99999 British Railways Standard and ex-War Department steam locomotives These number blocks' allocations were to some extent theoretical since there weren't sufficient locos to completely fill them. For example the BR Standard sequence's highest allocated number was 92250, a 9F 2-10-0. The highest Eastern Region number was in fact 69999, the U1 Class 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 Beyer Garratt but that was down to the fact that the LNER gave it the number 9999 because it was a non standard one-off and BR simply added the Eastern Region's '6' prefix to it. There wasn't a 69998 for instance. As for diesels and electrics, the highest numbered diesel was (I think) a Southern Railway built shunter, numbered 15000 (again, I stand to be corrected on this), The BR shunters that would now be known as Classes 08 -12 were numbered in the 13000 series. After the 1955 Modernisation Plan, the numbering plan stayed the same for steam locomotives, but new diesels now got a number in the D1 -D9999 series with no particular significance to what numbers were allocated to what types as far as I know, for instance D1 was a Type 4 "Peak" and D8500 was a Type 1 "Clayton" goods locomotive although the shunters in the 13000 series simply had the initial '1' removed and replaced with a 'D'. That said, the early, larger, pre-nationalisation designs kept their 10000 series numbers. The former gas turbine locomotive 18100 was converted to an AC electric locomotive for training and line trials purposes prior to the delivery of the first AL1s in 1959. It was originally numbered E1000 but later this was changed to E2001. The production series Western Lines AC electric locomotives, Classes AL1 - AL6 (later Classes 81 -86) got numbering in the E3001 - E3200 series depending on class. I have an old Ian Allan ABC from about 1971 that shows Class 87 was suppposed to have E3201 - E3236, but the TOPS system intervened and they were introduced as 87 001 - 87 036. There were a couple of AC electrics that were geared down for primarily goods traffic and they initially got E3301 and E3302, but they reverted to normal gearing later on and were renumbered, I think, in the Class AL3 (83) block. DC electrics for the Southern Region (later Classes 71, 73 and 74) got E5000 and E6000 numbering. The Eastern Region DC electrics of Classes EM1 and EM2 kept their original 26000 and 27000 series numbers until TOPS came in although latterly, to keep with the convention, they had 'E' prefixes added. Class EM1 became Class 76 , numbered 76 001 - 76 057. The EM2s were allocated Class 77 numbers but never carried them as they were withdrawn and sold to the Dutch Railways before renumbering could take place. With regard to the colour, there were two blues that BR used in 1948, a mid to light blue (but not as light as that model) and a more purplish hue. I don't think the purplish one was used except as an experiment. The mid blue was more widely used, but not for long. I think it was extinct by 1950. If a loco was painted in what became known as "Express Passenger Blue" it would have had either "BRITISH RAILWAYS" in full on the tender, or the early "unicycling" lion and wheel emblem. None lasted in blue long enough to have anything else. None would ever have had "Southern" on them as this was one of the pre-nationalisation companies that BR replaced. As for steam heating, all passenger train capable steam locomotives had that as a function of their being steam locomotives. Diesel and electric locomotives had boilers fitted to do the same job because all passenger stock up to the Mark 2 series had steam heating since they were designed to work almost exclusively with steam locomotives.

Seconded! 😆

But if the prices he charges are such that the stuff never sells, and it would appear from his listings that this is the case with a lot of what he's got, then it's never going to work.

I doubt Go$tude ever paid too much for anything. Asking too much is more his thing.

I don't believe the Southern ever did this... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334755298863?hash=item4df0f87e2f:g:vUUAAOSw2RJj8gAF You could probably source the entire loco for less if you were so minded. And it would be in the correct livery! Look too, if you will, at this pile of old trousers! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334753790707?hash=item4df0e17af3:g:nb8AAOSwVLRj8MIZ

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334753790706?hash=item4df0e17af2:g:ln0AAOSwolhj8K4k Kit built motors? That's novel! Just the thing to go with this... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364137047965?hash=item54c842679d:g:5QkAAOSw3v1j4Q4U An unmade kit for £239.50? Just because it's old, doesn't make it worth its weight in gold. He's smoking something.

Precisely. He probably got this in a house clearance and if he paid more than twenty quid for it I'd be surprised. Go$turd's avarice is off the scale. This one... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364123658051?hash=item54c7761743:g:7OUAAOSwE1Fj0jtq ...is clearly from the same source to judge by the build quality but it's obviously worth an extra fifty notes because it's a Martin Finney kit!

From the colour of the weathering, this one's seen some service in the Sahara! The way those pony wheels have been fitted doesn't seem too clever either. Nice model otherwise, although Go$turd is barking at the moon if he thinks he's going to get 300 notes for it. Half that would still be pushing it a bit. Likewise this one... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373797687067?hash=item5708140f1b:g:8dEAAOSwnYphl7S5 Why doesn't he at least brush the dust off these models before he photographs them? This one looks as if it's been at the back of someone's pullover drawer for the last twenty years. This is quite a nice Barnum. But is it £400 worth of Barnum?

In the early 80s I had a 1975 standard (non TC) 1.8 Marina in blue. When I joined the Beeb in early '83 I decided to drive from my then home in Kilmarnock to Wood Norton near Evesham, where the Beeb's engineering training department was, every week, rather than flying from Glasgow and Heathrow on travel warrants. (Getting to Heathrow on a Friday night was a nightmare and I only did it once). I'd leave WN at about 4.30pm and tool it up the M5 at over 90 (no cameras in those days) just in time to meet the worst of the rush hour at the M5/M6 junction in Birmingham. After getting past Wolverhampton the foot would be pressed to the floor once more and it's 90 plus all the way to Gretna and then career dangerously up the A76 from there to Kilmarnock, arriving home at about 10.30. Same in the other direction on the Sunday night to get back to WN for work on the Monday morning. After twelve seeks of this punishment, the car was burning more Castrol GTX than it was petrol but I wasn't much bothered as I could top up the oil for a fiver a gallon. Much more worrying was the lever arm shockers creating the problem experienced when rounding any kind of bend at more than 40, at which point the car would ignore the steering wheel and just keep going in a straight line. I had a close encounter with a hedge that way so, since I now had a pretty decent salary, I scrapped the thing and bought a Triumph Acclaim HL. I know I'll get pilloried for saying this but I thought it was a nice car and, since it was a badge engineered Honda, much better built than anything British Leyland could create themselves.

I'd love to know too why he felt the need to crudely bolt a piece of what looks like cardboard onto the roof and then bolt the pantograph to that rather than fitting the thing where it should be. The other one is just as bad, fitted forward of the correct position and mounted using a 6BA bolt and a fecking great pair of nuts. Even more baffling is why he wasn't consistent in how he did both of them. He seems to have gone out of his way to brutalise these locos for some reason as a more hamfisted way of doing things is impossible for me to imagine. Other locos in this collection from hell have clearly been run a lot as the improvised copper wire wipers soldered to the pans are grooved by many miles under contact wires. If this is the skill level he brought to bear on his locos, I literally shudder to think what the layout must have looked like. Whatever this guy was on was probably illegal!

I noticed that this is not just Rocket Railways but Rocket Eailways Reclaimed which on a cursory inspection appears to mean even tattier tat than the normal site!

He's widely regarded not to be as rich as he pretends to be. It's said that if he'd invested the money his dad gave him to get started by simply putting it in the bank, he would have made just as much as he actually has. Other genuinely successful New York real estate moguls considered him an incompetent joke. Let's not forget this is a man who crashed a casino, and that takes a singular talent. The only reason he ended up famous (or is that infamous) is because of his ghost-written book, The Art of the Deal which led to The Apprentice and the rest, unfortunately, is history.

The only person I can think of who might be stupid enough to do it is Donald Trump!

Go$tude's outdone himself with this one! £29.50 for the end of a box. Not the whole box, mind you, just the end of it! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144397776630?hash=item219ec736f6:g:38kAAOSwgmhh~WDe

It'll be like some vintage wine...very collectable but, whatever you do, don't try to use it!

This is Go$tude using another name..Antiquetoys1...but it's the same overpriced tat with the same cheesy "a great addition to your collection" tagline. This time it's ten different Humbrol sized tins of paint for the surprisingly low price of £149.50. I don't know how he does it for so little. 🤣 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144194861650?hash=item2192aefa52:g:IvQAAOSw1eJhOz0Z&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoF31vNlWkyBSDAmEN%2BLGhxYQdgi9brU8N4KxB07vyOK%2BtiYB7ouvhHsCz408%2FRq2iFbGR8mVFGOP9%2FcD%2BNM6y8p77VnOYYoQplh7ECa%2FYAgGs540q7dZaMRa6e6xCXV62rt9Q0fj4ei29GkaA6JIkavUsFCf14u64xbTK%2FASk86SdAgxO8EjXJCik%2BLB4u36xcq92H6JD3%2BytAxsAH49CvM%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7itutPMYQ

Here's a seller that makes Go$tude look like a model of decency and respectability. There's some heartbreaking neglect to be seen here. You've also got to marvel at the nerve of someone trying to sell bin rakings this bad. Whoever originally owned them and "modified" them had no love for them, no modelling skills and seemingly very little eysight for some of those horrors to have been perpetrated on once expensive continental models. It's tragic. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_ssn=superkbros&store_name=superkbros&_oac=1&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562 Select "newly listed" to see them all. EDIT: Look at this one. He's added mass by glueing wheel balance weights to the roof!! I just can't wrap my head around that kind of thinking. And then there's this one, with the novel wiring and pantograph glued to the roof . Yours for at least $9.99, but he clearly expects more or it wouldn't be an auction.

Look at this wreck: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204244235646?hash=item2f8de7b57e:g:IfYAAOSwzWZj7Bdg&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoM0tZslMNk7gCa%2BlTuYUzTmpz8Hbk9NRVLdMtBO2OsQKeE%2FJCA87E%2B5USeAz%2FlyPYBuSJvDRfX5dEQ4xG%2BmcQk7H7C8GUYu6xwfI5keHlNvNAFoHFlO0Dt6tP4kc8Ltf7zMgGLu0vjcNeWIp%2B8iOrNPCzWPOLmBEJzjlZOUda3lFqTs812QZlenTvNjk2AUvVzVVRZEFIPm9LZ5t6bJCBO8%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4aFl5PLYQ Okay so the bidding starts at $9.99 but look at the postage...and what on EARTH has he done to those pantographs!!

So it's not worth pointing out, is that it? Just let them get on with it? That kind of apathy is one of the reasons the world is in such a mess. No one gives a sh!t.

And that is a hellish and sad indictment of the ethics of our world. "It pays me to be an exploitative conman, if my customers are mug enough to fall for my deliberate bullsh!t, that's their problem. Why should I care about doing the right thing by others? My bank balance is rising and that's all that matters".

I know that's the standard view, but if you owned RR, would you want publicity that showed you up to be an unprincipled chiseller with no regard for decency and fairness? I wouldn't.

Look at the dimensions! That's taller than full size!

How does that even happen?

I can't even see what this thing is but according to his description it's in British Rail livery!

It's like those models are made to different scales! I knew Lima's N gauge stuff wasn't up to much but good grief!