Mark Dickerson

Great - which method of "teaking" did you use?

RCTS Green Book has the last 2 leaving Neasden in 1954, so I suspect a little more moving around than is indicated in the online databases. GC routes from Marylebone from introduction as you say, and LT Rickmansworth-Aylesbury trains on the same (Met&GC) tracks from late 1937 until replaced by L1s.

Not sure any of these would be much better Dreadnought stand-ins, though... Better to keep the money and save up for some kits. I take the point that Thompson and Gresley non-corridors are either exact or similar to the ex-Marylebone trains, with a mish-mash of Mk.1 non-corridors and Gresley corridors elsewhere (but a fair few presumably pre-grouping types?). Not sure I've seen an image of an A5 with Mk.1 corridors though; the shot of an A5 hauling Gresley or Thompson corridors on the Master Cutler is presumably unusual(?)

I quite like Tyburn Road I'm delighted. Possibly a one-number change might be risked, ideally I would have liked a post-1946 number as well (and I'm a fan of double flywheels in steam models), but I'm probably quibbling.

I really must paint the end of those Grafar 00 non-corridors red to stand in for LT Dreadnoughts...

Best not mention the Highland Railway livery on the Caledonian Pug about 20 years back, then. People will buy it, just as they'll buy the UK-liveried Electrotren HO 0-6-0Ts. Not what I want either, but if it can give me a cheapish (modern) chassis and perhaps a body for conversion, so be it.

It's perhaps not as mainstream, but if you want to broaden your choice in industrials, 0-6-0t or more unusual Big Four types, there are still a number of suppliers offering resin and/or 3d-printed bodies designed for near-as or modified RTR mechanisms, with compromises to either.

Thanks. I'd be looking at a last-few-months condition so it might allow a little latitude.

Although I'm tempted to do an almost-was(?) black livery on it, I'd like to paint a resin Met Bo-Bo body in wartime Service Grey. I thought I'd seen a specific tinlet in a bus range but can't find it now. Does anyone have an alternative? Halford's grey primer looks like it might be ok, but I was wondering what other people have used.

Red buffers. I find myself almost wishing a model was less realistic.

Tender cabs now appearing on *Bay, fingers crossed that the Colne Valley cab/tender cab is still in the works.

Thanks. I'm relatively mobile, so the "mature thinners jar" is less of an option ATM. I have a secondhand Kirk non-corridor coach somewhere I'd like to replicate - "Red Velvet Cake" was the other description I thought of for the shade. (And, yes, I thought it interesting that there wasn't a LMS version.)

I suppose at this point it's too soon to ask if anyone's - er - tried to remove any of the decals? And, looking to future when some of these sell less well than others, does anyone have a paint match for 1950s BR(E) "I'Can't-Believe-It's-Still-Running Brown"?

Still fine for locos though in Space Year 2021 (*cough* SECR Thom...E2 *cough*). Ah, but that's Railroad. I wonder if there'd've been slightly less hostility had these releases turned up in a yellow and red box.

Thanks to Islesy for the image of 20 - I want to say that's faded black rather than green, but YMMV...

So then, the picture of 20 as deilvered (p.2) - is that BR green? (Much as I'd like it to be black, I'm guesing that's unlined green).

It didn't stop sales of Swindon-Works-only(?) GWR 101 or the Dowlais Works model with Hornby which they broadened their range of 0-4-0Ts...

I'd be up for a few North London Railway 4-wheelers. Different roof profile, and ended up on a number of Light Railways and random places.

Interesting - what was the motor, and did you use the Electrotren worm? I mention as the worm and mounting bracket look like they're different on the latest model with the more open cab, e.g. E0044 and alternatives for spares are always useful.

Agreed. My initial thought was, "...and they even produced a train pack with a Terrier" - but not Southern or LBSC. Meanwhile, over in Railroad, SE&CR fans can look forward to a nice (cough) E2.

I hazarded a Ruston on the "hopes" thread on the basis of the two sizes of Peckett, but thought the Kernow/Heljan PWM shunters might make this less likely. Excellent news. No linked wagon, so I wonder if there will be a flywheel in the mechanism. As to liveries, I have to admit that I was looking for the BR Green one when I saw the announcement, but yes, I suppose 50% "mainline" liveries might be seen as a little safe. That said, I could almost see the Rail Blue in a train set as latter-day GW 101...

I'm surprised the X04 motor and (Athearn) central motor + twin flywheels (and I suppose a pancake motor) previously-suggested aren't included - several controllers but not too much mechanism-related. A couple more: Continental Modeller - indicative of breadth (or partiality?) of interest within the hobby. Track plan of Ashburton I don't know where one would date the concept of the fiddle yard, but the object would be a scenic break concealed with a road bridge replete with bus... A kitbashed Lima DMU, using e.g. Craftsman conversion kit.

As Th*mas is on there, as it also revived things: Hornby/Bachmann H*gwarts Express The W&H catalogue (or the printed Mainly Trains one). Really the Walthers Catalog should be on there. If you’re allowing digital objects: eBay Superglue Were this an exhibition I’d have a clever-clever suggestion of a games console or games PC, both to show the decline in numbers of the hobby, and the rise of train simulators. I’d also have a VHS tape of whichever Jasper Carrott routine started(?) all those trainspotter jokes, and the expansion of the term to wider hobbyists. Times change...

Ironically, that is what I inferred from the post about "over-saturation" of industrials...

But would a Railroad version cost anywhere near as much? Different target market, although keeping it as a 110 would be my bet. I could see it showing up in a future "family pack" or whatever they're called.