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But when Tri-ang Hornby first did FS in LNER green, wasn't that the livery it was currently carrying? That's presumably why they decided to do it.

 

The model was thus "bang up to date" - and all the more so when they later released the version with two tenders..........

 

John

AFAICT the FS was released in Both BR green and LNER green at the same time in August 1968

Well hopefully not the S&D or somewhere Dr Beeching has had his eye on, after all might make it tricky getting back to 1985 if the track has been lifted.

However nice it looks there is nothing revolutionary about the rebuild.

It just best practice from the later days of steam locomotive operation applied to an earlier very basic design.

It has grease roller bearings, fully balanced, oil-fired, insulated boiler and steam circuit to minimise losses etc.

The mods have increased power output to 2200hp (from 1600hp) and raised the top speed from 80kph to a more respectable 100kph (62mph)

I notice the boiler pressure and cylinder size has not been altered.

 

BTW it now looks faintly Australian to me!

 

keith

Well I guess a bit NSWGR, has a a bit of C38 about it. Of course VR steam was much better looking.

How about a half bricked in engine - sodor style

Well this this is the third time and am too old for it now

I agree, there is, but with property prices they way they are, who knows what one will get. Also being seen as too old, too far away, makes the job thing difficult to say the least.

Guess building a layout is something that could of happened just for the lucky ones out there.

Would you believe, all I wanted to do was build the layout of lifetime, my N scale PRR empire in my 15 by 30 foot shed, TT3 of shillingstone and a bit of 00 in the garden and now all as to be chopped up and burnt.

PM me if anyone wants one of the biggest collections on TT3 and Triang.

yeah well, when you find all you have it is boxes of models for layouts planned in your mind and nothing else left it is hard to do something.

Now I look at it, no career now as was made redundant, no wife as she left and now house or anywhere else as that need to be sold and all the money will god to solicitors and no hope of getting anything back after working all this time with so little to show for it makes you a little low.

 Don't You (Forget About Me)  - Simple Minds

Here is one of mine, I have always liked the 3F and was very happy to get this one, only because it has Mk2 couplings so is from 1958. It was a good ebay deal as also came with a dock shunter also with mk2s.

Cant say I have come across others similar, everything here I have seen has mk3 couplers.

Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Rolled

Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

Spanish Eyes - Elvis, Englebert, Homer Simpson and many more

Any of those blobs on powerlines easy to disguise with a HO cockatoo or a crow

Shhh, it's from the Strategic Reserve

Just scored a lovely mint/boxed Hornby E2 in lined gloss black and a Hornby M7 with wrong photo for all under 30 UKP

Man in the Rain - Mike Oldfield

Casio Royale

Attack of the 6 foot woman

Conan the Barber

Journey to the Central line

Drizzle Man

Pilates in the Caribbean

Robocarp

You can’t have it all ends up...

 

People resent the career political elite, so instead they vote for the Butcher, the Pub landlord etc to become MP...

You can’t then expect that person to go on and negotiate a good trade deal with an Oxford / Harvard educated negotiator from another country, and expect a good deal.

 

 

I think this point was well covered in Yes Prime Minister

Sir Humpreys response was, that is why all such negotiations are conducted by Civil Servants such as himself in advance of the meetings.

Reg Hollis seconded to the Flying Squad

ABBA - Arrival, especially if one goes for the Viking burial option

Steeleye Span - Lovely on the Water or Lowlands of Holland

Mike Oldfield - On Horseback, well I do like beer and cheese.

If you are interested in selling it, send me a message.

Who knows, will  have to go through it all, there at least 4 of those sets that we used for the layout and another half dozen boxes of single masts, but unfortunately only a few gantries. Noticed all the empty packets of joiners and bases too so we ended up using all mint boxed stuff but all seems back now.

One of the good things was it all worked very well with no problems, layout was all super 4 and series 3.

Sometimes you notice things after you actually do them, on closer inspection, the early catenery instructions was more interesting than I thought:

Moldex Australian version with princess and TC coaches on the cover

List of Australian/Moldex built Triang

Note the R257 is described as a double ended diesel with operating pantographs!! I realise the only production change was the roof but still!

Overhead instructions illustrating double ended electric and Sydney Suburban car

I dont know why attachments have gone upside down again, were rotated/resized, using Linux so maybe an issue.

Interesting discussion on Triang catenery, which prompted a visit to the store room

Late version catenery

Early version

Base attachments

Standard set, about 30 years ago two teenagers went through all this boxed catenery to build a layout for the local exhibition so no longer collectable. Incidentally the triang tape left white marks on all the posts after 20 years of storage.

Different types of contact wire, joined by little metal tubes

More posts in original boxes of 12

Bent contact wires - done to allow passage through the tunnels to the no-wired fiddle yard

I'm On My Way - The Proclaimers

House of Fun - Madness