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Dick Turpin

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    Interested in all aspects of British railway history, especially pre-grouping, with a heavy leaning towards the constituent parts of the LNER.

    Real name - Jim Raven.

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  1. Sorry, I should have said post-war.
  2. It is also limited to BR era layouts only; anyone like myself who is more interested in grouping or pre-grouping isn't going to want one.
  3. I can imagine the furore if you do get a retooled Saint, but with those horrible oversize working lights! Aaargh.
  4. I am really surprised they haven't done the Great Bear already. That and the Raven pacifics would make great additions to any collector's glazed cabinet. Let's see now, what else seems to be missing? A real beast like the U1 Garrett perhaps, a P1 maybe, there really doesn't seem that many options other than the more exotically liveried pre grouping types. We'll find out sooner or later.
  5. I think hell would freeze over before anyone does you one of those (though I would join you in rejoicing if they did).
  6. Had to smile, I've got one of those too. Haven't most of us? I have started to look through mine, and begun dividing them into those with a good chance of getting built, and those which I fear never will, with a view to selling them on, but oh, isn't it so hard to actually part with anything!
  7. Enjoyed a fantastically relaxing sunny afternoon at the Ryedale Society of Model Engineers' Main Line Rally. Amazing live steam action!

    1. Liam

      Liam

      A place I know very well, as I went to the school across the valley and so spent many happy Sunday afternoons down at the railway. Must get back up there at some point!

  8. Aaargh, indeed I still feel the pain! A Chivers Finelines D20 kit. Not only that I didn't buy one when I should have, but long after they were out of production, and C&G Models in Darlington were closing down and selling off all manner of stuff, I walked into the shop to witness another person buying one!!! And by way of salt into the wound - at a very knocked down price. 😭
  9. I don't hide my purchases from my wife, it's just that I try not to draw too much attention to them.
  10. Maybe market the motorless version as the "Original First Production Run", and the second, motorised version as the, "Functionally Modified Version" or something like that, so that the collector gets a collectable, and the modeller gets a working model. Of course, the true collector will want both, so you can't win! On price - who knows?
  11. Apart from the fact that the cab side sheets are too short. Spoils the look IMO.
  12. That's something I have never even noticed before! Mine's bottom left, Google Chrome.
  13. I think that over the last couple of years at least, that's something we have seen amply demonstated.
  14. Being taken to Leicester cattle market auctions by my father when I was about five or six years old. I well remember that heady mixture of damp air, straw, animal faeces/urine/breath and pipe smoke. Besides the smells, there was the hubub, the bell to announce the next aution, and of course the mesmerising nonsense of the autioneer himself. All long gone now.
  15. I guess, that's because 'there can be only one!' Love that film, and I do like the name.
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