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8 plank Numbers were, 27888- 27975. 88 sent to the island 1948-49 and withdrawn 1960-1966. mainly used for loco coal SR Diagram 1379 Colin

Seem to remember in the back of my mind a few trains to clear the coal stocks from West Cowes power station on the Isle of Wight on it closing. Can't say where I read it but march 1976 was the closure date

Don't remember 101 LR being around from mid 90's. Could be earlier

100% light gun behind the 1 tonne land rover on the warflat. Can't tell if a L118 or L119 though

We all seem to be missing a point here, I have looked at buying a Wills/Finecraft O2 for about 20 years now but given my modelling skills in metal modelling and painting I have been putting it off. On hearing that a RTR model was being produced I was over the moon but any model produced by Kernow will be many times better than what I could build at the moment faults and all. The Hornby 4 vep had its faults but if they had not produced it we would still be hacking up mk1 coach bodies and grafting on ends to get something half way close. While manufactures are willing to fund new RTR models and put the CAD drawings on this site to try and get them as close as possible we only have to look back 20- 30 years to see how much better our hobby is today in the quality of the models produced. Colin