Best wishes for a speedy recovery ??

The charity www.railwaychildren.org.uk also offer cards.

Fabulous find indeed! I sort of vaguely thought it was a Cavendish/Ultima product. I can only assume the seller wasn't fully aware of what he had; I would have sold the triplet separately if it were me. In addition to that I got 6 wagons and 2 coaches I can use, plus a few more I don't want and can resell, all for £35. Not often I get that lucky!

Cheers,

Chris

Ouch, all the best George. Be nice to the nurses!

Best wishes, George.

Quote from: port perran on <strong>Today</strong> at 03:50:18 PMW hat an interesting model.

I'm presuming that the middle carriage with the whitened out windows is the kitchen car?

Yes, that's correct, the Kitchen Car is in the middle with if memory serves "First Class" dining one side and "Third" the other.

@Papyrus it looks very much like a Cavendish kit (later taken over by Ultima I believe) which dates it to probably late 70s/early 80s - what a fabulous find!

Roy

W hat an interesting model.

I'm presuming that the middle carriage with the whitened out windows is the kitchen car?

Update

Part of the job lot was a bag of sundry bogies and wheels which I hadn't properly investigated. Most of it, apart from the wheels, seems to be dross, but...



The missing triplet bogies were there!! Deep joy!

There'll be dancing on the streets of Lindfield tonight.

Cheers,

Chris

PS. The wheels on the middle bogies don't match the others. I might replace them with something a little less Poppingham-esque.

I don't tend to trouble this thread much as I don't often buy stuff that I can show off, but I feel quite ridiculously pleased with this accidental acquisition.

Job lots on eBay usually seem to be people offloading scrapings from the bottom of a bits box, but I won a bid for one last week which actually had a reasonable proportion of stuff I could make use of including wagons and a number of coaches. There were three coaches I couldn't identify from the photo; I thought maybe they were Lone Star makeweights or something, but they turned out to be this:



An LNER restaurant triplet set!     

Just missing a couple of bogies from what I can tell, which should be easy enough to fix. This was never ever on my radar as a possible acquisition, in fact I didn't know a kit had ever been produced, but if I can fix it it will look fabulous in a rake of teaks behind Sir Nigel. I can see it floating towards the surface of the stagnant waters of my to-do list even as we speak.

Cheers,

Chris

Yeah, it's coming up for that time so if you want a clue as to getting decent railway cards I can recommend these folks. I've used them for the past 3 years or so.
I clicked on the Western Champion in golden ochre and just spotted it stated 'Father's Day' so beware
Note- to save a little order a 4 pack of your chosen pic

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