mine was the old farish 158 in regional railways. it was my pride and joy.
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Class 08 EWS still running strong ;D
Looks old now compared to the new model. :-\
Minitrix flying scotsman in LNER apple green. still King of my collection.
My first models were a blue/grey class 101 DMU and an I/C Executive HST set...Christmas 1986. The 101 has long since died, but the HST (which took about 15 years to assemble to correct number of carriages) still runs every now and then.
The first model I bought with my own money - christmas/birthday money - was two years later at the Witley exhibition. A little Farish NCB liveried saddle tank. I still have it, and still occasionally run it.
my first loco was a blue class 25 with a rake of mintrix mk1 coaches back in 1995.
Cost me £40 in the local free ads
First N gauge. Peco NR-4e, LNER bolster No.231331. I did have a couple of Lone Star OOO models back in 1963.
My first n gauge model was the Graham Farish Royal Mail train set, and I fell out with it as soon as I had bought it, the train would not go correctly and I got frustrated with it because of the size, I then sold it and went up to 00, N gauge now has a good feel to it and I enjoy modelling in this smaller size.
Yes size does matter.
My first N Gauge loco was a Bachmann 4-8-4 steam loco purchased in 1985
My first loco was a Lima Class 31 Diesel in BR Blue which I bought in a set in 1978. It never did run that well!
In 1980 though I was given, as a present, a Minitrix "Sir Nigel Gresley" in LNER blue which is still running problem free to this day so I class this as my first proper loco!
GW 57XX pannier. Lovely loco.
Farish item 1105 - 0-6-0PT number 9401. Bought it at a time when I was thinking of a small branch line layout but have now got too ambitious, hence all my other purchases. Still a good runner and will now be used as station pilot.
Mine was a Farish cl.101 Met-Cam DMU in blue livery, bought in Beatties in Aylesbury. Still have it today.
The very next day, I boxed up all my OO stuff, folded the seats down in my Mini Metro and squeezed it all in, and drove to Cheltenham Model centre where I traded in the whole lot for N-guage. On the return journey, my new N-gauge stuff sat comfortably on the passenger seat.
So the Met-Cam was first, but only by 24 hours or so.
My first loco was a secondhand Lima Diesel - Centre Cab Bo-Bo BR blue livery (based on a German design but looking similar to the British Class 17). BR logo "D8915".
It was a terrible runner, and something I stripped down regularly as a 13 year old. I had an awful mix of track too. Just enough to make a small circle, and a set of points that derailed everything each time. :D
The first loco I bought new was a GF Class 08 in Railfreight livery in about 1995.
My first N gauge loco from when i first dabled in N as a teenager was the Lima Brush 2 set, lookin back the thing was hideous.
I found it again, when i finally moving the last of my stuff from my parents, in the back of draw where it had lain for 10+years. I sold it on ebay for the grand sum of 99p!!!
I had a Lone Star 000 goods set in the late 1960s, but my first genuine N gauge model was a Wrenn/Lima (I can't remember which) BR 2-6-4T Standard. I also remember trying to trade in my 000 stuff at my local model shop (Pages of Barkingside - now long gone) for N gauge stock, but they weren't interested.
Alan
Those that now know my penchant for USA & Japanese stuff may be surprised to know that my first loco was a S&DJR Johnson 8F, which eventually got repainted to LMS to sit alongside my second loco, the much loved Black 5, still probably the only British loco I would buy today!
1st N gauge 'stuff' I bought was following a phone call from local hospital who told me our 'on the way' 1st child was going to need/want a train set so.............................. a quick trip into Basingstoke and came home with a brand new 1986 :GraFar:. GWR 57XX pannier starter set.
That engines still going strong but a bit noisey nowadays :thumbsup:
My 1st N Gauge loco was a Farish 4F.. Still have it and runs like a dream.
Cudders
1978... Christmas.. a Lima class 31..
made me very happy despite the pancake motor. I remember my dad Christmas morning accidentally plugging the track into the 12V uncontrolled socket, the ol 31 taking off like a startled cat, flying off the curve and and snapping a buffer!. Amazingly I just remember laughing my head off (both of us) rather than being upset. I have an original grafar poster from that year too, with a portrait of a black 5 on 1 side and all over the grafar offerings on the other, I have the black 5 side plaque mounted finally this year!
Graham
Langley 22xx body kit plus GF Hall chassis from Hattons over 20 years ago. The chassis needed tweaking to run any thing like smoothly and has since had a replacement GP chassis fitted during the last 5 years. Still looks good as a green GW loco as in early 30's.
Regards
Frank
Hi,
It was only 3 year ago but it was a Grafar GP tank in LNER green. It gives off cliouds of smoke from the cab every so often but it still works.
Alex
This one -
(http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Jonathan_Clapp/TrixF9Asf014.jpg)
received Christmas of 1968, and looking well played with, its gone many miles I can tell you.
A Minitrix F9A in Santa Fe 'Warbonnet' paint scheme. came in a box set Trix marketed as 'postage stamp trains'
together with five freight cars, all of which I still have.
This engine is 43 years old and still runs perfectly, though noisy and fast by modern standards.
i got duchess of hamilton and some maroon mk1 coaches when i was a child, must have been for christmas or something...
i still have them. other stock i later collected was a green class 101, a black five, a gp tank, a class 08 in green, suburban coaches, lots of private owner wagons... the duchess of hamilton is now dcc chipped and comes out sometimes. everything else i sold to finance my new collection of 80s / 90s stock.
tim
Quote from: alex crawford on June 16, 2011, 07:29:23 PM
Hi,
It was only 3 year ago but it was a Grafar GP tank in LNER green. It gives off cliouds of smoke from the cab every so often but it still works.
Alex
Sounds like it desperately needs an overhaul....otherwise you may kill the armature...
Cheers,
Alan
First one I bought was a Farish J94, allegedly for SWMBO, with a couple of wagons for it to pull. That was about 10 years ago, and it still has hardly turned a wheel :smiley-laughing:
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Sounds like it desperately needs an overhaul....otherwise you may kill the armature...
Cheers,
Alan
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Apart from a couple of drops of oil, what would a service consist off?
Alex
Quote from: alex crawford on June 16, 2011, 09:04:50 PM
Apart from a couple of drops of oil, what would a service consist off?
Personally, I'd strip the whole thing down and clean and check every component (replacing anything worn where necessary) before carefully reassembling. Smoking is close to death or an indication of poor oiling that's got somewhere it shouldn't. This in turn can cause smoking and high current consumption (a motor killer through overheating). If it's an original 3 pole motored loco I'd be especially concerned as the armatures are more easily damaged on these models, and if it's smoking it may be close to cooking its armature if something isn't done to resolve this.
Best Regards,
Alan
Oh, memories!
My first N gauge purchases, well birthday presents, were:
a :GraFar: class 08 in BR blue and a GP tank in southern green along with a Lima MK1 coach and 2 :GraFar: container wagons.
I also had a few Minitrix points and a loop of track. These were all new back in 1984!
Ran them all on a Hornby controller until my dad got a second hand H&M Duette.
These are what I started with, I've never had an :NGAUGE: trainset!
Yep, me too, it was 1975,I bought a green Lima Brush Type 2 diesel, from Bakers Toy and Cycle shop in Aylesbury - the times I visited that shop over the years. Sadly long closed now.
I had a circle of Peco Settrack and a Minitrix box-van (BR livery but I'm sure continental deasign) to go with it.
The loco, I concur was a diabolical runner, and also, because of the way it picked up power through a sprung arrangement sat higher one end than the other! I still have the body and other bits of it, but way beyond repair - and why woud I want to anyway!
Just compare it to the Farsh Class 37 and 24 of recent release...well you can't really can you? it just makes you realise how technology has moved on...
Roy
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My first n-gauge model was a second hand farish 47, brass geared, which amazingly still runs, it is a tad noisy but several people have commented that it sounds quite good, they have obviously never heard a real 47 running............
Stuart
Apart from a collection of Lone Star Locos, mine was a Poole Farish Black Five bought at Hamleys with two coaches and a length of Peco flexitrack. I've never been the same since! :)
I still have the loco but it's in pieces after a plastic peg on the chassis broke, I consoled myself by buying a new Black Five last year.
Regards,
Veronica.
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Quote from: silly moo on June 24, 2011, 06:48:19 AM
I still have the loco but it's in pieces after a plastic peg on the chassis broke
Which part is this? It's probably repairable - most things are on Poole Farish models!
Regards,
Alan
My first N gauge model was the Class 47 from the Royal Mail Starter set. I still have it somewhere although it hasn't been run in years. Might get Mercig to do a version of it for me at some point.
When my Graham Farish GWR Raveningham Hall loco arrives it will be the first n scale loco i have ever bought. Besides the loco that came with my n scale train set of course ;)
When I was about eleven I got a Fleischmann tank loco and a Farish teak coach.