Childhood model railways

[EtchedPixels]

My grandfather used to have the pre battlespace operating giraffe wagon. That was great - you set the trigger thingies up right so it would duck under bridges.

[EtchedPixels]

Oh, and the blighter now has my Double Fairlie on permanent loan!

My kit built double OO9 fairlie is currently relegated to a shelf after one of the tiny pins in the motion broke. To small for me too see to repair these days alas.

Some other definite memories there - as a kid I had Nellie and Polly, and later on the black version of the dock shunter.


Did dabble a bit with OO9 but it never quite grabbed me, ditto NN3. I'll stick to real narrow gauge trainsets

[jpendle]

My memories are a bit vague but when I was 4 or 5 I got one of these




at least I think it was. There was a definitely the car transporter and an 0-6-0 tank.

I promptly drove the loco off the kitchen table, so my dad swapped the couplings around.

He passed away a year later and I have no recollection of what became of the train set.

Regards,

John P

[Bealman]

I got exactly the same set for Christmas when I was about 13 or 14. I pestered my parents like crazy for it. I wasn't at all interested in the car transporters - all I wanted was the Jinty with synchrosmoke!

What a brat!!!