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[Newportnobby]

Bah! I only went to my local emporium to see if they had the new Metcalfe single track loco shed in stone but it wasn't in stock yet. Instead I came away with £93 worth of this.....





Disgusted with myself for being such a weak-willed old Hector

[Roy L S]

Isn't that the old version ?

Did you miss a smiley off? Don't be so cruel!

Looks like a new one to me - look at the separate handrails and those fan grilles!

Roy

[Newportnobby]

You had me going for a moment there, Paul
Nah - it's 371-285 straight from the last Farish catalogue and has lights
The Searchers had a No.1  hit singing about it - Needles and Pinza

[davieb]

Bah! I only went to my local emporium to see if they had the new Metcalfe single track loco shed in stone but it wasn't in stock yet. Instead I came away with £93 worth of this.....

Disgusted with myself for being such a weak-willed old Hector

Funnily enough I have been to the same emporium this afternoon 
And managed to overcome my desire for a Deltic and just came away with a goods shed and knife blades 

But it does look good    but even better with SYWP 

dave 

[d-a-n]

But it does look good    but even better with SYWP 

dave 

Indeed it does! 

[scotsoft]

It is a lovely beast Mick, I do like the green with the white cabs, makes it look very classy in my eyes 

However I think I can beat your weak-willed old Hector 

I went out one Saturday for a haircut, got back home minus the haircut but with a £750 camcorder     

cheers John.

[Newportnobby]

Once again I can lay the blame fairly and squarely at DavieB's door.
He mentioned in a phone call last night he may be going to the emporium so, having been to the Post Office this morning, I thought I'd check to see if they had the goods shed.
I trust you agree with me, good folk, if he hadn't even mentioned it, I wouldn't even have gone there

[davieb]

Once again I can lay the blame fairly and squarely at DavieB's door.
He mentioned in a phone call last night he may be going to the emporium so, having been to the Post Office this morning, I thought I'd check to see if they had the goods shed.
I trust you agree with me, good folk, if he hadn't even mentioned it, I wouldn't even have gone there

I'm sure what you meant to say was that you went to said emporium earlier to beat me to any bargains they might have   

dave 

[Newportnobby]

If it may please the learned jury, I reached said emporium at 11.45am. How could I have known what time the defendant intended to visit?
Methinks he dost protest too much
Hang on, while I polish up my Teflon shoulders

[scotrail]

My latest purchase;



Farish 47 635 THE LASS O BALLOCHMYLE with the dapol scotrail coaches, with passing starthclyde 158. (yes I know not all same era but I like them all the same )

I should probably make more progress with the layout!!

[scotsoft]

Even though I mainly run US locos, I also have The Lass O' Ballochmyle and the reason being my mothers maiden name is Balloch 

As for getting on with your layout, yes you should but continuous testing of track as it gets laid is vital to smooth operating at a later date   

cheers John.

[steve836]

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On the lookout for more RTC stock now - will maybe try some Electra vinyls and produce the monitoring van/VBA conversion. That looks to be an easy introduction into the world of vinyls, which I've been looking to get into for a while.
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I always felt that Derby RTC would make a fun layout. What are you going to do about the maglev.

[Malc]

Not a new purchase, it was a leaving present, but just had sound fitted by Douglas at Wickness models and he sent me a link to a video he had done.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSM7huo0ys

[Bealman]

Talisman56: I bought exactly the same trio on my recent trip. Very cool.

Mick: you resisted at Wigan... but you obviously realised Bealman has impeccable taste after all 

[jivebunny]

Ok so it's slightly the wrong scale for this forum, but I've wanted one of these ever since my parents - quite rightly - told six-year old me that the Gordon trainset was too expensive for Father Christmas (there's currently one on eBay for £245). Ended up with the Thomas set instead, which I spent many years making up stories with, alongside my dad's old Triang 3F which I had christened "Robert"... 

So when I found this one brand new and boxed for a decent price I just couldn't say no. I've unscrewed the Hornby couplings, and will be detailing it up a bit and shortening the tender coupling bar before putting it on display. This later model seems to be a major improvement over the one I remember from the late 80s, which I think used an tired old Triang chassis.

JB