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thanks ian!

i may pick up a few.

glad peco are producing more.

they won't be as detailed and accurate as other manufacturers due to shared underframes but can still be a useful and more budget friendly option.

I must say, at those prices they seem like good value. But yes hopefully the socket issue has been addressed.

Quote from: bluedepot on May 13, 2026, 03:15:15 PMcan you post a picture of the advert?

Here you go.

Ian

Probably my very first 3 purchases in N gauge - Minitrix Ivatt 2MT, 9F and Britannia. All still running well albeit noisier than more recent offerings

My first Jubilee cost me £12 second hand, can't remember where it came from though

I acquired a LMS black Jubilee "Renown" at a toy fair when I lived in Geneva ... ... I was hoping to build it a train of Howarth Stanier coach kits but the project t got sidelined by life in general and I had to wait until Farish finally produced their Stanier coaches before I could finally run it with a proper train ... by which time the layout was in storage in the garage and infested by mice and spiders ... so the dining table oval had to suffice! https://flic.kr/p/qzv44o

Quote from: chrism on May 13, 2026, 05:00:55 PM

Quote from: cmason on May 13, 2026, 04:42:55 PMI do have a question to the collective expertise of the Forum. The manual refers to them as Jubilee Locomotive "MKIII" - is their some history of different variants over time? Was there a MKI and MKII?

Roy L S seems to have covered the variations here;

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?msg=867222

The gear coupled ones of which he speaks had their coupling rods only fixed firmly to the centre wheels, with forked ends engaging over the leading wheels' crankpins. The rods only "hovered" over the trailing wheels with a dummy boss stamped into the rod.

Thanks @chrism - very interesting - so a jewel case MkIII dates these to 1977/8 when I was in the lower 6th form. Coming up to 50 years ago,

Colin.

@cmason   yup, I always considered them the "Rolls Royce" of British N steam locos back in the day.  Look after them, don't strain the motor as the commutator melts if overloaded, and watch out for brittle plastic especially the tender underframes. (Peters Spares probably still have replacements).

I remember original one cost me £26 in 1979 (I blew most of my week's wages from my summer job on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway )

When I migrated to European N I sold it off with all my other related locos and stock, but of course since then I've bought three (along with old Mx Warships and 27s) just because I loved them as models. One of them has had a motor-transplant with a coreless type now fitted.
 

Quote from: cmason on May 13, 2026, 04:42:55 PM[...] Anyway, I am very pleased with this acquisition - and fear not they will be regularly run, pulling trains, not left sad and lonely in their boxes as part of a collection. [...]

Simply SuperSpiffing, Colin.

Proper job!

It would be difficult to imagine an endeavour more aligned with the objects of both SPAM* and the Faculty of Non-Collectors. Tiny trains are meant to be played with, not left languishing in boxes.

*SPAM - The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Models.

Congratulations on your aquisition.

With all good wishes.

John
Dean of the Faculty of Non-Collectors