Quote from: trkilliman on March 29, 2026, 11:02:53 AMPurely out of interest, who will be interested in purchasing the new Farish Hall class locos?

I will look to buy two, maybe three of them. I am hoping the Hawksworth tender version is released at the same time as the Collett tender.

I'd think about renaming/numbering two modified Halls,to locos I stood on the footplate of back in 1965. Sadly these plates are not currently available. I imagine the range of plates could be extended with the release of these new Halls?

No interest to me.  I doubt they ever reached Scotland, esp the further North lines!!

Have been advised the pre order will be processed and despatched shortly. They appear to have been swamped with arrivals

I repeat: this thread is incredible!

 

Quote from: Newportnobby on March 30, 2026, 12:53:52 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on March 25, 2026, 10:34:23 PMRails advised today they have the C class in stock so my pre-ordered SECR liveried should be with me in the next few days

No monies taken so no delivery advice
Have e mailed 'em

Hoping that they are just behind in getting their backlog cleared. They have taken the money for my hoppers and those have moved from pre-orders to order history, however the order is  currently marked as "unfulfilled",

Colin.

Meanwhile, on the SECR front and huge thanks to @Bob G for signposting it, I paid what is probably over the odds for one of these but I really wanted one and it was £30 cheaper than the last one I saw on FleaBay.
It's on it's way so here's a stock pic........

Quote from: Newportnobby on March 25, 2026, 10:34:23 PMRails advised today they have the C class in stock so my pre-ordered SECR liveried should be with me in the next few days

No monies taken so no delivery advice
Have e mailed 'em

A demotion.

Moved from 6th floor to 3rd floor today. The go-home soon ward? I wish! With Easter looming,they emptied that ward out so they could employ less nurses.

It is certainly a TTR layout. I recognise the 0-4-0 locomotive as well as the weltrol boiler wagon right behind it and the raised 3-rail bakelite track.

Webbo

I don't want to completely hijack this thread, but Webbo's post brings me neatly to the last photo I was thinking of sharing.

This shows my father enjoying a smoke at the controls of a layout belonging to one of my uncles. I believe it is a TTR Trix layout, hence the connection to Webbo's post. The photo would have been taken in the mid to late 1950s.

This particular uncle had a large house, and later had a large Hornby Dublo 2-rail layout. He lived in England and we lived in Guernsey, and he was much older than my father and they weren't particularly close. We stayed with him and his wife for a week when I was eight, and after pestering all week I was finally allowed to have a quick look at part of the layout on the last day.
Some of the stock was shown many years later on an episode of "Cash in the Attic" on UK TV when his daughter was selling off surplus possessions.

Indeed, this is a great thread and something a bit different.

My first trainset was a Hornby clockwork set #21 which I obtained was I really was a child (5 or so). My set is long gone and probably well down in a rubbish heap somewhere in Cooma Australia, but here is the same set bought by me about 20 years ago in an attempt to relive my past. The locomotive number is 60985 which is a non existent number but which fits between the V2 and the B1 classes of locomotives.



Next train set was an electric O Gauge train made by Maurlyn, an Australian manufacturer. I must have been about 7 when I got it. It looks to me like a class 38 NSWGR locomotive which I now have an N scale version of and which I showed on my Deadwood thread 6 months ago. Shown is a photo from the web as my set too is probably also buried under layers of rubbish in Cooma Tip. This is unfortunate as this set has become a collector's item.



Next train that I obtained when I was about 8 was a Trix Twin passenger set OO gauge which featured a rather crude representation of a Hunt Class 4-4-0 locomotive, 'Pytchley' with two overly short maroon coaches. This is the TTR make referred to by @Greygreaser in the previous post. The loco behind Pytchley is my fourth locomotive and is an even cruder representation of #30951 which in real life was a powerful 0-8-0 shunter, but which is represented by Trix as 0-4-0.



Next up was the acquisition of the Trix Britannia which was the first of a string of realistic Trix models. I'm now 11. This model was introduced in 1959 along with a few other similarly realistic locos such as the Class 5 behind it in the photo. At this point, my dad became interested and started to buy things and construct a scenic layout in the basement i.e. he was taking over. The Britannia was the last loco from my childhood that I could really claim as mine.

For some strange reason, Trix decided to go with a 3.8 mm/foot rather than the 4mm/foot of proper 00 gauge. Consequently the Trix locomotives and coaches appear significantly smaller than the Hornby Dublo and Triang offerings at the time. Note that H0 is 3.5 mm/foot so Trix chose a scale halfway between 00 and HO. The Trix locos and rolling stock had become fine looking models.



Webbo