I used to like Mountain but they got a bit 'frenetic' for my tastes

Here's a Farish blue luggage Pullman.  I don't yet have a full parlour coach.

That's good news, even though I won't be having any.

(I am, however, up for two refurbished Gresley buffets and two Gresley Full Brakes, but you can't have everything!)

I have some of the Lima ones which are a bit more common. Never even seen one of the Farish ones in blue.

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One of my dream locomotives I wanted as an 11 year old.. only had to wait 40 years!  But here is an early Grafar 35001 'Channel Packet'

I would have loved to run this with those mysterious CIWL Pullman coaches Gafar produced!

https://flic.kr/p/2j2XdjS
https://flic.kr/p/hUYroN

Probably not a band that I would listen to now but the 18 minute live version of "Nantucket Sleighride" (from "The Road Goes Ever On") is epic - if you like that sort of thing! The studio version of the track was used for the ITV 1970s political news programme "Weekend World". Thanks for posting @scottmitchell74 !

Tim

From the Dapol website posted today...

Project Update

We are delighted to announce that we are now announce this project has now received sufficient to allow us to move it into the tooling room. we expect to have first shots/EP's in approximately three months time.

We will bring you a more comprehensive update as soon as possible, so stay tuned.


https://www.dapol.co.uk/blogs/news/n-gauge-lms-period-iii-57ft-non-lavatory-suburban-stock-progress-report-v

Whilst Metcalfe building at the station.

Link here:  https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/mrh-202603-march-2026-13799210

Jon

Seems it's 'Let's build more houses time' where I live. All I get all day is a constant thudding resounding through my bungalow (and, I assume' everyone else's abode) so they must be piledriving not too far away. It happens every weekday, starts about 08.30 and by 10.00 I have a really bad headache
I know you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs but, in this day and age, you'd think they'd have something less primitive than what must be metal on metal