Quote from: PGN on August 16, 2015, 08:33:00 AM
For my 12th birthday, in 1979, I got my first model railway items. We bought them whilst on holiday in Helston. A Graham Farish "General Purpose" 0-6-0T in LMS black no. 7313, six Peco trucks (assorted private owner opens and vans, including a Ffyfes banana van, a Colman's mustard van, a Saxa salt wagon, a Shaka salt wagon and a couple of opens), a Peco LMS brake van, a Hammant & Morgan "Clipper" controller, and some track.

Pocket-money additions included a few LMS coaches (the 4-wheelers were only £1.05 in those days), a Lima 4F in LMS black no 4547, and a Farish class 4P in LMS black no 1118 (I think all the birthday and Christmas money went towards that one). Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.

Anyway, then along came home computers, the railway fell into disuse, and I sold it all to make a bit more room ...

Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM

Quote from: PGN on August 16, 2015, 08:33:00 AM
For my 12th birthday, in 1979, I got my first model railway items. We bought them whilst on holiday in Helston. A Graham Farish "General Purpose" 0-6-0T in LMS black no. 7313, six Peco trucks (assorted private owner opens and vans, including a Ffyfes banana van, a Colman's mustard van, a Saxa salt wagon, a Shaka salt wagon and a couple of opens), a Peco LMS brake van, a Hammant & Morgan "Clipper" controller, and some track.

Pocket-money additions included a few LMS coaches (the 4-wheelers were only £1.05 in those days), a Lima 4F in LMS black no 4547, and a Farish class 4P in LMS black no 1118 (I think all the birthday and Christmas money went towards that one). Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.

Anyway, then along came home computers, the railway fell into disuse, and I sold it all to make a bit more room ...

Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Scuse me while I wipe the tears off my keyboard.
I'm sure somebody somewhere loves you....

Quote from: austinbob on August 16, 2015, 07:48:48 PM

Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM

Quote from: PGN on August 16, 2015, 08:33:00 AM
For my 12th birthday, in 1979, I got my first model railway items. We bought them whilst on holiday in Helston. A Graham Farish "General Purpose" 0-6-0T in LMS black no. 7313, six Peco trucks (assorted private owner opens and vans, including a Ffyfes banana van, a Colman's mustard van, a Saxa salt wagon, a Shaka salt wagon and a couple of opens), a Peco LMS brake van, a Hammant & Morgan "Clipper" controller, and some track.

Pocket-money additions included a few LMS coaches (the 4-wheelers were only £1.05 in those days), a Lima 4F in LMS black no 4547, and a Farish class 4P in LMS black no 1118 (I think all the birthday and Christmas money went towards that one). Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.

Anyway, then along came home computers, the railway fell into disuse, and I sold it all to make a bit more room ...

Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Scuse me while I wipe the tears off my keyboard.
I'm sure somebody somewhere loves you....

You know that song by Foster & Allen "Nobody's Child" it was about me, and the song "Ghetto Child" by the Detroit spinners was the musical version of my childhood

Mine was a Lima 0 gauge train set, with the 4F. Sadly it lasted about 3 years before the motor was fried by a 'friend' when he changed the voltage on the ancient H&M controller I was using at the time.   

My first proper N gauge purchase was a Graham Farish BR Black Five, two coaches and a length of Peco Flexitrack. They were all purchased from Hamleys in the late 1970s when Hamleys still had a reasonable model railway department.

That purchase set me on the road to ruin 

I still have the Black Five but it is a bit worse for wear as the valve gear has fallen off.

Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM
Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Oh dear. The tears are running down me legs 

Quote from: Bealman on August 17, 2015, 05:53:36 AM

Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM
Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Oh dear. The tears are running down me legs 

Are you sure that's  TEARS

My first N model was a C62 by KATO, it was bought second-handed in the mid eighties. I ran it too hard and the axle split around the millenium. I still keep it.

A photo of it taken around late 90's.
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Rather not look and thank you, c6250, for getting us back on topic! 

Even though they were 00 models I wish I still had my first two locomotives, a Lima "Meld" Deltic and Bluee class 33

Mine was much more boring then all of yours, a flying scotsman from hornby railroad just under a decade ago. No longer have it due to moving to N.

Quote from: G_N_E_R on August 17, 2015, 07:20:54 AM
Mine was much more boring then all of yours, a flying scotsman from hornby railroad just under a decade ago. No longer have it due to moving to N.

I cant believe I'm about to type this, but even though its an LNER loco its not boring, as it actually got you hooked on the hobby.....god I need  lie down......

Quote from: paulprice on August 17, 2015, 07:23:07 AM

Quote from: G_N_E_R on August 17, 2015, 07:20:54 AM
Mine was much more boring then all of yours, a flying scotsman from hornby railroad just under a decade ago. No longer have it due to moving to N.

I cant believe I'm about to type this, but even though its an LNER loco its not boring, as it actually got you hooked on the hobby.....god I need  lie down......

Hahahahaha! My mother's cousin had a huge N gauge layout in the loft with full length continental trains that may have helped as well!

Quote from: c6250 on August 17, 2015, 06:55:23 AM
My first N model was a C62 by KATO, it was bought second-handed in the mid eighties. I ran it too hard and the axle split around the millenium. I still keep it.

A photo of it taken around late 90's.
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Now that is a handsome beast

My first - in 1959 - was the Triang 3F tender loco, cannot recall the number..  Part exchanged it some 5 years later for an HD 264T 80033.  Later bought another 3F for my S&D layout and added a correct pattern Ks Midland Tender.  But sold all the OO in 1976 when I switched to N gauge.
But I now have a Union Mills 3F.  Not relevant to my Scottish interests but I got it for old times sake.