I found these

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I've got a couple of Terriers

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Saving up for one of these

my son gave me a gf jinty number 372-200, i have yet to run it and believe it to be dc. yo can not have too many jintys on a lms layout so fingers crossed.

Apart from the usual 'oddball' presents such as twee (and probably foul tasting) biscuits/Irish Cream flavoured Truffles (not the proper stuff), the main Christmas haul was composed of a wad of vouchers for my fave model railway emporium. This is something I have trained everybody to do until further notice so anything else is just 'padding'

A Dapol Britannia 7000 with tender, BR late crest from SWMBO and number one son. plus some Ratio kits, Cattle Dock, Footbridge and telegraph poles, lots to keep me amused for a few hours in the shed.
Others were a bottle of 12yr old Spey side, an olde worlde train poster calendar, and a ladybird book for adults entitled "The Shed" quite humourous book written in the style of the old kids ladybird books.

A visit to the outaws tomorrow may result in more train related stuff 

I got the Kato Alpine Express set. Looking forward to giving it a run tomorrow.

I got a puncture in the car tyre and being all there is to fix it is a can of slime and no spare I am stuck until the middle of next week while the tyre firms have a festive break    hoping the can of slime keeps it inflated till then as stupid car has no jack or wheel brace to take wheel to garage to get it sorted. Bah humbug.

The closest I got to rail is a mug/coaster set of famous locos (with a very strange colour-set ... Duchess of Hamilton in scarlet with purple smoke deflectors, anyone    Or a Mallard in purple  ), and a very nice book about 'male chicken' (changed by forum) o' The North 

SWMBO got a Lizzie in OO, with all the YouChoos bells & whistles (or it will have when I get the time to fit more than the sound decoder !!!) 

Hi ,
Santa in the form of PO and CJM kindly delivered, for opening today a class 59.
59003 in GBRf - thanks santa !!
A lovely hamper from work friends revealed cakes, jams and bickies , I hope to use hamper for its picnic role at Telford in Feb.- tizer and sarnies !  doing a little stand in N for track and 3D print developments on my work bench.. with only 6 foot I can only take a few bits to work on...

Hope all got most of the plans and you enjoyed the day - modelling can recommence once polite to do so. ...
Robert     

My main railway present was from the Dark Side-a Hornby J15 to go with the 'Claud' I got for my birthday. I added the vacuum pipes, steam heat pipes, headcode lamp and a crew whilst the Boss was cooking dinner. (I did also glue down a platform that had started to lift on my layout).
Fear not, both are just for display...for now?
Martyn

No railway stuff,  but a lovely new Seiko watch. Seeing as it's only the third I've had since me 21st birthday, this one should see me 'til I cark it 

Loads of non railway stuff including the recently released DVD of "The Ipcress File" - the film that established Michael Caine as a major movie presence after his role in "Zulu". It is probably my all time favourite film and it has been digitally remastered and has a separate disc of goodies related to the film and its making.

The only railway pressie was the Ancorton kit for two farm wagons - I'd specifically begged for this as one will sit in the open fronted shed on Guvnor's field on Tintern.  it is an amazing little kit, the wagon wheels in particular being a masterpiece of laser cutting. I'll probably post a review when I get round to building it.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

No locos but then I didn't ask for any.
A rather nice bottle of single malt. Having sampled same this evening I can say it is most agreeable.
Lots of tree making materials which will be used to populate my new layout with over 100 trees early in the new year.
A couple of radio control receivers for garden railway projects.
And a couple of interesting railway books.

I usually get money as I can decide what's best to spend it on. In any case the models I'm interested in aren't yet released.

It's years since I've received anything model railway-related.

Oxford modern fire engine
Metcalfe bus depot
Farish nuclear flask plus 3 dcc decoders
Also an iPad mini which will be used with my birthday pressure, which is a Roco Z21. That's on the 30th, so not long to wait.
My grown up kids now ask me for my Xmas list, so no orribly over scale or kettles
I also got 4 railway books.

The bad news is that half of our pressies are at our son's in Manchester
We're stuck in Colorado as my wife had an accident before Christmas and can't travel, we had to watch them being opened for us on FaceTime

Merry Christmas

John P

I got my very first Kettle, a lined green Micky Mouse. (It's actually a model of a film star, played the part of "Blossom" in the comedy series 'Oh Mr Beeching' but the real thing still exists and is operational.) I took about half an hour out of work getting ready for the guests to run it. Was very smooth out of the box but is developing a tight spot as it runs. I hope it loosens up !