Ramsey's British Model Trains Catalogue 8th Edition is a definitive listing of all UK model trains. It spreads to two volumes now. It includes photos of some stock, all part numbers, liveries, when they were produced, and the approx. value unboxed and used, or mint in box (for collectors). the values are sometimes higher than can be achieved on EBay, and sometimes lower, as the market is quite fickle at the moment.

The website you yearn for was maliciously hacked and has consequently been taken down by its author.

Bob

Quote from: Bob G on March 16, 2016, 06:16:33 PM
Ramsey's British Model Trains Catalogue 8th Edition is a definitive listing of all UK model trains. It spreads to two volumes now. It includes photos of some stock, all part numbers, liveries, when they were produced, and the approx. value unboxed and used, or mint in box (for collectors).

Sadly it has numerous errors, which invariably end up transposed all over the web.

Cheers,
Alan

Quote from: Bob G on March 16, 2016, 06:16:33 PM
Ramsey's British Model Trains Catalogue 8th Edition is a definitive listing of all UK model trains. It spreads to two volumes now. It includes photos of some stock, all part numbers, liveries, when they were produced, and the approx. value unboxed and used, or mint in box (for collectors). the values are sometimes higher than can be achieved on EBay, and sometimes lower, as the market is quite fickle at the moment.

The website you yearn for was maliciously hacked and has consequently been taken down by its author.

Bob

Interesting Bob, thanks for that. Not having seen a Ramsey's before, where might one be able to acquire these volumes? I'm presuming Ramsey's themselves.

Kindest

Daniel

PS: It's interesting what you say about "market prices". It's similar in other collector's markets whereby a collator of information attempts to put a value on items. The issue as I see it is that prices are dynamic (they go up or/and down) depending upon supply/demand, yet once a reference manual is published, it is rather static in nature, and does not reflect the true value of an item in a dynamic environment. It's something you see a lot of in the numismatic field, with wildly different "catalogued" values to those in the real marketplace.

That said, I haven't seen Ramsey's so will just relate it to my experience in other fields. Any attempt to collate historic information is a good one and if we, as a community, can iron out the mistakes / misprints etc. then I'm sure we'll get there eventually with a difinitive guide. I know from my own research that there are differing versions of history out there when it comes to Farish production lists.

Try these:

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/ramsays-british-model-train-catalogue-8th-edition/9781907292668

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ramsays-British-Model-Train-Catalogue/dp/1907292667/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458216840&sr=1-1&keywords=Ramsay%27s+British+Model+Trains

You want the two volume 8th edition. Dr Al is right - there are some errors and (fewer) omissions, but it's still a valuable reference.

HTH
Bob

Thanks Bob