Show your Latest GB Loco and Rolling Stock Purchase.

[Roy L S]

In 1965 I received this Tri-ang trainset, and that was it...



60 years on, I found this beauty on that auction site.



It runs just as effortlessly as the one I had in 1965. I don't mind that it's got moulded handrails or bright wheels. This is the reason for making space in my stock drawers

I have that version of the UM B12 too, it isn't the most recent incarnation - Colin retooled it about 8 years back to sit a tad lower and it used the D16/3 tender from then on, but that one has a solid dependable tender-drive that pulls very well. The B12 is amongst my fave locos, 8572 pulled our wedding train on the NNR when we got married and I was allowed up onto the footplate for the run-round at Holt 

[Bob G]

I have that version of the UM B12 too, it isn't the most recent incarnation - Colin retooled it about 8 years back to sit a tad lower and it used the D16/3 tender from then on, but that one has a solid dependable tender-drive that pulls very well.

I had one before and foolishly sold it. Really pleased to have replaced it.  I don't think 61572 was ever done in retooled form, so this is the one for me.

They do sit a little high but then again a lot of UM seem high and/or oversized compared with other manufacturer's models. But they have covered locos ignored in the main by the bigger manufacturers. They are full of character. Hand built. Just nice to have them in my collection, which are mostly SR (700, 0395, and T9) and GW (City, 2251).

Bob

[Steven B]

Nice. Just needs a Farish Mk1 CK and BSK in Crimson & cream to finish off the train.

[Bob G]

Nice. Just needs a Farish Mk1 CK and BSK in Crimson & cream to finish off the train.

Already got them 

Next up:
The Freightmaster set with Class 31 in green SYP - tick.
Britannia - tick. Five Pullmans (on their way from Revolution, except these will be the right scale length) - tick
Winston Churchill - on its way from Dapol. Three green Mk 1 coaches (CK/RMB/BSK) - tick
M7 with firebox glow - tick (without firebox glow!)
Royal Mail sorting coach - tick, but not a working one.
Battle Space helicopter car and Giraffe car - might struggle to find the equivalent in N

[Bealman]

Indeed... (please note that this was pre-Battle Space) 

[Bob G]

Mmm I had a yellow helicopter. And yes it was pre Battle Space. But I thought most folk would not realise that the models came out pre Battle Space. The exploding car was originally in black, for example.

[zwilnik]

It would be interesting to make the helicopter car for N Gauge. Should be able to make the helicopter light & stable enough to launch somehow too

[EtchedPixels]

Mmm I had a yellow helicopter. And yes it was pre Battle Space. But I thought most folk would not realise that the models came out pre Battle Space. The exploding car was originally in black, for example.

Some of them seem to have a lot in common with the circus train stuff that came before - including the giraffe car with ducking giraffe.

[Bob G]

It would be interesting to make the helicopter car for N Gauge. Should be able to make the helicopter light & stable enough to launch somehow too

Madness. I will wake from this hallucination soon. And get back to painting SR DEMUs and EMUs like any sensible person should.

[jpendle]

Indeed... (please note that this was pre-Battle Space) 

That's seriously out of gauge 

John P