So........did Santa bring you what you hoped for?

[NinOz]

I also got a Lord Nelson made out of a lump of coal.

You must have been mildly naughty.

[The Q]

Long since stopped getting physical presents,  living 400miles from the family helps. Even SWMBO and my self don't even exchange presents any more.
I have however arranged to buy a secondhand terrier tank loco which is my present to my self.  ( to be Modifyed bodged into a lochgorm tank.)

[railsquid]

Long since stopped getting physical presents,  living 400miles from the family helps. Even SWMBO and my self don't even exchange presents any more.

Similar situation here, also Christmas presents not really a big thing in these parts (except for the Squidlet). Santa did give me a nice quiet working day which even gave me a chance to pootle around on the layout a bit.

[Newportnobby]

the SECR livery or the SR livery ?

@crewearpley40
Neither - I have the era 4 early crest loco and BR crimson coaches on pre order

[daffy]

A package from Germany containing a Swiss Ae6/6 loco arrived about a month a go and, unopened, was hidden away by my wife, to reappear, wrapped under the Christmas Tree, on Christmas morning.

Well, that was the plan.

Come the big day, and before we set up to join the festivities at my step-son's house near Newark, the short ceremony of unwrapping began for me and my good lady. Minutes later and some chocolates and a model kit of an Alpine farm later, I excitedly say: "And now for my train!" (Okay, so it's a loco, but all roiling stock pressies to me get referred to by my family as 'trains'.)

"What train?" she surprisingly replies.
"My train".
"What train? There is no train."
...... and then the realisation, by both of us, that she has totally forgotten about it and it is.......
"I don't know where it is!" she cries.

Half an hour later it is time to leave for the drive to Newark, and no sign of 'my train' has been found despite a rather fraught search by my wife.

Eleven hours later we are home, and it is only after a very, very intensive search that the little box containing 'my train' is finally discovered, buried under all manner of cosmetic items in a large box at the back of her bedroom wardrobe!

All's well that end's well.

[Dickydcc]

I also got a Lord Nelson made out of a lump of coal.

You must have been mildly naughty.

It has been known 

[snitchthebudgie]

What Santa brought me - via Ebay and handed directly to Maxine for wrapping!

[Newportnobby]

Eleven hours later we are home, and it is only after a very, very intensive search that the little box containing 'my train' is finally discovered, buried under all manner of cosmetic items in a large box at the back of her bedroom wardrobe!

Sometimes those 'safe places' can be infuriating

[Skyline2uk]

I have been utterly utterly spoilt.

But not as much as baby Skyline (not surprisingly), who gave us an amazing present of a good few hours sleep.

Highlights for me:

All this years MCU films on DVD / BlueRay, bringing me up to date.
Some cracking Canadian gear from my cousins.
A mountain of chocolate (seriously, it should keep me going to at least April).

And

A Farish Class 33 in the collectors club "Minimodal" livery.

I saw the loco in Cheltenham when I took one of the Candian relatives (an ex fighter pilot and fellow train enthusiast) to see the CMC. Through some subtifuge, it appeared wrapped under the tree as a present from the in-laws.

Really nice surprise and I am very happy.

It will (eventually) be the subject of another project.

Skyline2uk

[EtchedPixels]

No trains for me - model railway room is still in progress and since there is a new leak in the roof and a bay window to be re-leaded may be deferred a bit. However the build does promise me it'll get done "soon".

So I got a reconditioned Paul Stanley Apocalypse Pro instead.

Alan

[Les1952]

in a word, no.

Les

[zopadooper]

Sorry Les
I don't know who to thank for my unexpected and so far unexplained Christmas present.  I treated myself to  4 new Union Mills locos back in September, including a pre-ordered City of Truro  and took them all to Digitrains a week before Christmas to be DCC chipped as my present to my self.  Imagine my surprise when I receive a phone call to say "we could only chip 2 because the other 2 were already chipped"  Digitrains tested them and they work fine.  A fact that I can now confirm.  I now wonder if Union Mills sold me a couple of "returns" that had been chipped, whether they have been testing chips or even if Digitrains made a mistake.  Either way I have now got 4 lovely DCC chipped Union Mills locos and I am well happy.

[Stevie DC]

I got this little lot from my better half.



All 2mm Association etches and some components to adapt them to run with N gauge wheelsets. There is a Toad E, some 'Loco coal wagons', an LNER cattle van, a couple of MACs and some wagon chassis in there - I just need to find the time to build them now!

My parents got me a couple of Sven's 7mm coreless motors and some Peco Collett wheelsets so that I could build a couple of J3s as well as some track components from the 2mm Association.

A very good haul I thought. 

NB: The chocolate orange was finally consumed yesterday!

[BobB]

I was given some wagons for western Christmas which are being weathered (paint drying as I type). But I get two bites of the cherry because we also celebrate orthodox Christmas on the 7th January (and 'old' new year on the 14th) so maybe more goodies are coming !

[Bealman]

Finally got off me bum as hinted in an earlier  post on this thread - mind you, I left it to the last day - and plonked down a deposit on an NGS Hunslet.

I chose 6663 NCB Western Area olive green, as the early 1960s fits right in with my modelled period, but the main reason was it has a flashing light on the roof!