Show your Latest GB Loco and Rolling Stock Purchase.

[Newportnobby]

I don't have a glass which says cider house.

Maybe Rosie has one

[mk1gtstu]

Some new additions to the fleet, 6 Rapido OAA's & 4 NGS Ferrywagons 

[Newportnobby]

Too clean, all of 'em

[Kris]

I popped along to a local exhibition this afternoon and walked about just over £50 lighter having picked up a GWR MK3 Sleeper and a GWR MK3 TGS. Particularly happy about the TGS as it seems that GWR MK3 day stock is like hens teeth.

[Bealman]

Well done! Good picture, too.

[Steven B]

I popped along to a local exhibition this afternoon and walked about just over £50 lighter having picked up a GWR MK3 Sleeper and a GWR MK3 TGS. Particularly happy about the TGS as it seems that GWR MK3 day stock is like hens teeth.

Interesting - does the TGS have buffers? It looks like someone's taken the chassis from a loco hauled Mk3 and put in under a HST TGS to create a loco hauled BFO.

[Kris]

I popped along to a local exhibition this afternoon and walked about just over £50 lighter having picked up a GWR MK3 Sleeper and a GWR MK3 TGS. Particularly happy about the TGS as it seems that GWR MK3 day stock is like hens teeth.

Interesting - does the TGS have buffers? It looks like someone's taken the chassis from a loco hauled Mk3 and put in under a HST TGS to create a loco hauled BFO.

The TSG is a standard HST TGS, (I believe it originally came from the guagemaster castle class set) I think what you are seeing is a trick of the light reflecting off the coupling. Looking at the buffers on the sleeper, the easiest way of covering it would be to drill 4 holes and add the buffers separately. I might look into doing this at some point in the future.

[Bob G]

Hmmm, well the title doesn't say it has to be N gauge...

So I just sold four N gauge locos surplus to requirements, and I bought three OO ones in exchange. The Hornby "Birth of the Railways" boxed set.

This is a super douper collectors set with Locomotion, Rocket and Lion, and crikey aren't they small. I put a standard OO gauge Bachmann 09 shunter alongside Lion (the largest of the three locos) and a Dapol N gauge Class 73 in front of Locomotion for size. The Era 1 locomotives feel like they are TT models!

Rocket is in fact the smallest, and is DCC6 ready. Locomotion and Lion are Next 18 and even have sugar cube speakers pre-fitted!

I have to say that when Hornby does it well, they do it very well indeed. The pack even comes with three sets of crew.

And thank you TMC for free one day postage and truly careful wrapping.

[Newportnobby]

    

[Bob G]

   

Well a ban would give me more time modelling...

[Newportnobby]

   

Well a ban would give me more time modelling...

What about your ASBO for posing nude, though?

[Bob G]

   

Well a ban would give me more time modelling...

What about your ASBO for posing nude, though?

Wasn't totally nude. Had a helmet on.

[Newportnobby]

 
I'm not taken in, though. You're not that tall

[Newportnobby]

Following my bad experience of shopping at Osborn's (I was seeking a Dapol Maunsell brake they were selling at £20), I sourced a 'bundle' from the Bluebell Railway shop of 1 x CCT and 2 x Maunsell brakes for £40. Exactly as described, they could be new. Certainly everything is intact, great condition and spares packs present

2F-047-008 CCT


2P-012-503 (left) and 2P-012-504

[Roy L S]

This arrived yesterday courtesy of Kernow, having been run in, it has since run faultlessly with 10 coach train for about 4 hours over the last couple of days, the mechanism is delightfully smooth and quiet.

So far run DCC silent, I have a sound decoder en-route (Zimo MS591 N18) from YouChoos loaded with their excellent V2 sound file, should arrive tomorrow.

It is a stunning model in pretty much every respect, with very little to dislike, the tender-gap is maybe a tad large, and as has been mentioned elsewhere, the fall-plate hinges up rather than down, but that really is descending to the realms of nit-picking in my opinion.

By comparison to the original BachFarish V2 from 20 years ago it is a light year away - an absolute step-change.

Based on this, I can't wait for my sound fitted BR green ones to arrive, but see that they have been put back slightly to Dec/Jan. Ah well, at least I have this one to play with in the meantime 



Roy