Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 07:59:15 Tue 19 Mar 2013

What's your latest aquisition?

Here's my latest purchase, a Tri-ang-Hornby R.754 M7 in BR Black livery.

The box was tatty, crew were missing and the BR totem transfers on the tank sides were part missing as per normal.

The model is slowly being restored, a fresh box mint was found on ebay with incorrect labels (the one on the right) and I have crew and original totem transfers a plenty in stock, I will post stages of the restoration at intervals for all my friends on here to see as they take place.

Here's the loco pre-restoration but with nice new original 40+ BR Totem transfers put on the side tanks, a packet of the original transfers is posed by the loco for reference.

Hope all at Hornby like what I am doing to their old locos.

Enjoy!

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0063_zps3ff63c6a.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0064_zps634965e3.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0065_zpse2948e27.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0066_zps04c86aff.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0067-3_zpsdfd86c7c.jpg.html

Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021

yozzer

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Posted at 19:31:11 Tue 22 Sep 2015

Hi Choralc,

The engine does not have any electric warning signs on it. On the tender there are two letters G W with a coat of arms between them. This appears on both side of the tender. On the engine, again on both sides, is the locomotive name Pitchford Hall and the number 4953. The number also appears on the smokebox door together with a small white rondal with the number 84 over the letter E. This is so small I needed to get a magnifying glass to decifer what was on it. Hope this helps

Posted 19:31:11 Tue 22 Sep 2015

choralc

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Posted at 23:21:25 Tue 22 Sep 2015

Thank you Yozzer. I got a 15% discount code from Hornby because they couldn't supply one spare part in my last order. I will consider this train pack just for the loco :)

FNQ, Australia

Posted 23:21:25 Tue 22 Sep 2015

david_abramczyk

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Posted at 01:38:53 Mon 28 Sep 2015

My Super Claude arrived today, so I am pleased.

Posted 01:38:53 Mon 28 Sep 2015

Twintop

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Posted at 18:04:28 Mon 28 Sep 2015

A single slip and a metre of code 100 wooden sleeper track so I can rectfy my planning errors when I re-modelled my main station. The approach is to be changed to allow the 2 branch platforms to exit to the down relief as well as the branch and also to extend the branch platforms to accommodate the terminus building and allow 4 coach trains to be run round.

Plus a Hornby 9 plank loco coal wagin in grey.

The bundle of 6 Mk1s in maroon landed this week - delivered at the 3rd attempt as they could not "find" my village !

Rubbish of course - it translates to "could not be bothered to deliver the parcel".

Posted 18:04:28 Mon 28 Sep 2015

Fazy

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Posted at 18:31:28 Mon 28 Sep 2015

Keep hearing about your hard work twintop. About time we sew some pics!

If it’s not Crimson, it isn’t a proper engine

Posted 18:31:28 Mon 28 Sep 2015

Twintop

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Posted at 19:38:59 Mon 28 Sep 2015

No chance - the loft is an absolute tip at the moment - total mess.

I have never learnt -always untidy and things get mislaid and lost ! And still I never learn. Wont change now been like this for all my life !

It was in theory just a monor upgrade to convert 2 bay platforms to through ones and add 2 more bays but it seems to be a lot more work than anticipated. I have planned it to renew interest as opposed to totally building a new layout.

Posted 19:38:59 Mon 28 Sep 2015

Graskie

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Posted at 21:09:09 Wed 30 Sep 2015

I've just got my Hornby R 2824 Pete Waterman Collection 46100 "Royal Scot" back after fitting with Youchoos sound, working lamps, firebox flicker only when shovelling coal, separate double chimney units smoke decoder and crew. Fantastic job.

Posted 21:09:09 Wed 30 Sep 2015

VESPA

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Posted at 14:17:32 Thu 1 Oct 2015

Treating myself to a new Jaguar XE in 1foot to 1foot scale

VESPA

Posted 14:17:32 Thu 1 Oct 2015

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 15:07:24 Thu 1 Oct 2015

Treating myself to a new Jaguar XE in 1foot to 1foot scale

I assume that will be the Supercharged version Vespa?

If you dream it, you can do it.

Posted 15:07:24 Thu 1 Oct 2015

choralc

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Posted at 06:37:49 Sat 3 Oct 2015

At the NSW AMRA exhibition today I picked up a Skale Regis station, a new Black 5 (Railroad Range), a Xuron cutter, some plasticard and some dogs and cats (in separate packets of course. We decided against wallabies/kangaroos and sulphur crested cockatoos.)

Back tomorrow. We were about 300 in the line to enter and when we left 3.5 hrs later we felt like two in a thousand.

FNQ, Australia

Posted 06:37:49 Sat 3 Oct 2015

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