Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Well, I spoke too soon saying I had ordered 2 x R4251 at £9.99 each and a full price R4352 from Hornby as I have been another victim of the order system that takes your money on the credit card when the goods are not there to be supplied.

So - looks like I will only be getting the full price R4352 which I no doubt could have bought cheaper locally. I only ordered that to make the order over £30.00 and get free postage. I am wondering if they will now charge me postage as the order is now below £30 !!

This may be why the share price has dropped 12% in the last couple of weeks? 

Mind you they do say that if it sounds too good to be true it usually is and coaches at £9.99 were obviously too good to be true !!

My lastest is the class 67 002 & 003 and 7 MK3 coaches & 2 DVT's in Arriva Trains Wales.  I have just 1 more Mk3 to get then I have the 2 full sets that are currently running with Arriva, I just need to renumber some of the coaches and 1 of the DVT's. I could do with someone to produce a class 175 DMU in Arriva colours now.

Peter 

Hornby Elite controller has just arrived! Also got on order Railroad Olton Hall, a few LMS Stanier Coaches to make a full rake up, and a couple of LNER Teak Composite's to make a 2nd rake of coaches up. 

My latest aquisitions -  A Hornby Dublo 3 rail EDLT20 "Bristol Castle" 4-6-0 I won at HRCA auction, good runner and tidy. also four tinplate BR(E) coaches, and 25 assorted Hornby Dublo wagons, with mixture of common tinplate and plastic bodies, a few in need of TLC but most in good condition. Also a tatty breakdown crane also which might make a good repaint job.

R3329    Hornby BR 4-6-0 Maunsell S15 Class – BR Late Crest

  A spare hornby GWR tender (for Castle/king and some grange tender bottoms. These were spares which include water scoop mouldings which i will fit to my Hornby Railroad Halls.

Hornby Stanier 8F via eBay, a Railroad County class "County of Hants" plus several wagons from various sourses.  Also a Railroad Pullman that I intend to re-name.  I also plan to improve the interiors of the rest of the Pullman rake.

A couple of Hornby catalogues in very good condition from a charity shop found by a friend at work.

Both with price lists  - Feb 1994 with Sir Ralph Wedgewood on the front cover and Jan 1988 with an IC class 90 on the front.

I ran my new rake of 5 maroon MK1 RR and just one was derailing, but oiling the axles cured that. They do look absolutely fine to me.

It was maroon all over last night with other rakes of maroon Triang, Lima and BMan MK 1s and parcels stock filling all 7 platforms of the station.  

After umming and ahhing about

R3220 Tyseley Connection ‘Pitchford Hall’ Train Pack - Limited Edition 1000

or getting both R3370 BR 4-6-0 'King Richard II' 6000 Class with TTS Sound and R3331 GWR 4-6-0 ‘King James I’ 6000 Class - GWR to swap the TTS kit and sell on a soundless King Richard, I went to the Coming Soon page to pre-order the two Kings.

My eyes were drawn to the R1184 Western Express Digital Train Set with eLink and TTS sound loco Set GWR Hall Class Ketley Hall. I have had positive experiences with the Gadwall and Flying Scotsman TTS locos so I went and gone and done it and made the pre-order for the Western Express and hope it will be delivered before Christmas but if it doesn't my birthday is three weeks later :)

Fallen for the dark side. Decided to buy a China made loco with non-serviceable can motor. I just had to have a Claud Hamilton in the fleet as they were local locos.Just need a crowbar to get it out of the box now.