Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

A couple of Maunsell Coaches R4345A and R4348B - I need to replace R4348B for R4349A. The new R4871 Brighton Belle coach Pack is in the post - that was an impulse buy!

12x Peco/Hornby prewired railjoiners for 00 for £3.99 +99p.   Very reasonable considering the fiddling/soldering they save, not to mention the cost of 12 regular fishplates.   Now trying to locate the weaker spots on my layout as regards current supply.   Maybe running a finnicky loco around the tracks.    Any better suggestions ?

I was in Wilco buying some small drills (bodywork led size) when I spotted this 4-wire RJ11 cable.

Worth a punt at £3 to see if it would work as an Elite to Select Walkabout cable.

Yes it does work. I have made my own 4 & 6 wire cables previously but just had to check if this was the correct wire configuration and it is.

Rob

The Mallard Pullman Set, plus a few more tracks and 4 BR coaches to start with.

I've broken my golden rule, and after hunting for 'best available deals' I pre-ordered a retool Duchess of Hamilton - love the streamlined Duchesses - and A4's apparently!! (that's stopped now!)

It'll be a while - some sites still stating October, others as distant as February next year!!

Al.

Hi Atom 3624, We seem to have the same major interests, I too like the Streamline Coronations & A4s.The Hornby site is stating February next year so would expect that to be the right date.Could be a good subject for next photo shoot,not many Stramlined compared to A4s.Last count I think Ramsey lists nearly 120 models.

NLOB, thanks for the confirmation of 'the delay' - should arrive just before my birthday in March then - good timing!!

I'm not going further than the 7x A4's I now have!!  4 more than I anticipated!

I've 2x recent Coronations - 6220 and 6225.

2x rebuilt / non-streamlined as well - Duchess / Coronations were always a favourite - biased by Bressingham and seeing Royal Scot and Duchess of Sutherland on this little stretch of railway track in the trees perhaps 45 years ago!!

6229 will simply complement these ... running out of shelf space and MUST calm my enthusiasm !!

Al.

I mentioned an 'order' of a locomotive.

I did also make a purchase this morning - very famous locomotive in a livery it wore for a few years just recently, but never wore in it's current format pre-nationalisation.

Can't wait - couple of days I suppose, then I'll hopefully post pictures - said to be 'as new, never out of packaging'.

Al.

R3336 has arrived - it really was as described - never out of packaging.

I suspect it may have been built 'during that time' when the build quality was not it's best, as the RHS wind / smoke deflector window was loose in the box - initially replaced, now glued more permanently.

Lovely looking locomotive.

I prefer this paint scheme to the BR one, but agree, its not 'correct' in LNER livery with this configuration.

Still, it looks great!!

Al.

Hi Al - I have one of the those (FS) when it was R2441 and was the Hornby NRM model - they produced one every year. Tony Wright in one of the monthly mags., described it as the best model he'd ever seen. This was the 2005 NRM model - and mine has never "ever" been out of its box. BB

PS. Back on track - the new Brighton Belle Coach Pack arrived yesterday.