Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

hornby R2045 Virgin hst set

Hi Sarah,I hope that is your name, or do you prefer Sarahagain?

Well I take my hat off to you, you sure know your Hornby trains.As those particular ones appear in The Ramsey guide I have been looking for quite a while at toyfairs and lately on-line.

I have seen a couple before, but none in boxes so I passed on them as they were bringing quite a premium.

Hi Paulali, Is the trainpack you have made in UK or a early China version.Base plates have on them where they wer made.

Also I have been looking for a while, with no sucess, for that particular set with the Virgin press office number on the side.

Quite  a while ago a saw a You tube presentation and he had one.

R2811 Rolling Road, plus Spare rollers.  Also a Trix class 124 transpennine twin set.  This was very noisy when I tested it, wouldn’t have needed a sound chip!  However, I saw that the motor block was very slightly out of line, corrected this and now much quieter (not sure which I preferred lol). Runs nicely and a good condition for a late 60s/early 1970s bit of kit.

Rod

Recent online auction purchase for not very much at all. Less than £10 including postage and all bought as non-runners. I only got them as I wanted the motor (if it worked) and the smokebox door of the continental tank MK2 256. However, on testing with no cleaning whatsoever they all worked apart from the Nellie and this was quickly traces to someone having wound the pick-up around the screws in the baseplate and soldering a wire across the brushes to make two dead shorts. I have tested the motor and it is a great runner so will take the time to fix it. The body is almost perfect so i will print off two new nameplates and replace the body of my other ‘keeper’ for this loco. The bit of wire visible in the photo is what’s left of the pick up.

The 256 has a bit of plastic broken off the front but as I only got it for spares I don’t care. The 00 Jinty has a set of steps missing (see photo) but I have a scrap body with a set to cut off and replace with. 

The TT jinty is complete but has some repairable damage to the couplings. Shame the BR logo is missing off one side!

They all need a good clean and light lubrication and I am happy with the parts I got for what I paid. The TT loco is no use to me so will be off back to auction when I get round to it as will the 00 version as I already have too many! I really would like to have some of the TT range but I have to be realistic with my space as I have to downsize my OO/HO collectionnas it is. 

I wouldn't mind the TT Jinty myself provided it is more or less complete, does it go?

If you are interested in dealing could you ask Adam to forward me your email, please?

LC&DR more than happy for Adam to pass on my email. How do I contact him?

forum@hornby.com is Adams email address. 

Hi Sarah,I hope that is your name, or do you prefer Sarahagain?

Well I take my hat off to you, you sure know your Hornby trains.As those particular ones appear in The Ramsey guide I have been looking for quite a while at toyfairs and lately on-line.

I have seen a couple before, but none in boxes so I passed on them as they were bringing quite a premium.

 

 

 

 

Hi.

Thanks, Pat Hammond, who wrote those books on Rovex, and had a lot of input into Ramsey's, said that I could remember more about what was in those books than he did!

A really nice fellow....I wish that Rovex volume 4 would get finished, but we shall have to wait and see...

Oh, and I have one of my photos in the Ramsey's guide.

The O gauge Hornby LMS container wagon!

There were a couple more in the previous edition too, but dropped from the latest edition....

Sarah is fine...

We too are downsizing....it is a bit of a shame, but realistically, we are never going to do the mad plans we had now!

Just taken delivery of a Bachmann class 90, lovely looking model.  unfortunately, when I unpacked the loco from its clamshell, the 2 rear buffers had broken off, together with 1 light lens from the front.  The buffers, being sprung, were not repairable, and as a result have had to return immediately for a replacement, shame, but not a good reflection on the QC at Kader Towers.  Shall await to see if the replacement is ok.

Rod