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

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PJ_model_trains

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Posted at 10:31:58 Sun 27 Apr 2014

You have an eye for a bargain SOT ;-)

Posted 10:31:58 Sun 27 Apr 2014

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Posted at 10:43:07 Sun 27 Apr 2014

Do nearly boughts count??? I went to see 3 Britannia's but decided against them. They were advertised as new unrun but weren't. That would have made 29 in my collection. Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

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Posted 10:43:07 Sun 27 Apr 2014

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 10:46:01 Sun 27 Apr 2014

Certainly have PJ, I am always looking for bargains. A friend of the family was clearing his barn. of all places to have model railway bits! He said "do you need any cylinder blocks" so I told him I was always looking for parts. He handed down from his

junk shelves in his storage barn a big dirty dusty old cardboard box, inside all wrapped up and protected were piles of old Tri-ang and 1970's Hornby cylinder blocks, all still in perfect condition perfect, a few are secondhamd but the rest are new old stock.

Cost me £20 and a few pints at his local.

The Mk1's were being cleared from another friends shop as they are running stocks down so five quid a coach trade secured some new blue box mk1's at way less than what the blue box outfit wants for them. The

555 timers were an ebay bargain got a pile of them for five quid.

Posted 10:46:01 Sun 27 Apr 2014

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Posted at 11:28:36 Sun 27 Apr 2014

The son of Triangman said:

Certainly have PJ, I am always looking for bargains. A friend of the family was clearing his barn. of all places to have model railway bits! He said "do you need any cylinder blocks" so I told him I was always looking

for parts. He handed down from his junk shelves in his storage barn a big dirty dusty old cardboard box, inside all wrapped up and protected were piles of old Tri-ang and 1970's Hornby cylinder blocks, all still in perfect condition perfect, a few are secondhamd

but the rest are new old stock. Cost me £20 and a few pints at his local.

The Mk1's were being cleared from another friends shop as they are running stocks down so five quid a coach trade secured some new blue box mk1's at way less than what the blue

box outfit wants for them. The 555 timers were an ebay bargain got a pile of them for five quid.

Parting with £20 was hard but, the pints at the local went down well I bet ;-)

Posted 11:28:36 Sun 27 Apr 2014

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Posted at 16:17:02 Sun 27 Apr 2014

The son of Triangman said:

A load of IC555 timers, DIL sockets some resistors, capacitors, LED's, a voltage regulator rectifier diodes, and a box of mixed transistors this week, building some level crossing light flashing units. Hoping to

pick up some cheap Hornby level crossings and fit the dummy lights with LED's for a future ;layout I'm planning.

FYI unless you like building circuits Heathcote do a crossing light flashing unit with IR or other detector input and servo motor

trigger output for £15.80

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Posted 16:17:02 Sun 27 Apr 2014

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Posted at 18:00:32 Sun 27 Apr 2014

My latest acquisition is an SECR 'H' 0-4-4T kit from SE Finecast. I have recently scratch built two of this class using Airfix chassis under a heavily butchered Hornby Dublo R1 body plus loads of plastic card and some whitemetal fittings, but I fancied

having a proper kit too as I shall need about half a dozen for my layout. This will undoubtedly encourage one or other of the RTR manufacturers to make one in the very near future. This has been a dead cert in the past!

I ordered it Thursday and it

arrived Saturday, how is that for service!

Posted 18:00:32 Sun 27 Apr 2014

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Posted at 18:36:22 Sun 27 Apr 2014

These were a good recent buy, thousands of Tri-ang and Hornby wheels some of them quite rare, I'm slowly catalouging, barcoding them and putting them into the database. I've barcoded some of them but heaps to go. Keeps me busy on winter nights when there's

nowt on tv.

These were a cracking find, the bogie wheels Tri-ang/Tri-ang-Hornby Battle of Britains, piles pf em. Most are unused.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN1028_zpsb8433131.jpg

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN1032_zps1b974d82.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN1031_zps12892539.jpg

Posted 18:36:22 Sun 27 Apr 2014

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 18:38:07 Sun 27 Apr 2014

These were a good recent buy, thousands of Tri-ang and Hornby wheels some of them quite rare, I'm slowly catalouging, barcoding them and putting them into the database. I've barcoded some of them but heaps to go. Keeps me busy on winter nights when there's

nowt on tv.

These were a cracking find, the bogie wheels Tri-ang/Tri-ang-Hornby Battle of Britains, piles pf em. Most are unused.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN1028_zpsb8433131.jpg

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN1032_zps1b974d82.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN1031_zps12892539.jpg

Posted 18:38:07 Sun 27 Apr 2014

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 05:56:07 Mon 28 Apr 2014

The pints down at the local were indeed good PJ, a drop of the local micro brewery stuff made in a shed where steam traction engines were once kept and maintained.

Posted 05:56:07 Mon 28 Apr 2014

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Posted at 10:20:31 Mon 28 Apr 2014

I remember as a kid, a guy called Parkinson, we later found was a police informer, used to give us glasses of his mead's, they were potent, we were young and they blew your head off.

He was later found dead, the village was Overton near Morecambe,

it was taken over by the cops, eventually they got Noel Fellows for the murder. An ex-copper himself who was taxi-ing for my granddad, Charlie's radio cabs. The first radio cabs in Morecambe.

The copper, Mousley, who was in charge of moors murders

got him, framed him and had him sent down. Paul was in the year higher than me at school, his brother Paul who I knew a little better was in the year younger at school.

Anyway, Noel was sent down but after a period of time a retrial was called due to

evidence found, part was confirmation he couldn't be where he was supposed to have been and murdered Parkinson, he was on a taxi job else where and the log proved it.

Noel was set free, vindicated. The coppers had put 2 and 2 together, he was an ex-cop,

not liked because he didn't like being told what to do, especially if it was wrong and Parkinson being a police informer he must have had something on him.

Noel later wrote a book telling his story, it is called 'Killing Time' it's an excellent, true

story. An innocent man branded a killer the new version of the book was around 1995-96 I think.

Posted 10:20:31 Mon 28 Apr 2014

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