Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

I recently 'won' an R3844 60700 Rebuilt W1 in early logo B.R. livery.

Only problem I observed was a loose chimney, which I hope is just loose requiring to be relocated and attached properly ... we'll see in a few days' time!

Al.

Email advises the rebuilt W1 has been delivered - to work, so I'll see her after the New Year.

This is a photo of 'model railway locomotive and carriage' I purchased for my 11 yo - a 2,000+ 'Lego but not Lego' kit.

It's radio controlled, is a pretty decent looking model - poor stickers or not - needed to space the cylinders to limit interference with the rods, but has working lights, and 'smoke' - atomises water from the chimney!

The coach has 3 opening doors each side as well!

They're both obviously a 'larger scale' to the normal Lego over-narrow railways.

Quite a demanding model, and doesn't negotiate standard 40cm radius Lego track, so I'll be purchasing larger radius aftermarket tracks. Standard is like R1 in Hornby.

Others are available - sort-of Scotsman, Big Boy, etc ... !!

Al.

For those not familiar with Lego models, never mind 'optional' ones, to get a sense of perspective, the Mallard locomotive alone is the same length buffers to edge of cab as a close-coupled Hornby Turbomotive buffers to buffers! It's BIG!

Here's an online description from another site: https://www.jmbricklayer.com/product/rc-mallard-51101/

Al.

Webpage advises that the length is 32 inches ( 0.812 meters). I assume that is Mallard + Tender + Coach.

Yes sir, that is big!

Bee

They look nothing like the Lego trains I had as a child. Battery powered and blue rails. They took a lot of room up as I had a lot as there were a couple of clearance shops in Bolton that sold ex-shop stock off cheaply and were a great source of cheap rails and discontinued rolling stock kits. I recently sold off what was left after clearing out the attic and finding that my kids had destroyed most of it so someone is still collecting it.

I went to the Bolton Swapmeet (or Toy and Train fair as they are called nowadays) yesterday and came back with an interesting haul.

From a 50p box, Nellie body with all steps intact, Hornby silver seal ringfield motor with front plate missing (works, fine, tested with another plate) ready to make a full one up with a burned out one I have somewhere. All gears intact. Tri-ang top tank clockwork loco bought for spares, turned out to be a very good runner so the mechanism might find its way into another loco.

Triang odd coloured wagon from a clockwork set to add to my others!

Five Trix wagons, four of which were 16t steel mineral wagons which although slightly larger than the Tri-ang ones look very well with them and ready for Tri-ang couplings to be fitted. They are the later painted and lettered versions rather than the early self coloured plastic ones. They look huge next to the HO Trix Tank loco I have.

Bachmann ex-Thomas green Billy bought for the chassis but I can’t work out how to get it out of the loco yet!

All bought for very reasonable prices, especially those from the 50p box. Happy days.

Sounds like you had fun!

WATB, yes, that'll be loco+tender+coach.

It does need larger radius curves to work properly - sounds familiar - but otherwise not a bad effort.

My son left me to do the coach roof - too repetitive with too many small pieces!

I had to fine tune the cylinders and piston rods to limit 'interference' (and frequency of self destruction) but otherwise very impressive.

Al.

A good deal from the current Hornby Sale - with the use of some of my Reward Points, this coach cost me £3.95 for postage, although it came by courier.

The cream(?) is lighter than the other Maunsell coaches I have in this livery.

That's the last addition to my Great Gathering collection. I'd have like the others, but even I can't stretch the pennies that far.

I also added a lot more to my catalogue collection. Shown is issue: 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 39. I also have issue 43, 44, and 45 still to arrived.

A very nice loco DRC and a good collection of Hornby Catalogues. I don't collect the catalogues as such, but I do have them all from 1993 - I just bought one each year and added it to the pile.