Since a young age i've had multiple modelling interests. My first Triang train set arrived when i was seven in 1952, not hard to guess what it...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Snaps of snaps, so sorry for picture quality.....'King Hakkon' is the green one at Ashford Steam Centre in...
For many it's about how we remember things on BR as we grew up. As a kid in Kent in the 50's i witnessed Top Link Loco's mainly in a good...
My choice would be the humble Stirling R1 0-6-0 used on the Folkestone Harbour Branch and the Whitstable Branch, preferably 31010 with the cut...
Too many Rivet Counters on board this thread. Lets just remind them that 95% of the people who ride behind her won't care what colour she is...
Photo' of a Photo' i snapped at The Whipsnade and Umfolozi Railway in 1985 showing Davids ex Rhodesian Railways Locomotive before it was moved...
Wonderful stuff; thanks for sharing all the photo's and video's. As a young trainspotter in Kent in the 50's i well remember when 41312 and...
Everything at Carnforth is 'hidden' until they want you to see it !
I'm 69 years old and have been into both the real thing and model railways since the age of 7. I started 'collecting' models when i was 17 and...
Reminds me of the 'Arrow' in its best years.
Must admit i would like an O2 as well but the weathered 700 is due June and that's on order along with an Adams from Oxford and the S15 is said to...
Been advised by email my new Bachmann 'E4' has arrived with dealer. Can't wait to get my hands on it.
A couple more of John G Glicks drawings of Bulleid 'might have beens'..........[ATTACH]
The late John G Glick who was a devotee of Oliver Bulleid and worked with him for some time penciled many pictures of various designs which may...
Another maker is about to announce an RTR model of it as well. Seems Hornby are going to do the first version before mod's and the others are...
Swanage and Coombe Martin both had bad reputations at Bournemouth for one reason and another but Loco's are rather like cars sometimes. Maybe...
And the Panniers we had on the Southern Region. I don't agree that the Standard classes were a waste of space, as some people would have it....
Last Schools i saw in lined black was 'Haileybury' at Folkestone Central on 'The Man Of Kent' at Folkestone Central in July 1959. Never saw...
Absolutely correct; the only green standards on the Southern Region were those inherited from the Western Region at Weymouth and from the S&D....
Schools 30900 'Eton' was originally earmarked for preservation and spent a long time at Ashford Works before finally being cut up after it was...
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