You've won The Euros

So go on what would you do Railway wise? 82045 would be finished It might even have a 77xxx cousin. Id also pay for 4710 we would also have Modern traction wise a Baby Deltic and 10000. Id then think about asking if I could steam the Scottish quartet.... That Jones goods looks fabbo! Oh and a certain Peppercorn A2 would be having a match put to it... I have a major thing for Blue Peter gives me a lovely Fuzzy feeling inside...

 

If i won on the Euro's i would buy gwr prairie tank 4588 and 7760 and also jinity 47564 plus Br 4MT Tank 80100 and restore them to operational condition and then build a brand new southern / LBSCR E5 tank engine aswell as a lner/ eastern N1 tank engine to complement the N2 and N7.
so then i could have a fleet of mainline tank engines.

And if any money is left over i would fund the overhauls of 34073 and 34010 and even 35011

 

You'd still have a fair bit mate!

 

how big a win we talking here

 

Lets go for the biggie say 156 million same as that scottish couple

 

how much would you say my plans to build 2 tank engines, give 5 engines overhauls to mainline condition would come to out of the 156 million

 

Give or take the odd million Id say you'd still have roughly 150 mill to play with?

 

So how much would you that would leave me to play with

 

About 150 mill give or take certainly enough to build your own fleet and have enough to keep mrs YRM sweet

 

After completing my stage with the rest of the money i would complete my second stage of my bit
by doing the following
1. Start and complete new builds of 111 The Great Bear and also 30586 the missing beattie well tank.
2. I would buy up 5227 and restore her in own right.
3. Create a new build of 462o2 Princess Anne {the turbomotive engine}
4. I would build a new Crosti boilered 9f.
5. Buy My own GWR 78xx manor engine prehaps either 7827 or 7822.
6. Create my own dream model railway layout a fully operational model version of the great western mainline from paddington to penzance.

7. If theres any money left over i would spend it on a dream wedding and even book Peter Andre to sing at it.

 

7 dream wedding and Peter Andre
there are 2 mutually exclusive things I never thought i would see in the same sentence

cheers
Colin

 

Fair play YRM you certainly wouldnt have pee'd your cash up the wall Im with you all the way apart from that last one in fact Id pay Peter Andre to NOT sing should Me and Miss D6968 choose to tie the knot. Think we'd have Kasabian...

 

Hey matt would i have any money left after both those two stages out of that 156 million

 

Well, I got the "news about your ticket!" email just now...........£3.30

 

I didn't, as usual.

 

I quite fancy building that Std 8MT 2-8-2 that is the (sort of)subject of another thread here...
Actually I'd pinch Dave Warwick's idea and build a couple of "Black Motors", one for the Mid-Hants and one for Swanage - Tom if the BB want one, I 'll do one for you too!

Actually one of these would be nice too.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSWR_G16_class

 

Don't do the Lottery so unlikely to win anything. If I did have a flutter and won one of the really big prizes, then 34081's next overhaul would be sorted, the P2 guys would have their money and so would the B17 lot. I'd also try and persuade the NRM to get 4771 going again by waving a large number of readies in front of them.

 

A new build A3 - or two - and maybe a V3 and a V4 and a K3 and an O2....

 

And if every steam enthusiast playing the lotteries donated the money to their preferred project instead how much more cash would there be?

 

Put all remaining Merchant Navy locos back as they should be, of course!