EBay madness

[Compound2632]

2 hours ago, John M Upton said:

Don't recognise this variant of the old Polly 0-4-0T

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394347799920

Ruddy big dome and a ruddy big price tag!!!

 

That is a genuine article. 1973-5.

http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=54.

[MrWolf]

3 hours ago, John M Upton said:

Thick end of thirty sheets for a old 1980's Hornby shorty Mk3 in a livery I am pretty sure never existed?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195516345864

 

 

That is a rubbish hovercraft.

[33C]

2 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

That is a rubbish hovercraft.

Your saying it sucks, not blows?

[MrWolf]

16 minutes ago, 33C said:

Your saying it sucks, not blows?

 

Indeed, t'would suck a fat one...

[PieGuyRob]

7 hours ago, John M Upton said:

Thick end of thirty sheets for a old 1980's Hornby shorty Mk3 in a livery I am pretty sure never existed?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195516345864

 

The model was available in 1986 for £7.50 and in 1987 for £8.10. The only coaches that I found in that livery after looking on google, were road coaches.

 

https://youtu.be/zY3CHJovM4M

 

Although if you go to 11:09 in this video, the international set of mk3's kinda looks similar from a distance, with partially closed eyes.

Edited December 14, 2022 by PieGuyRob
Incorrect grammar.

[The Johnster]

7 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

 

It might be kosher, it's about the same era as Lord Westwood...

 

Yes, it’s kosher, one of the last if not the last of the Pollys. 

[Compound2632]

26 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Yes, it’s kosher, one of the last if not the last of the Pollys. 

 

Nellie, Connie, and Polly go back to 1961/2/3 respectively and were last made in 1972; 25550 was made 1973-5. The only subsequent version was 7178 in S&DJR blue, 1976-7.

http://www.hornbyguide.com/wheel_arrangement_details.asp?wheelarrangementid=7.

[40152]

3 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Yes, it’s kosher, one of the last if not the last of the Pollys. 

I remember this little engine in the Hornby 74-75 catalogue. Quick but ropey pic from my antique copy:

 

 

 

 

[Metr0Land]

As an economy measure during these hard times Bachmann Crabs are now running without the front pony truck

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234806779134?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20211130130302%26meid%3Decf94f0f26984d6bb1931cd6e92a9e2d%26pid%3D101468%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D225295441612%26itm%3D234806779134%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D3650466%26algv%3DSimplAMLv5PairwiseWeb%26brand%3DBachmann&_trksid=p3650466.c101468.m3476&amdata=cksum%3A234806779134ecf94f0f26984d6bb1931cd6e92a9e2d|enc%3AAQAHAAAA8B6578j%2FhNWJNFUfScE4DbaHEbH0qg2MBd8WyiQAOw5YCTCOYROozAU7MIASdOxF9%2Fn%2BTuIgjvRl1PjUBpSkPE3OALygIDMLZn3DO1E71HWc8R82SDmEW1mna4qrnQC0D4pRlXpdcTGpcVscDwj08WpWI3BugU1CprDN4%2BHWfSihxxChDA5idrAV6ulexl3qfDXk3mY1P9EyIg54JfZbgSV3x3YA43B5L6qlR8eUcTlDRaQu6oH%2BeyTd875Yb4NJWioJDaTC02RDHduwoZPyDEsVnchNzcfb3r07jzzbF%2FG1LVGQbOzphn24vctdbznYHw%3D%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A3650466

[Hroth]

41 minutes ago, Metr0Land said:

As an economy measure during these hard times Bachmann Crabs are now running without the front pony truck

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234806779134?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20211130130302%26meid%3Decf94f0f26984d6bb1931cd6e92a9e2d%26pid%3D101468%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D225295441612%26itm%3D234806779134%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D3650466%26algv%3DSimplAMLv5PairwiseWeb%26brand%3DBachmann&_trksid=p3650466.c101468.m3476&amdata=cksum%3A234806779134ecf94f0f26984d6bb1931cd6e92a9e2d|enc%3AAQAHAAAA8B6578j%2FhNWJNFUfScE4DbaHEbH0qg2MBd8WyiQAOw5YCTCOYROozAU7MIASdOxF9%2Fn%2BTuIgjvRl1PjUBpSkPE3OALygIDMLZn3DO1E71HWc8R82SDmEW1mna4qrnQC0D4pRlXpdcTGpcVscDwj08WpWI3BugU1CprDN4%2BHWfSihxxChDA5idrAV6ulexl3qfDXk3mY1P9EyIg54JfZbgSV3x3YA43B5L6qlR8eUcTlDRaQu6oH%2BeyTd875Yb4NJWioJDaTC02RDHduwoZPyDEsVnchNzcfb3r07jzzbF%2FG1LVGQbOzphn24vctdbznYHw%3D%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A3650466

 

Quick!  Pass me my bargepole!

 

[Compound2632]

51 minutes ago, Metr0Land said:

As an economy measure during these hard times

 

No stinting on urls though!

 

9 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Quick!  Pass me my bargepole!

 

I thought the usual point was that you wouldn't touch the offending item with said implement? So what I read here is enthusiasm to fish this object out of the murky and polluted waters of the bay of E?

[40152]

24 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I thought the usual point was that you wouldn't touch the offending item with said implement? So what I read here is enthusiasm to fish this object out of the murky and polluted waters of the bay of E?

I think our colleague is using it to ensure a safe distance is maintained between himself and said tat. 

[Paul H Vigor]

6 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Yes, it’s kosher, one of the last if not the last of the Pollys. 

Thereafter, Polly put the kettle on!

[Paul H Vigor]

2 hours ago, 40152 said:

I remember this little engine in the Hornby 74-75 catalogue. Quick but ropey pic from my antique copy:

 

 

 

 

I remember that catalogue! As a modelling 10 year old, it made me drool! 

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

 

No stinting on urls though!

 

 

I thought the usual point was that you wouldn't touch the offending item with said implement? So what I read here is enthusiasm to fish this object out of the murky and polluted waters of the bay of E?

 

As adduced by 40152, the bargepole acts as a handy measuring device, ensuring that, if the tip of said bargepole is in comfortable non contact then I'm safely distanced from the appalling heap of e-tosh!

 

In addition,  the bargepole is usefully graduated in 1ft coloured bands...

 

[ianmacc]

15 hours ago, John M Upton said:

Thick end of thirty sheets for a old 1980's Hornby shorty Mk3 in a livery I am pretty sure never existed?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195516345864

 

That’s one for the completist collectors and of the same ilk as their RTC variant. 

[ianmacc]

7 hours ago, PieGuyRob said:

The model was available in 1986 for £7.50 and in 1987 for £8.10. The only coaches that I found in that livery after looking on google, were road coaches.

 

https://youtu.be/zY3CHJovM4M

 

Although if you go to 11:09 in this video, the international set of mk3's kinda looks similar from a distance, with partially closed eyes.

It makes me chuckle actually as I was 10 in 1986 and believed at face value and without Google assistance that all these liveries were prototypical! How I was misled! Lima were also guilty with their (for example) large logo class 33! 

[Ruffnut Thorston]

7 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Nellie, Connie, and Polly go back to 1961/2/3 respectively and were last made in 1972; 25550 was made 1973-5. The only subsequent version was 7178 in S&DJR blue, 1976-7.

http://www.hornbyguide.com/wheel_arrangement_details.asp?wheelarrangementid=7.

 

"Nellie" and friends were probably the first electric OO gauge locomotive for a lot of people...

 

In "Tri-ang Railways, The First Ten Years", published in 1962, the artist Terrance Cuneo painted a "Nellie" to look like a working locomotive.

Some early 'weathering'...

 

 

The RS.24 Train Set was popular.

 

 

 

Initially, "Nellie" and "Connie" were both blue. This led to the two nameplates being applied to either of the then available two running numbers, 7, and 6.

Subsequently, "Nellie" was blue, No. 7, "Connie" was Yellow, No. 6, and a new name, "Polly", No. 9, was red.

 

 

It's worth noting that the body tool was slightly modified, to delete the locating ridges for the nameplates, when the green "27" was introduced.(1970-71)

 

Subsequent "Nellie" models (Including those from the "Take-A-Ticket" Train Set) therefore, don't have these ridges. In the right light, two circular marks can be seen , where the ridges were situated.

 

I believe that the body tool around the original dome was retooled to take the large dome.

 

 

Therefore, the tool was again altered to produce 7178. A new dome was added, which is in a slightly different place...

I think it's slightly further from the chimney...(50:50 chance.😉)

 

The names were re used by Hornby later, notably on some "Holden tank" locomotives.

 

ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ
🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Edited December 14, 2022 by Ruffnut Thorston
Additional

[PieGuyRob]

15 minutes ago, ianmacc said:

It makes me chuckle actually as I was 10 in 1986 and believed at face value and without Google assistance that all these liveries were prototypical! How I was misled! Lima were also guilty with their (for example) large logo class 33! 

I was 4 in 1986, so wouldn't have known any better myself!

[40152]

33 minutes ago, ianmacc said:

It makes me chuckle actually as I was 10 in 1986 and believed at face value and without Google assistance that all these liveries were prototypical! How I was misled! Lima were also guilty with their (for example) large logo class 33! 

Indeed! How about a fictional Big Livery 20 from Lima’s 84/85 offering:

 

[PieGuyRob]

18 minutes ago, 40152 said:

Indeed! How about a fictional Big Livery 20 from Lima’s 84/85 offering:

 

That actually looks quite good!

 

Anyone else received this offer?

 

[Paul H Vigor]

49 minutes ago, Ruffnut Thorston said:

 

"Nellie" and friends were probably the first electric OO gauge locomotive for a lot of people...

 

In "Tri-ang Railways, The First Ten Years", published in 1962, the artist Terrance Cuneo painted a "Nellie" to look like a working locomotive.

Some early 'weathering'...

 

 

The RS.24 Train Set was popular.

 

 

 

Initially, "Nellie" and "Connie" were both blue. This led to the two nameplates being applied to either of the then available two running numbers, 7, and 6.

Subsequently, "Nellie" was blue, No. 7, "Connie" was Yellow, No. 6, and a new name, "Polly", No. 9, was red.

 

 

It's worth noting that the body tool was slightly modified, to delete the locating ridges for the nameplates, when the green "27" was introduced.(1970-71)

 

Subsequent "Nellie" models (Including those from the "Take-A-Ticket" Train Set) therefore, don't have these ridges. In the right light, two circular marks can be seen , where the ridges were situated.

 

I believe that the body tool around the original dome was retooled to take the large dome.

 

 

Therefore, the tool was again altered to produce 7178. A new dome was added, which is in a slightly different place...

I think it's slightly further from the chimney...(50:50 chance.😉)

 

The names were re used by Hornby later, notably on some "Holden tank" locomotives.

 

ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ
🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Note: Cuneo 'weathered' without nose hair clumps! Way to go, Terrance!

[Paul H Vigor]

12 minutes ago, PieGuyRob said:

That actually looks quite good!

 

Anyone else received this offer?

 

'Bought it, shaved it!' (not!)

[kevinlms]

16 hours ago, Ruffnut Thorston said:

 

 

Yes. This is a fairly common model really.

 

Like "Lord Westwood" (the district of Margate where the Tri-ang Railways Factory is.) the running number is actually one of the company phone numbers!

 

The chrome plated plastic dome is the moulding from the Lord Of The Isles locomotive. LOTI domes are brass plated.

 

ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ
🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

 

 

Yes, apparently the phone number on the 'Lord Westward' was for 'Sales', the one on the 0-4-0T, was for the service dept.

Good examples of the customers, paying for the advertising!

[Barclay]

18 hours ago, John M Upton said:

Don't recognise this variant of the old Polly 0-4-0T

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394347799920

Ruddy big dome and a ruddy big price tag!!!

In my old Hornby catalogue from around 1973 this was in a set that could be operated by inserting a ticket into the station roof!