A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[Ian Hargrave]

I did warn of incoming artillery…🤐

 

[Mallard60022]

Thanks all. Few Hattons ones (BR and GWR), going at an Auction and I wanted to check. 2 for about £80. I've got an old Hornby one!!!

Phil

 

[Ian Hargrave]

5 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Thanks all. Few Hattons ones (BR and GWR), going at an Auction and I wanted to check. 2 for about £80. I've got an old Hornby one!!!

Phil

 

For the pair or just one  ?  

[MrWolf]

26 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

I did warn of incoming artillery…🤐

 

 

Ready.

 

 

Although it does take the heat off those of us who still have a fleet of clattery old Airfix Autotanks!

 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2023 by MrWolf

[Mallard60022]

13 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

For the pair or just one  ?  

Pair of BR ones

[Mallard60022]

Yet another ask ... I am sorry. I ask here as I know that you all knw this stuff and also I won't get a load of duff comments on an open section Post.

Western Region Cab side 'Dots'; the Red and Blue Classification Type. I've searched Fox but cant see any. 

Anyone know a source please OR how did you do one, if you ever did?

Many thanks.

P

[Oldddudders]

Cab Side Dot sounds like a very friendly carriage cleaner....

[County of Yorkshire]

12 hours ago, gwrrob said:

What are the chances of a Bachmann Saint class announcement ?

Looks to me that Bachmann have abandoned new tool steam locos in OO. The Thompson BG is an interesting development though. 

[gwrrob]

11 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Yet another ask ... I am sorry. I ask here as I know that you all knw this stuff and also I won't get a load of duff comments on an open section Post.

Western Region Cab side 'Dots'; the Red and Blue Classification Type. I've searched Fox but cant see any. 

Anyone know a source please OR how did you do one, if you ever did?

Many thanks.

P

 

[Mallard60022]

5 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

Grief. How did I miss that? Knew it would work asking here.

Thanks Rob.

[Ian Hargrave]

1 hour ago, Ian Hargrave said:

For the pair or just one  ?  

Buy

[Miss Prism]

2 hours ago, Darwinian said:

I am intrigued. The clerestory behind the Collett appears to be all one colour. Lake? Brown? Filthy?

 

I think it (an all 3rd) looks like all-brown livery, not unknown for older stock in the mid-1930s onward, although perhaps more usual on PLVs at that time. Contrast the same type of coach at the front, in brown and cream, looking fairly clean, and still with its bogie stepboards. The train looks like a set of Brk 3rd, Composite, All 3rd, Brake 3rd, and sandwiched by the leading strengther and some unidentifiable antiquity on the rear.

 

The train could be a 'stopper-all-stations', perhaps from Temple Meads, so might explain why the loco needed a bit of a water topup. The Toplight and Collett have corridors, but the train as a whole is non-gangwayed. Bristol to London stopping at all stations took an age.

 

Compare with the leading coach acting as a train strengthener in this picture, which I also think is probably in all brown. (It could be the same coach!)

 

That's just my reading of the picture - others may have a different view.

 

 

[BWsTrains]

2 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Rob is right. The body is very good, the chassis is an abomination.

 

I bought another one second-hand (but as new) from a friend recently. It ran as badly as I expected. I already had an etched chassis kit waiting for it...

 

 

Which one? Comet, High Level......?

[BMacdermott]

Hello Phil

 

I have a Hattons/DJM 14xx and it runs fine. I use what were KPC hand-held controllers with feedback tuned to virtually zero.

 

On one occasion, a controller came back from repair with the feedback accidentally 'on' - and the 14xx performed as well as the average kangeroo! (All other locos were fine.)

 

The controller was returned and corrected...and all was well again!🙂

 

Brian

[The Fatadder]

Mine worked well under DC control but turned into a complete dog under dcc.  Still haven’t got round to playing with setting to try and resolve it

[Andy Keane]

40 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

Mine worked well under DC control but turned into a complete dog under dcc.  Still haven’t got round to playing with setting to try and resolve it

Mine seems very happy under the DCC setup fitted by YouChoos for me: 

 

[Captain Kernow]

11 hours ago, BWsTrains said:

Which one? Comet, High Level......?

In this case, it is a Comet one, but the first one I did has a Perseverance chassis. I've known of High Level chassis also being fitted to the DJM/Hattons body, but no matter what chassis is used, some modification to the chassis is required, to make it fit the DJM/Hattons body, as I believe that all three of the above chassis kits were originally designed with the Airfix/Hornby 14XX in mind.

 

[46444]

Hmmmm! 

 

 

I see KMRC have announced this Class 158 for pasty connoisseurs of a dubious provenance?

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 

 

 

Edited November 3, 2023 by 46444

[gwrrob]

As promised , a few more of 7819 heading west.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mallard60022]

It's a great Engine eh Rob?

P

[John Besley]

Looks like the fireman emptied the tender on the South Devon banks... 

[gwrrob]

1 minute ago, John Besley said:

Looks like the fireman emptied the tender on the South Devon banks... 

 

He'd have a job to as he's not on the footplate.😁

[Mallard60022]

33 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

He'd have a job to as he's not on the footplate.😁

Marie Celeste Manor?

[46444]

34 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

He'd have a job to as he's not on the footplate.😁

 

Amazing what happens in Marley Head Tunnel...

[BWsTrains]

8 hours ago, 46444 said:

Hmmmm! 

 

 

I see KMRC have announced this Class 158 for pasty connoisseurs of a dubious provenance?

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 

 

 

 

Ginster was the nickname for our school headmaster - combination of his favourite tipple and surname. Funny to see it emblazoned over a DMU 60 years later. That would have brought the house down in 1960s Weston-super-Mare amongst all us teenage boys.