Bachmann announce GWR City of Truro

Beautiful in LNWR livery - collectors would jump for them. Wouldnt need to weather unless very very lightly.

Cheers, Simon

Am guessing from the curious name that this isnt steam. i'm all for live and let live, but there is a limit :-)

Cheers, Simon

Ho yerss. Father Flecher has a relaxed attitude towards such things (and liveries - the NER having four sets of official locomotive liveries in his time, plus //much// customisation, on a scale which would dwarf that of the heyday of the Indian steam railways..). But I was thinking simply of reproducing 910, in either "1888" or as-preserved-in-the-NRM condition. Lots of scope for subsequent variations, though!

Smart man, I bet "use something that does X" yielded cheaper and quicker results than "use precisely this thing to these dimensions". Guy

He was also in charge of a very diverse organisation (the NER being merged from a whole maul of railways), with multiple main works each with their own way of doing things. That situation needed handling with care, else the centre would become resented - as Fletcher's sucessor found out!

"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com... : On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:10:36 GMT, Graham Thurlwell

: wrote: : : >Hmm, not so sure about those. For Fletcher, standardisation was : >something that happened to other people... With a lot of his classes, : >it's almost as if he sent a rough sketch to the contractors and told : >them "build something a bit like this." 398 Class and BTPs are a good : >example of that. : : Smart man, I bet "use something that does X" yielded cheaper and : quicker results than "use precisely this thing to these dimensions". :

It might speed up design and save money during building, allowing your subcontractor to do as they feel best/easiest/cheapest but non standard designs cost far more in running service and repair costs in the long run. Of course, Fletcher might well allowed the subcontractors more input that some would consider wise simple because he himself didn't truly understand his own profession!

What, a Stirling 8' Single? Bachmann already do one, as Emily in their Thomas series.

Tim with a Kitmaster Stirling lurking in the workshop somewhere...

Well, yes, but that's HO scale :-)

...ditto.

She's larger than OO scale. Driving wheel is 36mm diameter.

cheers, wolf k.

Er - oh!! Might be a fun loco to buy anyway though! After all, I already have Thomas, Annie and Clarabel :-) I suspect the US range and UK range are different scales though.

Hang on - I'm not taking this too seriously, am I?

N. American TtTE is by Bachmann, UK is by Hornby.

I'm not. ;-)