Bachy Fairburns are go!

And wasn't the Patriot an accountant's rebuild - i.e. it was a rebuild in name only to suit their balance sheet. IIRC, the wheels were about the only bit from the original locos which were used :-)

Jim.

"Jim Guthrie" wrote

I think only the first two Patriots were notional rebuilds of the Claughtons and used the wheels from the earlier locos (distinguishable by their large centre bosses), the remainder were totally new locos.

John.

You don't know the half of it! :-D

Now, yassee... that picture shows *exactly* why we need an RTR Claughton. They're just so elegant!

LOL "Reverse engineer"? Is that a euphemism for "Scratch build"? ;-)

Yayyyy!!!!

Oh... er... I thought you said "Claughton"...

I'll get me coat.

I read that it was the driving wheel *centres* - and then only on the initial batch.

Actually, he was talking about Clayton Moore.

"Hi Yo Silver, Awaaaaaaaay"

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Tonto.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

I don't think I know him. I know of his brother Ilkley, though. Poor chap. He doesn't have a hat, y'know.

Aye well t´ducks play football up there y'know! Beowulf

How strange then that one of the best Southern layouts on the circuit comes from that well known south of the Thames resort of . . . . . . . . . Hull ;-) Incidentally weren't quite a number of the Fairburns built at Brighton and ran South of the Thames till replaced by standard 4 tanks? (including both the preserved ones at Lakeside & Haverthwaite). So it looks like Bachmann as well as Hornby are doing their bit for Southern modellers.

There was a very nice almost complete/unpainted brass whitemetal model for sale at Loughborough a few weeks back. It did look nice. But he wanted £280 for it, wasnt sure if it was a fair price or how well built it was. However theres no way i could do a paint job that it deserved.

Cheers, simon

The things you learm here, I never knew thats what it meant. Soft bunch up there though, go for a walk in the park, snuff it cos bit cold ?

Cheers, Simon

Only got to announce it in the program for this decade. Be many years before bachmann actually land one in a shop !

Simon

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Not so soft coz after the worms have eaten you up thë ducks eat up the worms and then we eat the ducks so we've eaten you baby :))))) beowulf

"simon" wrote

Thaz reet thear lad, but az za walked ont' Mooors went snowz a foot deep, an thee noze az icicles 'angin from it? Can be a bit nippy up thear tha noz.

John.

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On the other hand John a Swedish winter beats a Yorkshire one :) I found out why they wear long johns (any relation?)as when it gets right chilly the hairs on ones legs freeze to onew trousers leaving one with hairy trousery rather than hairy legs, a nutural full brazilian if you are not careful and with every step you can hear the foreigners as their hair gets pulled out by the roots and each step is followd by a scream...... long walks for long johns and short walks for bald johns..... :)))) Beowulf

"Beowulf"

And a central Canadian winter beats both of them. Sadly.

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Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

"Roger T." wrote

LOL - you'd think it was compulsory to live in Sweden or Canada ......................... or Yorkshire for that matter! ;-)

John.

I thought you lived in Victoria. Not exactly the most wintery place on earth.

Robin