Best model rail shop in Glasgow?

Try D & F Models in Bell Street up the road from the Blackfriars pub & Candleriggs market.

Depends what you are looking for. Not many shops to start with but Pastimes near St Georges Cross deliver a wide variety of scales. 126 Maryhill Road.

D&F at 56 Bell Street only OO/HO as far as I recollect.

GLASGOW MODEL CENTRE

This shop is located at 671 Cathcart Road

Very few shops to choose from in Glasgow - I used to find the one on Cathcart Road helpful when I lived up there, had a good selection of stuff in a small shop and could answer most of my stupid questions.

Regards, Duncan

If you fancy a trip to Edinburgh, Harburn Hobbies seems to have a wider stock than any of the Glasgow shops.

You got shares or related Andy?

Yes I have been in the Harburn shop but have not been to any in the Glasgow area

Regards

No, honest! D&F seems pretty good, but I do reckon Harbburn is better stocked.

Andy

Anyone remember Jimmy Glassford in Cambridge Street? The customer was

Alan

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Alan,

Yes :-)

Howvere, I got in his good books after purchasing £200 of Myford lathe and bits and pieces in the early 70s and it was OK after that :-)

Things did improve for the average punter when he had the lady in serving when she provided a friendly buffer to his unique style of retailing :-)

Jim.

Unique style doesn't properly describe it!

Archie B, are you not lurking here? Can you remember Jimmy?

Alan

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Alan,

I heard he mellowed a lot in his old age. A good friend told me he had actually been invited into the back shop to look at something when he was thinking of buying a small lathe - I never achieved that in the (must have been) twenty years I frequented the shop :-)

Jim.

My local model railway dealer used to be W. Hubert Foster (well-known as a railway photographer). His shop was right next to my school, and it's still there as Frizinghall Models & Railways. He was always patient with the hordes of boys who invaded his shop at lunch hour, and he would even let you go down to the basement and play with his large Dublo layout.

He had some good stuff - the only place I ever managed to buy BSL coach kits apart from a place in Kent whose name now escapes me - their address was in West Wickham, Kent, IIRC.

Alan

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Hobbytime.

Alan,

I've just remembered the nickname that he seemed to be known by in Glasgow circles - "Shagnasty" :-)

Jim.

That's the one!

Alan

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