Any opinions on the best model rail shop in the Glasgow area for someone
new to the hobby?
Regards
- posted 17 years ago
Best model rail shop in Glasgow?
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- posted 17 years ago
Try D & F Models in Bell Street up the road from the Blackfriars pub &
Candleriggs market.
- posted 17 years ago
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
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
- posted 17 years ago
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
Regards, Duncan
- posted 17 years ago
If you fancy a trip to Edinburgh, Harburn Hobbies seems to have a
wider stock than any of the Glasgow shops.
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Andy Kirkham
Glasgow
- posted 17 years ago
You got shares or related Andy?
- posted 17 years ago
Yes I have been in the Harburn shop but have not been to any in the
Glasgow area
Regards
Regards
- posted 17 years ago
No, honest! D&F seems pretty good, but I do reckon Harbburn is better stocked.
Andy
Andy
- posted 17 years ago
Anyone remember Jimmy Glassford in Cambridge Street? The customer was
*not* always right!
Alan
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- posted 17 years ago
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.
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.
- posted 17 years ago
Unique style doesn't properly describe it!
Archie B, are you not lurking here? Can you remember Jimmy?
Alan
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- posted 17 years ago
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.
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.
- posted 17 years ago
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.
- posted 17 years ago
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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- posted 17 years ago
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- posted 17 years ago
Alan,
I've just remembered the nickname that he seemed to be known by in Glasgow circles - "Shagnasty" :-)
Jim.
I've just remembered the nickname that he seemed to be known by in Glasgow circles - "Shagnasty" :-)
Jim.
- posted 17 years ago
That's the one!
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