Dapol Change of Plan Announced Mid-day

If only hornby and Bachmann were so customer friendly!!

If only Dapol were doing more 00!!!

Yes, we would have no LMS stock at all.

(kim)

In message , kim writes

Is that such a bad thing?

Err Jane, tempting fate there a bit I think.

Best not go there.

No ;)

One needs to remind ones self how things used to be (in the RTR field) not so many years ago, things were alright if you wanted to model a GWR branch line or a LMS mainline but if you wanted to model BR, SR or - God forbid - the LNER you were out of luck...

I see an lot of ground levelling but not much bias.

Is this a desperate attempt to pursuade JT to sell their products again?! ;o)

Cheers, John.

"John Lancaster" wrote

LOL - it won't work! ;-)

John.

The LNWR made up over half the LMS so how many LNWR types are there available in RTR form, approximately, in round figures?

(kim)

"kim" wrote

A very round O!

Not so sure that the LNWR made up half the LMS - the Midland wasn't that much smaller and you need to remember the L&Y (which I know was technically absorbed by the LNWR the year before grouping), LT&SR, FR, M&C, the Wirral, NLR, G&SWR, CR and HR along with the various interests in Ireland, and joint lines such as the S&D and the M&GN, etc.

Anyway I don't recall many of the pre-grouping companies being much represented by ready-to-run coaching stock.

John.

Not precisely scale models, but Hornby did do a purported Caledonian

0-4-0T and 4-wheel coaches some time back. The L&Y pug has certainly appeared in pre-grouping colours (as has the Terrier, of course). That's probably about it for OO, though, as the Hornby Dean Goods is in a regrettably late condition :(

The best representation of any pre-group railway from the locomotive perspective is probably the NER in N, thanks to Union Mills. Coaches, however, woudl appear to be more of a problem..

Who was mentioning pre grouping, you certainly were not - "Yes, we would have no *LMS* stock at all"...

The LMS continued using ex-LNWR types for many years after grouping and indeed BR continued using them for many years after nationalisation yet they are not represented at all in RTR model form. That isn't so much "ground levelling" as "ethnic cleansing".

(kim)

Hornby, or maybe it was then Tri-ang, brought out Caledonian Grampian stock to go with their model of the Caley Single - that was way back in the 60s.

They were built on one of the standard chassis so didn't have the six wheel bogies and were a bit shorter than prototype. But they actually looked quite good from a reasonable distance - I can remember a long rake of them being pulled by a model of a Cardean on my club layout in Glasgow at the time.

And I think they brought out GWR stock to go with their Lord of the Isles, but I'm not sure about that.

Now I am :-)

Jim.

wanted

Please tell me were I can find RTR GNR Quad-ark stock, or LNER tourist stock, or LNER suburban stock.... Take you selfish blinkers off!

The Triang GWR Clerestory coaches are quite nicely moulded, but they don't match any specific diagram. I have seen various conversions by stitching coaches together to correct lengths, but that doesn't really qualify as RTR :-) Cheers, Bill.

The same place you can find a Gresley BG. You see that was used widely by the London-Midland region as well :o)

I'm not asking for ex-LNWR coaching stock. I'm asking for extensively used major loco types such as the Super-D, Webb "Cauliflower" and Precursor.

(kim)

blinkers

widely by

extensively used

Precursor.

And I'm calling [1] for extensively used major loco types such as the GNR / LBSCR large Atlantic, the ex GCR ROD etc...

What you are asking for is not loco's that are any more worthy, just what you personally want, noting more and nothing less.

[1] but not expecting to get anytime soon - go on Bachmann, prove me wrong!...

Can't be having the ROD 2-8-0, cos that was used by the LNWR as well as the GWR and LSWR plus many of the LNER constituents, and that would be Useful.

Tim