Is the Dapol Pendolino better at staying on the rails than the Bachmann Super Voyager? Where's the cheapest place to buy one? (cheapest I've seen so far is £110)
Peter Cheap Train Tickets:
It's £170 if you want the truly authentic version with blocked smelly toilets, standing room only in second, empty carriages in 1st and over priced rubbish from the shop.
"Never again!"
"Peter" wrote
Not fit for anything in my experience and street behind the Voyager.
John.
"Rich Mackin" wrote
In stock in my emporium.
John.
Wobbles like crazy, slow scale speed, and poor detail - bit of a missed opportunity for Dapol to jump into the big league :o( Not worth £110, not even worth the £90 they used to cost. You'd be better off with a normal Bachmann Voyager (if you're lucky enough to find one, that is!)
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Oh, so it's an "emporium" now! "Shop" not good enough for you, eh? ;-)
"MartinS" wrote
If an 'emporium' is good enough from Granny Wainwright then it will do for me. :-)
John.
"David Jackson" wrote
She might be *your* Auntie! ;-)
John.
Granny Weatherwax would never lower herself to becoming a 'customer' ! Mike H (Pratchett fan!)
Yo
Some (including those so-called 'Super' Voyagers) at:
HTH
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Could be quite a story: Auntie Wainwright meets Granny Weatherwax.
And, meanwhile, back in the fiddle yard...
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Nah! She's not cynical enough.
And she used to be dulcet-toned Hilda Ogden.
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So I'm told. Coronation Road, apparently. When I last saw that programme (fleetingly) it was about three pensioners sitting in a pub somewhere drinking milk stout... Wasn't there a viaduct at the end of the road?
"David Jackson" wrote
Trust someone to try & bring this back on-topic! ;-)
John.
There still is - it carries (CGI) Metrolink trams these days, although it was supposed to have been condemned in the 1960s after it collapsed under a goods train, trapping Ena Sharples in the rubble.
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I meant the fictional road. Thanks for the reminder of the name. I could remember Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell, but Ena Sharples wouldn't come to mind. It's these damn bifocals, they're playin' havoc with me memory...
Rarer than poached dodo eggs at my local shop, where I buy 99% of my stock from.
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Coronation Street is fictional. The outdoor set at Granada Studios, which used to be open to tourists, has a fake viaduct at one end. A year or two ago, with the help of computer wizardry, aerial views were created showing adjacent streets, and a tram is shown crossing the "viaduct" during the opening and closing scenes.
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Don't tell 'er next door - I don't think my first-aid is up to heart attacks!
I haven't seen the programme for over 40 years, but the three old women and the viaduct seem to have stuck in my mind.
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