Irish Examiner
Paul Kelly, Consumer Correspondent
21st January 2008
" .......... One of the latest such serial magazines is The Flying
Scotsman Locomotive series, which week by week contains parts so
buyers can build a model of the famous locomotive piece by piece.
Priced at about €7.50, buyers have to purchase an issue every week for two-and-a-half years at a total cost of €937 before they finish building the model locomotive.
But for about €180 they could buy a Hornby model railway set featuring the Flying Scotsman locomotive, three carriages as well as track and a power transformer.
The train, the first steam locomotive in the world to reach 100 miles per hour, was built in 1923 at a cost of £7,944 (sterling) — equal to the cost of 13 week-by-week models of the Flying Scotsman today. "
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Paul Kelly, Consumer Correspondent
21st January 2008
" .......... One of the latest such serial magazines is The Flying
Priced at about €7.50, buyers have to purchase an issue every week for two-and-a-half years at a total cost of €937 before they finish building the model locomotive.
But for about €180 they could buy a Hornby model railway set featuring the Flying Scotsman locomotive, three carriages as well as track and a power transformer.
The train, the first steam locomotive in the world to reach 100 miles per hour, was built in 1923 at a cost of £7,944 (sterling) — equal to the cost of 13 week-by-week models of the Flying Scotsman today. "
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