Help !!!!

He's only 7 so have to wait a few years before its legal and even longer if you have morals. Plus best get his permission - hes already stronger than me.

Cheers, Simon

In message , simon writes

Surely, morals are what other people don't have.

Whecn I was that age you had a choice of 3 engines. N2 0-6-2 , Sir Nigel Gresley and Duchess of Athol . My father said he would buy one for me and suggested Duchess of Athol, I wanted the N2 tank engine . We ended up with Sir Nigel Gresley at the princely sum of £9-1s- 0d ( £ 9.05) Wonder what its worth now! Diecast 3-rail hornby dublo

John

Did that include the tender? For some strange reason, H-D used to sell the tenders separately.

What year was that?

I don't think it was H-D, but I know Tri-ang used to sell the tenders separately.

"John Firth" wrote

Nine pounds sounds an awfully high price for the 'Gresley' which went out of production c. 1954/5. My 'Duchess of Montrose' train set (without controller) cost a tad under a fiver in 1955, and I suspect the price on the 'Gresley' (as a stand alone loco with tender) would have been nearer three pounds than five.

In 1955 my Dad earned just nine pounds a week, and he had a pretty decent job as a planning engineer, but no way could he have afforded a full week's wages on just one loco.

John.

"Jane Sullivan" wrote

Hornby Dublo did too. I had a 'Silver King' loco which I tried desperately to find a tender for, but never did succeed. I used to run it with the tender from my 'Gresley'.

John.

Early to mid 1950s.

In 1959, the Duchess of Montrose with tender included was £3/8/6, and the Royal Scot trainset with 2 coaches and a track oval was £7/3/6.

Somewhere I have a replica of the famous 1957 catalogue showing a boy with his father; the father has 6 fingers on his left hand.

I had the same thought about the price being on the high side. I remember the 8F coming out at £4-1-6d.

Roger

;) indeed.

That said, /has/ anyone done a working model of a plateway? There were more than a few plateways which used locomotives - once heavier plates were available it worked OK - and some weren't converted until lateish in the 19th century (I'm thinking, here, of some of the canal-linked tramways in South-East Wales, which used some most distinctive engines from Neath Abbey). There may have even been IC or electric engines on some NG plateways, as these lasted a long time. I believe there's still a plateway in use in Yorkshire[1], though it's entirely man-powered now.

A plateway would make an //interesting// model, for someone with the skill to make the track.

[1] Uses angle-section steel as rails, as far as I can tell from pictures.

Now, theere's progress for yer, lad!

Well, it did strike me as "some things never change" - or, rather, that it was a good example of the persistance of the "early railway".

Tough to model, though.

In message , Andrew Robert Breen writes

Would you happen to know where ?

Adrian

Aha. Found the e-mail about it. It's at Shibden Dale, near Halifax. Info was from Peter Excell.

In message , Andrew Robert Breen writes

Many thanks. Assuming that Shibden dale is the same location as Shibden hall, It's a lot of decades since I was last there. As memory serves the museum (assuming it still going) was worth a look around.

Adrian