This collection might suit a society library or someone looking for loads of great modelling ideas. I'm having a tidy out and the attic joists are groaning already !
So I've decided to keep my prototype mags from the 60s/70s/80s, and dispose of the model ones. There is some brilliant information, scale drawings from 1825 to 1985, and loads of ideas in them, but I just don't have the space. Every detail of modelling, every scale and gauge, plans of innumerable locos, stock, mainline junctions and branch line termini, is here, and every modeller and model you've ever heard of.
I've got the following, which I'd love to pass on to anyone who will give them a good home. They don't seem to go for much on Ebay so it's not worth the hassle of listing them, especially since the postage would be several times as much as they might fetch (do you know just how much glossy paper weighs ? :-)). I will deliver within the approx Chesterfield/Derby/Nottm/Leicester boundary.
RAILWAY MODELLER:
Fair condition: Vol 1 no.1, good except top RH corner of inside pages nibbled (silverfish ?)
Good condition: oct/dec 1955 nov/dec 1956
A few of these are poor (covers missing), most are fair to good, they may have price or paper-boy's marks written on the cover:
jan/jun/sep/nov 1957 aug/oct/dec 1958 jul 1960 apr/may 1961 feb/may/aug/sep/nov 1962 feb/mar/may/jul/aug/oct/nov 1963 mar/apr/may/oct/dec 1964 mar/apr/jul/dec 1965
These are mostly good condition, a few have small tears in edges of a page, one or two have four ring-binder holes in the spine:
jan/feb/apr/jun/jul/aug/sep/oct/nov/dec 1966 jan/feb/mar/apr/may/jul/sep/dec/1967 feb/mar/jun/jul/aug/oct/nov/dec 1968 complete years 1969 to 1974 in official blue binders with name on spine complete years 1975 to 1977 unbound jan/feb/jun/sep/oct/nov/dec 1978 jan/feb/apr/may/sep/nov 1979 jan/mar/"strike extra"/jul/aug/oct/nov/dec 1980 feb/may/jun/sep/oct 1981 mar/aug/sep/nov 1982 jan/mar/apr/may/jun/jul/aug/sep/oct/nov/dec 1983 jan/feb/mar/apr/may/aug/octnov/dec 1984 feb/may 1985 mar 1986 mar 1987 feb 1988
Similar dates of Modern Railways, MRC, etc not yet catalogued - will go through them if anyone is interested !
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