N scale phone boxes

Eek, you mean those horrible characterless modern things. Your best bet would probably be B H Enterprises. They've got a website with an on-line catalogue, but no images. The url is

NS500 3 etched brass modern triangular telephone boxes NS501 2 etched brass modern square telephone boxes

Actually they do some nice stuff, including fencing.

Cheers Clive

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Shouldn't be too difficult to scratch-build. I'm trying to modify a normal phone box to build one of the "street post-offices" (a phone box with a built-in posting box and two slot-machines for stamps) also in N. I can't just ignore it 'cos it's right at the end of the station approach road on my prototype - and it's a listed building!

Excellent stuff, thanks. I'd forgot about B H. Normally one of my first port of calls at the Bristol exhibition where I usually snap up some signals from him.

I was emailed the link to Scale Link

Pete

Well, that was plan A rather than plan B. I need four of them for my station concourse, and some others dotted around nearbye, but after working on said concourse for about three weeks I've started thinking about acquiring something I could knock up quickly and get on the layout.

Sounds good! N gauge sure is fiddly for the detailing of this kind of stuff...

thanks for the input. Pete

I'm impressed with Scalelink. Never seen them before, but they have some nice stuff. Thanks for posting the link.

Cheers Clive

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I've just had a look at Modellers' Back Track Vol 2 No 6. What you're considering is the K4, introduced in 1928(?), but only 45 were ever installed. I remember one in Raynes Park late 1970s, but it was removed as a consequence of the Post Office / British Telecom split. Apparently there are 10 left of which four are on railway locations (East Lancs, East Somerset, Severn Valley, Whitby Railway Station).

The most popular kiosks were the K2 (mainly in London) and the K6 (all over the country).

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The box in question (Church St. Frodsham) has a modern phone, but is otherwise almost intact and the posting box is still emptied a couple of times a day. I said "almost intact" because the stamp machines were blocked off many years ago, although I can remember using them. The machines sold ha'penny and penny stamps, but apparently the drums of stamps were adversely affected by damp conditions, and maintenance was getting more and more expensive.

I occasionally have to help people who are standing by the phone box looking for a "normal" pillar box...and I have seen people taking photos of it!