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Helen F
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Sat 10th Jun 2023 9:52am
You'll have to be careful of fires in the undergrowth as the heat dries out the foliage. ![]() |
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Mick Strong
Coventry |
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Sat 10th Jun 2023 3:46pm
On 6th Jun 2023 8:18pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Hi Philip, some of the wagons in one of these pictures appear to be "tin plate"? How old would they be?![]() Mick Strong
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 10th Jun 2023 4:17pm
Hi Mick,
No tinplate anywhere. Some of our stock is sixty years old. |
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Mick Strong
Coventry |
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Wed 14th Jun 2023 7:03pm
Hi Philip.
Thought you might like this picture I have found.
It is Mecanno's Binns Road Factory in Liverpool, midd 1920's. Production line making Hornby Railways.
Mick Strong
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Wed 14th Jun 2023 9:01pm
That's lovely, Thank you!
They were in competition with Basset's of Germany. O gauge, both electric & clockwork.
A surprise to most folk, was the power supply for the electric trains. Full mains voltage. Not many homes had mains electricity in those days. Certainly no health & safety. |
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Mick Strong
Coventry |
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Fri 16th Jun 2023 12:57pm
Hi Philip.
I also have some OO/HO coaches that were made by Rovex, I guess they are early 50's
Best wishes
Mick Mick Strong
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Fri 16th Jun 2023 2:35pm
Hi Mick,
In this scene, a 3f 0-6-0, has arrived with the first of the summer fruit trains from Broom.
The shunter just visible is waiting for access to the reception siding so as to detach the vans from the back of the train, then deliver them to Arkwrights jam & pickle factory in Hounds Hill. It's a maximum length train, so the loco is at the buffers.
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Fri 16th Jun 2023 3:52pm
Can I advise that the strawberries are particularly good right now? |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Fri 16th Jun 2023 4:31pm
With cream, Maddam? |
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Fri 16th Jun 2023 7:24pm
However you like them. A bit of extra stupid cream is but one possibility. ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Fri 16th Jun 2023 7:49pm
Hi all,
Once empty, the vans are taken to Longford for steam cleaning, ready for returning for new fruit. Two trains a week, one from Broom, the other from Basingstoke, with imported fruit from Southampton.
In this picture, Southern Regions E class, the freight version of the infamous T9, waits to leave with empty vans, for the short trip to Tippers Hill yard, where more will be attached for its then longer trip south.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Thu 29th Jun 2023 1:23pm
Hi all,
I'm amazed at the picture quality off an everyday mobile phone.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 17th Jul 2023 12:16pm
Well, well & well,
We've all heard the excuses as to why trains are not running. Mine because I like looking at it in the station.
My fully restored blue & grey Mk1 Buffet Car, marshalled inside the Hounds Hill to Banbury daily service. I'm really chuffed, do you get it, "chuffed". To buy new from Hornby or Bachman, around £60+, but this little darling cost £19, it was a ready to run, but I needed to strip it, replace the four axles with Airfix, which were cannibalized from a scrap box. Then a lot of time 're-decorating, adding detail, the corridor connectors, correct buffers & subframe stuff. As said I'm really pleased.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 15th Aug 2023 10:34am
Hi all,
I went to chapel on Sunday.
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Thu 12th Oct 2023 9:05pm
For the model train fans It starts Thursday the 19th at 9pm on More4. |
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