Sir Winston Churchill train pack

[Kelvin9]

Hornby to produce a Sir Winston Churchill Funeral train with coaches ( DCC ready) in time for the 50th of his passing.

[Bulleidboy]

I'm not sure whether there would be enough interest to make this commercially viable. With a bit of searching around you can almost make up the original train. The loco often appears on that well known auction site, the luggage van was produced by Hornby

 

fairly recently, and will still be available. I recall from a previous thread that only one coach has not been produced - all the others have appeared in one set or another. If you 'google' the original event, there is a lot of information available.

[Bulleidboy]

Take a look at this http://www.svsfilm.com/nineelms/wcf.htm - the train was made up of five Pullman Coaches, No.208, Carina, Lydia, Perseus and Isle of Thant, together with luggage van No.S2464.

[Bulleidboy]

Thant should be Thanet. My lap top cannot spell!

[Bulleidboy]

There is a "new" Hornby Winston Churchill on the auction site now. It is an auction, with a start price of £75.

[Kelvin9]

bulleidboy said:

There is a "new" Hornby Winston Churchill on the auction site now. It is an auction, with a start price of £75.

went to have a look they will not post to new zealand, why do so many people in the uk hate new zealand,

i'm sorry we won the world cup.

[Kelvin9]

bulleidboy said:

I'm not sure whether there would be enough interest to make this commercially viable. With a bit of searching around you can almost make up the original train. The loco often appears on that well known auction site, the luggage

van was produced by Hornby fairly recently, and will still be available. I recall from a previous thread that only one coach has not been produced - all the others have appeared in one set or another. If you 'google' the original event, there is a lot of information

available.

I hope there is a lot of interest going by the amount of people at his funeral.

[Bulleidboy]

Kelvin9 said:

bulleidboy said:

I'm not sure whether there would be enough interest to make this commercially viable. With a bit of searching around you can almost make up the original train. The loco often appears on that well known

auction site, the luggage van was produced by Hornby fairly recently, and will still be available. I recall from a previous thread that only one coach has not been produced - all the others have appeared in one set or another. If you 'google' the original

event, there is a lot of information available.
I hope there is a lot of interest going by the amount of people at his funeral.

Sadly Kelvin9, most of those who attended his funeral, will now have passed on, and if you asked the average fifteen

year old in the UK,who was Winston Churchill, they wouldn't have the faintest idea. I was eighteen in 1965, and just about remember the funeral (it was televised), I was also at work, so probably watched it on the news.

[LCDR]

bulleidboy said:

Sadly Kelvin9, most of those who attended his funeral, will now have passed on, and if you asked the average fifteen year old in the UK,who was Winston Churchill, they wouldn't have the faintest idea. I was eighteen in 1965,

and just about remember the funeral (it was televised), I was also at work, so probably watched it on the news.

I did go to Clapham Junction with a lot of others to watch it go by. I went to Vauxhall and saw the empty stock going in to Waterloo

with a immaculately cleaned BR Standard 2-6-4T at either end. I still have my rather fuzzy photographs of the train approaching with the 'V' headcode. There were a lot of spotters there, and for this occasion the station staff and police did not harrass us,

well not until the train had gone by that was.

We 'Baby Boomers' were fed a diet of war stories and toys with military association, so Sir Winston Churchill was a hero, and we still had respect for him, and for all the famous Allied persons from WW2.

Heroism and Patriotism was still regarded as 'a good thing' and being British was not something to apologise for.

[Bulleidboy]

LC&DR said:

I did go to Clapham Junction with a lot of others to watch it go by. I went to Vauxhall and saw the empty stock going in to Waterloo with a immaculately cleaned BR Standard 2-6-4T at either end. I still have my rather fuzzy photographs

of the train approaching with the 'V' headcode. There were a lot of spotters there, and for this occasion the station staff and police did not harrass us, well not until the train had gone by that was.

We 'Baby Boomers' were fed a diet of war stories

and toys with military association, so Sir Winston Churchill was a hero, and we still had respect for him, and for all the famous Allied persons from WW2. Heroism and Patriotism was still regarded as 'a good thing' and being British was not something to apologise

for.

How times have changed!

[da4472vid]

Kelvin9 said:

Hornby to produce a Sir Winston Churchill Funeral train with coaches ( DCC ready) in time for the 50th of his passing.

thats a nice thought

[Graskie]

Generally for the better in most ways, I think. I'm very slightly too old to be a baby boomer, but at least that lets me off the hook for being blamed by youngsters nowadays for the recent recessions!

[LCDR]

Yes - it is our 'free' bus passes and winter fuel payments that have brought the World Economy to its knees. Nothing whatever to do with incompetent or irresponsible bank management at all.

[Fazy]

oh well thats easy then bump of all the old so and so's and the world economy will be better. well we are at it mybe the do gooders and politcians can go too.............

 

thinking about it i don't think its such a good idea this forum would become

 

very dull and who would we have to blame for things going wrong.

 

i see Sir Winston Churchill was a SR spam can, you lot don't give up NO you can't have a as built or rebuilt or what evey it is was or even may have been MN.

[Fazy]

ok sorry Sir Winston Churchill was a BB which is just a family size spam can

[Postman Prat]

 

Hi Fazy

 

They're trying to wear us down. We must be strong - NO more spam cans!!!

 

[Graskie]

How come spam cans were supposed to be streamlined when they must have caught a hell of a lot of resistance from being inset at the front?

[Bulleidboy]

We have a different kind of air in the south, which allowed both original and rebuilt Bulleid Pacific's to cut through with very little resistance!

[Graskie]

Hence the opt-out expression "air-smoothed"?

[LCDR]

Graskie said:

Hence the opt-out expression "air-smoothed"?

Don't forget that the 'Spam Cans' were designed by the same bloke who designed the 'P2'. Forget all that 'Gresley' stuff, OVSB was the architect of the big 2-8-2s,

Gresley just signed the drawings! Rotary valve gear and all.

[Postman Prat]

 

On the basis of the above, maybe Bulleid signed the drawings after someone else designed the Spam Cans (It was your logic!!). Mind you, would anyone admit it........??

 

 

 

 

[Graskie]

And the spam cans were worked by bike chains, weren't they?

[mortehoe]

Graskie said:

And the spam cans were worked by bike chains, weren't they?

Of course they were old chap. Just keep taking the medication, there's a good lad.

[Graskie]

Well, you lot keep pedalling them!

[mortehoe]

Thanks Graskie, I now have visions of a man being arrested for being in posession wth a " Class 8 Loco " with intent to sell. Now it's time for my medication.