ILikeTrainsTom Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Hi all, I am a Southern Railway modeller and I just want to show some of my favorite tank engines I would like to see in ready-to-run form. I hope Hornby will notice this! So here they are: SECR P Class LBSCR D1 LSWR C14 LBSCR D1 I hope these will give Hornby or any of you some ideas. Please reply and thanks for reading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Hi Tom You said "I am a Southern Railway modeller" I'm sorry to read of your affliction and I hope that you get better soon. Hornby say they don't read wish lists and have a special place for peoples wishes. They've done nothing at all on any of my wishes so 'Good luck' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILikeTrainsTom Posted October 12, 2013 Author Share Posted October 12, 2013 Thanks PP, and I meant to say LBSCR D2 instead of repeating D1! I will now contact Hornby and tell them my ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Take no notice of him Tom, he is unable to recognise quality when he sees it. However there is some hope for him, as he now lives in deepest Hampshire not too far from the second best locomotive works in the UK (the first of course was Ashford). One must hope some of the influence will eventually rub off! However the final part of PPs post is, sadly, true. Hornby have this obsession with big engines, and continue to churn out these and warmed over versions of little engines that were inherited from other makers. The Brighton D1 and the E1 were very similar. (Coincidentally the Maunsell rebuilds of Wainwright 4-4-0s classified D1 and E1 were similar too.) I do have a body kits for both a 'P' 0-6-0T and a Brighton D1 0-4-2T but they are a long way down my priority list. The biggest obstacle is making a chassis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony57 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Hi Was reading Pat Hammonds History of Rovex Vol 3 in regads to another issue and spotted that Hornby had made a working sample of a Z Class 0 8 0t in Southern Black no. 954. I wounder if the tools are still usable? (If you have a copy of book page 283) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I'd rather see a NER Class Z 4-4-2!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 You will now require a time machine or a seven figure bank account to do that. Postman Prat said: I'd rather see a NER Class Z 4-4-2!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Learn something new every day PP. When I saw your name on this thread, I thought it was about the gold watch you wish you had received on your recent retirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 That's very good Fishy, the same sort of thing flashed through my mind when I read the title, not connected to PP though, don't think I'd want to be connected to PP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Hi Fishy No chance of a gold watch on retirement from my former employers, all I got was a couple of hours extra work, which they then didn't pay me for!! Typical!! A couple of years ago one of the managers retired after 40 yrs and no-one from the management side even phoned him, never mind came to say 'Goodbye', when he left. They don't even look after their own. In fairness, though, I got some Marks & Sparks vouchers for my 20 yrs. I sold them to SWMBO and with the money I bought a green Deltic from the B team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 I got a nice carriage clock from management and much to my surprise the chief officer of ATC at Heathrow who I'd never met stopped me in the corridor and said good luck with my retirement. I was amazed. The guys I worked with got me a b'man 9F. Probably glad to see the back of me after 37 years. I was glad to see the back of SOME of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 I didn't need a gold watch. I could make loads of them from my ingots in the garage, though, if I wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Still got a few left then Graskie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 When I left, the staff in the office got me a tinplate Hornby M series clockwork locomotive without tender a yard of weathered Bassett Lowke two rail steel track on wood sleepers and a M series open wagon. There was also a cheap copy of a Hornby series signal which arm goes the wrong way when you operate the lever. They also got me a LNER company crest mounted on a polished wood base. Very sweet of them. The firm gave me and my wife a trip on the NYMR Dining Pullman including meal and wine, and a framed certificate. That wasn't bad either. walkingthedog said: I got a nice carriage clock from management and much to my surprise the chief officer of ATC at Heathrow who I'd never met stopped me in the corridor and said good luck with my retirement. I was amazed. The guys I worked with got me a b'man 9F. Probably glad to see the back of me after 37 years. I was glad to see the back of SOME of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILikeTrainsTom Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Oi! Please stop talking about retirement gifts; I haven't even left school let... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Never mind, Tom After a lifetime of slavery you'll be retired!! Long term aim in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Ah the joys of youth! I remember it ----- well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Yes, Tom, you'll be able to retire at about 90, the way things are going, and your retirement present will probably be a gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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