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A slight alteration to a Hornby D Class locomotive.
Coal bunker added.
Glencairn

Cutting away most of the cab of the 0.4.0 locomotives to try and give a 1890/1914 look (hopefully).
Glencairn

Interesting. I like it.

Mountain Goat wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 12:34 am Interesting. I like it.

An idea you could try with your locos, maybe, MG?

Glencairn

I was thinking of making a cabless 7mm narrow gauge loco.

hunslet wrote: ↑Mon Nov 19, 2018 3:07 pm I bought this Triang RS24 "Connie" set earlier this year. It was missing the yellow inner divider/spacer so a visit to Hobbycraft found some suitable card and this is the result.



The request for 0-4-0 loco photos did not specify steam only so here are three of my other 0-4-0 locos from Triang/Hornby.



Left to right.
Triang R254 Steeple Cab Electric.
Triang R253 Switcher.
And as Rivarossi is now part of Hornby a Bedoni Electric shunter. The real Bedoni shunters were Diesel only so this is a Fantasy model produced in limited numbers by Rivarossi.

Regards, Colin.

Colin:

I had that very same train set some 50-odd years ago, along a load of other stuff that I added, or was bought for me. I still remember it fondly. I also had one of the companion locos., Polly, as I recall. As for the yellow diesel loco, they were part of the Dock Authority line. I had the model with the red finish, which was marked ‘3’, if memory serves, and the black one, marked ‘5’. They had headlights that would light-up as they moved. I remember the electric loco on the left too. For a time, Tri-ang offered a couple of engines that could draw power from overhead catenary. It was possible to run two locos at the same time, one from the track, the other overhead.

A good line in accessories could be had from Airfix or Merit, as well as Tri-ang/Tri-ang Hornby.

I’m surprised just how much of this stuff has survived the passage of time. I sold my stuff 50-odd years ago, at just about the time that I discovered girls. I wish that I’d kept it all, especially as getting back into the hobby a few months ago, I’m surprised just how expensive everything is. It didn’t seem to be the case when I was a boy.

Prices doubled seemingly overnight at about 2005?
A few years on from that and the prices doubled again and have gone up again since. Back around 2005 a Hornby Freightliner wagon could be bought for about £12 new if I recall as I bought a few which I later swapped for secondhand ones so I could get the containers I wanted. Today the RRP Hornby price is £47.99. Not sure what the shops sell them at though as they normally sell for a few pounds less, but it is still quite expensive.

I soon realized with the prices zooming up that I was becoming priced out of the market so I changed scale and gauge so I could keep modelling without the big spend.

Connie and Polly seem to be fairly common individually and in sets.
Nellie the original I think is fairly scarce due probably to age.
The set came in a Job lot of Triang and Marklin items together with a large number of Faller buildings which I was more interested in and used them on a small H0e layout mentioned a couple of years ago on this forum.
My 0-4-0 Diesel is from the original Transcontinental range ( no buffers or holes) as I collect Triang Transcontinental models.
There were two overhead electrics in the Transcontinental range , the 0-4-0 steeple cab, Red (dummy pantograph) or Green (working pantograph) . There was also a Double ended Electric B0-B0 in two colour schemes. I think that there were some Australian Multiple units also.
The UK range included a couple of overhead electrics but I do not have any of these.
Regards, Colin.