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This is one of these grand old British pieces that brings pleasure just to look at. And, thankfully, it
runs beautifully, as well. Good, strong British manufacturing. Triang, I believe. The purpose driven
functionality decorated in charming Victorian green makes for a most unique visage.

You may like to see a picture of the real thing, at Eastleigh in 2009.

It is in its wartime black livery .

Great! Also, never knew of the Island of Mauritius, either- thanks for that.

https://youtu.be/5Qk_OMfrgZw
Fired up some Triang this weekend, and greatly enjoyed it. In whipping up this video I had hoped to use both Playcraft D6100's, but
both were on strike, must be a French thing. Maybe some contact cleaner. At any rate, I was thinking about how the rail system,
perhaps of necessity, homogenized over the decades from the unique to the generic. I tried to reflect this shift with the visuals
of the two Deltics running around one another. The "wooooo" of the siren just struck me as something Monty Python
would do.

I picked up these Triang coaches to complete the Lord of the Isles set.
Great old pieces, NOS. Shipping was nearly as much as the item. Keeps me
from getting overboard.

Many years ago I was a member of a model railway club which held a public exhibition every Easter and still does so.
They had a layout which consisted of two circuits where one side of each circuit entered hidden sidings to change trains.
One of the trains was a Lord of the Isles with about ten coaches in tow !
Some of the visitors were surprised to see a single wheeler hauling such a long train and audibly wondered how it was done so the next time the train entered the hidden sidings we removed the loco ! Ah said the visitors it has a tender drive. Next time we removed the tender and the train still ran !
The first coach had a Kitmaster power bogie fitted which had a very large weight above it and easily pulled the train.
I see in another post that you are trying to motorise a Hornby Rocket coach so a similar stunt could be pulled again if you have enough coaches.
Colin.

Replica are selling coach motorising units (RPC6414) which fit inside a Mark 1 carriage intended for EMU and DMMUs they can also be used to motorise a hauled coach to assist a light locomotive, or propel an unpowered one. Unfortunately they only do the 64 foot version with 14 mm wheels, I have asked them to consider a 57' 6" version with 14 mm wheels , so far to no avail!

Thank you for that, I shall look into what you have suggested. Truthfully, I got that Rocket
In a trade. Back in the pre digital days, anything British was scarcer than hen’s teeth. I swapped
A Dapol Dean Goods for the Rocket, and proceeded to run the Rocket until the brushes wore out.