Love it 
I have a envy.
Presenter needs to learn the word “locomotive”.
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Decided to get a few of my 00 gauge models out on display, then went down the rabbit hole of searching for information about them.
33007 0-6-0 was built in Brighton in 1942, the minimalist design used lightweight lagging and a distinctively shaped casing to save materials during the war. It could run backwards at 50mph (good for lines without turntables).
35023 4-6-2 was built in the Eastleigh Works in 1948, it left the factory with “air smoothed” casing, in '57 it was rebuilt and the casing was removed for easier maintenance. Withdrawn from service in 1967 and scrapped.
The mighty A4 4-6-2, 'kin love this. This one had the double chimney, built in 1938, scrapped in '63.
One day I’ll sort out some track and run them.
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Love the Q1 and the Hornby model I had before got rid of the layout and stock.
The Q1 is one of my absolute favourites, I have one in N-scale, but doubt I’ll ever be able to afford it in O.
Proportions are daft in N, but look better in reality than in pics.
Worth popping in to your model rail club - https://www.oxfordmrc.org.uk/ in Headington- most clubs have a test track you can try your locos on, and welcome visitors/potential members!
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Thanks for the link.
Having just read about using engines that have been static for years (in the case of the A4, since the mid 80s) they’ll need a good service and general tlc to coax them back to life without risking the small moving plastic parts and the motors. 40+ year old grease will not be very greasy.
Something to do in winter I reckon.
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Not my pic but I played with one exactly like this in my youth. It was bought for my father as a child in the early 30’s and he kept it immaculate. Subsequently came to my brother, then me, then my nephew and it’s now not so immaculate.
My brother has it displayed pretty much like this but I’m not sure if he has the rest of the oval track or wagons (rolling stock) that came with it. The mechanics still work beautifully and it’s a joy to pull the reverse lever.
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Last of the running stock for next year’s layout has arrived. The Accurascale early PTA ( repurposed ore waggons) for foster yeoman.
The Dapol OO Cl 59, by GM and the precursor to the Cl66, took a couple of years to find. However one of these, a Cl56 (BRs effort for heavy duty pulls… so useless the Mendip companies imported private GM trains, the Cl 59) , a Cl 33 and a rake off non intercity Mk1 blue/ grey coaches, mainly 2nd corridor is sufficient.
The layout will be a rendition of a quarey head, branch line and mainline around the Westbury junction and station.
A line i used a lot as a youngster to get home from Bath in the 80s. I spent some 20 years living in Bath, Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Bratton etc. Quarries were a part of life as were those trains. Can’t wait to get started on it
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Nice. Do like a cl.59 - remember those stone train liveries well from the few years I spent commuting from Maidenhead to London and Oxford
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DC or DCC?
Nice they were very busy on the stone runs to London, using that Weymouth line. Feeding the insatiable desire in the late 80s for building material. The old Cl56 had a reliability rate of something like 60%. If you are running a few trains a day up that line, that’s a lot of late deliveries to say the least. I think the Cl 59s acheived over 99%. They even worked straight off the ship from the States, much to the shock of the assembled BR engineers 
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If you have half an hour to spare, this is worth a watch. The sad demise of the Swindon works filmed in 1985.
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iirc, the first batch of 56s were made in Romania when things were still pretty iron-curtainy - not a bright idea when you were still doing the British thing of selling a loco to someone first and then working out all the faults while it was in service…
Wonder why we have almost* no loco works left…?
Amazingly, Clayton (remember the Cl.17?) are still just about hanging-on.
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An on going build based in West London around 1990.A huge amount of rolling stock and locomotives.
Superb attention to detail.Even the advertising hoardings are in keeping with the time period.
Everard Junction
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