[andrew]

Hi, I thought I would share a couple of pics of my kit built B17 streamliner as Hornby have announced they will be producing it. It will be better than this but they may not do the late version with missing side valencing. Also pictured are B2 (modified RTR), J69, E4 and F5 from very old kits plus a resin kit Hunslet on a Flieschmann chassis and the RTR J70 and B12.

Good to see fine models two 'old friends' there. We would see Royal Sovereign from the school playground in Baldock on ordinary King's Cross turns when it was the Cambridge royal engine; always nicely turned out. I occasionally saw that E4, 62785, from my uncle's place in Shefford, running round its train on its regular Saturday Henlow Camp leave train turn. I remember it as a remarkably heavy train for such a small locomotive.

andrew