[alastairq]

recognise this top link driver?

discoverd in a big book on LMS coaches.....

and we worry about Pullman cars?

is that original TRI-ANG track I see?

 

[Edwin]

Can't possibly be an accurate model. Rivets are far too big.

 

[ben1]

I would agree.
The funnel looks too big compared to the boiler.

 

[Thunder]

i think the confusion is the name on the loco, should it not be IVOR? or could be early Tri-Ang? the track looks right.

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (alastairq @ 25 Nov 2008, 15:32) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>is that original TRI-ANG track I see?

Looks like the original Standard Track to me (nothing new about ready ballasted track !).

 

[Doug]

Looks great. As if it's off The Magic Roundabout.

True Far Twittering & Oysterperch style.

 

[rossi]

very tempted by this stuff .the ultimate in freelance model railways .great fun and can run round Christmas tree in winter and garden in summer .I was once asked what I thought about producing some masters for this Emmet kind of models by a figure producer,using the same chassis I note .It didnt happen but I was quite looking forward to the idea ,Its happened at last.
martin

 

[John Webb]

There was an exhibitor (a Laurie Maunder) at the CMRA Exhibition at St Albans early this year who had made his own versions of these wonderfully eccentric locos. He'd been to the original 'Far Twittering and Oystercreek' 15inch gauge minature railway in 1951 at Battersea and had collected a book of card models to make up. He had never done so, but had then used photocopies of the printed book to use as templates for his models.

Regretably my parents never took me to Battersea although I can recall visiting the South Bank 'Festival of Britain' exhibition in 1951 and getting rather tired - well, I was only 5 years old at the time!

Regards,
John Webb

PS as they are 1951 vintage definately early BR - but like the Talyllyn Railway clearly not included in the 1947 Transport Act as a constituent of BR!!

 

[JITSU]

If you like that,have a look at these.......

http://4largescale.com/chris/index.htm

 

[7113]

QUOTE (JITSU @ 29 Dec 2008, 01:56) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>If you like that,have a look at these.......

I did and I'm still smiling, lovely if completely barking.

Oh and congratulations on your first post.

Regards

 

[JITSU]

Too many Forums and too long lurking....but I got there in the end

Glad you enjoyed the site.

 

[Brian Considine]

Excellent work & even Maggie liked it !

 

[7113]

QUOTE (Doug @ 25 Nov 2008, 18:48) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>True Far Twittering & Oysterperch style.

Ah yes I remember seeing this at Warley in about 2003 - loved it then and it's still a great piece of work.

Regards