Reading GOG show

Phill Dyson · 1/12/12

Great pics Cynric & Mick :thumbs:

....thanks for sharing them

Still got my doubts about the HJ Wezzy, it will be interesting to see the Western once Brian Daniels has painted one...........but the 40 & 31 look good.

Phill

Compton castle · 1/12/12

Im with you Phil, It will be nice to see the western once Brian has painted it.
I wouldnt usually mention a company by name in a negative way but I know some one who took delivery of a Master Piece King and it wouldnt run! Why ? no motor! Well i suppose these things do slip through quality control

mickoo · 1/12/12

Phil, your welcome.

To close today's photos.

Finney V2 and Battle of Britain, I 'want' both!

JLTRT Class 25

Gladiator C13, want one of these two, used to work into Macclesfield Central on the GC line, 'Coffee Pots' my dad calls em.

David Andrews A1....guess what? Want one of these too!

The clock, Paddington P1

Finally to close, 'Lest we forget' The memorial to the fallen at Paddington P1, of a whole train I think I was the only one to pause and give thanks, a very sad sign of the times :'(

. To them all, past and future, we owe everything, thank you.

28ten · 1/12/12

Phill Dyson said:
Great pics Cynric & Mick ....thanks for sharing them

Still got my doubts about the HJ Wezzy, it will be interesting to see the Western once Brian Daniels has painted one...........but the 40 & 31 look good.

Phill

Yeah, As Jordan pointed out, 3ft away in the garden you probably wouldnt notice

Im afraid its a case of wait and see. The D63 on the jltrt looked nice but it seems some way off completion, Kettering was mentioned.

I also had a shock getting off the train at Newport, what has happened to the station?! the same thing happened at Reading where I was looking for the Motorail terminal and the parcels tunnel

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Weird trip on the way back, Newport via Bath into Bristol parkway (12 minute layover) and out the opposite direction to Newport. A journey that took 1.20 in the morning took a timetabled 1.55 in the afternoon, it felt like they were trying to waste time.
Then when I arrived in Newport the train way 22 minutes late and packed with grumpy rugby fans, sardines until Abergavenny, standing all the way to Hereford.

28ten · 1/12/12

Mick, never mind the V2 look at the Broad gauge Rover !!!
Also on the MOK stand was the DeGlehn, I was so busy looking at that I didnt notice anything on the 9F.

I think you have the job of WT exhibition photographer

mickoo · 1/12/12

Landslide between Swindon and somewhere this morning I heard on the outbound HST to Swansea, and that was rammed solid with Rugby fans, I mean solid, like a tube train, must have been seriously overloaded. Seemed to take till Slough before we topped 125! Surprised you didn't get diverted this morning too, maybe just the down line is blocked?

Update
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...ondon-delayed-due-to-landslip-91466-32175613/

mickoo · 1/12/12

28ten said:
Mick, never mind the V2 look at the Broad gauge Rover !!!
Also on the MOK stand was the DeGlehn, I was so busy looking at that I didnt notice anything on the 9F.

I think you have the job of WT exhibition photographer

Only just noticed the Rover on the Finney stand myself when I went through the photos, I'd've taken some closer better shots if I'd noticed!

Never got close enough to MOK so nowt to report there.

Photos, your welcome, wouldn't want to bore people though LOL, but will continue to post up what's appropriate as and when if that's all right with y'all.

BrushType4 · 1/12/12

I didn't make Reading today

sorry I missed the WT meet up. Looks like a good day was had.

Steph Dale · 1/12/12

Dog Star said:
The Hat is being interviewed on the Gnome Service next week (for those who some inkling of the response, think David Bowie before he became famous, say 1966-67).

Good to speak to you Steph, nice to meet your Dad as well.

regards, Graham

The BBC Gnome Service, I assume - well as long as you've got your elf that's the main thing...

Mick,
The landslide between Bristol (Parkway) and Swindon has been somewhat misreported by the press. Geographically it may be between the two, but it's actually on the line between Cheltenham and Bristol - so it's mainly affecting Cross Country services rather than First Great Western.

Steph

Phill Dyson · 1/12/12

mickoo said:
Photos, your welcome, wouldn't want to bore people though LOL, but will continue to post up what's appropriate as and when if that's all right with y'all.

Your photo's are great Mick & they give those of us who couldn't make it a great taste of what the show was like

Many Thanks

Phill

mickoo · 1/12/12

Steph, so why all FGW Wales trains being diverted then, that's what they said at Reading and on the train, sounds like another left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing scenario? LOL

JimG · 2/12/12

mickoo said:
Steph, so why all FGW Wales trains being diverted then, that's what they said at Reading and on the train, sounds like another left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing scenario? LOL

They might still be working on Sodbury tunnel at the weekends - there was a landslip there in early November.

Jim.

28ten · 2/12/12

Whatever it was, there was no landslide in the morning.
Also standing on Reading platform I couldn't believe the HST is 35 odd years old, it still seems new to me!

Dikitriki · 2/12/12

Steph Dale said:
From what I've seen there's probably never been a less apt name for a model manufacturer...

Steph

Oh yes there has been - Ace must take the biscuit with Acme close behind

Dog Star · 2/12/12

mickoo said:
Finney V2 and Battle of Britain, I 'want' both!
Gladiator C13, want one of these too,
David Andrews A1....guess what? Want one of these too!

Given what you bought on the day this looks like a very severe case of "scattering gunner everywhere".

regards, Graham

Colin M · 2/12/12

I didn't make it Reading yesterday. Looks like it was a good event. Great photos.

Good to see the HJ 31 is finally close to arrival. (Don't think I can find an excuse to run a 40 on my Kings Lynn layout... Then again, D200 in it's late retro green livery did make it into the platforms on an open day once... ooh..?)

Ressaldar · 2/12/12

thanks all for the update and photos, almost as if I had been there.

cheers

Mike

Buckjumper · 2/12/12

Dikitriki said:
Oh yes there has been - Ace must take the biscuit with Acme close behind

At least with El Crappo you had an inkling as to what you were getting yourself into.

mickoo · 2/12/12

Didn't Wylie Coyote in Roadrunner order all his stuff from Acme? That never worked either!

Graham, my gun scatters far and wide LOL as I always say, plenty of room in the cupboard for more anoraks

John D · 2/12/12

Didn't Wylie Coyote in Roadrunner order all his stuff from Acme? That never worked either!

Ah! but......not everything in the Acme loco range 'never worked' ......that C13 (see photo a few posts back) was one of their's . George (Majestic Models) Dawson did the artwork, I bought the kit rights from Acme and added it to my fledgling Old Originals empire before selling it on to Geoff Stratford at Gladiator. I reckoned that it, along with the A4 were the best models Acme ever had, I built one up and had John Cockcroft paint it in full GC livery....gorgeous :thumbs:

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