minister_for_hardship Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Found the XA class one...http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AEI-Western-Australian-Railway-WAGR-2-DO-2-XA-CLASS-LOCO-NILIGARA-BUILDERS-MODEL-/220906416755?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item336f0c6a73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heirflick Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 well - if any of you boyos want to get me anything for xmas...this will do nicely! thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aclass007 Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 You will have to pick it up in person, because apparently it doesn't post! I'd walk there and back to collect it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Really? Can you explain why this item is so valuable or it's just a nice little nostalgic piece? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Really? Can you explain why this item is so valuable or it's just a nice little nostalgic piece? It's a bespoke model built for the company that manufactured the real locomotive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 It's a bespoke model built for the company that manufactured the real locomotive. That's it in a nutshell, probably the closest you can get to owning the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Neil Ramsey' C Class comes pretty close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aclass007 Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 The A class version was sold at auction a few years ago........ http://www.vectis.co.uk/Page/ViewLot.aspx?LotId=429317&Section=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aclass007 Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 (edited) £560stg. the C class finished at. Not expensive, I think......... Edited November 9, 2014 by aclass007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarabuses Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 An interesting model http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-CIE-Flying-Snail-TPO-/251710078412?ssPageName=ADME:SS:SS:GB:3160 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 An interesting model http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-CIE-Flying-Snail-TPO-/251710078412?ssPageName=ADME:SS:SS:GB:3160 That's the 'collect and drop' model. The cams to lay in the track can be a bit finnicky - and the bags are difficult to obtain, though you could make something suitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 That's the 'collect and drop' model. The cams to lay in the track can be a bit finnicky - and the bags are difficult to obtain, though you could make something suitable. In action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Yes a real toy gimmick once upon a time many many years ago. I have two of them somewhere in the attic, one in LMS livery, the other in BR Blue and Grey. Never seen one in CIE Livery before though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Did this ever actually run in Ireland or even up north?:confused:I thought this was a UK only coach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 (edited) The track ramps can 'nudge' the bottoms of Murphy bogies - not enough to derail them, but, you have to be careful. Edited November 9, 2014 by Broithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenderg Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Did this ever actually run in Ireland or even up north?:confused:I thought this was a UK only coach? Not this particular coach. More here Dive ... http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/793-Travelling-Post-Office Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 The bag exchange system was still in use in GB until 1971. I saw it done a few times in the mid-'6os - very violent - do not post antique crystal decanters by this method.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Not this particular coach. More here Dive ... http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/793-Travelling-Post-Office Interesting thread, Glenderg. I knew there were TPO's but have never really seen many pictures of them. Not sure that the model on eBay looks much like this, sprayed green with the flying snail stuck instead of a P&T. Seems like the catchers were not a big feature on the Irish TPOs. I wonder if they stop took most of the main stations to let passengers on and off and collected that way instead of by catcher on an express, even though I know would've been all sorted en route. I wonder if anyone on the site has modeled some more authentic versions of the Irish TPOs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Most of the larger Irish companies had TPOs with South Eastern, Midland, GSWR & Great Northern vans including some 6 wheelers in service until the new CIE vans appeared in the late 50s. The Hornby model would makes a passable CIE van. In later years the POs ran mainly on the Cork & Galway mail trains. The Galway Day Mail was usually a mixed rake of TPOs, Parcel Vans & MK2D Supertrain coaches, the Night Mails BR Van, TPO, Parcel Vans with a tail of container wagons for mail and Liner traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josefstadt Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 .... the Night Mails BR Van, TPO, Parcel Vans with a tail of container wagons for mail and Liner traffic. When the liner traffic was added to the Galway Night Mail trains the flat wagons used were air braked and these wagons were always at the rear of the train. The GSVs, TPOs and Parcel Vans used on these services were fitted with through air brake pipes to connect the locomotive's air brakes to those on the wagons. Thus when operating in this manner part of the train was vacuum braked and the remainder was air braked. The modified GSVs, TPOs and Parcel Vans received the suffix T.L.A. [Train Line Air (piped)] as shown in Glenderg's photo of 2979 above. The photo also shows the air pipe running along the solebar of the TPO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 How about this then http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=lima+201. Surely he has no chance of getting this price. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenderg Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 She's worth it for £2, I'd a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Do you get a free defibrillator with that I wonder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 A search for 'Murphy models' often brings up pictures of the US model Carolyn Murphy - well, that's my excuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnthebox Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 A search for 'Murphy models' often brings up pictures of the US model Carolyn Murphy - well, that's my excuse. Now Brothe, leave my Caroline alone, I've been watching her, sorry checking Murphy models all the time, : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richrua Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/230937391836?nav=SEARCH on that same page. at first glance i thought this was a c class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/230937391836?nav=SEARCH on that same page. at first glance i thought this was a c class Well spotted this Italian loco was basically the standard for a C Class rtr conversion before the repainted Lima 33s arrived on the scene in the late 70s. The Rivarossi HO & N versions had better motor bogies than the Lima locos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSGSV Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Seems cheaper, despite the tasty postage, than others on eBay recently. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231381159820?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT#ht_481wt_1400 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BosKonay Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Nice looking set for the money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 (edited) Just remember you need to pay postage from the US plus import duty when it arrives. The transformer is probably 110V. The others on eBay are ridiculously priced however which is why they haven't sold. They've been up there for months. EDIT: Just had a chance to read this. If any of you want to bid on this, the quoted post if for US GROUND. You will need Intl. AIRMAIL which is more expensive FROM the USA then in the reverse direction. This is an outsize item, so to avoid coronary occlusion you should get a shipping qoute from the seller BEFORE you bid, not after as suggested by the seller!! Edited November 11, 2014 by DiveController Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railway Lyons Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 One I spotted last night: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/141461658171?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 That MR NCC "wagon plate" looks dodgy. It looks like brass, judging by the colour. IMPORTANT - Collectors, beware. These plates were cast iron, and would have polished to a goldeny colour. If it is painted that way, it looks 100%. If, when polished, the bare metal really is yellowy, it's a dud - albeit a very convincing one. The going rate in enthusiast railwayana markets for such things is £50-£60 / €60-€75. Even if genuine, on price alone I'd avoid that one like the plague. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRENNEIRE Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Good find Sean I keep an eye on these items from time to time I think this dude has got his figures mixed up Some recent MRNCC Wagon plate prices achieved: [TABLE=width: 366] [TR] [TD=class: xl22, width: 366]MRNCC'163' SRA293 £40, [TABLE=width: 366] [TR] [TD=class: xl24, width: 366]MRNCC '7' SRA398 £50[TABLE=width: 366] [TR] [TD=class: xl24, width: 366]MRNCC wagonplate MKA598 £36, [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 366] [TR] [TD=class: xl24, width: 366]MRNCC '338' probably repainted GCR906 £20 [TABLE=width: 366] [TR] [TD=class: xl24, width: 366]'M.R.N.C.C. 338', 32x18cm, rectangle, curved corners & decorative serif characters, letters etc probably repainted GCR907 £20, MRNCC 1044 rectangular cast iron, totally unrestored, GWR1113 £50 This one however caught my eye: [TABLE=width: 366] [TR] [TD=class: xl24, width: 366]'UTA 2686', Rectangular with rounded corners, 35x18cm in ex-vehicle condition a little metal missing from one rim SRA309 £180,[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 The UTA one is most certainly a dud. They painted numbers on wagons and never cast NCC-style plates. This guy needs to be reported, methinks..... Mind you, the MRNCC one looks genuine IF, and only IF, it's been actually painted that goldeny colour. But at that price - avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunluce Castle Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 The MR NCC one is touch and go, but I think it's genuine, the LMS NCC ones were indeed casted but maybe the MR ones had brass numbering? Who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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