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The clearances are very tight, make sure everything is straight as previous poster said. There is a lot of movement on the wheels, turning by hand is not very reliable as the gear will foul if one or two wheels are not in line, best use a bit of track, quite of the gear will foul when hand turned bu...

Being a bit of a 9f fan I've just finished a little project out of the spares bin. Started with an early live chassis, fitted Chinese built rods,valve gear and cylinders and railroad body, they fit straight on. A nice reliable runner, no nasty wires to break but with all the detail.

Being a bit of a 9f fan I've just finished a little project out of the spares bin. Started with an early live chassis, fitted Chinese built rods,valve gear and cylinders and railroad body, they fit straight on. A nice reliable runner, no nasty wires to break but with all the detail.

That would be great, thanks.

If anyones is going to chuck out Hornby Merchant Navy,9f/eve star,unrebuilt W Country,City/Duchess/Britannia please chuck them my way! ta

Soft drink! I like that one!

During the summer the constant rain was really beginning to get me, summer weekends are for getting out on the motorbike and this wasn't happening. One particularly rainy afternoon saw mw on ebay and a light came on in my head, why not buy a train set!. I hadn't had one since I was a kid and it wasn...

Thank god for BBC i-player

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _of_(Train)_Sets/

My old Margate Duchess of Sutherland and City of Chester and Railroad Evening Star,amd Margate Mallard.

I've got 2 old Margate E.Stars,one has been updated with a Railroad body.2 Black Chinese tender drives,one has the later type curved top tender which has pickups..beauty smooth runner. And finally a Railroad Eve Star, my favourite runner out of 25 plus loco's, its smooth,powerfull,runs great on all ...