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Title: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 08 October 2010, 18:59:06: Your model rail way that is.

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Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Mysteryman on 08 October 2010, 19:01:14: Mine was big. Now it's huge :y
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Post by: Del Boy on 08 October 2010, 19:03:50: Mine was always small and still is.
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: waspy on 08 October 2010, 19:06:37: I hear Mark's is huge :y
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Post by: bluey on 08 October 2010, 19:16:14: I thought mine was a decent size but now I feel rather inadequate. :-[ ;D
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Post by: Richie London on 08 October 2010, 19:21:09: well gifted myself. plenty of steam comes out my chimney ;)
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: jereboam on 08 October 2010, 19:21:40: As a lad, I never had one at all.

As a wrinkly, I haven't got one now. :)
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 08 October 2010, 19:27:33: ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Debs. on 08 October 2010, 19:29:58: :P I`ve never been a boy! ;D

.....but despite that; mine IS bigger (and hotter) than yours! ;)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DebdrivingsteamLocomotive.jpg)
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 08 October 2010, 19:32:12: Quote
:P I`ve never been a boy! ;D

.....but despite that; mine IS bigger (and hotter) than yours! ;)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DebdrivingsteamLocomotive.jpg)

That is a lovely example of a model GWR Pannier tank there Debs! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Mysteryman on 08 October 2010, 19:32:59: Quote
:P I`ve never been a boy! ;D

.....but despite that; mine IS bigger (and hotter) than yours! ;)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DebdrivingsteamLocomotive.jpg)

Nice one Debs :y

Always said yours was bigger than most fellas on here. ;D
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: waspy on 08 October 2010, 19:34:48: Quote
:P I`ve never been a boy! ;D

.....but despite that; mine IS bigger (and hotter) than yours! ;)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DebdrivingsteamLocomotive.jpg)

:o :o :-* :-* :D :D
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 October 2010, 19:41:56: Quote
:P I`ve never been a boy! ;D

.....but despite that; mine IS bigger (and hotter) than yours! ;)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DebdrivingsteamLocomotive.jpg)

I see you managed to get your leg over in that shot Debs

But hey, why play with little ones when you can get the real thing!
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: MaxV6 on 08 October 2010, 19:57:17: a 57xx unless i'm very much mistaken,...

Debs, you didn;t grow up on Anglesey did you? I knew a family in LlanfairPG with just such a railway in the garden, including a trestle bridge over a large pond.....

there was also one in a Park between Gossips green and Crawley, and there's a pretty funky one in Cutteslowe Park in oxford...

I miss having time and space and money to indulge in my love of steam and all things locomotive... or even the smaller scale approach... I loved dabbling in 00-9 , building bits of ffestiniog....

however, i had to choose between trains and guitars..... guitars made me a living.... so the trains lost....
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 08 October 2010, 20:02:03: Quote
:P I`ve never been a boy! ;D

.....but despite that; mine IS bigger (and hotter) than yours! ;)

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DebdrivingsteamLocomotive.jpg

Splendid. 8-) :-* :-* :y
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Debs. on 08 October 2010, 20:27:48: Quote
.....Debs, you didn;t grow up on Anglesey did you? I knew a family in LlanfairPG with just such a railway in the garden, including a trestle bridge over a large pond..........

That 7 1/4" gauge railway (near Llanfachraeth) now belongs to my friends; a truly wonderful place (see pic below)...... :y
.....coincidentally, I`m going there tomorrow. 8-)

My own little GWR Pannier tank is 5" gauge and live steam; I scratch-built her many moons ago. ;)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DieselDevil.jpg)
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Post by: hercules on 08 October 2010, 20:33:15: mine was 6ft by 4ft and i used to let my mates play with it ::)
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Post by: Mysteryman on 08 October 2010, 20:46:01: Quote
mine was 6ft by 4ft and i used to let my mates play with it ::)

Mucky boy!
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Martin_1962 on 08 October 2010, 21:21:30: Mine is L shaped and still being worked on
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Debs. on 08 October 2010, 21:23:40: Quote
Mine is L shaped and still being worked on

Oh dear-Lord! :o

;)....... ::)....... ;D
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: hotel21 on 08 October 2010, 21:34:24: Quote
Mine is L shaped and still being worked on

Does it being L shaped stop your hand falling off the end then?

The controller, that is..... ;) 8-)
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 08 October 2010, 21:36:08: Quote
Quote
Mine is L shaped and still being worked on

Does it being L shaped stop your hand falling off the end then?

The controller, that is..... ;) 8-)

Is that what men call 'it', 'thingy', then!! :o :o :o

:D :D :D :D ;)
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: aaronjb on 08 October 2010, 22:17:32: I had a small N gauge set.. one loop with a sub loop, little mountain, tunnel, station..

Always wanted a huge train set - a friend of mine as a kid had one in the loft that covered the entire house.

Oh the jealousy.
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Martin_1962 on 08 October 2010, 23:52:22: I am putting mine in the garage but not much room, so far the end and one side, it was a half finished portable layout now bolted to the wall
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Post by: tidla on 08 October 2010, 23:57:55: sold mine to a guy in leicester..
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Post by: pscocoa on 09 October 2010, 00:23:11: in the 1960s I used to exhibit mine in public and was in the local papers for doing so - now in bits in the loft
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: aaronjb on 09 October 2010, 00:32:07: Quote
in the 1960s I used to exhibit mine in public and was in the local papers for doing so - now in bits in the loft

I thought you could get arrested for that kind of thing! :o :o

Must have been a different era...
;D
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 09 October 2010, 00:42:11: I used to go to local show's to see how big other people's were.
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: pscocoa on 09 October 2010, 00:54:35: mine had the overhead electric supply - modelled on the Manchester to Sheffield run via Penis _tone.

Names come to mind lke Minerva, Ariadne and the number 27000+

Where is that anorak?
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Gaffers on 09 October 2010, 06:38:02: There's a model railway show on in Aldershot this weekend :D
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: feeutfo on 09 October 2010, 08:18:54: Mine was the size of a table tennis table, it's not any more :'(
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: albitz on 09 October 2010, 08:23:15: I never had one when I was a boy. I desperately wanted one but it never materialised. I got one about 20 years ago, it is quite a big one (O gauge) but I have never used it. It has sat gathering dust in the loft since shortly after its arrival.
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Post by: maria on 09 October 2010, 10:34:54: When I read the title skrunts I though ummmmmmm but then I thought nah it cant be rude not on here but you never know with you shrunks but all in fairness it was clean for a change ;D ;D
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Post by: Stokie Steve on 09 October 2010, 11:22:52: mine doesn't work any more :-[
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Martin_1962 on 09 October 2010, 12:32:40: Quote
mine had the overhead electric supply - modelled on the Manchester to Sheffield run via Penis _tone.

Names come to mind lke Minerva, Ariadne and the number 27000+

Where is that anorak?

Woodhead - so you used the Triang 77s, what did you do for the 76s?
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 09 October 2010, 14:00:41: But for your benefit maria ( as you seem to have a 1 track mind these days)

When I was a boy it was quite small, it got played with quite a lot as a baby as it was a novelty value learing sort of thing.

As I grew older the novelty wore off and it lay dormant a few years.

Then as I became a teenager I started to play with it more and more, and as the the size of it develped then scenery was added as time went by to enhance scenery.

After a while it's potentential was reached and it could grow no more. I often played with it a few times a day untill I got bored. Then as I learnt more about and got to know how to get more out of it so then it got used for excessive periods of time. I actually became quite experianced at using it.

As word got out about it;s size then more people wanted to have a go with it driving it in and out of the tunnels and through the bushes , inbetween the montains, oh so much fun in those days.

Now it stays all wrapped up cosy and warm, well whats left of it any way, and now only comes out for inspection one in a while, or on very special occasions when I have a vistor.

My God, it was actually quite big,

Oh I do miss my train set.
It would condece into a multple track layout the size of an omega, or stetch to a double garage size quite easily.
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: maria on 09 October 2010, 22:39:41: Skrunt's are you sure your talking about your BIG TRAIN set,because i cant think of anything else it could be ;D ;D ::)
Title: Re: When you were a Boy - How big was your's?
Post by: MaxV6 on 09 October 2010, 23:15:32: I live about 15 minutes away from Pendon Model railway museum.

fabulous authentic detail..... mostly.... i go at least once a year.

http://www.pendonmuseum.com/