| Train Times in Seaside Road, Eastbourne is to be recommended, not just for model railways, but for a good selection of tools, consumables, some dicast cars, military and aircraft kits and Scalextrics etc.
As a bonus, he buys returned/rejected Hornby locomotives from Margate and sells them in bits "as seen" for pretty reasonable prices (ie. tender loco bodies and chassis are £7-£12 each depending on what's intact and the tender chassis's and bodies are about a fiver each).
Typically the chassis have been made inoperable by people grasping them by their valve gear, crushing it...nothing patience and a small vice or pliers can't resolve. Obviously you have to expect other damage due to everything being literally thrown in a big box and posted to him; but a rumage normally turns up something useable and at these prices, fettling is worthwhile.
I got a practically brand new loco-drive model LMS Princess Elizabeth 4-6-2and a second Princess loco chassis (needed to canabalise for bits as they were all too knackered on their own) for about £30 in total.
An evening swapping components around and fiddling had it looking and running perfectly...
Working on creating a unrebuilt Merchant Navy now, see my thread elsewhere...
Last edited by malcolm_durant; 06-08-2005 at 01:56.
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