90 007 Crown Point. What might have been. I liked the Anglia Railways livery.

October 2014. Overhead wires added to Platform 2 of Motley Pafos. The wires are the old Tri-ang system that was reintroduced for a short time in the 1990’s when Hornby changed production to China. For Motley it looks fine and is robust! If I knock it doesn't break! The loco is a Lima model painted up and number E1. The advertising was added in April 14. We bought a cloth from Pathos Market and the pictures were the wrapping paper. Ideal advertising boards.

Lima Bo electric. Picked up for £5.00 and re liveried. Now on Motley Cyprus layout.

 A German style diesel shape bought in Jumbo’s in Pathos Cyprus made by Dickie Toys of Germany as a play toy train set. The body sits on an older Hornby Bo-Bo HST chassis and I have added a pantograph so it passes for an electric loco that I need on the Cyprus layout as one platform now has an over-head wired. (See photo above). The loco also has a diesel engine for the “last mile”.

This is a very old Tri-ang electric on a Nellie chassis. Pulls current from the rail, not the over-head. It is pictured on Motley Terminal. The coaches came from a Cypriot toy train set. They had to be re-wheeled and painted.

Tri-ang produced a Bo over-head electric for the European market. This is it. It runs on Motley Terminal.

Picked this up at a Toy Fair. Sits on a Hornby Class 47 motor bogie. Used on Motley Terminal..

A bit blurry. Hornby Class 86 in Freightliner. Transfers and numbers are from Fox Transfers.

I know, it looks fictitious! It is based on a Swiss E3/3 class tank loco. It existed in WWII as there was a shortage of coal. At the Cambridge 31A 2014 Exhibition a fellow exhibitor emailed me more photos and I have yet to add the detail. The loco is used on Motley Terminal and may go to Cyprus in March 2015 as a “guest loco”.

Kleinbahn on the Conifer Railway. Had a trip to Austria and heritage traction was allowed to run on their system. I bought a few examples. The lack of over-head lines does not seem to distract from the photo..

As the conifers on the Conifer Railway matured I had some close encounters of the wood-kind!

ELECTRIC

I picked up an old Tri-ang 2-car EMU, slightly damaged, for £17.50 at a recent Toy Fair. I then had a ‘what if’, moment. What if in 1948 BR decided all suburban stock should be crimson? So I painted the cheap EMU brown to match the old Tri-ang Mk1 non-corridor coaches so that I can run a 3 or 4 coach set. It sits by the SR green version.

Silver Fox Class 89 before it was named..

Spare HST cars in 2019? Covert one to 3rd Rail and give it a go! Old Tri-ang motor bogie; hence  the screw tip sticking out of the roof.

Over-head version of an HST. Could do with some more detail to look more convincing.