Author: Mick Bayliss

BR (ex LSWR) Adams Radial 415 class 4-4-2T no. 30584

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BR (ex LSWR) Adams Radial 415 class 4-4-2T no. 30584. I have just acquired this lovely model in an exchange, and when I was told some of it’s history, bells started to ring in my mind. Built from the Martin Finney kit, with Slaters wheels, an ABC motor and gear unit and wiper pickups to the tops of the driving wheels for current collection. I remember this superb model being built. The builder was a very good friend of mine who taught me a lot about 7mm loco modelling, Graham Jaques, now deceased. He had been asked to build it by another good friend Mike Heather, also now deceased. Mike was one of the founder members of the Poachers club in Lincoln and was a very good modeller himself. But he had bought so many kits and his health was not great, he knew that he just would not live long enough to build them all, hense he asked Graham to build this Adams Radial for him. Graham and I used to travel together from Leicester to Lincoln to play trains every third Sunday of the month (I still do). Why am I prepared to sell such a lovely model that means so much to me? Good question.

Midland Railway Johnson 1327 class 4-4-0 no. 1344

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Midland Railway Johnson 1327 class 4-4-0 no. 1344
Midland Railway Johnson 1327 class 4-4-0 no. 1344. This model has been beautifully built and painted to a professional standard from the Janick kit, with fully working inside motion. The original loco was built for the Midland Railway by Dubs & Co. of Glasgow in 1877.

Bought from auction recently, the model was not in working order and had only been used for display. The wiper pickups, collecting current from the driving wheels were creating serious shorts on the splashers. Those pickups have now been discarded and replaced with wipers on the tops of the tender wheels. The model now performs superbly and on test at the Poachers track in Lincoln, she was able to haul six bogie coaches with ease. Good going for a 4-4-0.

 

BR(ER) Thompson A2/3 class 4-6-2 no. 60520 Owen Tudor

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BR(ER) Thompson A2/3 class 4-6-2 no. 60520 Owen Tudor
BR(ER) Thompson A2/3 class 4-6-2 no. 60520 Owen Tudor. This lovely model was built from the DJH kit by Graham Varlev, with Slaters wheels, a Portescap RG7 motor and gears unit. Current collection is by plunger pickups. Paintwork is by Larry Goddard and he has signed his name, together with the builder’s name on the underside of the running plate to give absolute provenance. He carries very light weathering by Richard Pogson and runs as quietly and as smoothly as he looks.

Great Eastern Railway Holden M15 class 2-4-2T no. 650

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Great Eastern Railway Holden M15 class 2-4-2T no. 650
Great Eastern Railway Holden M15 class 2-4-2T no. 650. Expertly built from scratch by Wally Mayhew, with AGH (Alan Harris) wheels and a Portescap RG7 motor and gear unit. The gears drive the front coupled wheelset, which are in fixed bearings. The rear wheelset are free to move vertically in hornblocks. The superb paintwork, who else but Larry Goddard. Wally Mayhew and Wally West were great friends and other Great Eastern Railway models built by them both are featured elsewhere in this website. In the Railway Modeller magazine of January 1971 Wally Mayhew’s Stanley to Stratford St. Andrew layout is featured. No doubt this fabulous model was a regular performer.

LMS Fowler 3P class 2-6-2T no. 64

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LMS Fowler 3P class 2-6-2T no. 64
LMS Fowler 3P class 2-6-2T no. 64. A scratch built model, with a silver label on the underside “Lawrence Scale no. 14101”. Also painted on the underside “N & W” and “NW” and signed “L.W.Goddard ’82” who of course is the “artist” who has beautifully painted the model. We believe this model to be built by Derek Lawrence and painted by Larry Goddard in 1982, for Norman Wisendon’s model shop in Greenfield, near Manchester. The wheels are metal castings, the motor is a Mashima and the gears are chunky and robust. Power collection is by wiper pickups from the driving wheels. A lovely heavy scratch built model, over forty years old, built to last and still in superb condition.

BR(ex LNER) Gresley N2 class 0-6-2T no. 69567

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BR(ex LNER) Gresley N2 class 0-6-2T no. 69567. Built from the Slaters Rising Star kit. Slaters wheels, MSC JH type motor and gear unit. Superb paintwork by Warren Haywood and just as superb weathering by Richard Pogson. A recent on-line auction buy from Pump House Auctions, and not one that I am proud of. First mistake, I set myself a maximum top bid and I exceeded it. The model, in fully lined out GNR green and brown livery, looked very good in the photo and with the BP and delivery charge it cost me over £900. Much too much for the risk involved. When it arrived, one of the condensate pipes was missing. Obviously carelessly handled during viewing, and without anyone at the auction taking care or noticing, it was lost. I will not be using that auction house again. However, now, after a paint strip, removal of the other condensate pipe, repair where necessary, a repaint and a light weathering, this model is a gem and runs as well as it looks.

BR (ex LB&SCR) Billinton E4 class 0-6-2T no. 32469

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BR (ex LB&SCR) Billinton E4 class 0-6-2T no. 32469
BR (ex LB&SCR) Billinton E4 class 0-6-2T no. 32469. Built from the MSC models kit. I bought this model after the build had been very basically started by my good friend Mick Heather, after his untimely passing. For a reason we shall never know, no chassis was present. However a scratch built rigid (0-8-0) chassis was found amongst his bits and pieces, which did fit and did a job for me whilst I completed the upper body. However that chassis was never going to be able to be made to make do, so the model was put onto my “back burner” for a few years. Now fast forward to October 2024 and another E4 was found in an auction in Sheffield, I bought it in the hope of being able to use the chassis of that and this 32469 is the result of that very successful marriage. Slaters wheels, MSC JH type motor and gear unit. Superb paintwork by Warren Haywood and just as superb weathering by Richard Pogson, has made this jumble sale of a model very fine indeed.

BR(WR) Collett King class 4-6-0 no. 6025 King Henry III

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BR(WR) Collett King class 4-6-0 no. 6025 King Henry III. BR(WR) Collett King class 4-6-0 no. 6025 King Henry III. This lovely model was built and painted by the late Graham Varley. Plated on the underside “TMS Models built & painted by G. Varley” as provenance. Superb build quality from the David Andrews kit, with an ABC motor and gears unit, Slaters wheels (the centre driving set is sprung), current collection by plunger pickups and the inside cylinder valve gear links are driven by working motion from the outside cylinders.