Flying Scotsman & The New Century Bar

We visited the first Blandford Model Railway Exhibition yesterday and very good it was too. 

There were quite a few layouts, most of which were excellent, plus several traders selling their wares and, from whom, we acquired these two fairly rare specimens.
The first is this Hornby model of 'Flying Scotsman' in BR blue livery.

This particular model was originally sold as part of a Marks and Spencer Premier Edition Boxed Set, of which only 250 were produced in 2006. 

The complete set contained the locomotive (R3627) plus three, super-detail Gresley Crimson and Cream coaches (1x 1st Class, 1x 3rd Class and 1x Brake/3rd Class) plus double oval of track, including 3x Points and an HM2000 Twin Controller.
This loco has been fitted with a DCC chip and will, eventually, have sound installed.

The second item we managed to acquire at the exhibition is the Hornby Pullman Bar Car 'The New Century Bar', seen below:

This complements the earlier Pullman 'Daffodil Bar' - Diamond that we added to the Pullman fleet recently and is a magnificent coach or, should I say, car!
As can be seen in the photographs, it has working table lamps and is beautifully modelled, both internally and externally.
The Catalogue Number for this is R4418 and it was only available from 2010 - 2011.

Something's Brewing

As we have the Bachmann Oak Hill Brewery as part of the layout together, of course, with its own siding, it seemed only right that we had a rake of Dapol Oakhill Brewery wagons with which to service said brewery.

These wagons are all Limited Editions that were commissioned by the Burnham and District Model Railway Club (BDMRC).

Sadly the BDMRC ceased commissioning wagons last year so no more of these Oakhill wagons are likely to be produced, which is a shame as they are quite popular.

We currently have seven of the eight wagons that the BDMRC commissioned (plus one duplicate) so we are now trying to track down the eighth wagon to complete the set.

The first wagon is this Fruit D van (of which we have two) and the running number for both is W2022.

Only 113 of these vans were produced in 2017.

This is the first of two different ale wagons and the running number of this one is 38612.

Only 100 of these were produced in 2017.

While the running number of this second one is 38615 and there were only 97 of these produced, also in 2017.

Next up is this Bulk Grain Hopper with the running number OB2. Only 103 of these wagons were produced, again in 2017.

Now we have a ventilated van, with the running number 13. Just 94 of these vans were produced in, I think, 2016. A second ventilated van was produced a year or so before this one, with the running number 14. This is, currently, the gap in our collection and, for which, the search continues!

Here now is the first of two tank wagons. Both date from 2017 and this one has the running number T2. 
Just 93 of these were produced.

While this second tank wagon, which is bringing up the rear, has the running number T5.
Only 100 of these wagons were produced.

Finally we see the complete rake of wagons, behind a Class 07 shunter, standing at Platform 3 at Petersfield station, having been brought out from the brewery and awaiting departure.