Sunday, September 29, 2019

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.

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