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Flying Scotsman for sale.....

Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by RalphW, Feb 17, 2012.

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  1. RalphW

    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    That made you look....15" Gauge Flying Scotsman Locomotive - LIVE STEAM | eBay
     
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  2. richards

    richards Part of the furniture

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    Seems like there are other people trying to flog it as well.

    Spotted in Oxford at the weekend. Pretty accurate for a tin of fudge ...

    IMAG0235.jpg

    Richard
     
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    Anyone else think the fudge tin one looks a bit like a P2? :p
     
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  4. RalphW

    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    Someone once bought one of those for me.:tape2:

    But the fudge wasn't too bad.
     
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    class8mikado Part of the furniture

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    I agree, and it does look like a P2...
     
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    Spamcan81 Nat Pres stalwart

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  7. Oakfield

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    Ralph, you may have started something here, next headline for Railway Heritage: Exclusive, NRM to sell Scotsman to recoup costs.......................................? You could be the source close to the owners!
     
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    The surprising thing is that they are (apparently) building this speculatively. They must have put a lot of cost and working capital into it.
     
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    Last year they were building one with track and coaches for a customer in Australia whether it's the same one ? Great Northern Steam» News .By the way it's only a 2 cylinder.
     
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  10. David Bigcheeseplant

    David Bigcheeseplant New Member

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    After spending many hours building this model the livery is very strange an odd shade of dark green with orange and black lining with very large LNER letters.

    David
     
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    They are building 2 seperate loco's alongside each other, the first for a customer in Australia (who has specified the dark green colour) and another as a 'showpiece' for themselves, which is the one offered for sale here. Not in the background of the tender photo's there is another tender in the correct apple green livery!
    Steve
     
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    Hmm I think that price is a little over the top. The railway where I drive has recently had a brand new 10 1/4 tender loco built at not even near the quater of the price being asked for there. Then again, someone somewhere may have a funny 5 minutes.....
     
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  13. paullad1984

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    shame its not a proper 3 cylinder with gresley valve gear to the middle cylinder, imagine that at Romney.......
     
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    I think No 7 and No 8 did have 3 cylinders but the middle ones were removed due to maintenance difficulties.
     
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    Local rag quoted them as saying this one was originally going to Dubai but the deal fell through. Now the state of reporting in our local rag I won't be surprised if they've got it wrong.
     
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    Yes but that was due to the poor Greenly designed valve gear for the middle cylinder.
     
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    Well at least it looks something like an A3 unlike this item also on ebay:

    10 ¼ inch gauge Flying Scotsman steam train complete | eBay

    or if the above doesn't work see

    Item number: 130468890987
     
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    the loco you refer to is a very very rare 1930's built miniature loco, designed and built by John Thurston.
     
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    I'd be happier with the second ebay lot there, now I just need a 960 foot garden...
     
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