| Your Letters: |
| In reply to Duncan Smith's reply to Ian Sprigwell's reply to Genghis Khan's reply to Paul Atkinson's reply to Colin Foster's enquiry, I'm 100% sure there were 4 of them. |
| Hats off to Gordon Brown, it needed saying! The whingers should get a life! I bought one of them Hornby Blue Class diesels at the weekend and it's brilliant! We've never had it so good! There's opening doors and some lights and some pipes on the ends and seperate handlebars! You can see the pilot sitting in his room at the end and there's a fan in the roof to keep the passengers cool in the hot weather and there's even working blinds in the sides to keep some more passengers cool in some more hot weather! Well done Hornby I say and I'm looking forward to some Red Class ones as well! We've never had it so good! |
| Dear Steve, it's all right for you to go on about DCC all the time, but what about those of us with smaller layouts? |
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Dear Steve, my friend's pet hamster Hammy has become stuck in my tunnel and won't come out. What shall I do?
This is a family site, kindly take your disgusting depravity elsewhere - ed. |
| Dear Steve, they're only model trains, for God's sake! Try taking a CD back just because it jumps and see what reaction you get! |
| Dear Steve. Well said, Mr Blair! These whingers don't know when they had it so good! The windows on the Hornby Class 50 are definitely correct - I saw one once in 1983 and it definitely had two. Well done Hornby - keep them coming! |
| Dear Steve. Spot on, Mr Straw! These rivet counters should shut up - they've never had it so good! The shape of the Deltic's nose is definitely correct - the real thing has a slope there too. Well done Bachmann - let's have some more! |
| Dear Steve, so what if the panel lines are printed on? The whingers should note that these can quite easily be added using an engraving tool and after a swift repaint, transfers and varnish things will be as good as new! We've never had it so good! Would you complain in a restaurant just because your food was cold? |
| Dear Steve, the new Deltic measures out perfectly against drawings and we've never had it so good. The old Lima model matched all known drawings as well, but was shorter because they were in imperial. We never had it so good back then, either! These days drawings are done in those Metrics, or so we're told, so obviously things come out different. You can't trust those Metrics. I saw a film about them with Keanu Reeves and it was scary stuff! |
| Dear Steve, congratulations on an excellent site. Will there be a colouring-in competition again this year? |
| Dear Steve, I find some of your comments a bit extreme. Try taking a new car back to a dealer just because bits keep falling off and see what kind of response you get!!! |
| Dear Steve, a lot of people seem to rubbish Lima mechanisms, but I find that with a little TLC their performance easily matches anything from overseas. Starts are silky smooth and top speed is superb. The only problem is that after a while they seem to get clogged up with carpet fluff. Can you tell me if it's possible to get track to run them on? |
| Dear Steve, you should be hung, drawn and quartered, then your remains burnt over water. Congratulations on an excellent site. |
| Dear Steve, it's all right for you to go on about DCC all the time, but what about those of us with larger layouts? |
| In reply to my reply to Duncan Smith's reply to Ian Sprigwell's reply to Genghis Khan's reply to Paul Atkinson's reply to Colin Foster's enquiry, thinking about it there might well have been 5. |
| Dear Steve, I couldn't agree more with Mr Blunket. Electronic tagging and shipment to offshore detention-centres is too good for these rivet counters! |
| Dear Steve, it's all right for you to go on about DCC all the time, but what about those of us with medium sized layouts? |
| Dear Steve, I was saddened to see that Hornby have announced another little-known diesel in the latest catalogue. Tragic when you consider there are still serious gaps such as Bulleid's S21C19 in the product range. |
| Remember to keep your contribution goggle-eyed, glowing, naive and definitely not offensive to anyone who might conceivably be thinking of sending me any freebies. Rivet counters, whingers and diesel modellers are fair game, though, so get stuck in. Your contributions will be edited to minimise the risk of trauma to readers who still haven't got over the passing of clockwork. Care will be taken not to alter the views expressed but they remain those of the writer and are unlikely to be shared by anyone familiar with big trains. |
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