Friday, July 12, 2019

Pound stretchers loco jacks

Does anyone remember GEM "Pound Stretchers"?

Packs of whitemetal details that cost, a pound. There were all sorts of things available and I coveted them for my model railway. Even in those days, these were just about within my financial reach.

Needless to say, I now pick these up whenever I see them. By the 1990s, the packs were well over £2 a go, but still very useful.

 I'm pretty sure that I've used the Pigeon baskets on Hellingly, you can see them in this crop of a Chris Nevard photo from a scary long time ago.

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