Another find for the Hornby Collectors Club series - R191 Coaling stage.
As a kid, I actually built this kit. It probably cost a bit less than I paid for the second-hand, but looking complete, version. I doubt I worried too much about the prototype accuracy, just being glad to build a plastic kit for my train set.
Let's be honest, this looks nothing like a UK coaling stage. The little crane (quite a nice set of mouldings) and timber framed brick base says Tyrolean to me, but then I'm no student of German architecture. The smoke deflectors poking into the side of the photo give the game away a bit too.
Does this matter? Well, for my purposes, no. What I'm doing is transporting readers back to a time when Hornby fobbed customers off with random German kits that didn't have any basis in Blighty. Not that this would have worried young Phil much.
2 comments:
That kit is a "Pola 561 H0 Coal Bunker with Crane" so yes a repurposed German kit.
You got a good price as the ebayers want £40 plus p&p for the original Pola kit currently.
George
George - Brilliant. Thank you so much for the spot.
It now appears in the Faller range too: https://www.faller.de/en/miniature-worlds/trains-and-railways/goods-sheds-loading/211/coaling-station
A good deal cheaper than on eBay!
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