Thursday, October 19, 2023

Memories of the Yellow Pages in "The Collector"

R421
Time for another retro build in the Hornby Collectors Club in house magazine. Inspired by this advert: 

 I've built the R421 signal box!

Pedants will note that in the advert, this is the R186, but that's actually the BR Black J52. My model is a 1980s kit, but you can still buy it from Gaugemaster. 

At the end of the advert, little Ben presents the box to his dad, played by Colin Bennett, who played Mr Bennett in the BBC kids show Take Hart. I always thought it was a shame that Ben couldn't be bothered to wrap the present up, just leaving it in a bag. Also, dad's model railway was pretty comprehensive, how come he didn't already have a signal box?

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