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Just another wagon?
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:35 pm
by Peter Butler
At this year's National Model Railway Exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham, an LGB wagon will have a special display because it has done something a little different.
This ordinary LGB wagon has been posted to garden railway operators all around the world and run on their railways. Each in turn has added their name and included extra mementos to commemorate the event.
So far it has travelled approximately 36,000 miles.
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 9:24 pm
by GeneralMarmoset
What a brilliant thing to have done.
A congratulations on getting it back in one piece is in order I recon!
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 10:14 pm
by MDLR
This sounds like a better effort than the Jack Wheldon Memorial Wagon, which started its tour in around 2008 - see
http://www.theoaks.ca/transferwagon2.html for the beginning of the saga!
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 12:06 am
by TonyW
Stacey Baker did a similar thing with Mini Stacey and Mini Al who travelled from the UK to Australia and back again, at least. After they vanished for a while I managed to find out who was holding on to them and they visited me. They then visited a few more people and vanished again, and nobody seems to know where they are now.
http://wfvr.webs.com/ministaceminialworldtour.htm
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 7:57 am
by ge_rik
Pleased to say the van made a trip on the Peckforton metals a couple of years ago
Rik
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:57 am
by tom_tom_go
I like the fact it has been signed by people all over the world.
Anyone noticed the LGB train on the Aldi crimbo ad?
https://youtu.be/k6qx7U_SuQE
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 12:57 pm
by Peter Butler
According to the list of sites visited (not specific) there were 46 railways or other venues in the UK and the only one listed for Cheshire was in 2011. I guess that was yours Rik?
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 1:31 pm
by GeneralMarmoset
tom_tom_go:114181 wrote:I like the fact it has been signed by people all over the world.
Anyone noticed the LGB train on the Aldi crimbo ad?
https://youtu.be/k6qx7U_SuQE
Am I right in thinking that they also superimposed it into that station shot with the ladies about half way through?
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 6:51 pm
by ge_rik
Peter Butler:114182 wrote:According to the list of sites visited (not specific) there were 46 railways or other venues in the UK and the only one listed for Cheshire was in 2011. I guess that was yours Rik?
Not sure. I'm almost certain it came here in 2013. In fact, I seem to recall I put the name of my railway and Feb 2013 above the sliding door but for some reason the date has become erased.
EDIT: Just found the photo on the GSC forum
Rik