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This weekend, on Saturday and Sunday (1st/2nd Feb), Mark Bellis will be displaying his 'scale' model trains built entirely from LEGO, at Staffordshire County Showground. I've posted previously about Mark's trains in the NBLTC discussion group (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Train Display in Staffordshire this weekend (1st/2nd Feb)
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(...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Train Display in Staffordshire this weekend (1st/2nd Feb)
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(...) Hey Jon-- is this some fancy way of saying that Mark is an 8 wider? :-) JOHN (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Train Display in Staffordshire this weekend (1st/2nd Feb)
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(...) And a camera - we've yet to see any pictures of these models. Will he be coming along to Duncan's get-together? Jason J Railton (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I haven`t got him on my list so if anyone is going let him know that he is welcome to attend. Duncan (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Train Display in Staffordshire this weekend (1st/2nd Feb)
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(...) Yes, 8 +, but it's more like a scale model railway than simply '8-wide'. We really need some pictures up on the NBLTC site. (working valve gear, synchronised secondary motors driving the 'fake' driving wheels, electronic wurlitzer (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Train Display in Staffordshire this weekend (1st/2nd Feb)
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(...) I'll bite. What's an electronic Wurlitzer(tm) controller? (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's used as a generic term to describe an electronic 'box of tricks' in this case. Mark works in the electronics field so he's ordered or made up a special controller. This is actually a necessity due to the extreme bulk of his models which (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Display in Staffordshire this weekend (1st/2nd Feb)
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(...) Tony Preistman has some photos of Mark's trains on his brickshlef gallery that I have not seen and have not been mentioned here. They are, as Jonathan says, amazing, as a UK train enthusiat the locos are instantly recognisable, quite a feat (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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