So …. I couldn’t resist this one.
I have no date for the 12 picture postcards that made up the series, but given that one of them was for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway which was formed in 1924, we must be sometime in the 1920s, through to the nationalization of the railways in 1948.
So far only six of the original twelve have turned up, but they include examples of railway locomotives from the LMS, the Great Western, The London & North Eastern Railway and the Southern Railway.
Each carries the flat layout on one side and instructions on the reverse for making the model.
Of the six I have chosen only two of which the first is an LMS loco and the second a Southern Railway.
And the logic behind the choice is simple, dad always had a sneaking admiration for the LMS, although given he was from the north east I would have thought that he might have settled on the LNER. card.
But his parents were Scottish and had only crossed the border at the turn of the last century, so I see where his sympathies may have laid.
So, having opted for the LMS. card, I then fell on the Southern Railway loco, simply because I grew up in south east London which had been served by the S.R which became the Southern Region of British Railways.
But when it came to it, I couldn't ignore the GWR or the LNER and threw those into , with, and here I accept I am being nerdy, two more from the LMS which because one ran on the London & North Western Section, and the other the Caledonian section, they carried a different livery.
And that is it.
For those who have forgotten a present, it should be possible to download the image, enlarge and print.
Merry Christmas
Pictures; Model Railway Engines, marketed by Tuck and Sons, circa 1924, courtesy of Tuck DB, https://tuckdbpostcards.org/
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