Tuesday, 19th November, 2024.

Work on refitting the shop with a new counter is now complete. Looks Pretty good and a big improvement.

Advanced Tickets for The Manchester Christmas Model Railway Show  on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th of December 2024  are Now available to buy from our High Street Shop in Whitefield.

By a mile this is the best show in the North of England and held in 2 massive halls with the very best top quality layouts in all scales from every corner of the UK, along with a vast selection of top quality traders in New and pre owned goods, that includes us !

Prices are held the same as last year Adult on           Saturday are £11.50  with accompanied Children under 16 Free.

                                                                                   Sunday its just £10 per Adult with children Free again.

If you purchase these from our shop we need the name of the person they are for please.  If you want these posting out too you we can gladly do that as long as you pay the Postage.

If you are a New Visitor to our website Please Note We Only show items that are physically in stock right now and available to buy.

NEW STOCK

Plasser 12T Cranes by EFE Rail are imminent and expected very shortly – recommended to buy as soon as due to popularity!

Metcalfe Models have released Their re tooled 4mm Terraced house range

PO 300-307 with a full model . or half relief front or back and also a matching set of shops both in red brick or Stone.

Its Bachmanns turn Now with the arrival of a load of New releases in OO Gauge, Diesels, such as the Class 03 Drewery Sunter in BR Green and BR Blue, also with DCC Sound, The Newly re tooled Class 25s in Green and in BR Blue 25095/ 25057 / 25155 also Sound fitted if required.

Finally a Brand New release of the Brush Type 2 or Class 31 A-1-A in BR Blue or Railfreight redstripe and Trainload Freight Petroleum sectors again with Sound if needed, a super model to be honest . All variants are at the shop if you want to come and check them out.

Hornby last week with the arrival of the re tooled 45t TTa Fuel Oil Tankers  Triple packs in Total/ Shell BP and the very popular Black Shell with yellow and red stripe ideal for 1990s sectorisation movements, very well detailed at a hefty £109.50

More new stock arrived on Friday in the shape of the Newly re released Dapol OO scale Class 68  in DRS compass blue Poppy, in DRS NTS Green Powering Britain and also Chiltern Green Bio Fuel liveried models all look very smart. 

Latest arrival from Graham Farish this week is the BR Green version of 10000 and 10001 we have DC and DCC sound available in both models , a little beauty it is too.

ACCURASCALE CLASS 66s Now SOLD OUT  Sorry

Dapol OO Gauge Hawthorn -Leslie Industrial 0-4-0 tanks are due in today , these eagerley awaited little models are going to be hot so be quick, most examples including DCC fitted and Sound Fitted are still available as of today. Many are just in our shop and not listed on line to please ring for availability.

Our High Street Shop is 

CLOSED ON SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS

If you need to place an order on either of those days please ring my mobile phone  9am-6pm on 07590 413177

Shop Now Open as usual Tues-Sat 10am – 5.00 pm last entry or by prior arrangement.

WE ARE NOT TAKING IN ANY FURTHER REPAIRS NOW UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE UNLESS SPECIFICALLY PURCHASED FROM OURSELVES PREVIOUSLY .

Please take Note if reading this for the first time, most of our website stock is Not kept at our High street Shop due to the lack of storage space. Once its listed its stored at a secure location, so if you are visiting to view or possibly purchase any item please call ahead with a few hours notice so one of our staff can bring it to the shop for you. phone text or e-mail anytime

As with Every business just like the big supermarkets we have the right to amend prices without notice up or down depending on the market fluctuations and demand.

The prices you see on our website at the time of purchase are the prices you will pay.

Pre-Owned News.

The second hand market still seems very buoyant and we have stocks of Used items  here to suit every budget should you want anything.

The cheaper end of the stock we hold sells via the shop as the time it takes to list every item on our website  its just not possible or viable for us to list say a £4  wagon , but its just a phone call away if you want and cheap locos wagons, buildings, used track  etc which we can post out Monday-Friday.  Or even better pop in and have a rummage!

• Spend over £100 and get Royal Mail – 2nd Class signed for.
• Spend over £200 and get Royal Mail – 1st Class signed for.
• Spend over £500 and get Royal Mail – Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm.

eBay Updates – https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/thelocoshed

Don’t forget to take a look at our eBay shop/Auction site. We have some nice stuff on there at present.

Above all if you are having trouble navigating your way around the site or you need ask some questions about any of our products either live on the site or in our shop we are only too pleased to help via a phone call or e-mail

Thank You