Advent Day 17
And behind the long row of portholes is ...
Activate zoom ...
An Inter-City 125 in original 1970s British Rail livery!
Which means it is entirely possible that I had one of these that Christmas (as I definitely had this at some point):
Note that I didn't try to write 'Inter-City' or attempt the tricky BR logo - I had obviously learned from the Christmas cake debacle (if it was a Christmas cake). The Inter-City 125 (surely today they'd drop that hyphen and just have an intercapped 'InterCity') wasn't launched till 1976*, and Hornby didn't bring out their model till 1977 (see below), so that means that the earliest this advent calendar could date from would be 1977, though I'd kind of worked that out already from the standards of handwriting, cutting out and mention of orchestra parties.
My sister had a friend whose dad worked for British Rail, and I remember her cheerily informing me that the people standing by the railway line on the catalogue cover would be sucked into the air surrounding the speeding train and killed. Merry Christmas!
* They are still going strong today, despite the rest of the world having moved on from high speed diesels.
0 comments:
Post a Comment