Royal Renumbering

If you'd wondered about the lack of posts in the last fortnight I hope you assumed (correctly) that I was on a summer holiday - rather than having another hissy fit and ceasing blogging.While I was away there some bits and pieces being done which I can update you on.One of those was putting the finishing touches to our new tow-around Princess.This Hornby antique, now without a motor in its tender or any driving wheel pick ups, has undergone an identity downgrade from next-in-line to the throne to 'the spare'.What was once 6201 Princess Elizabeth is now the slightly scandalous youngster sister 6203 Princess Margaret Rose.Some etched brass nameplates are the only other investment we've needed to make for this cheap layout novelty - other than finding the old model on eBay.The renumbering was easy enough to accomplish because we have a stack of sheets of LMS presfix transfers because they were the best source of the large number 3's which the FR decorated its carriage doors with from the…