Bluebird Thomas Miniature Railway Set

The brown buffers for the track ends..............

There appear to be brown buffers at the track ends in your pictures?

Well spotted, I went back and checked after I'd written that, I don't know why I thought they were missing lol

So it's really only the hook/string for the big crane and the character missing darn it

ah, thats a shame. the fat controller is almost always gone from these sets. i did wonder a while back if one from the plarail capsule range would fit, but likely be too big.

at least having this one mostly complete means if you find one with the controller but missing parts, you can make one good one.

That's the plan Sun, getting a box (even if a bit tired) seems to be the big challenge from what I've seen on the current listings