Industrial Railway Workshop

I'm certain Arthur Negus wouldn't be able to value that with any real commitment!

 

I'm certain Arthur Negus wouldn't be able to value that with any real commitment!

Well, he's a bit out of touch with the market, what with having run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.

ex Stephen Poole kit for the Y5 , dates from the early 1970s. I presume the motor is an X04. Nu-Cast took them over in about 1975

 

I have one in the cupboard to do at some point, when I actually learn to build a chassis  - but it will have a modern motor and modern wheels . Mine cost a tenner at Leytonstone show about 10 years ago. Presumably if the motor was replaced with something decent you might be cooking with gas?

Don't think the motor is an X04, looks more like a K's job. Welcome to the 1970's!

 

John.

Yes, K's motor, I think too.

 

Why not have a go with it Dave, and give it the best upgrade you can? I'm sure you would turn it into a fine model.

Stop being a wuss and just finish it. These were state of the art when they first were released by Stephen Poole. Compare it with the RTF offerings of the day..Triang Connie/Nellie

As Barry O says. An opportunity to create a silk purse out of a sow's ear - I'm sure there were modellers managing to do that back in the day!

I'm sure there were but they didn't have an alternative. I considered converting it to the industrial version but then again the amount of time and effort to bring it up to scratch isn't worth it when High Level do a proper job in etched brass.

 

That ogee-shaped tank could come in useful as part of a scratchbuild for either an early Barclay, or a Yorkshire, and the smokebox casting is quite interesting. I have plans for that as the front of a grounded ex-locomotive boiler that would be powering a pugmill at a brickworks.

Those Stephen Poole wheels (also available separately) came with longer axles, to suit S gauge.

Regardless of that, the aluminium tyres were a disaster regardless of how far apart they were set...

That thing has come out with hardly any rivets!

 

Just as well Miss Prism isn't here, her flabber would be so gasted that she'd faint.

Actually, the whole thing could be a waste of possibly a decent wheel set.

Actually, the whole thing could be a waste of possibly a decent wheel set.

I'm told by someone older and wiser than I that they are most definitely not decent wheelsets. They do look good but, apparently, aluminium wheels were about as much use as a chocolate teapot. They would spark, arc and gather more crud than anything.

The HL version really is a lovely thing though. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/90024-the-mill/?p=1693187 and http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/107704-high-level-question/?p=2198565

Older maybe - but not necessarily wiser, young man....................................

You were wise enough not to take in in part-ex for the Bagnall book!  ;-)