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My OO scale "County" collection - Part 4

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2753 Cheshire

 

This is my second attempt at representing Cheshire in my collection, the first was a re-named Hornby Hawksworth 4-6-0 called County of Chester. I had four locos from that class but wanted some variety, so the GWR version was disposed of and the LNER version bought instead.

 

Cheshire worked in Scotland, at least from 1948, according to www.brdatabase.info

I wanted to own a small collection of pre-WW2 LNER locos in Scotland based around an ex-NBR Glen 4-4-0 (yet to be procured) and a GNR/LNER N2 0-6-2T, examples of which worked north of the border.

 

Some D49 "Shires" were coupled to LNER standard tenders pre-WW2, e.g. 2760 Westmorland, photographed at Glasgow Queen Street, in David Jenkinson's book "The big four in colour, 1935-50" (Pendragon, 1994, reprinted 1999)

 

I've yet to decide whether to source a Hornby Railroad D49 with loco-drive for a body-chassis swap. Otherwise I'm happy with the loco and may yet swap the large tension locks for something smaller to allow easier coupling to my Gresley teak carriages.

 

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The Railroad loco. driven D49 is light years better than the old tender drive version. Very smooth running and excellent performance with the tender pick-ups. Body swap no problem. I would suggest replacing the plates with an etched set though!

Cheers,

Peter C,

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Chassis replacement and etched name fitment will be on my "to do" list. It's just that their Railroad version sold out quickly at most retailers.

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After a long time, I got hold of a Railroad R3062 D49 (not the version currently being offered as a concession exclusive).

 

The chassis has now been swapped over with the Margate bodies.

However on the loco body, I had to cut away some of the boiler underside to accommodate the motor suppressors.

Also I enlarged the main fixing screw hole on the diecast chassis to fit the original Margate screw because its size is different from that of the Chinese version.

 

I've still to buy a pair of etched plates, but the loco runs much better compared with the original Margate tender drive.

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