sandwich station Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 To which we may add the six wheel bogie 'Trestrol' a very neat model based on the LNER's Trestrol C design of 1938. Are there any pics of the real thing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I have just one available pic of the Trestrol C, in 'LNER Wagons, 4B' on p266. Worth a trawl of Paul Bartlett's site; although this SCV was a real rarity, to which my 'build 2 accurate from 3' is an allusion. What I failed to mention is that while underlength for the Trestrol C, this vehicle is very close on length to the clearly related Weltrol P design of 1937 (p282 of same book): a 400% more numerous vehicle. So there we are, better match lengthwise to one SCV design, but with constructional features that clearly relate to another longer SCV design. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 A recently completed improvement on the bogie brick wagon. Bogies are Cambrian, everything else was from the bits box. I have not repaired the slight damage to the brake lever mechanism [it would probably only snap off even with light handling]. The brick insert is original Triang and the wagon awaits weathering. Tony 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyman7 Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 A recently completed improvement on the bogie brick wagon. Bogies are Cambrian, everything else was from the bits box. I have not repaired the slight damage to the brake lever mechanism [it would probably only snap off even with light handling]. The brick insert is original Triang and the wagon awaits weathering. Tony A stunning transformation! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Thanks for that. It was really an extremely straightforward job though. The most difficult part - quite honestly - was applying the running number in a straight line! Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Thanks for that. It was really an extremely straightforward job though. The most difficult part - quite honestly - was applying the running number in a straight line! Tony It just shows how good some of the Triang moulds were and with a little work look good! Mark Saunders 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusDe Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Back in 1965/6, when I was 6/7 years old, my dad was sent out to look for me as I hadn't come back from school.... ...dad found me, face glued to the toy shop window, marvelling at the bright red bogie brick wagon newly displayed in the window. Dad was so taken aback by my devotion to this wagon, he bought it for me. It was my pride and joy on my"Nellie" train set. Bit OT, but the wagon still fascinates! Angus 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Back in 1965/6, when I was 6/7 years old, my dad was sent out to look for me as I hadn't come back from school.... ...dad found me, face glued to the toy shop window, marvelling at the bright red bogie brick wagon newly displayed in the window. Dad was so taken aback by my devotion to this wagon, he bought it for me. It was my pride and joy on my"Nellie" train set. Bit OT, but the wagon still fascinates! Angus Was it the London Brick version Angus? Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusDe Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Was it the London Brick version Angus? Tony Yep! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwich station Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 marvelling at the bright red bogie brick wagon newly displayed in the window. Angus Was it the London Brick version Angus? Tony Yep! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Fleece 30 Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 (edited) The first time I remember seeing the brick wagon was in the 3F tender loco set which in those days were sold in Currys alongside irons, TV's etc. My mother could not afford that set so I ended up with the Jinty one. The brick wagon was brown though not red. In those days Currys also sold individual items of both Tri-ang and Hornby Dublo as did the Boyes department stores in York. Garry Edited October 29, 2017 by Golden Fleece 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Prometheus Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 (edited) IMG_8838.JPG I had not realised that there were two versions of this London Brick wagon [ie. red and black underframe].... Tony Edited November 5, 2017 by Prometheus 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 One is a 'cheapo' version for starter sets I believe. AFAIK they were never branded 'LONDON BRICK' being company wagons and not private owner. Depending on era, one can choose between between GNR, large and small NE and BR(E). The RETURN TO DEPOT branding is nonsense and should be RETURN TO (or EMPTY TO) FLETTON. IIRC there was a Lima version based on an H0 50 foot U.S. gondola. We'll draw a discrete veil.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwich station Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I had not realised that there were two versions of this London Brick wagon [ie. red and black underframe].... One is a 'cheapo' version for starter sets I believe. I hadn't either, having buffers and being heat printed I thought it was a standard wagon. The starter set one I have has no heat printing, paint or buffers but II Grifone is right, it is for or from a stater set. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I hadn't realised they had stuck a panel on the side for the branding.Extra hassle scoring the planking back in. it's bad enough removing the heat printed lettering. I must check mine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 The bottom of the range indeed lacked buffers, which saves the effort of removing them. They are Tri-ang's generic (It's a buffer, Jim, but not as we know it) horror, so 'collector's only'. (They sell quite well on eBay!) Checking mine (or at least 2 of them - one has 'gone walkabout' ) there are no raised panels. One (bought back in the day - it has the brick load) has had the brake cross bars added (but not the link to the vacuum cylinder as yet) and has received a coat of bauxite paint and Ratio diamond frame bogies. The other still has Tri-ang's lettering 'BRICK', '50T/E451004' and 'RETURN TO DEPOT' (in the wrong place). There are also non common user 'N's in the corners, which AFAIK are only appropriate for LNER livery (possibly GNR? - they were introduced around the time of the grouping). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwich station Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 (edited) there are no raised panels. It's not a raised panel, it's just where the planking hasn't been carried right through. I have quite a few of these wagons including the ones with brick loads and all of them have that flat panel bit. Looks like it was for where the word brick was heat printed. If you look at the pic I posted of the boxed one, you'll see it's there. Edited November 11, 2017 by sandwich station Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 To which we may add the six wheel bogie 'Trestrol' a very neat model based on the LNER's Trestrol C design of 1938. (As a teen I thought this some kind of US design, as it figured heavily in their Battlesplat! range alongside many of the other Lionel sourced designs.) But as better information has become available I now know that it is based on a UK vehicle, and for all it is roughly 10% underlength it remains comfortably the largest specially constructed vehicle model ever available in OO RTR. (A cut and paste job can produce two scale length vehicles from three, and since the general proportions of the very sharp mouldings are correct, this is well worthwhile.) The Tri-ang six-wheeled bogies are also under-length - I had to cut-and-shut those for my TRESTROL 'stretch'. Regards, John Isherwood. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 I've got a TRESTROL on my 'to do' list too.... So many trains, so little time.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 A sidewyas view showing the Kenline LNER buffers fitted to mine, along with Kadees. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 And a sideways view. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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