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London Transport OO - EFE Northern Line etc..


Bill

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With the imminent arrival of Sherlock Holmes, it is time, once again, to dig out the London Transport Underground stock and give it a whirl.

Having put together the four car Northern line set - powered by two Tenshodo motors courtesy of Metro-Models.

John did the conversion on a Bakerloo non-driving power car in London and sent it over the pond.

All that then had to be done was to replace the body with the Northern Line version already here.

So I now have a spare Bakerloo Line non-driving power car...

I now wish I had bought the Bakerloo Line set, as it can run alongside any Metropolitan Line stock..

Ah well - I suppose it might be possible to convert it?

Did the Bakerloo submarine service ever run with grey rooves?

 

Now in running the Northern Line train it ran like a pig as I had not replaced the wheelsets.

It was fair jumping around!

The EFE wheels are for show only - they are for all intents and purposes 'square'.

The profile is off, they are not cast true, and some are not even set true on the axles..

 

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So it is amazing they can run at all without derailing - especially over a code 100 short Peco point - followed by a code 83 Tillig crossover followed by another point in quick succession... well they did.

Anyway the decision, a real no-brainer, was made to re-wheel.

Fortunately I had enough spare Bachmann USA H0 36" wheelsets (ordered by mistake..) which were an exact match.

All that needed to be done was to use the Xurons to remove the pin-points.

(The pin-points flew off in all directions during this operation but have yet to find any of them!)

A little filing to smooth the result..

And to cut away the excess insulation on the inner face of the insulated wheel.

They then plopped in quite easily..

The re-wheeled cars now run as sweetly as any modern Hornby RTR coaches..

 

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When Sherlock Holmes arrives the proposal is to run it with four Hornby Gresley suburbans in tow...

I have no dreadnoughts - and until some kind person makes some RTR the Gresleys are the best fit I have so far found

Especially when compared with Mk1s... :)

 

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Unless I decide to dive in the deep end and find an inexpensive Dreadnought kit(s) to assemble.

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Nice to see LT trains running. Those Gresleys really don't look out of place at all.

I did something similar for my EFE '38 stock, with Steam Era wheelsets from here in Australia. As per your description, I also removed the pinpoints from the axles. They do run better but there is still a lot of friction from the 'U' shaped axle bearings on the EFE bogies.

I now have some Metromodels pinpoint bogies to fit, so had to buy more wheelsets (again from Steam Era Models) but this time, retaining the pinpoint axles! I have yet to actually fit these bogies but they do promise to improve the running and will allow me to run the four car set with only one Black Beetle motor bogie.

Cheers,

 

Jeff.

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Can you tell me which coaches the London Transport Metropolitan BoBo should be pulling ? Were they used on freight trains too ?

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