Corridor Tenders
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Hi, I just thought that I would clarify a misunderstanding on one of our contributors, who suggested that I had got the tender front wrong on this A4 build. He said that the streamlined tenders were straight at the front and not curved in. Well in fact all the corridor tenders were curved in at the front not just the 1928 built and modified. The Corridor type tender fills out the loading gauge, so that any handrail on the outside would be out of gauge, so all the fronts had to be curved in to mount the handrail.
Only the streamlined NON corridor tenders were straight at the front as on Mallard as preserved. People may also note that ALL of the Bachmann 0 gauge NON corridor tenders are the wrong width as they are the same width as the corridor type and should be narrower. I found that an old Skinley drawing is responsible for this error and when I bought an A3 that had been built to these drawings with a wide non-corridor tender, I had to convert the tender, by adding the corridor details, see pic attached.
I hope that this clears things up, but sorry to all those with Bachmann 0 gauge A3's, who now should set about narrowing their non corridor and GN coal rail tenders!Thanks for the comment, it was useful I think to air the subject which is confusing, as Bachmann know to their cost!
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