Hornby Announce Peckett W4 0-4-0ST

[johnd]

7 hours ago, Paul.Uni said:

Bear and Daphne are now stated as due Spring 2022 on the product pages.

Begining to be a delivery date that looks like a bit of fiction they've been that long in comming! 

[Paul.Uni]

Bear & Daphne are showing as in stock on the Hornby website.

[SRman]

Something a little different, but using the Hornby Peckett chassis with only the slightest of modifications. One other mod I did to all of my Pecketts (I have three others from the earliest run) is to use a better decoder than the Hornby 4-pin one recommended. I have used TCS M1 decoders in all four chassis, although the mini decoders from the likes of ESU would probably be better still, but I utilise the 4-pin blanking connector to fit the decoders. Unfortunately for this latest installation, the body doesn't allow room for the decoder at the front of the chassis (where my photo shows it), so I had to move it around to the side, where it is a very tight fit and causes a  very slight bulge in the sides of the tanks.

Anyway, introducing my new Manning Wardle H 0-4-0ST, using a Hardy's Hobbies 3D printed body on the Hornby W4 chassis. This is a work in progress but is very nearly finished now, needing a whistle and some final painting and some name and number plates for my fictitious industrial fleet.
 

 

 

 

[PhilJ W]

I see Dapol are jumping on the small shunter bandwagon with a Hawthorn Leslie 0-4-0ST. With a RRP of £117 and Rails of Sheffield offering them on pre-orders at less than £100. 

[PaulRhB]

My two Daphne’s arrived and renamed. 
 

 

Ready for the Badger Brewery  

 

and a wicked third . . .

 

Edited April 2, 2022 by PaulRhB

[Ruston]

Hornby should have made up their mind what stage in the life of "Bear" they were supposed to be representing. They've given it Barclay safety valves but none of the other features that it gained at rebuild. It ought to have thinner (steel) buffer beams, with Barclay buffers and a single slide bar for each cylinder.

 

I don't know if it's poor research or someone higher up the chain of command who just wants to put out pretty liveries to sell more units, regardless of accuracy. "Detail, detail, detail", My backside!

[Ruston]

My latest Peckett chop is based on a prototype that was built for Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. for use at their South Bank steel works in Middlesborough.

 

It's all Hornby, except for the block buffers and larger heads on the existing buffers. The chimney has been radically chopped and put back together again and the dome cover has been lowered. The safety valves are still in there too.

[Ruston]

My name is Dave and I am a Peckett addict.

[Compound2632]

I have a batch of old MRNs I inherited - 1968-71, not a complete run. There's an article on building a small industrial locomotive, entitled "Wardlitis, or Manning's disease". What you have here is evidently something similar.

[Steamport Southport]

Peckett's Disease does sound pretty nasty though.

 

Pretty sure I had that at one point near the Equator.....

 

 

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Edited December 19, 2022 by Steamport Southport

[NHY 581]

My name is Rob and I also have 7 W4s............

[Trevor Hammond]

No pecketts but 8 W1s. 

[PhilJ W]

I have five six Rustons.

[Ruston]

3 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

My name is Rob and I also have 7 W4s............

I'll see your 7 and raise you 5. I have some that aren't weathered/in one piece/finished and so aren't worthy of being in the photo. 😬

 

Pecketts? I don't know what all the fuss is about. I can handle it.

OK, so I bought some Pecketts. I could stop. If I wanted to.

There's no way I'm an addict. I just like Pecketts.

Look, I've got this thing under control. I just need one more W4.

I could give up tomorrow. Couldn't I?

 

Everyone thinks they can control their Peckett collection - until it starts to control them.

 

[Ian J.]

I must be ill. I only have two Pecketts (an 0-4-0ST and an 0-6-0ST)

 

However, I and my small shunting fleet seem to have caught a Dock Authority livery virus...

[adb968008]

I only own 4 pecketts,

 

but Ive got 9 chassis….

 

1 is under a diesel D27xx, 1 is spare and the other three are Kit RSH bodies representing Agecroft no1, no2 and no3.