Dapol Announce O Gauge Bogie Bolster E

[MGR Hooper!]

Dapol at Telford announced an O gauge Bogie Bolster E.

Just started a thread solely for the discussion of this wagon.

Edited September 3, 2018 by MGR Hooper!

[Paul.Uni]

Dapol gave also announced a OO gauge version as well. https://digest.Dapol.co.uk/forum/main-forum/freight-stock/bogie-bolster-e-oo-gauge/7869-announcing-the-bogie-bolster-e-in-oo-gauge

[Great Western]

Hopefully it'll develop into a BDA type vehicle in time.

[hmrspaul]

Hopefully it'll develop into a BDA type vehicle in time.

The BBE is only 32ft long. It is a juvenile bogie bolster, so useful for railway models, but it cannot grow!  The BBE was used for multiple coil conversions, rail carriers and other uses before most of them became Turbots from 1982.

 

Introduced in 1961 the article:

 

Silsbury, Roger & Mann, Trevor., (1983) The 30 ton Bogie Bolster E. Model Railway Constructor vol. 50 (part 587) pp 165 - 169.

Drawings - Bogie bolster E diag. 1/479; Uncoded Coil rebuild ; Bogie coil P ; Bogie coil P with ex BEV bolsters .​

gives an overview of their brief lives, as most were soon to be TURBOT.

From the link, with my photo links added:

 

Initially we shall be releasing the following versions:

7F-061-001 923358 Bauxite BEV https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brbbe/e6c7b7cc5

7F-061-002 923444 Bauxite YNV

7F-061-003 923528 Bauxite YRV (S&T) https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brbbe/e650f5fda

7F-061-004 923791 Bauxite YNV https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brbbe/e6aa0b424

7F-061-005 923962 Bauxite YRV (S&T) https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brbbe/e6fffadb1

7F-061-006 924327 Bauxite BEV https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brbbe/e6e99c0da

 

 

BR Bogie Bolster E and engineers conversions BEV YNV YRV YVV

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brbbe

 

BR Bogie Boster E as Coil carrying wagons JPV BEV JSV Coil U YNV YRV

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brcoilpjpv

 

Paul

[hmrspaul]

This is now available. Lots of information on the prototype on the associated topic about the 4mm version. 

 

 

I have received a couple of examples as a "thank you" from Dapol.

I am impressed. The finish is excellent (I'll take some credit for that as I spent a weekend when many of you were at Telford going over the artwork and correcting the minor mistakes on all 6 of the wagons). This extends to some of the alterations on these wagons after a few years of use and the number plate is fully readable and has the correct building details. All of the bolsters are, correctly, moveable and each bolster has 3 positions for the stanchions. The stanchions themselves have a very fine loop for chaining which is fully moveable. The 7 per side round chain loops on the solebar are also able to lift up as individual items. Underneath is well modelled as a metal casting giving weight with the twin vacuum cylinders with suitable linkages and a vacuum pipe running the length of the wagon. I haven't measured across the bogies but do accept they may be narrow, although they are finely moulded versions of the Ridemaster. The ends have the fall down vacuum pipe, an instanter coupling (correct) and the large headed Oleo buffers which are sprung.

The large buffer head is a key to the use of these wagons. As mentioned on the 4mm topic early traffic was for 32ft bar from South Wales. It has been mentioned that the works couldn't even take a Bogie bolster C without damage so severe were the curves so this was a replacement of the GWR Macaw G and H (Bogie Bolster A) which were only slightly longer at 35ft over headstocks. The BBE is only the same length as the longest of BR Tubes, and shorter than some 4 wheel parcels stock.

 

 

 

 

 

Cambridge Custom Transfers have packs for these Sheet BL57 - BR diagram 1/479 BOGIE BOLSTER E wagons; (as-built lettering style). Transfers for 10 wagons. https://www.cctrans.org.uk/products.htm

A brief history of these wagons was published as Silsbury, Roger & Mann, Trevor., (1983a) The 30 ton Bogie Bolster E. Model Railway Constructor vol. 50 (part 587) pp 165 - 169. and in Bartlett et al 1985. Both include a drawing of the wagon, the MRC article also includes several conversions to Coils.

Paul Bartlett

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brbbe

[neal]

Nice