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1 hour ago, Keith J said:

Apparently this level of detail is set to become bog standard in the future.

 

And, no doubt, will be met with a round of thunderous applause.

 

 

 

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I think the blue GT3 should be numbered GT4.

That way you could run two and keep the history books clean.

Roco have recently released a loco in a fictitious livery and given it an in depth fictitious history in their catalogue and advertising. 

A few years down the line, and history could get corrupted.

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4 hours ago, SGP said:

I think the blue GT3 should be numbered GT4.

That way you could run two and keep the history books clean.

Roco have recently released a loco in a fictitious livery and given it an in depth fictitious history in their catalogue and advertising. 

A few years down the line, and history could get corrupted.

Don't think that would be possible without excess expense retooling the cabside as the number plate on the cab side looks to be moulded onto the valence/cab component. 

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Has anyone who has their GT3, tried changing the tender buffers for round ones yet? 

An quick and easy fix is to punch out two plasticard discs with a paper punch and stick them onto the oval buffers.

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As the loco was never officially a BR loco and only ran test trains I’d be highly surprised if the loco ever ran with less than two crew in the cab.

 

I believe that it may have been set up for single man operation, but again, considering union opposition to single manning at the time, it’s unlikely it hauled any trains that way. Perhaps yard moves etc. but that would be about all

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Can anyone confirm if GT3 ran with a one man or two man crew. I assume that a two man crew (driver and secondman) was more likely in the early 1960s.

The single manning agreement for loco hauled turns didn't get passed until 1966.

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1 hour ago, Edge said:

As the loco was never officially a BR loco and only ran test trains I’d be highly surprised if the loco ever ran with less than two crew in the cab.

 

I believe that it may have been set up for single man operation, but again, considering union opposition to single manning at the time, it’s unlikely it hauled any trains that way. Perhaps yard moves etc. but that would be about all

As it was only ever run on test trains it probably had a minimum of three people in the cab and most likely four (Driver, Secondman, Traction Inspector, and at least on EE rep/technician. 

 

Technically, apart from tending the boiler, it could have been single manned on some train working turns as the Manning Agreements stood at that time but inevitably there would have been debate in respect of sight lines when carrying out such movements as attaching to trains or moving around yards which under the 1957 Manning Agreement would have seen a a dscussion at the Manning Committee about double manning when doing such things and adding in the boiler (albeit not required during the summer of course) it would probably have been worked by double manned turns for convenience in covering the awkward parts if it had ever entered traffic on BR.  This was  not an unusual situation where only a small part of a turn needed double manning but it was more convenient and reliable to diagram it for the whole turn.

 

PS The 1965 Manning Agreement extended single manning of locomotives to partially Fitted and Loose Coupled freight trains (subject to various restrictions and limitations).  It also increased, from the 1957 Agreement, the aggregate driving mileage permitted in a single manned turn working diesel or electric locomotives on passenger trains.

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2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

As it was only ever run on test trains it probably had a minimum of three people in the cab and most likely four (Driver, Secondman, Traction Inspector, and at least on EE rep/technician. 

Maybe that explains the bog... drivers seat, secondmans seat, and a Toilet seat needed for the only technical guy who really knew what kind of an explosion a gas turbine could produce at random...

 

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5 hours ago, locoman462 said:

Can anyone confirm if GT3 ran with a one man or two man crew. I assume that a two man crew (driver and secondman) was more likely in the early 1960s.

 

Can’t imagine Aslef would ever have allowed less than two crew then.

 

if Buckton was involved he would probably have insisted on six

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15 hours ago, D9001 said:

Can’t imagine Aslef would ever have allowed less than two crew then.

 

if Buckton was involved he would probably have insisted on six

Buckton was a full time union official (probably an Area Organiser?) at that time and didn't become Assistant General Secretary (to A.E Griffiths) until 1963).   However personalities would have been irrelevant - what counted was what was in the 1957 Manning Agreement and any decisions made by the Manning Committee if the loco was ever discussed there (which I doubt as it never entered traffic and only ever worked test trains).

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Just had a play at lunch time and notice the Footplate on booth sides has buckled due to fit?

 

any one have similar of try a fix, I dont fancy trying to get a bead of Superglue under that, one slip and the finish will be ruined

 

other wise runs and sounds very nice!

 

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1 hour ago, Georgeconna said:

Just had a play at lunch time and notice the Footplate on booth sides has buckled due to fit?

 

any one have similar of try a fix, I dont fancy trying to get a bead of Superglue under that, one slip and the finish will be ruined

 

other wise runs and sounds very nice!

 

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Yes, I had this on mine too. Superglue is a no no, you'll ruin it, as you say. I used small dabs of Glue'n'Glaze, which is a PVA type glue. This will stick it, but not ruin anything if it ends up in the wrong place!

 

Also, if you press the bump, it might appear elsewhere, if you see what I mean. So, like I had to do, you may have to loosen the chequer plate towards the front and re-flatten it having applied glue. If you can get a weight on it to keep it flat whilst drying, it will help. I used a spare flat weight out of a carriage. 

 

Hope that helps. Enjoy.

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