Pegleg90 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Take my money! First RHTT, then hattons 66’s, now this! welcome back to the hobby! DRS packs ordered. Fantastic news now just to decide what to do with the kits I bought and part way through building some off. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 2 hours ago, 071 said: The wagon is diecast. Only way! Cheers, Fran Was wondering if that was the case. Good work 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter123 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Brilliant announcement again lads. Did the Cawood versions ever run with British Fuels in a mixed train or were they always block trains of a single company? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westie7 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 2 hours ago, 071 said: Dont worry, it isn’t on our roadmap yet! Cheers! Fran Ah, so there's a roadmap, nice. So far you've done well in the area of 2-axle Speedlink era wagons Rgds Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 (edited) 44 minutes ago, Winter123 said: Brilliant announcement again lads. Did the Cawood versions ever run with British Fuels in a mixed train or were they always block trains of a single company? I only ever saw trainload Cawoods, no mix, that would be late 1980’s early 1990’s. Usually with a 56 in Large logo, railfreight grey or Coal Sector. This was quite a long distance train, from the North East, down the ECML, across the pennines and onwards to Merseyside. ive ordered all 4 Cawoods sets,i’m guessing at approx 13-14cm a wagon that would give me an approx 6 coach length working. (fran can probably confirm wagon length). weather is easy, just rub them down in coal dust, leave some exposed to sunlight etc. Fyi, the interiors of these containers were white/cream.. why i cannot imagine. from memory, I recall late morning each way through Victoria, usually I’d see the loaded westbound first, and the Eastbound empty around an hour or so later, always raining in Manchester, different loco on each, but that could just be my memory. Other workings around this time of day could include 37’s on Peakstone/RMC (usually they parked up for a while at Exchange first), Double headed, and Double headed on Oil tanks (37/47) both heading East, and a 60 on the Binliner, which usually stunk rotten. Not forgetting you need as many class 104’s as you can find, and its similar class 110. outside that period / location I dont know. Edited March 23, 2019 by adb968008 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted March 23, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 24 minutes ago, Winter123 said: Brilliant announcement again lads. Did the Cawood versions ever run with British Fuels in a mixed train or were they always block trains of a single company? We've not seen evidence of it tbh, the British Fuels did run mixed with green CPL containers in later years. We may do them in the future, depending how this run does. Cheers! Fran 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted March 23, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Sails said: What year did British Gypsum start to use these? Hi there, Around the mid 1990s as Arran said, so lots of interesting traction on them too. Cheers! Fran Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter123 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Seen a picture of a mixed Cawood/British Fuel consist on Settle-Carlisle line in 1996 with a double headed Transrail 37. Can't show the picture as its copyrighted unfortunately but would agree with a comment earlier on about the possibility of offering the containers separately. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyboy Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold McC Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 5 minutes ago, tommyboy said: https://accurascale.co.uk/collections/pfa-2-axle-container-flat-wagon/products/pfa-british-fuels-coal-containers-f 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyboy Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 or this 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Hi Fran & team, Another fantastic wagon announcement. Did not see this one coming but great choice and once I’ve sold some more items I will be ordering the 3 DRS era packs. Nice to have even more variety for the DRS fleet to haul. All the best Mark 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyboy Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 These containers were used I believe to carry spares etc 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyboy Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 6D52 the Aberdeen to Mossend with a mix of Cawoods and British Fuels PFAs 7 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 Phew! I fear the day you announce something I can't resist (closest so far is the deltic) - then I really would need someone to hide my credit card! Please feel free to avoid ~1939 LNER stuff (not really - would love you to produce something suitable!). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
owentherail Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Been waiting for these wagons..... Cool 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, McC said: https://accurascale.co.uk/collections/pfa-2-axle-container-flat-wagon/products/pfa-british-fuels-coal-containers-f Note 804 on that picture hasnt got those white guides, where the container lug holes line up on the wagon. the arrangement of painted labelling is somewhat different too. where as others (Cawoods do), i assume theyve been shaved off at some point ? Edited March 23, 2019 by adb968008 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 Another stunning model from you guys, shame I have no need for them as they only seem to be in use with DRS in the North West now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Bendall Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, jools1959 said: Another stunning model from you guys, shame I have no need for them as they only seem to be in use with DRS in the North West now. PFAs run to Berkeley pretty much every week, also Dungeness occasionally and the very irregular Southminster workings. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
black and decker boy Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 IIRC, in the transition from Cawoods to BFL, many of the containers ran in worn yellow but with Cawoods painted out. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedlington North Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Excellent, excellent choice of model Accurascale, you've done it again. I'll have some of these, oh yes! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Simon Bendall said: PFAs run to Berkeley pretty much every week, also Dungeness occasionally and the very irregular Southminster workings. Cool, that’s good to know but as I model the Peterborough area, their a very rare beast as I think any in the South East or East Anglia regions would be routed through London to head back to the North West. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
25901 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Well just ordered the full DRS set, with picking up a full RHTT set tomorrow (which I'm only 50ft from the real thing) it looks like my card is in for a hard time with all these lovely offering. Glad nobodies doing any cranes,"Dam" they are lol 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 This is a superb choice of wagon from Fran and Team. I couldn’t resist and just ordered the 3 DRS packs as they suit my interests in the Cumbrian Coast workings. Top and Tail to Drigg and Workington Docks. A pair to sandwich a flask on the Highland Mainline working up to Georgemass and a couple will get scratch built containers to create further interesting workings. thanks Mark 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 Hmmm, another cracking announcement that will kill my credit card’ i used to help maintain the cawoods train at seaforth when I worked for my stepdad (c.c. crump) Doing VIBTs, buffer swaps etc but I’ll be going for a pack of DRS ones as my layout is up to date time wise 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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