Gaugemaster Controls Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 OO Scale This is the evergreen PIKO Track Cleaning vehicle with a modern British twist. Fitted with NEM tension lock couplings, this vehicle is hauled around your layout and dust is collected by the track cleaning pads mounted underneath the wagon. This wagon is in no way prototypical but will be an essential part of keeping your track clean. A replacement cleaning pad can be purchased under reference GM4930101. Scale: OO Product Type: Wagon Continent: UK Country: British Operator: Network Rail Length over buffers:160mm Minimum Radius: 358mm Couplings:NEM Tension Lock Age recommendation:14 years and older GM4430101 Network Rail Track Cleaning Wagon Only £39.95 Available September 2019 N Scale Digital composite image This is the evergreen Minitrix Track Cleaning vehicle with a modern British twist. Fitted with UK compatible couplings, this vehicle is hauled around your layout and dust is collected by the track cleaning pads mounted underneath the wagon. This wagon is in no way prototypical but will be an essential part of keeping your track clean. Replacement cleaning pads can be purchased under reference GM2920101. Scale: N Product Type: Wagon Continent: UK Country: British Operator: Network Rail Couplings: NEM British N Age recommendation: 14 years and older GM2420101 Network Rail Track Cleaning Wagon Only £34.95 Available October 2019 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted July 5, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2019 Any plans to issue it in a livery thats more appropriate for the Steam or Early diesel periods? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted July 5, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2019 I'm thinking the N scale version in a 1980's livery would look the part, especially as it is similar in outline to the continental refrigerated van's that operated to and from Scotland for a time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 10 minutes ago, JohnR said: Any plans to issue it in a livery thats more appropriate for the Steam or Early diesel periods? Given that "This wagon is in no way prototypical" anyway, and its use is intermittent track maintenance, does it matter? You could always paint it to make it less 'prominent'. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted July 5, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2019 6 minutes ago, truffy said: Given that "This wagon is in no way prototypical" anyway, and its use is intermittent track maintenance, does it matter? You could always paint it to make it less 'prominent'. I can live with it not representing an exact prorotype, but being in lurid hi-vis yellow i draw the line at. One could equally ask why wasnt it in a neutral colour that modern image modellers could have painted yellow if they wished? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Phil Parker Posted July 5, 2019 Administrators Share Posted July 5, 2019 I suspect it doesn't matter what colour it's painted in, someone will complain they wanted a different one... 1 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 46 minutes ago, JohnR said: I can live with it not representing an exact prorotype, but being in lurid hi-vis yellow i draw the line at. One could equally ask why wasnt it in a neutral colour that modern image modellers could have painted yellow if they wished? is it any less prototypical than a dirty great big hand dragging a rubber down the tracks. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 I like the N gauge one, brings back memories of the rake of Ford ones my dad had on his railway when i was a kid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 It really just needs a giraffe TBH 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 (edited) 14 minutes ago, woodenhead said: I like the N gauge one, brings back memories of the rake of Ford ones my dad had on his railway when i was a kid. The PECO ones? They're still available. Used to see the real ones all the time. http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=PENR-P55&style=main&strType=&Mcode=Peco+NR-P55 http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=PENR-P57A&style=main&strType=&Mcode=Peco+NR-P57A Jason Edited July 5, 2019 by Steamport Southport Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: The PECO ones? They're still available. Used to see the real ones all the time. http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=PENR-P55&style=main&strType=&Mcode=Peco+NR-P55 http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=PENR-P57A&style=main&strType=&Mcode=Peco+NR-P57A Jason These 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Ah. I've never seen any like that before. Real or model. We used to take the dogs for a walk by the Ford Halewood plant years ago just to see what was about. Usually 25s and 47s, but sometimes you got something like a 40. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 (edited) Hey, you guys have seriously missed the point of this offering. It is a vehicle for cleaning the track. Although not prototypical, is it not down to Notwork Fail to maintain the track these days? Edited July 5, 2019 by JohnDMJ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 3 hours ago, JohnDMJ said: Hey, you guys have seriously missed the point of this offering. It is a vehicle for cleaning the track. Although not prototypical, is it not down to Notwork Fail to maintain the track these days? Too modern for me then. I'll just have to use a couple of Irish navvies with a potato. Jason 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Just a thought, and my ignorance, but that pad looks quite wide - agreed, good coverage. Are there any problems encountered going over points, junctions? Are they substantially heavier than 'a normal carriage / wagon'? Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted July 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2019 20 hours ago, JohnR said: Any plans to issue it in a livery thats more appropriate for the Steam or Early diesel periods? Since the vehicle in neither scale approximates to any UK vehicle of those eras, isn't this a bit pointless? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted July 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2019 22 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Since the vehicle in neither scale approximates to any UK vehicle of those eras, isn't this a bit pointless? No harm in making it more acceptable is there? After all, since it doesnt approximate anything Network Rail owns or operates, why paint it in those colours? At least Dapol didnt attempt that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, JohnR said: No harm in making it more acceptable is there? After all, since it doesnt approximate anything Network Rail owns or operates, why paint it in those colours? At least Dapol didnt attempt that. Didn't they? https://www.hattons.co.uk/84211/dapol_b800network_non_motorised_oo_track_cleaner_with_motorised_cleaning_heads_and_vacuum_in_netwo/stockdetail.aspx Jason Edited July 6, 2019 by Steamport Southport 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted July 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2019 50 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: Didn't they? https://www.hattons.co.uk/84211/dapol_b800network_non_motorised_oo_track_cleaner_with_motorised_cleaning_heads_and_vacuum_in_netwo/stockdetail.aspx Jason I stand corrected. But the original one was like this: https://www.hattons.co.uk/24836/dapol_b800_non_motorised_oo_track_cleaner_with_motorised_cleaning_heads_vacuum_in_blue/stockdetail.aspx I presume some people asked for it in NR livery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium steam-driven boy Posted July 7, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2019 Hi, In N for a bit of fun you can still dress-up your Tomix, courtesy of Adam Warr: https://www.electrarail.co.uk/tomix-n-gauge-track-cleaning-car-1817-p.asp usual disclaimer Regards, Gerry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Markwj Posted July 7, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 7, 2019 Are these track cleaning wagons effective ( I realise these are not out yet but similar Wagons have been produced before I believe)? thanks 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith J Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 I use the brass CMX one which is pretty effective - although much more expensive that the Gaugemaster offering. Again it doesn't resemble anything running in the UK and it's HO rather than OO but as it only comes out occasionally it doesn't matter to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 On 07/07/2019 at 14:20, Markwj said: Are these track cleaning wagons effective ( I realise these are not out yet but similar Wagons have been produced before I believe)? thanks I've never used one. But they have always seemed to sell and manufacturers have had them in their ranges for years. Even going back to the days of Triang, the advert below is from 1962.. I would guess where they are useful is the places that are out of reach. Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
classy52 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: I've never used one. But they have always seemed to sell and manufacturers have had them in their ranges for years. Even going back to the days of Triang, the advert below is from 1962.. I would guess where they are useful is the places that are out of reach. Jason Is that an almost used up toilet roll underneath the wagon???...just think you could clean your track and defecate at the same time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 It was felt I think. http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=278 Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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