Wickham Green Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Sorry, the word 'mirrored' was a little ambiguous : yes the songle brake shoes are mirrored but one push rod is above the cross shaft and the other below ( I suppose that's mirrored on a different axis ! ). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammy2305 Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Latest CAD from Oxford's Facebook page: 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nile Posted March 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2020 Looks good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Indeed .......................... ( Would look even better without those 'orrible things below the headstock - but I guess there'd be howls of protest if they only fitted three-links ! ) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2020 Well, I’ll be ‘avin one, in BR grey. I’s a nice van with a lot of character, and there’s nothing like it on the layout. It’s got a nice pregrouping ‘feel’ to it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted March 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2020 5 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Well, I’ll be ‘avin one, in BR grey. I’s a nice van with a lot of character, and there’s nothing like it on the layout. It’s got a nice pregrouping ‘feel’ to it. Agreed, so shall I. I'm tempted to a couple but more than one on a S&D or ex-LSWR layout will look a little improbable when they (as they inevitably will) end up coupled together in the same train. The overall appearance is not dissimilar to vans from a number of other railways, though, so there may also be some conversion potential on offer. John 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nile Posted March 14, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2020 On 13/03/2020 at 09:50, Wickham Green said: Would look even better without those 'orrible things below the headstock - but I guess there'd be howls of protest if they only fitted three-links ! Just as well they can be easily removed then. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2020 5 hours ago, Dunsignalling said: Agreed, so shall I. I'm tempted to a couple but more than one on a S&D or ex-LSWR layout will look a little improbable when they (as they inevitably will) end up coupled together in the same train. The overall appearance is not dissimilar to vans from a number of other railways, though, so there may also be some conversion potential on offer. John My thinking is that they'd be getting a bit thin on the ground by the early 50s (my layout is based on 1948-58) and it would be unlikely to find two of them in the same train, especially on a fairly small, but busy, BLT. Pool vehicles got everywhere very quickly after nationalisation and were pretty evenly spread across the network for a decade or so before that, so location doesn't really make much difference, Dorset or South Wales. I like variety, and general merchandise vehicles in the early 50s offer plenty of it, and a variety of liveries as well. My intention is to go for a BR liveried van, but a late LNER livery it quite feasible. I've several Oxford 7-plank minerals and am pleased with them, and if this is the beginning of Ox forays into the world of vans I applaud it and look forward to more! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 It has just dawned on me that it was a van of this type grounded to the south of Hatfield shed for stores, I think sometime late forties or early fifties, but that's TBD. Trying to work out the livery it may have been carrying. (I will also have a couple to run in the fast fitted trains at the start of my time span, they will be displaced by new BR vans as we move forward in time.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteremy Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 I recognise the 'half Noah' tendency mentioned in another thread. That is, I think that variety is a good thing in the BR steam era, 1948-to early 60s, and I am tempted to have one of everything, at least, everything that fits 'my' part of that era. As time goes on I am a bit more critical about the type of freight that is represented - but there is still scope to vary the wagons carrying that freight. So one of 'these' will be welcome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted March 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2020 I came across a picture of one seeming to be recently ex works and in normal traffic at Peterborough in 1958 (frontispiece of "Steam Memories: 1950s-1960s - East Coast Main Line: 2"). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2020 On 15/03/2020 at 11:20, 34theletterbetweenB&D said: It has just dawned on me that it was a van of this type grounded to the south of Hatfield shed for stores, I think sometime late forties or early fifties, but that's TBD. Trying to work out the livery it may have been carrying. (I will also have a couple to run in the fast fitted trains at the start of my time span, they will be displaced by new BR vans as we move forward in time.) But these are not fitted vans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Some of this design were built fitted and others were steam heated for banana traffic as well. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 10 hours ago, The Johnster said: But these are not fitted vans. Whether or not Oxford produce them in this state, I'll have a couple liveried for brake fitted as 'late survivors' of pre-group vans. Anything for variety. As I posted earlier, they will be displaced by BR vans as the layout operation 'moves forward' in time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted August 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2020 A bump for this thread. With the recent release of their oil tank in two liveries so far I have high hopes for this model now. Although we saw the CAD back in March we have had no info whether they've reached the tooling stage. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium it's-er Posted January 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2021 (edited) On their Facebook page, Oxford Rail have said that "the Great Eastern Goods Van has moved into tooling, with first engineering samples coming soon." I'm just passing this info on as an RMweb member interested in Oxford Rail's products. John Storey Edited January 17, 2021 by it's-er To correct a mistake. 2 1 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 18, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2021 I've a BR liveried one on pre-order, so thanks for this, John. Nice to know I've not been completley forgotten, and delay is forgiveable in the circumstances, but there is progress, and thus hope! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolk Dave Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Good to hear that some progress is taking place 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2021 Samples are expected after Chinese New Year. 3 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolk Dave Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 After 12th February then - excellent news! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Nice. Hopefully it will sell well, and thus prompt the release of more GER designs. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2021 It'll be a few months yet before they're in the shops, but this is reassuring progress. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 10 hours ago, The Johnster said: It'll be a few months yet before they're in the shops That's fine, I might even have the scenery mostly in place by then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted January 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2021 One can never have too many vans...... Rob 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 23 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: One can never have too many vans...... Rob Interesting I thought it was this 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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