johnd Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Email from hattons to say class 40 (blue version) due feb/ march despite Bachmann site recently being amended to say otherwise! Time will tell! Mark Doesn't the Bachmann web site site give Feb/March as expected dates ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reevesthecat Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Doesn't the Bachmann web site site give Feb/March as expected dates ? No the blue one is listed as July/ August at the moment! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveb860 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 All will be answered when they arrive!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 All will be answered when they arrive!! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyman7 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) I posted this earlier in the thread, but remember that 32-475DC Split Headcode blue 40 was actually announced in 2007. OK since then they decided to retool etc etc but I think after 6 years another six months is neither here nor there! PS back then I preordered from my local retailer but given that since then the owner has retired and passed the business on I suspect the 2007 price won't be honoured Edited January 19, 2013 by andyman7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 D372 - Into service 03/01/1962 - Longsight D380 - Into service 05/03/1962 - Camden 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 D372 - Into service 03/01/1962 - Longsight D380 - Into service 05/03/1962 - Camden Bill Thanks for those dates. Ties the date of the phots down fairly well to March/April 1962 by the (ex-works) condition of the locos. BTW is there an accessable source of the intro dates of the EE 4s (class 40s) ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted January 19, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Bill BTW is there an accessable source of the intro dates of the EE 4s (class 40s) ? If you want to track individual locos then the class 40 mother list is a cracking resource:http://www.class40motherlist.com/index.html You'll have to hunt a bit but one of the best on line. Neil Edited January 19, 2013 by Downendian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) that site is brilliant Neil, thank you. heres a nice shot, sadly no date on this shot of d369. D369 at Lichfield Trent Valley by Tutenkhamun Sleeping, on Flickr Edited January 19, 2013 by Michael Delamar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) well im happy, flicking through the site Neil linked to,I found a record of centre headcode D369 working into Liverpool exchange from Glasgow central in september 1963, just my period. 1S76 was the headcode for that train so thats what ill have on mine when Bachmann bring out D369. Im assuming it would have had small yellow panel at this date. also split headcode D326 a month earlier on 1M27 Liverpool exchange - Glasgow, first record ive seen of a split headcode version on this route and hopefully Bachmann may do this loco in the future as its preserved on the east lancs. along with lots of other early front versions on this working, ill get some of those in the future, when they do them with small yellow panel. but for now im looking forward to D369. interesting that the site gives details of a locos working in to or out of Liverpool exchange, but no return workings noted so there is a lot more than is noted. as im sure is obvious as not everything is recorded. but it gives a good snapshot. Edited January 19, 2013 by Michael Delamar 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 If you want to track individual locos then the class 40 mother list is cracking resource: http://www.class40motherlist.com/index.html You'll have to hunt a bit but one of the best on line. Neil Neil, Thanks for the link. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinsley-toton Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 also split headcode D326 a month earlier on 1M27 Liverpool exchange - Glasgow, first record ive seen of a split headcode version on this route and hopefully Bachmann may do this loco in the future as its preserved on the east lancs. I think that you are getting mixed up with D335 Michael, 40126 (D326) was cut up very shortly after withdrawal (To prevent souvenir hunters apparently) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 yes of course your quite right I got mixed up, dont think they will do D326. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I got my info from here - http://brdatabase.info/index.php Bill 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Cheese Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 yes of course your quite right I got mixed up, dont think they will do D326. There was a green D326 L/E listed a few years ago, I think it was behalf of Rails of Sheffield but was cancelled before production. There were some adverse comments at the time on one or two of the modelling forums regarding how tasteful it was to commission such a model. Personally I did consider having one, if only because my father drove it on a SR excursion many years ago, though he never realised until the LM pilotman told him so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flood Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm a bit intrigued as to how tasteful it is to produce an rtr model of D326. It must have travelled a few million miles in its time and just happened to be on a certain train at a certain time. It's like saying that no manufacturer should make a model of City of Glasgow - it's hardly the locos fault as to the events it gets caught up in. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 its a tough one, I think if they did it it would sell, its the question of do they package it in a fancy box highlighting what happened to it. its the cruelty to the driver and the glorifying of the criminals which people dont like, 50 years ago this year btw. if they did it I think it should be boxed and presented like any other loco. models have been produced of other locos that crashed accidentaly with loss of life, such as DP2. anyway, Ive just been given a shot of spit headcode D338 at Ormksirk on a Glasgow central Liverpool exchange so there is another split I never knew traversed this route. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed-farms Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'm a bit intrigued as to how tasteful it is to produce an rtr model of D326. It must have travelled a few million miles in its time and just happened to be on a certain train at a certain time. It's like saying that no manufacturer should make a model of City of Glasgow - it's hardly the locos fault as to the events it gets caught up in. I don't think too many people would buy a limited edition model of it just because of it is the Great Train Robbery engine. I seem to recall when the real loco was withdrawn BR scrapped it quickly so it did not get preserved, presumably for the same reason Michael gave above. Perhaps if there was a way some of the proceeds (like the Collectors Club did with Black Prince) could go to somewhere to benefit the drivers family or something, that might work for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaneofFife Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Swings and roundabouts but i think in this instance its a model thats best avoided. There really isnt a need - can people not just buy a green splitter and renumber it if they must have D326 on their layout to play cops and robbers with? Edited January 21, 2013 by ThaneofFife Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flood Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Swings and roundabouts but i think in this instance its a model thats best avoided. There really isnt a need - can people not just buy a green splitter and renumber it if they must have D326 on their layout to play cops and robbers with? This is the point that I'm getting at. Why assume that people want to play cops and robbers just because they have a model of D326? All BR 1950s West Coast Main Line modellers say "Oooo! I've made a model of City of Glasgow just because I want to re-enact Harrow." Err no. Anyway, I've digressed. You are quite correct that if an individual wishes to have a certain loco they can always renumber it and I'm sure your cops and robbers comment was meant tongue in cheek. I do know of someone who has a model of 66521 because they worked as part of the accident investigation team. Their choice but it would seem very morbid to some people. Edited January 21, 2013 by Flood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 this class 40 hardly gets a mention, first one to be withdrawn, sadly the crew where killed in the cab to the left when a freight train split and ran backwards into it in 1966. http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_ActonGrange1966.pdf 247 Class 40 D322 at Crewe works Jan 1967 by edgehillsignalman, on Flickr back to the model, the daylight under the nose and bogie was talked about earlier, this shot gives a good view of the daylight between. 40074 Garsdale 2.4.83 by George of Dufton, on Flickr and this one is a good shot from another thread, can see the pipe which is missing on the Bachmann shot over the leading leaf spring and the rubbing plate in front of it, with this missing on the model it does leave a gap and affects the look, I suspect they may leave this off as I found with my O gauge 40 it needs a bit of setting up to get it to look like its sitting on it but so it doesnt actually touch so as to derail the loco. but If it doesnt come with it i would try and make it as it closes that gap up. D242 by 70023venus2009, on Flickr 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Mike; Is this a slightly better view of the 'missing' pipe ? 40182 Longsight 3rd May 1982 BTW I can't see Bachmann missing it can you? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 BTW I can't see Bachmann missing it can you? maybe they'll put it in with all the separate bufferbeam pipework? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 few more detail shots.. 40068 York Stn. 6.82 by George of Dufton, on Flickr 40068 York Stn. 6.82 by George of Dufton, on Flickr 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 for the weathering and stock English Electric Type 4 No D333 by Jodel Aviator, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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