RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted November 17, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 bump! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Accurascale Fran Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2022 Hi everyone, It's been about 20 minutes since we announced a new model for our highly regarded "Powering Britain" range of coal wagons, so let's fill in a huge missing link in ready-to-run format. Today we're announcing the family of NER 4 wheeled hoppers as the latest addition to our lovely wagon range. Of course we could've just announced one type to satisfy the market with. But no, that's not the Accurascale way! So, we've assembled an entire team of these wonderfully distinctive hopper wagons. History This family is made up of the P6, P7, P8 and Q3 variants of these distinctive 20 ton hopper wagons. Four different types, with differences within the range that cover their introduction into service with the NER, through LNER and BR ownership and into NCB internal user service which saw them last into the 1980s. Read their full history and learn about the different types so you know which ones you need for your layout by clicking here: https://www.accurascale.com/blogs/news/accurascale-hop-to-it-with-ner-20t-coal-wagons-in-oo-4mm Why, Where, When and How Much? A long-time missing link in ready-to-run models in 00/4mm, the NER 20t hoppers were identified as a pivotal chapter in our famous “Powering Britain” range, telling the story of the movement of coal by rail through the ages. This range of NER Hopper wagons, completely new to the RTR 00 market, bridge the gap between the use of small Victorian, wooden planked waggons, like our lovely little Chaldron waggons, and the arrival of the much improved steel bodied hoppers for the transportation of coal and coke in Northern England and the Borders. As such, they represent an important period of modernisation for mineral wagons as the railway companies evolved their designs from the Victorian era, and fully deserve their place in our “Powering Britain” range of models depicting the coal wagons which fuelled a nation by rail. While it would’ve been simple to just offer one type of NER hopper, these wagons will instead see a complete range of variety, as another worthy subject is done “The Accurascale Way”. With four variants (P6, P7, P8 and Q3) in the line up, modellers will enjoy a wide range of variation over these important wagons. This will include modifications across their careers from NER service, through LNER and BR careers and onto their final days plying their trade in NCB collieries. A fully die cast chassis, separately applied wire handrails, brake gear, chains and more are also included where appropriate. A variety of liveries will be offered across our traditional triple packs, priced at £84.95 each with 10% off when you buy two packs or more via our website and participating retailers. Tooling is complete with improvements and tweaks fed back to the factory, with a delivery date of Q1 2024 slated for delivery. Below is our first 8 triple packs, but look out for more including an Accurascale Exclusive pack to be announced soon. Browse the initial range by clicking here and place your pre-order today: https://www.accurascale.com/collections/ner-20-ton-hopper-wagons Cheers! Fran 30 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleopotato09 Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Oh look something actually useful for a North Eastern modeller doing pre grouping stuff. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Brady Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Well I have my slaters kits, I was thinking about renewing them but they build up into excellent kits and I am happy with the results. I have to say I think this is a long overdue wagon though and should sell very well 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium RichardT Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 17, 2022 OK, I’ll say it: any chance of these in N please? I know doing locos in both 2mm and 4mm may not always add up financially, but UK N is starved of decent rolling stock and surely the cost pressures on a run of wagons must be less? RichardT 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 Congratulations to Accurascale on this wide range of wagons! Within The 00 Wishlist Poll, there was never much room to list pre-Grouping vehicles due to the high number of entries we would have had to deal with. However, we did make some inroads into being 'more specific' in 2019 and the Diag.P7 emerged High Polling (with GWR Open Wagons one vote higher and Iron Minks two votes lower - both of which now announced). Well done to Paul on some very hard work there! Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team) 8 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby_tl10 Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 (edited) Product delivery dates according to the Accurascale website: 2022 Q4 Class 92 Manor Mk5 2023 Q1 Mk2B Siphon Class 37 (some 2023 Q2) 2023 Q2 Class 31 2023 Q3 Class 89 FNA-D Mk1 Suburban 2023 Q4 SR Banana Van 2024 Q1 NER 20T First product with a 2024 delivery date... Makes me wonder how many products due 2023 are yet to be announced. Can we expect another locomotive due 2023 Q4? Edited November 17, 2022 by toby_tl10 added class 89 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 Rather useful, with a little bending of history, for someone who has a certain NER electric loco on order😇 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BR Blue Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 13 minutes ago, BMacdermott said: Congratulations to Accurascale on this wide range of wagons! Within The 00 Wishlist Poll, there was never much room to list pre-Grouping vehicles due to the high number of entries we would have had to deal with. However, we did make some inroads into being 'more specific' in 2019 and the Diag.P7 emerged High Polling (with GWR Open Wagons one vote higher and Iron Minks two votes lower - both of which now announced). Well done to Paul on some very hard work there! Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team) Hi Brian Are there any plans for another poll? IT has been some time and many items on the last set of results have been announced and even released? I appreciate it is a lot of work for you and the team but always found them very interesting. Regards Eamon 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 Hello Eamon We put The Poll into 'deep freeze hibernation'. Que sera sera!🙂 Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson Jackson Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 I think this is a brilliant announcement and will be very welcomed in 2024! Great stuff! 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 They look stunning but would be pushing the envelope of even Rule One for me. Probably just as well, as I'll have a bunch of Banana vans to finance next year. Well picked, yet again, Accurascale. John 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said: They look stunning but would be pushing the envelope of even Rule One for me. Probably just as well, as I'll have a bunch of Banana vans to finance next year. Well picked, yet again, Accurascale. John John, You could do what I have in mind to do with one of those rather nice NER electric locos on order from Locomotion and have a dabble with 'something completely different' on a relatively small scale. (As in a small layout, not necessarily something as radical as 'TT whatever it is this week'). I wonder what else that nice Mr Isles looked at in Beamish and elsewhere that far north? 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul2001 Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Fantastic news. Now about the LNER livery? Or have I missed something on your website? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold John B Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 Well these are most welcome! Order duly placed... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 1 minute ago, The Stationmaster said: John, You could do what I have in mind to do with one of those rather nice NER electric locos on order from Locomotion and have a dabble with 'something completely different' on a relatively small scale. (As in a small layout, not necessarily something as radical as 'TT whatever it is this week'). I wonder what else that nice Mr Isles looked at in Beamish and elsewhere that far north? I'd love some Mike, but I've adopted a self-imposed prohibition on Rule One. If I don't stop buying stuff that's inappropriate for the layout in progress, I'll have no room for the layout! John 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 17, 2022 43 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: Rather useful, with a little bending of history, for someone who has a certain NER electric loco on order😇 Was thinking that, Mike . There are a fair few models to head them up now I think . Hornbys Q6 and Oxfords J27 spring to mind , then I remembered the Electric loco . Really good introduction video 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted November 17, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, paul2001 said: Fantastic news. Now about the LNER livery? Or have I missed something on your website? Hi Paul, As per the announcement, more packs will be announced in due course! Cheers! Fran 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleopotato09 Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 The Bachmann J72 and G5s would also be suitable. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul2001 Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, Accurascale Fran said: Hi Paul, As per the announcement, more packs will be announced in due course! Cheers! Fran Apologies Fran must of missed that bit with all the drooling 🤤. Paul 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 53 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: Rather useful, with a little bending of history, for someone who has a certain NER electric loco on order😇 Which I’d totally forgotten. Thanks for the nudge Mike. Well done to Paul for a fascinating and absorbing video introduction……a lesson in marketing if ever there was. Now perhaps one question…that being one of coal loads as an accessory. I suppose though that hides the nifty interior details of these wagons . The NE has been sidelined for years.No longer it seems. A ray of sunshine for us on a dreary day. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted November 17, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 Don't forget their industrial years.... What more inspiration for "Powering Britain" range do we need than sights like this? Lots of teddybear, gronk etc action. Not to mention other industrials... Absolutely filthy! Cheers! Fran 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2022 (edited) The kit stash strikes again!!! Looking through a book recently spotted a picture of a Banbury - Bilston ore working in 1960 with the first wagon being the LNER Iron Ore verson of this. Part of my layout will have an iron ore train to the Black Country running through it. Last week I built the Slaters kit. Doh! Edited November 17, 2022 by TheSignalEngineer 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Johan DC Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 17, 2022 Well, I did complain about no (L)NER rolling stock by AS (sorry), so thank you very much, at least three sets will come to Belgium, and possibly more. Will be great behind my Q6. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Islesy Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 17, 2022 19 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said: Now perhaps one question…that being one of coal loads as an accessory. I suppose though that hides the nifty interior details of these wagons . As we have done coal loads for our other 'Powering Britain' models, it would be rude not to do so again Ian, so we'll have a look at that soon. And thanks for the vote of confidence in my video appearance skills; just trying to share the enthusiasm 😉 Look forward to catching up soon, hopefully catch you again at Warley? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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