Modelling a Complete Fleet

[ISW]

@Dunalastair recently commented (flippantly, I'm sure) in @young37215 topic "West Highland Line V4, a 1980's West Highland Line layout" that with 11 Class 37s on his layout, that left only 298 more to go (to complete the 309 built).

 

Which begs the question, has anyone modelled a 'complete fleet' of locos (or anything else, for that matter) on their layout? Yes, I suppose this has been done for small (low single digit) fleets of obscure / speciality rolling stock. But how about 'mainstream' ## rolling stock?

 

I think @25kV might have done the entire Class APT-P fleet?

 

## - I'm leaving this deliberately vague

 

Ian

[Wickham Green too]

Something like the Isle of Wight loco fleet should be possible - especially when there was nothing but O2s ..... but suitable rolling stock would involve a lot of kit building/bashing.

[adb968008]

Ive seen displays of all the A4’s, 50’s and Deltics at various places.

 

I’d love to see the collection of all the 08’s.

[Dagworth]

Ask @Clive Mortimore how many Baby Deltics he built 

 

Andi

[Steamport Southport]

Didn't someone do all the Spamcans a few years ago?

 

 

 

Jason

 

[TheQ]

I bought a Highland Railways banking tank, 

Therefore I got given one shortly after.

Then I got another.

So there's 37% of the fleet to be painted and renumbered.

The full fleet? Maybe if I come across them cheap...

I've also got 50% of the fleet of 4-4-4 MSWJR locos.. but there were only two of them.

 

Edited November 6, 2023 by TheQ

[Nearholmer]

Plenty of people have modelled the entire fleets of isolated NG lines, ditto SG LRs.

[KeithMacdonald]

7 hours ago, ISW said:

has anyone modelled a 'complete fleet' of locos

 

Just for pedantic clarity 😋

Must a "fleet" means more than one loco?

e.g. Not Falcon, DP2 and Lion (a fleet of one each)

[KeithMacdonald]

Could possibly do it with the Class 13's?

Only three were built.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_13

 

[KeithMacdonald]

Or Class 16?

Ten of them, D8400 to D8409

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_16

 

[ISW]

9 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

Just for pedantic clarity 😋

Must a "fleet" means more than one loco?

Yep.

 

As it says in the original post "... I suppose this has been done for small (low single digit) fleets of obscure / speciality rolling stock. But how about 'mainstream' ## rolling stock?"

 

Ian

[Matt37268]

A friend of a friend has modelled all the 37/4’s in ‘00’ I know it’s not a whole class but it’s a whole sub class. 

[KeithMacdonald]

7 hours ago, ISW said:

how about 'mainstream' ## rolling stock?

 

Paul Bartlett is probably the local expert?

 

 

 

[big jim]

5 minutes ago, Matt37268 said:

A friend of a friend has modelled all the 37/4’s in ‘00’ I know it’s not a whole class but it’s a whole sub class. 

Also a kind of subclass but a class in its own right, all 4 class 97/3s are available RTR in different levels of detail from Hornby (railroad), Bachmann, vi-trains and accurascale

 

 

 

 

Edited November 6, 2023 by big jim

[ELTEL]

4 hours ago, adb968008 said:

Ive seen displays of all the A4’s, 50’s and Deltics at various places.

 

I’d love to see the collection of all the 08’s.

 
I know of a local modeller who has a 4mm model of all the A4s unknown to his wife.

[TomJ]

I think you can model the entire Lynton and Barnstable - locos and stock - in OO9 with rtr stock. Not bad for a pre-grouping company!

 

I think my father might actually have have all the stock!!!

[ISW]

I must admit I'm impressed with:

 

28 minutes ago, ELTEL said:

I know of a local modeller who has a 4mm model of all the A4s unknown to his wife.

 

41 minutes ago, Matt37268 said:

A friend of a friend has modelled all the 37/4’s in ‘00’ I know it’s not a whole class but it’s a whole sub class. 

 

4 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

Didn't someone do all the Spamcans a few years ago?

 

Ian

[Shedmaster]

HI,

 

Back in the day when I used to exhibit my own layout, Manor Lane TMD, I had 'procured' all six EWS Class 59/2's, 201 to 206, in full EWS livery.

 

However, at one exhibition, a chap came along for a look and on seeing them all on the layout said "Wow!, You like your 66's don't you?" 🤬

 

I think less is definitely more sometimes! 🙄

 

Thanks,

 

Shed.

 

[Gareth 73]

I've got 12 clans, all ten built,hengist and 1 of to be another from the canceled batch. Havent got a pic of em all together. Ive also got 14 crostis 10 as built 4 rebuilt. And im half way through the class 26's.

ive also got 9 of the GP40X diesel made for the southern Pacific in america.  They only owned 4  but ive got 4 with elephant ears  as built, 4 with no ears as rebuilt and the 1 that was taken over by the union pacific. With nowhere to display let alone run them anymore, must need medication

[jessy1692]

1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

Plenty of people have modelled the entire fleets of isolated NG lines, ditto SG LRs.

Indeed, I have the full Harrogate Gas Works Railway quartet, just need the hoppers now to go with them

[Nearholmer]

1 hour ago, ELTEL said:

I know of a local modeller who has a 4mm model of all the A4s unknown to his wife.

So, how many were unknown to his wife? 

[leezer3]

I've got all 5 D600s courtesy of KMRC.

It's all 5 livery variants too, which wasn't strictly intentional but is probably actually reasonably prototypical.....

(Green, Green SYP, Green FYE, Blue SYP, Blue FYE)

[Mike Buckner]

1 hour ago, ELTEL said:

 
I know of a local modeller who has a 4mm model of all the A4s unknown to his wife.

 

She has a hidden panel at the back of the built-in wardrobe which caches 192 pairs of shoes

 

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

Potential 'easy targets' in rolling stock from RTR OO with 11 or more vehicles, but not too many :

K type matchboard Pullman cars

QoS K type Pullman cars

Newton chambers car carriers

LMS Coronation Scot liveried trains

LNER Coronation sets

 

Electric MU's ,  Brighton Belle

 

[KeithMacdonald]

Has anyone modelled the SR Class 70 (electric)?

Only three in the class.

Southern Railway nos. CC1 and CC2, built at Ashford

British Railways no. 20003, built as Eastleigh,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_70_(electric)