Wandering exSECR railmotor sets

[Guest Jack Benson]

A few years ago, I found an online colour image of one of the exSECR railmotor sets whilst it was in Eastleigh station, it was early BR red. My best guess is that was the same set that was used in the Salisbury area used on the Idmiston workmen’s service and had been running on the SDJR. A b&w image of (maybe) the same set appears in the Middleton Press book featuring the SDJR whilst it passed on a down train hauled by a T9 at Fordingbridge.

 

The image was duly saved but the computer died and it was lost, I would greatly appreciate finding the image as a reference. 
 

Thank you and Stay Safe

Edited October 28, 2020 by Jack Benson
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[Oldddudders]

I can't help with the pic, but Mike King's pull-push book identifies the Salisbury-Idmiston set as 514. This was an articulated set consisting of TO 976 and BTO 3561. The set was never pull-push fitted. 

[Guest Jack Benson]

I finally found the 3D site here for set 514 from Simon Dawson of this parish, a chassis is needed and I am not sure where to source the bits?

 

The odd reason for this was a fascination with the elusive set 514 when in use on the SDJR, we never managed to see it when we lived locally. However, as Beaminster Road utilises a strange selection of stock based on some SDJR stalwarts, set 514 may run once more.
 

Cheers and Stay Safe

 

 

[Wickham Green too]

Find a chassis of about the correct length from Comet and adjust the bogie centres as appropriate - bogies are standard Southern type on the artic ( not the other two sets ) battery boxes and dynamo from Comet too. ( Avoid the Southern dynamo - this is a later type )

[Guest Jack Benson]

Thanks to Simon's timely production of set 514, a plan to build a set using his coaches is underway, an update to Beaminster Road has a few images and some words from Ian Dudley of this parish from 2012, my thanks to Olddudders.

 

Cheers and Stay Safe

[Guest Jack Benson]

Hi,

 

I forgot to add, a drawing and any other advice would be very welcome. I wonder if Adrian Colenutt reads this, his set 514 is an inspiration.

 

Thanks guys and Stay Safe

[Wickham Green too]

5 hours ago, Jack Benson said:

...... a drawing and any other advice would be very welcome. .........

The full history is in Bradley's RCTS volume and Gould's Bogie Carriages book - the latter doesn't have drawings of the artic sets ( maybe because the coaches only had 1.5 bogies each ) but Mike King can supply his drawings.

[Guest Jack Benson]

1 hour ago, Wickham Green too said:

The full history is in Bradley's RCTS volume and Gould's Bogie Carriages book - the latter doesn't have drawings of the artic sets ( maybe because the coaches only had 1.5 bogies each ) but Mike King can supply his drawings.

Thanks, I did not know that Mike was still in business, an email has been sent.

 

Stay safe