Melton Works

How about one of these?......

Now I have the chance to model Norwich-Birmingham New Street in the 80s with a few Mk2s and a 31/4 in banger blue!

Totally agree with this, things are improving all the time. A far cry from some of Hornbys 20+ year old tooling they still hang on to. Yes have pre ordered both Accurascale and Bachmann versions.

Yes that's why I put it in brackets. The same as the 40 and 50. Big hp difference. Again big weight difference too. 2000hp and 133 tons unlike the 50 2750hp and quite lighter.

The hardest job is cutting out the engine room window. Luckily the light was in situ. Removed a lamp bracket and nose Ariel's too.

This is an excellent set! I too am working on the Anglia "Short set" where I have reworked Stephen Middlemore into Avro Vulcan. The only disappointment was with the DBSO which has a incorrect front end and light pattern. Took some modifications.

And fair point, sorry

Sorry should have explained myself... Even with the screws, at one end you are putting them into the PCB and never seem to be tight enough, so with a bit of black tac, secures all in place and stops any vibration.

I always use black tac. Very effective!

I think it was a good move back then, to save the class and replace with EE powerunits and as you said, went on many years for BR. Infact it was the 31 that got me into all this, as a 5 year old, stood at the foot of Thetford station footbridge looking up at one of these beasts, pulling away at full thrash on the Norwich-Birmingham New St, was awe inspiring! I have heard different opinions from Ex BR friends of mine on these machines. One of my mates Chris used to work them as a freight guard (Gt Ryburgh grain and Lenwade Concrete) and recons they were a joy to work with and drive, yet my mate Andy who was a guard Cambridge- London/Kings Lynn hated it when he got a 31 on a Sunday evening last trip home with 9 bogies, because he knew he was going to be late, appx 55 mph tops! He also said they couldn't manage Bethnal green bank without turning the ETS off! He also said that if it was a Bounds green machine, it would fair slightly better, which makes me think maintainance had something to do with it too?

Class 37/4 = 55000 lbs tractive effort Class 31/4 = 42800 lbs tractive effort. Lack of two traction motors and overall weight seem to make the difference seeing as they have the same EE 12(C)SVT powerunit.

Plus lacking a couple of traction motors...

I dont understand why people dont contact yourselves direct, rather than spewing stuff all over here. Your customer services are second to none. Any issues have been slight and have been dealt with by your customer service and anything else can be corrected with basic modelling knowledge. I have had 3 sound Deltics and 8 37s with sound and one Deltic has a decoder issue which Simon dealt with.

Charlie is an absolute legend!

Those bogies look amazing 👍

It would be really nice to fill in the new missing link.... a nicely tooled MK2D. The Airfix tooling has been going round for donkeys years!

Worse case I will sit on the track for a few mins, or run up and down a couple of times before fire up. All my 37s CV 63 set at 192 with power unit volume on max too.

Accurascale

This is the most constructive answer. This pic of 6700 answers my question, suggesting that the Locomotion model was just a mockup. Was funny to hear some of the other responses though 🤣🤣

Well it's not Railmatch, it's too dark

This is my fave though. Love the fade DRS livery and really hope we see 716? 😊

Yes I can second that. These 37/6 of 602/8/9 are all the same sub class but so many detail differences between the 3. Truly impressive. Well done Accurascale 👍👍

Now that is a must! 👍

Locomotions own picture on their website...

The cantrail grills, not the original EE version. Hope this is just a mock up?