Captain Slough

Yes. Same tooling apparently 

Not a Nellie-bash but thought it might interest: This is a bodyshell for the freelance 0-4-0 steam locomotive which Hornby-Dublo introduced in 1963 to compete with Nellie/Polly/Connie

Nowhere near as common though. Was only sold in train sets and probably to be played with hard rather than treated nicely....  Pics from eBay. For disclosure, I'm the seller. Never managed to find a matching chassis for it so hoping it's of use to someone who has one 

just had to cancel a sale after the end of the auction but - fortunately - before payment,. because unknown to me, eBay automatically allows overseas bidders to bid & I don't do international shipping. Winning bidder was in Ireland and hadn't even contacted me in advance to check if this was OK

Should at least be fairly easy to resell - bodyshell for the Hornby-Dublo "starter set" locomotive, which is pretty rare in decent condition. Now changed my eBay settings to restrict my auctions only to the mainland UK.

3 hours ago, SHMD said:

I really can't see how a 350 shunter could get to Piccadilly Gardens as there are a few "tight" corners of a radius not much more than the length of the shunter!

 

There was a metro-mainline connection just outside of Manchester Victoria station though...

 

 

Kev.

there are photos in a related thread in RailUK forums showing one proceeding very slowly on the outer radius of a street corner curve

Edit: Were. And I can't find them now.

14 hours ago, 009 micro modeller said:

I think Manchester Metrolink uses a more railway-like profile because of how much of it is on converted heavy rail lines

yes - British Rail 350bhp diesel shunters have actually worked through the street running sections of Metrolink into the city centre during engineering possessions for track relaying

I think that Lima box originally had the 2 101 driving cars and the centre car in and the HST was an unboxed set of just power cars & he's switched them

11 hours ago, Kellino Rail said:

Interesting concept...

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196377443635

The description says it has lights in direction of travel,which was a Hornby HST feature not Lima.  Looking at the bogies I'd say there's a Hornby power car and trailer in there and the only Lima part is the box and the Metro-Cammell DMU centre car

thats true - I sold a badly repainted GF 00-gauge pannier a few months back, had a crooked wheel,a missing set of steps, a warped running-board and a VERY noisy motor (all declared clearly in the advert) and it got a good offer within hours of being filed, and good feedback too after the buyer received it. Feedback said "better condition than expected".  It was borderline scrap....

Farnby-Dublish

Somewhere on RMWeb theres a pic of a Farish 5 running with a Dublo castle chassis (early type with "half-inch" motor rather than Ringfield, a ringfield would never fit), and Dublo 8F tender

Which gets rid of all the metal fatigue and chassis problems, at least.

just an additional thing I could have put into my message convo with hacksworth' but which may be of broader interest &  that I just remembered.

Due to a decision to share parts (specifically the side-rods), Hornby-Dublo/Wrenn R1s have exactly the same wheelbase as the Hornby-Dublo N2 0-6-2T.

Dublo N2s may also be useful for motorising Kitmaster/Airfix/Dapol GWR Prairies as a result.

Dublo 8F tender body might be a good replacement

frequently discussed in Vintage / Collectible rmweb subforum...

~its a Dublo deltic. There are limits to whats achievable in terms of accurate representation....

13 hours ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156166243218?

 

I don’t remember the Deltics wearing red… Certainly an interesting repaint, could defo do with being reverted to BR green though…

 

 

authentic livery from about 2002 when Porterbrook bought it out of preservation and put it into their active fleet

 

On 16/04/2024 at 12:52, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

Aye, knew that already, the rollers apparently didn’t perform too well, hence the change to plungers, with the rollers being on the very first version from 1950, I just don’t remember when they changed, thought it was 51 but I heard, on my last trip to Severn Valley, it was 52 they made the swap (I also heard from them that, allegedly, only two roller examples survive today!). I also referred to it as “original” in the sense it was before the Triang buyout, when it was still made for M&S, and therefore the upgrade to a metal chassis and pickup through the wheels. 

Kicking myself now as in 1996 I decided not to buy a roller pickup Princess from Hemel Hempstead antique market due to the deformed Cellulose acetate body

It was marked as about £18 from memory and my logic was that i could get a more modern one for that much...

Hacksworth, I have a pair of seized-up Dublo R1s that last ran in the 1990-s and have gone solid during the subsequent 25 years in storage if you need some to play with...

Nice Saab stuff.I have 2 of them - a '98 convertible and an '06 estate. they are worth the trouble

somewhere I've got one of those early plastic 0-4-0 chassis which I spliced a 3 volt motor into to make a battery powered loco. Was surprlsingly easy as the 12v can motor they used in that chassis run has the same external profile as a lot of 3v motors, just longer. I backfilled the space with milliput

You'd just need Nanking Blue and White paint, and a midland pullman transfer set, surely?

the Hornby-Dublo travelling mail coach in the background is looking pretty good for its 60 years, too

lol.. Llamedos / Sod'em all. DT fan?

There's a cottage called that in Llan Ffestiniog

Triang (Triang-Hornby actually as it came out in early 1966) model was actually class 82 bogies - badly proportioned, using the Hornby-Dublo Class 81 body on top. Their class 82 as pre-announced was never released and the issued model was numbered E3001, same as Dublo's

@Clive have a look in the "modelling BR Blue" subforum to see my attempted Cl 310 EMU done by similar methods to your models here

28, 29 were both already RTR - the 28 in 1961 by Hornby-Dublo, the 29 by Hornby around 1979