Captain Slough

Good evening all Was hoping someone could identify some parts that I added to my "to do" box 30-ish years ago and have completely forgotten the source Are these T-Stock or Dreadnought driving car cabs? or one of each? I'm assuming they are Model Centre Harrow spares as I used to frequent there but not entirely sure as I cannot recall buying them. Would like to identify before trying to find them a home with someone who'll actually use them... Thanks Chris

Yes they did, but apparently these aren't Nu-cast. Theres a pic of a disassembled Nu Cast kit in this forum if you search for it, and the cabs have different internal casting details and have one window that isn't divided...

So I am assuming the 2 EMU end cabs are Harrow Model Centre castings (T-Stock? they arent identical to each other), and that the Met Electric cabs and roof are, too Anyone know who made the LNER Sentinel steam railcar ends and roof sections?

Still going thru my spares boxes and some rocking horse poop turned up. Not MTK: Rarer... Chris Leigh diecast cabs made for converting Airfix LMS Suburban coaches into GEC LMS London Stock EMUs These will be going on eBay Same box appears to have some London Transport EMU cabs that I cant even identify yet

the New Model Army was still an army, as the Royalists found to their cost... I think model has dual meaning as *metaphor* in both cases

Surely a sea horizon is only visually level if you're looking directly at it? Aim your gaze offset and it should appear tilted anyway due to the way the optic nerve works, look along the coast and it should seem to go from low to high in peripheral vision

PapagolfJuliet - Hornby Cl.110 bogie frames and chassis frames, they were my go-to recommendation for any DMU repowering exercise as they took the standard Hornby 2-axle ringfield power bogie. All 3 of my MTK DMUs had those under it, although I bought them already built so it wasnt my doing Somewhere Ive got a Triang Met-Cam with a 110 power bogie as well - very easy conversion as both cars in the Triang R157 have a removable flor to fit a power bogie, so you just put a Hornby bogie and subframe into the Triang floor of each vehicle and run the wire between them. Pretty sure I have a box of unused bogie frames somewhere too...

> Hornby-Dublo Ringfield Deltic says hi. ACtually been used to haul real humans, one at a time on a cart, rope-hauled by double-headed Deltics running on an 00-gauge track laid between the cart's wheels

Greenly was brilliant. I'm in possession of a mint boxed Trix Twin trackwork set from about 1949 which includes a book by him on model railway operation, with hints on timetabling, use of multi train control in realistic settings, railway operating patterns etc. I bought it in 1998 from the clearing of a model railway shop's warehouse. It was original stock that had never been sold there was something Peter Denny-ish about the depths that guy goes to.

If anyone needs a Triang Princess that runs on Code 100 rail for messing with, ping me - I've got a black one, repainted at least twice, which ran beautifully when I last used it in 1999 (cant and wont guarantee it does so now but I think it extremely likely its revivable even if it doesnt immediately) When I got it it had been repainted into LMS wartime black, I reverted it to BR Black. Hasnt got see-through wheels, its the last version that had solid backing on them.

they missed a trick by not using the Hornby HST chassis in the power car as well - its easy to make it fit a BP body and it looks more like the bogies of the real thing than the standard Triang power bogie does

Lots of time went into this and almost no proprietary parts. My guess is it was made as a commission during WW2 Nobody makes their own wheel spokes if they have an option to buy complete wheels....

Maybe you should get on with the Shapeways AM10 and once 33C has finished reworking my Dapol/Triang/Plastikard/HST version and repainting it into NSE livery, there could be a comparison as to which is the better method....

Dublo 2-rail and 3-rail used the same wheel profile and code 100 rail in their 2-rail track. Hornby used the Hornby-dublo wheel profile from 1967 onward into the 1990s. Dublo stuff runs fine on any track that will accept a Hornby ringfield power bogie

Regarding the quality of Hornby-Dublo 2-rail locos, in case anyones reading this thread and wanting to try them out Somewhere in the boxes of stuff as yet unpacked and unassessed I have following 2-Rail Dublo kit... Pre-ringfield 8F - working as of 1999, not run since. Pre-ringfield 8F - not working as of 1999, ran briefly then stopped after I lubricated it with electrolube, presume fouled brushes & I never tried to fix it as I had a spare. Class 20 with added pickups on every wheel meaning it doesnt stall like most 2-rail class 20s. - working as of 1999, not run since. Has a repainted roof done by a prior owner, and not done that well. Class 08 350bhp diesel shunter - working as of 1999, not run since. N2 BR 0-6-2T tank, - working as of 1999, not run since. JVM-Gaiety N2 body which could be allied with the Dublo chassis to make a better-looking diecast N2 2x R1 tank, one green, one black, - both working as of 1999, not run since. A4 locomotive only which will be supplied with Triang Scotsman tender. Both repainted wartime black and casting not in great condition. - working as of 1999, not run since. If anyone needs any of these please hit me up. I do not doubt that all but the dead 8F could be returned quickly to operating condition as they were stored indoors in dry conditions for the past 24 years. The 8F? Who knows. I have no idea whats exactly wrong with it. Only thing that worried me about selling on the 8Fs is that they both have the same running number. Have no idea if i can now tell which is the one that ran 24 years ago. Also have operational (in 1999) 3-rail 2-6-4 tank and several non-operational N2s and a Duchess (repainted 1951 blue livery with Triang Princess tender) which were bought as non-runners to use to pack out the sheds...

I've got a couple of REALLY scratched-up Dublo gresley coaches in crimson & cream, if anyone needs them to practice adding new sides, LMK

Shame about the Lima Cl.33 motor bogie though. Wheelbase is too long so the wheel centres don't line up with the bogie axleboxes.. that would drive me mad

found on eBay, here's what happens when an MTK 24/25 is built WITHOUT care and attention...

Also, right rail positive & chassis grounded to the right rail is sort of contradictory: Only in insane world is Positive Ground common, from an electrical engineering point of view.... it works just fine, but it isn't done

This 5-BEL power car made about 1996 based on a Hornby-Dublo 4037 Pullman brake had a cab end roof made by adding the flat level first then gluing standing up many pieces of 1mm thick plastikard forming a sort of fan-outward from the end of the original roofline to the front of where the cab roof would be I then filed the oversized fins of plastic to about the right shape, while dripping superglue into the gaps between them. The filings from the plastikard dropping into the fresh glue made up a relatively smooth roof with the right sort of compound curve

You can swap it, but you don't do it by turning the wheels and the pickup strip around At the top of the motor there's a metal spring clip that applies pressure to the commutator brushes. it has an uninsulated side that presses against the "chassis-grounded" commutator brush and a plastic insulating sleeve against the "pickup" commutator brush. The wire from the pickup is held in place against that brush. To reverse the "ordinary" direction of travel, remove the sleeve from one side of the spring clip, add it to the other side and move the wire across to that brush

the TTR 0-4-0 tank is exactly the right size for a Hornby GWR No.101 chassis I've got 3 or 4 of these tanks, a few wagons and bizarrely an amount of mint boxed unopened track that was found in the early 1990s in a closed model railway shop's warehouse. One of the boxes of track includes a book by Henry Greenly on model railway operations, that is dated 1948

>I used my staff discount facility to buy Trix locobuilder kits to get AL1 kits at about £3 each.. *distant sound of wailing & gnashing of teeth from AndyMan7...

So was the TC dock shunter wired differently to the UK dock authority version too?

the clockwork Triang MTB actually had a really decent range, 25 metres or so. The problem was just its tendency when carefully set to go in a broad arc to actually decide to go round and round in circles just out of reach Initial tests in the Jellicoe-designed Water Gardens in Hemel Hempstead resulted in it going for a surprising distance downriver in the middle of the stream before being rescued and after that it was only ever used in actual model boating lakes