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Hi
I'm hoping you are the Graham Clark who's Class 195 is featured in the March 22 Railway Modeller and that the following makes some sense.
If I understand correctly your model uses the gangways as articulating coach couplers. This is a system I am incorporating into my build of a somewhat modified Westdale O gauge Blue Pullman set but with the 'rotating' gangways of each coach having magnetic attachment to its neighbours.
Do you have any useful points or pitfalls that I should look out for in the design?
Many thanks
Les Hooper
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Hi
I'm hoping you are the Graham Clark who's Class 195 is featured in the March 22 Railway Modeller and that the following makes some sense.
If I understand correctly your model uses the gangways as articulating coach couplers. This is a system I am incorporating into my build of a somewhat modified Westdale O gauge Blue Pullman set but with the 'rotating' gangways of each coach having magnetic attachment to its neighbours.
Do you have any useful points or pitfalls that I should look out for in the design?
Many thanks
Les Hooper
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Hi Graham
Thanks for the detailed reply. Having first tried some unsuccessful rubber versions, I too have adapted the Dapol rigid component approach.
My present design has the gangways vertically pivoted within a combined unit of air seal and interior gangway wings , itself being a vertical loose sliding fit in the coach end . This all places the 'gangway coupling' pivot centres around 2mm outside the coach ends.
While all this seems to work in the CAD drawings, I will not know how things actually perform until some proper track testing later this year.
Much as I'd like to see yours in operation I am some distance away in Tyne & Wear.
Regards
Les
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