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Next batch of Class 70's
Gary H replied to k-59's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
I'm hearing that G.E need to sort out their quality control with these latest 70's. Even 812 had issues that needed to be addressed with barely a dozen hours on the clock! Still, this is G.E we're talking about. -
Good stuff, Billy! The pics we take that maybe didn't seem that great at the time, are just as good as the technically better ones today in my view!
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A particularly poignant photo for me that! At around that time, number 13 was my best mates fave 50. We spent a couple of years bashing the class around the western on Saturdays (usually out of Reading) after leaving school in 83. I think 85 was our last year though as he went away to join the army and was posted in Belize after some training. After just a few months though, he was killed in an accident in Belize. Seems like a whole lifetime in the past now though.
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Your correct, Pete. I remember the coolant issues but not so clear on what year it was. Like you say, 76 was a tad early for the HST's. It was more likely summer 77 or even 78.
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I seem to recall in the very hot summer of 76, there were some early HST failures due to overheating and the 50's were again deputised for the new HST's on BTM workings. Ofcourse the overheating issue was sorted quite quickly and the HST's settled down. I think the gen van was also used for these on HST stock in lieu of MK2 stock Mike? Apologies if that is incorrect. Its a good few blackberry seasons ago now!!
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Nice one, Apollo!!
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Indeed. I witnessed some very lively runs on Paddington / Worcester's with un refurbed 50's in circa 78- 83. Whatever you think about them, love them or hate them, if you got a good one, they could really go like stink! That was certainly my experience with them in the 80's. The book "BR Motive Power Performance" by David N.Clough & Martin Becket has a very interesting chapter, titled, A Type 4 challenge. A good read if you can find it! It is said that "when running properly, Class 50 can beat any other Type 4 in all respects".
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Probably sick of the sight of it being as its been in there so long!
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Indeed. Ive seen it propelled a few times by the train loco with the shunter in the lead coach in radio contact with the propelling loco's driver. IIRC, ive seen this at about 09.00 ish.
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Next batch of Class 70's
Gary H replied to k-59's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
812 sits sparkling clean and very new! The locos first visit to Plymouth.
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Next batch of Class 70's
Gary H replied to k-59's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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There was somewhere on this thread a photographic comparison IIRC but its now buried in 90 odd pages of wibble. Needles and haystacks! But first, you need to find the right haystack .
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Let me ave a look when i'm in work tomoz and I'l email them to you Simon.
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I do hope not as it makes the whole thing look like ****.
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I think its a given that the joggle in a BH stock rail is more or less Impossible to achieve in model form reliably . So I reckon the stock rail will be milled as per their FB switches . I think it'll be an acceptable compromise TBH. Anything will be better than those pressed out hinged switch blades . I hope they address the check rails being supported by only 3 timbers though as shown on the samples at Warley , looks most odd.
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If only.
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Level crossing stupidity...
Gary H replied to Katier's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
I wish them luck on that last point. I repeatedly flagged up a video of kids playing chicken in front of trains a while ago and was ignored. Apparently its called free speech even though it was obviously creating a lot of distress to the trains drivers, that didn't seem to matter. -
Excellent, good to see those hinged point blades have gone but there's just one glaring snag for me looking at that sample. Ive never seen a check rail supported by just 3 timbers before, looks most odd. Hopefully, they'll have lengthened the check rail towards the toe a little in the production version.
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Level crossing stupidity...
Gary H replied to Katier's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Indeed. Just what kind of message and example does that put out to kids who maybe influenced by stunts like that one?? I despair of the dumbness displayed by some people these days I gota be honest. She's dumb and irresponsible . NR spend millions per year trying to get the message across and then idiots like this tip up treating it like their playground. -
I can still remember the words that an S&T supervisor said to me about 4 years ago when I was involved in clearing that yard of all remaining railway materials . ""They must be bloody mad selling this off, no foresight or vision whatsoever"" He was exactly right.
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I dunno but I'd sooner have the eggs in the background to be honest.
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Granted, it would have been better for you guys but at the expense of any future rail freight flexibility in the GW zone. We cant have it all ways. In a similar vein, the railway has already given up far to much railway land and burnt many bridges ,aka, Exmouth Jnc as a typical case in point, through being to short sighted and having no vision whatso ever for future needs.
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Hi Mike, the example in the picture was the earlier Mainline / Palitoy version, before the Bachy one. Late 70's or very early 80's I think it made its debut.
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Notwithstanding the fact that these are hardly rare in any sense, IIRC , they were not much more than that cost when they first came out were they? I have to admit, as far as 'damage' goes that's one of the worst ive seen of these. Thinking further, did Mainline actually do a 44?? Or has this one been modified? The discs are obviously extra's. Cant say I remember seeing one as a 44 from the factory.
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As usaul, "good boxed condition" apparently. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAINLINE-OO-GAUGE-REPAINTED-CLASS-44-SCAFELL-PIKE-BR-GREEN-DIESEL-LOCO-10M/192021018300?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D38661%26meid%3D4953c7c3aeb049959d6efd8c4755a2af%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D291975013635 Over priced old tat I'd call it.
