TwinBoo

22 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

 

Perhaps the Rev Awdry should have done a story where the two halves of a DMU fall out with each other and will only work on their own.

Well Daisy was half of a 101, although I don’t think she ever had a “twin” of sorts…

I’m thinking of making a layout based on the NCB’s Bickershaw colliery in Manchester, due to having a mix of Hunslet 0-6-0s & Class 20s hauling HAA wagons, and overall looking pretty interesting; although with it being a private industrial railway it is quite hard to find a plan of the layout which the Hunslets traversed. Rail Map online has a bit of a map but I’m not sure if it accurately portrays the yard as it was 1975-1983 or around there. Does anyone have a plan of the complex?

On 07/10/2022 at 16:14, 6990WitherslackHall said:

Or a Class 68 or a Jubilee?

And then modify the Jubilee to make an Irish GSR Class 800, and we get the best of both worlds!

I think if the Manors succeed it’d be nice if IRM did an Irish steam loco, as the RTR market is limited to old Bachmann models. So something along the line of CIÉ’s J15s and B1as, or NIR’s WTs would be interesting!

Just now, Ncarter2 said:

Good to hear the driver is ok. 

Yes indeed.

I just read this article:

https://www.anglocelt.ie/2022/06/24/agreement-on-rail-line-greenway/

It seems that the fate of the line from Navan to Kingscourt has been finally sealed with this agreement that confirms there’s basically no chance of gypsum or passenger services resuming on it. I know I’m a bit late as the articles a week old but I still found it interesting.

I wonder what happened?

3 hours ago, Michael Edge said:

That chart seems to mix things up considerably with single motor and twin motor types, the development is a lot simpler. The locos with jackshaft drive are single motor types, developed by Armstrong Whitworth and EE/LMS, this turned out to be a dead end. EE then used the same engine/generator setup with twin motors (initially with high gearing for 30mph), the earliest ones for GW (15100) and LMS (12000-2) in the 1930s, the Southern then took the same basic mechanical/electrical design but built them in their own workshops so 15201-3 looked rather different. The final development was by EE, again with twin motors (lower gearing this time), same engine etc. and 4ft diameter wheels, this type was bought by LMS/BR and many others around the world, all look fairly similar. The BR 350hp (08) is essentially the same loco but with bigger wheels and cab re-profiled to fit the loading gauge everywhere. The bigger (4ft 6in) wheels were also found in the original SR locos, the main reason was to keep the coupling rods further away from the conductor rails with somewhat higher speed a bonus. The various LNER locos were of much the same design with different equipment, the only exception being 15004 which was all Brush.

 

Yeah sorry I made it a good while ago and it’s quite messy so I apologise for the errors and thank you for correcting it.

I’m a bit late but here’s a chart I made a while ago that fits in this topic pretty well. (sorry for low resolution)