Tony Cane

Good history of lion and its restoration here

There are similar images in the book A Pictorial record of Southern Locomotives and the magazine Steam Days Numbr 20. Both are better reproductions and those in the later publication are referenced the the H C Casserley collection.

As recounted earlier in this thread, the best fix is the replacement of the drive shafts. These are available as spares on the DCC Supplies site and my impresion, having done one such replacement, is the the design has changed to reduce the stress on the small plastic part at each end. clipping the drive shaft in to the bogie end requires the use of fine nose pliers, and more force than I was expecting to use. There is a "necking" at one end of the shaft that aids the final fitting.

Hi Sorry for confusion in my description. What I have are 5 of the all plasic bogies that model to 6 powered bogies on the prototype. The other bogies have no electric motors and are to a different design.

Two more Dapol milk tanks with "enhancements". As well as the adding the dampers and replacing the brake levers, I have removed the moulded tank straps and replaced them with ones made from metal strip. These will now be heavily wheathered to represent the in service conditon in the late 1950s.

Hi I am current upgrading the Triang models to an 8 car set. One of the doner components was a poorly built Kitmaster set. As a result I have 5 of the Kitnmaster power bogies going spare if you are interested.

I can send you a copy of the list we have of potential locomotives for the West Wycombe project, but the time frame is 1955 to 1966 and includes all that have been seen, so far, in this time period. There are a couple of enties that could be of interest, these are the delivery of Class 33 and 73xx locomotives to the Southern. In the case of the later it is noted that they were steam hauled.

As has been mentioned it was typically only track vehicles that were moved by train, to save wear on the tracks and the significant fuel usage. There are pictures of artillery on railway wagons, but these seem to be deliveries from the factory. When moving armoured units by rail, typically, a train would consist of a squadron of tanks. A typical formation would be an old brake coach, then possibly a ramp wagon, 8 to 10 tank carrying vehicles, either Warflats or Warwells, another ramp wagon, a ferry van for various stores and equipment, then a further 1 or 2 old coaches with at least one brake type. The ramp wagons are optional particularly later in the war. The tank crews travelled in the coaches, with a compartment reserved for the C.O. . I would recommend that you join the Military Railway Study Group, formally the WWII Railway Study Group. Contact details can be found here https://www.mrsg.org.uk/

The 122 I recently repaired had all four plastic ends of the drive shafts with splits in them. the only viable fix was to replace both drive shafts. the replacement shafts are a different design to those replaced, the shaft has milled on splines so should be putting less stress on the plastic parts.

Due to the power requirements of the uncoupler you will need to drive this from an accessory decoder via a rely. Also it would be prudent to have an on time limit. So the decoder output triggers the relay enegising the uncoupler and then it is only on for say 5 seconds. A module can be purchased on Ebay that does this , see https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284380692427?hash=item423668ffcb:g:tUUAAOSwrFZg-RqB This is just an example there are may others. For this purpose you need an on delay type as shown, there are many others that have a delay before the relay turns on, which aer not suitable. One with a 12V trigger input should be suitable for the DCC output signal which should be momentary.

I have recently had to fix a Dapol 122 where both the plastic mouldings on the ends of onw drive shaft had split, thus removing all drive. I presume that those of you that are removing one drive shaft to wiork with just one driven bogie are also removing the worm gear from the unpowered end. If not then you are trying to drag two sets of wheels that are locked by the gearing. The rolling road test will show that the driven bogie is fine as it in not trying the move the other bogie with the worm in place.

Does this look suitable? Make unknown.

You may find the products here of interest. https://www.modeltech.uk/

Is this the picture you are thinking of?

Hi Mike Etched sheets from Rumney arrived this morning. I wanted to see if the upgrade worked before puchasing them as there are no parts for the tank hold down straps. Plan to do the side platform type to provide some variation.

As the 4mm David Geen kit is not available, to assemble a train of 6 wheel milk tanks it is necessary to use one of the ready to run makes. Looking at the various versions available the Dapol one seems the best choice, not least because it has near scale metal ladders. From photographs there are two obvious improvements needed, but having obtained one, various other changes were worth making. So in reverse order of importance the “other” modifications were, removal of centre wheel brake shoes, replacement of buffer heads, removal of metal weight and restoration of the full width tank supports, adding the spring dampers. I have added weight inside the tank to give about 50 grams total. The spring dampers are present on the as bought model, but moulded as part of the brake hanger. The two more significant changes are the addition of the tank hold down straps and the replacement of the brake levers. The changes can be seen in the picture below comparing as bought with the modified vehicle. The Dapol model seems to be based on the drawing in Rolling Stock Worth Modelling Vol 1, by . This shows brakes on the middle wheels, and has the same long curved brake lever. None of the pictures I have access to show this form of lever, a more typical lifting link version has been attempted. There should be a small V hanger behind the spring damper but this so obscured that I considered it not worth the effort to fit. I intend to match in the paint work on the straps as best I can and then heavily weather the wagon. The resultant wagon will, I think, meet what the Americans term the 90/50 standard of model, getting 90% of the effect with 50% of the effort. On further attempts I intend to try and eliminate the boss on the base of the tank where the fixing screw is, and glue the tank directly to the supports. Also the spring dampers look a little over scale, so will try turning some up from brass rod.

In the book LSWR Locomotives The Adams Classes, by D.L. Bradley there is a side and plan general arrangement drawing, both are sectional views with may items dimentioned but difficult to read. the scale is just under 7mm to the foot.

Here is what is being supplied in the new Hornby 3rd class dinning saloon. They differ from the hunt couplings as the magnet are about 5mm lower than the plane of the NEM socket.

I think you will find all the answers here. http://www.circuitron.com/index_files/ins/800-6200ins.pdf

My understanding is that the DCS system migrated to understanding DCC commands so that it can be run on a DCC system, but you can only program the the decoder with a DCS system.

While the book by Rowledge confirms that the Stanier 2-8-0 locomotives intended for France had a continental wheel profile, and refers to section A1 for details, I cannot find any further information in the book. This cannot be a very significant change as both in the 1914-18 war and in 1940 British locomotives were in use, in France, with no modification to the wheel profile. There is no mention of a change of wheel profile in various accounts of the later war time 2-8-0s. The only change to the American S160 locomotive I can find is that on the first locomotives delivered it was found necessary to reduce the thickness of the flanges, to suit British pointwork

Many of the heavy haulage vehicles found use as fair ground transport. See link below for examples. http://mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5296

As andy says I do not think they supplied plugs, as back in the day the wander plug was common in radio equipment and easy to source. Aslo on EBAY these are a little cheaper. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/253375502633 The tradisional way of making the connections was to poke the wire in the hole and hold it in place with half a match stick.

These were known as wander plugs, size is 3mm diameter. They are rare and expensive these days https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363599726978?hash=item54a83b8982:g:bDAAAOSwkWRhfEOd A possible alternative is here, but still costly. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325026453049?hash=item4bad161639:g:kHIAAOSwwAZh-QJA

This is basically a repaint of two Lima Siphon G models, with home produced transfers. I know of only two pictures of these vehicles. The best image is in the book GWR Siphons. The other is in the NRM collection and a preview image is attached. The original was produced in 1945 and went on an extended tour of the country.