ScottishRailFanatic

On 19/02/2022 at 11:06, whart57 said:

Diesel twins appeared in Thailand too. These Davenport Bo-Bo twins were photographed at Chiang Mai  heading a Bangkok "express".

 

 

Amazingly some are still around albeit used singly as station pilots and shunters far out in the sticks. They're considered useful enough to have had a repaint in the new livery though

 

Haven’t posted here in a while, so here’s a slightly more BR-style version - albeit with a bit more Sulzer influence than Crompton…

On 11/10/2021 at 10:01, Flying Pig said:

 

It makes sense as an 0-4-2T which would have been quite conventional for the time.  Presumably there was a need to get it round tight curves, but a Bissell truck would have been a better idea (see the LNWR box tanks and sundry narrow gauge 0-4-2Ts).

Maybe something like this?

How’s this for an improved privately-built Bantam Bristolian?

4 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Does it have to have a fat driver to prevent it tipping over onto it's front? 

Well, let’s just say they’d need to have a fair few bacon baps to meet the job description…

Predecessor to the Stubby Swindonian…

… the Bantam Bristolian!

On 07/10/2021 at 01:11, LNWR18901910 said:

What a fascinating locomotive! It looks more industrial, really. But for British Rail to own one, what classifcation would it have?

Thanks! I agree with @tythatguy1312 on the classification, makes sense.

2023, here we come… 

Former DB ‘Shed’ wearing my logo design for GBR.

Stubby Swindonian 2: The Shortening 

The Stubby Swindonian

On 21/09/2021 at 08:36, Mol_PMB said:

... and that set me thinking on the GNR(I) and GWR parallels. The Western Region was heavily into diesel-hydraulics based on German technology, and the GNR’s only main-line diesel loco was also a DH from Germany. What if the GWR/WR had ordered a batch of these instead of the 1500 panniers?

 

I see your German DH, and I raise you a Class 19!

Imagining that the British Transport Police actually had its own fleet for branch lines - trespassers have been awfully quiet since they brought these in…

I can already hear the purists screaming… 

1 hour ago, john new said:

Pedantry I know but Wadebridge is a West Country not an MN. Interesting photo.

Apologies, I can’t help getting the two mixed up, no matter how hard I try not to!

A stock move on the Mid Hants saw a Merchant Navy (Wadebridge if I remember correctly) being shifted with no leading bogie, so it got me wondering what a downsized Merchant could look like…

3 minutes ago, Ramblin Rich said:

Sorry to pick this apart, but the 3rd driving axle is also going through the firebox/ashpan.

So it is! I can’t imagine it taking very kindly to being fired at all…

A rather unconventional 0-6-4T design, meant to represent an outside-cylinder version of the Midland Railway’s ‘Flatiron’ class…

I do often wonder why a Shay or Climax was never geared for speed, while sacrificing some of their admirable strength in the process…

In response to notes on my dual-cab 08, here’s a new bogie version. Along with that, here’s an Avonside-Peckett crossover 0-6-0ST.

The boiler has been slightly extended to house a larger firebox, but what I had in mind when I witnessed the original photoshop was a banker, where the extra weight (and subsequent adhesive improvements) would be well received.

1 hour ago, DK123GWR said:

Honest question: would this need to be extended into an 0-8-0 in order to ensure that there's enough space for all of the internal bits?

Quite possibly, unless we go for a smaller engine - a new version will be made later.

I’m sure it’s been done many a time before, but here is a concept for a Class 08 with dual cab operation. 

Impressive idea @DenysW! Here’s a side-on edit, with some slight alterations in measurements - I couldn’t be completely accurate to the original I’m afraid.

I sometimes wonder what a completely ‘Swindonised’ BR Standard 4 would look like…

(Photos are my own)

What if the National Coal Board took its operations up a notch?

A short-range yard inspection vehicle, powered by batteries. Effectively a shunter’s truck with motors and a control panel.