Following some gentle arm-twisting by Tony (t-b-g) I thought I would do what he has suggested and tell everyone a bit more about the pictures that he posted on here last week.
For those who aren’t too familiar with ex-Hull and Barnsley Railway locos, No. 2495 is a J75 and 2450 is a J80. Pictures of the prototypes were kindly posted by micknick2003. Both models are scratchbuilt in brass with castings from Dave Alexander, Arthur Kimber and my spares box. They both have High Level gearboxes and cheap Mitsumi motors and, as Tony has kindly mentioned, run pretty well. I have no connection with either Hull or Barnsley and built the models because l like the look of the prototypes.
The 2-2-4T is LNER class X2 (the only one in its class). The prototype was mostly used on inspection saloon duties, which is what the model can just about manage to pull. Again, scratchbuilt in brass.
The locos are EM gauge – but you probably guessed this given that they had a run-out on Buckingham.
Thanks to Tony for posting the pictures and finally persuading me to post something on here after many years of looking at RMWeb as a non-member.
Cheers
Chris
