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Ok. Jedwood. who are they and why are they popular?
giz replied to the penguin of doom's topic in Wheeltappers
That's an insult to my four year old daughter. She's quite partial to Peter Gabriel actually, especially Sledgehammer. Keeps asking me to play it in the car. -
Seeing as the brake is worth about a tenner, that makes the TSOs £50 apiece.
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I use TCS DP2X-UK decoders in my Heljan locos. I've tried them in 47s, a 33 and a 26 with excelent results every time. These are rated at 1 amp continuous, 2 amps peak. The first Heljan loco I chipped was an early 47 and I used a Bachmann 3 function which got rather warm and kept cutting out. I swapped for the TCS and everything was fine. I have also tried a Bachmann chip in the 33, it didn't seem to be over taxed like the one in the 47 but wasn't as smooth pulling away from a stop as it was when I tried a TCS.
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I've got four of those still in Bachmann's original outer packaging unopened. Paid £9 apiece. I think i've also got another four or five somewhere. Maybe I'd better up the house contents insurance!
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Mk3 sets usually had a Mk1 BG fitted with B4 bogies which were specially rated for 110mph running (coded NHA I think) before the advent of DVTs. Before that the BGs were B4 equiped but only 100mph rated. BGs with Commonwealths came later (late 80s ish) and were more for parcels use. There were a few Mk3 brakes, BFOs, but they weren't built until about 1985.
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There's always the odd exception: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/3861945278/in/set-72157604142594351/ A Deltic at York with scottish mk3s. My guess is these were after transfer but before the start of the push-pull services.
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This one seems rather optimistic: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/R426-TRIANG-MIDLAND-BLUE-PULLMAN-PARLOUR-CAR-BXD-XCLNT-/150498556313?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item230a69b999
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The RFO won't be of much use as it has seating only and no kitchen.
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Strange Prototype (of what?) in East Anglia
giz replied to trisonic's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
That's what it was like when I first started work there. The first thing we did was to close one lane off for the whole length. A guy used to drive up and down all day maintaining the oil lamps and replacing the squashed ones. We nicknamed him Aladdin. There were a couple of fatal crashes in the roadworks in the 6 months I was there, including one involving a young graduate engineer I worked with. -
Strange Prototype (of what?) in East Anglia
giz replied to trisonic's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
It's not really surprising that this stretch of the A14 is so heavily overloaded. I worked on the dualing of this stretch of what was then the A604 as a student in the late 70s. In those days it was primarily a link road between the end of the then new M11 and the A1. East/west traffic in those days used the A45 (now A428) towards St Neots. When the A14 was built it was done on the cheap and used this part of the A604 as well without any further upgrades. -
There are photos and drawings in Keith Parkin's Mk1 book. The seating was 2 + 1 as in a normal open first but there were no tables and they could be rotated through 180 degrees to face in either direction (except those at the partitions which were fixed). In the photo they are arranged aircraft style but it looks like they could also be set up face to face. The small windows lined up with each seating row. There were 36 seats in total. Edit: Re-written to make clearer the seating arrangement
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The Warships had two dynastarters (in the nose coupled to the transmission via a shaft ISTR). On D870 it was planned to uprate this these provide ETH, as Pennine says above some parts were ordered and maybe even fitted but the work was not completed. The Westerns would have probably been similar. If it wasn't possible, a generator set as used in the push pull 27s could have been used instead, located in the boiler position.
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The Mk1 BG was on the shorter underframe as this gave increased route availablity. Some routes were barred to 64ft Mk1s. Also, ISTR that there were some similar restrictions due to the longer length of some pre-nationalisation designs of BG (e.g. LNER).
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I've just ordered one to go with my Lima version of 366 I did to celebrate passing the memberhip exam.
