RMweb Premium njee20 Posted December 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2021 If you’re modelling the areas with the style of OHLE they’re doing. It varies hugely even within small sections of the WCML. It’s not where I’d put effort if I was a manufacturer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus1 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 When I was in charge of the MRC's New Annington layout in the 1980s we hand-built most of the OHLE using Sommerfeldt wires and insulators, the SNCF design single masts and scratch built spans. It looked good and worked mechanically if not electrically. We had very few de-wirements. Get building chaps. It IS possible as New Annington was an exhibition layout and very portable. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 This ISNT really about scratch building, yes, there are folks going out and scratch building this and that ... good for them, this is about a fairly standard Multi-track gantry which is common place on the WCML, which folk can simply apply to their layouts at a time when the following locos have flooded the market, Bachmann's 90, Heljan's 86, Accurascales' 92 and Hornby's 87. We can manage to have these new cutting edge locos and hopefully some bold manufacturer will deliver this structure as per what PECO have proposed so far Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuTheUseless Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 (edited) Sorry if bumping this made anyone think there was some news! Did anyone notice if the Peco stand at the Glasgow exhibition had the gantry on display? Edited February 26, 2022 by StuTheUseless Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TomE Posted February 28, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 26/02/2022 at 10:59, StuTheUseless said: Sorry if bumping this made anyone think there was some news! Did anyone notice if the Peco stand at the Glasgow exhibition had the gantry on display? I didn’t get a close up look, wrong scale for me, but the gantry was present in the display at MRS. It appeared to be the same prototype seen previously. Tom. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Yep and I asked the rep about progress. He said they’d had some challenges and the project was joint project with Somerfeld but couldn’t comment on timeline 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 couldnt comment on timeline ... lol i am sure it was pre Bachmann 90 time when i saw that gantry at my local .. so that's at least three years - three years to make something that someone else is making for you .. ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyneux Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 I got a couple of snaps at Glasgow: 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3, 2022 1 hour ago, lyneux said: I got a couple of snaps at Glasgow: I missed it at Glasgow, unlike Guy I didn't have enough time to network. Sadly Mk1 portal to go with their Mk3 cantilever mast. Visually as daft as a train with HST power cars and Mk1 coaches. I am also at a loss to what those nipple like features are, Mk1 Portals are welded so they cannot be rivets or bolt heads. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PMP Posted March 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3, 2022 29 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: I am also at a loss to what those nipple like features are, Mk1 Portals are welded so they cannot be rivets or bolt heads. They look like the assembly tabs for the etching. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arran Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 59 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: I missed it at Glasgow, unlike Guy I didn't have enough time to network. Sadly Mk1 portal to go with their Mk3 cantilever mast. Visually as daft as a train with HST power cars and Mk1 coaches. I am also at a loss to what those nipple like features are, Mk1 Portals are welded so they cannot be rivets or bolt heads. Well there you go Clive !!!! an opening in the market ? Crack on 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: I missed it at Glasgow, unlike Guy I didn't have enough time to network. Sadly Mk1 portal to go with their Mk3 cantilever mast. Visually as daft as a train with HST power cars and Mk1 coaches. I am also at a loss to what those nipple like features are, Mk1 Portals are welded so they cannot be rivets or bolt heads. Well, it hasnt advanced much in three years ... i just hope the vertical stanchions are a bit taller ... a Hornby 86 with its panto down on a piece of unmounted track was virtually touching the cantilever holding the contact wire when i saw it .. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyneux Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 4 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: I missed it at Glasgow, unlike Guy I didn't have enough time to network. Well I’m honoured that all your networking time was well spent visiting Oldshaw instead! See you tomorrow Clive… Guy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuTheUseless Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Thanks Tom, Matt, lyneux. At least it's still on their radar, I did wonder if it was being dropped altogether. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thohurst Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Has there been any update on this lately? Hoping Peco are still invested in bringing these to market. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium curlypaws Posted July 5, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2022 59 minutes ago, thohurst said: Hoping Peco are still invested in bringing these to market. Especially given that a number of more recent model announcements are of electric locomotives which run off overhead wires! I'd love to see a good selection of overhead line equipment from Peco as the initial items are very nice indeed. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trog Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 03/03/2022 at 18:30, Johnson Street IEMD said: ................. i just hope the vertical stanchions are a bit taller ... a Hornby 86 with its panto down on a piece of unmounted track was virtually touching the cantilever holding the contact wire when i saw it .. Have seen that in real life when the North London No1 lines were electrified a short length of track under a low bridge was lowered to give the minimum allowed electrical clearances. Soon after that section of line was transferred from us to I think the Eastern Region. Their supervisor took one look at this horrible little dip in the track and lifted it out again. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaneofFife Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Thing is i guess is that lattice type cant be easy to manufacture they are complex 3d items so i can its hard to pull out of an injection mould....still i would love to see a full host of ohle types inckuding masts with weights, termination gantries of 3 and 4 track spans twin arm masts double track lattices etc. Its all very slow to come to market. Dapol talked a good game of adding to their mk3 style masts but weve had zippo. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rhnrhn Posted August 7, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) On 30/07/2022 at 14:07, ThaneofFife said: Thing is i guess is that lattice type cant be easy to manufacture they are complex 3d items so i can its hard to pull out of an injection mould..... Sommerfeldt have a form of lattice post based on German Prototype - so it can be done: https://www.sommerfeldt.de/de/Abspannmast-105-mm-hoch--lackiert.html Edited August 7, 2022 by rhnrhn 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 On 07/08/2022 at 08:38, rhnrhn said: Sommerfeldt have a form of lattice post based on German Prototype - so it can be done: https://www.sommerfeldt.de/de/Abspannmast-105-mm-hoch--lackiert.html Thing is pet ... that doesnt look anything like any UK mast ... and when trying to replicate the actual thing, the devil is in the detail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted August 10, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Johnson Street IEMD said: Thing is pet ... that doesnt look anything like any UK mast ... and when trying to replicate the actual thing, the devil is in the detail. He didn't say it did. He used it as an example to show "it can be done", to which I would add Kato produce them in tiny N Gauge. They don't look like UK ones, either, but they show "it can be done" when a manufacturer is sufficiently interested 😎 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuTheUseless Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Don't suppose Peco had any gantry news at Warley, did they......? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 I have not heard anything yet but I am trying some more of ebayer blueflash90s OLE instead .. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Johnson Street IEMD said: I have not heard anything yet but I am trying some more of ebayer blueflash90s OLE instead .. I'll be interested in hearing your experiences, I've saved the guy on my Tatbay sellers list as I might be having to rebuild Wednesford for the seventh time and these really do look the business. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
66033 Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 Typical! Spent months making my Goal post/A Frame gantry, spending fortunes on brass sections (still not finished) to now find a great looking version is available on eBay. Looks top! 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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