Covetousness

don't know where the kit comes from the but the real thing was a monster...

built for banking heavy coal trains out from the sheffield coalfields towards Manchester up the killer inclines from silkstone, wombwell and towards woodhead. When working hard it used to chuck out so much clag, there were brass face masks in the cab that took air from rail-level so the driver & fireman didn't actually die... they didn't make that much difference by all accounts. With the enormous tractive effort, it used to push so hard that it would often buckle the floor of the guards van to the point that the doors became jammed pinning the guard in his van - practice came about that the doors were latched open before the banking started - just in case he had to bail.

Yo

For only?!?!? £168 you can make your own (though that eBay model is mighty fine looking). As to where the kit can be got ... from DJH of course ;-)

and if that URL wraps funny...

Enter site, click on UK and look in the L.N.E.R.-OO Scale Kits section.

BTW - What would the minimum radius of that model be? TIA

All the best

Fling

See, now didn't I say it looked awesome? ;-)

Guy

Yo (mesel')

Ya twit! Look at the picture of the loco ... big R = radius and it claims

30"!!!

DOH!

ahem :-/

Fling

I'll take six :-)

Whilst we're on the subject this is another pretty sexy beast ...

LNER 464 W1 "Hush Hush" ... never ever seen one of those before.

Anyone up to giving me a quick history lesson on the thing?

Not as big (AFAIK) as the Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy".

Yo

Just happened to come across this at...

In stock now (allegedly) for £134.50 DJH - K40 - LNER/BR Garratt 2-8-0+0-8-2

Cheaper than from DJH!

HTH

All the best

Fling

I am sure I read somewhere that Bachman had produced a HO RTR Garrett

- could this mean that it would be easy for them to do the LNER one?

John Ruddy offered me a plate of cheese and whispered:

Why not the LMS one instead? There were far more of them...

One of the Chinese factories is about to produce a New South Wales AD60 class in H0 for an Australian importer, it is expected to be the first RTR Garratt available in H0. As a much later design than the UK examples it has little or nothing in common that would be transferrable to a 00 model of one of the UK locos.

The only existing RTR Garratt AFAIK is the '0' gauge tinplate one currently advertised, often shown in LMS red livery although it looks nothing like the LMS Garratts being much smaller.

Keith Make friends in the hobby. Visit Garratt photos for the big steam lovers.

No, but its in every Gresley book and a quick Google search produces this on the first page

Keith Make friends in the hobby. Visit Garratt photos for the big steam lovers.

It was five to one in the morning and I have to confess not every brain cell was firing, cheers though.

ugly - looks like a great fat maggot

Having read this very good article, it occurs to me this might make a good static model on shed - coz it spent precious little time actually doing anything constructive. :o)

"Enzo Matrix" wrote

Don't want a Garratt - they're too big for most layouts BUT if I were to have one, then the LMS version would be far more useful. These were actually used for hauling trains, whereas the LNER thing was used for very little other than banking duties on Worsborough, Incline and later (unsuccessfully) on the Lickey Bank.

John.

I don't have a /use/ for it - I just want one :-)

Like I want a 9F (and got one off eBay for a reasonable price because here, too, I can't justify the full price). In the end, I like playing with trains. Am I a bad person? :-)

As I build up the realism of my layout I am sure I will be buying and building the DJH D20 and J9/J10 kits, both of which look very useful. I'll probably have at least one more N2 as well.

Guy

Of course, when the NSWGR Garratt model comes out, you could still get one and say that it's on trial on your layout.As an alternative, find one of the old Kitmaster LMS ones and try to motorise it. I'm looking at one of them (un motorised) right now, sitting on a shelf above my p.c. Regards, Bill.

In message , William Pearce writes

I have a sneaking suspicion that in spite of the fact that it's HO, it might be a bit too big for some of the clearances on a British OO layout.