was
never produced in model form unlike the more familar D800 Warships. If I
wanted to build a model D600 in OO gauge using another type as a basis, what
would be a good class to start from? The D800 looks very different so would
not make a good starting point.
John
Worsley Works do a D600 (often but incorrectly termed class 41)
Have a look here -
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although this is the 2mm offering, they can etch to order in any
scale - drop them a line. I have just completed the body for D602 in N
and I must say the quality of the etches is superb and way beyond some
stuff I have had in brass,
On 16/10/2005 19:17, snipped-for-privacy@talk21.com wrote,
The photo certainly looks nice a nice model. I have had a number of
"kits" from Worsley Works in 4mm scale, and the etches are very good.
You do have to be prepared for a wait though for anything special. I'm
still waiting for an item to be redrawn from (wow - I've just checked!)
May 2004. Maybe it's time for a chase!
Why is it incorrectly termed a class 41 ?
Although these locos were never physically renumbered with TOPS
numbers, like all the hydraulics, these locos did have class numbers
pre-allocated (22, 35, 41, 42, 43, 52) to them in preparation for the
introduction of TOPS in the early 70's. Like the 41, the 22's, 42's and
43's were well on the way out before TOPS was introduced.
So what's incorrect ?
Graham Plowman
There is contemporary documentary evidence for BR use of all those
class numbers you list above, *except for* 41. Whilst it would appear
logical that 41 had been reserved for the NBL A1A Warships, the class
was withdrawn en masse (Dec 67) long before the first publication of
the TOPS numbers (Sept 68 IIRC). The other hydraulic classes lingered
on for many years, and their class numbers appeared in many official
documents and publications, although they were never renumbered.
However, informal use of the term class 41 goes back a long way, I
remember that when the prototype HST appeared as class 41 in 1972 my
friends and I assumed the class number was being recycled from the
early Warships.
Further speculation would have it that E2001 (withdrawn 1968) was Class
80 but again I believe this does not appear in any official documents.
Similarly the AM1/301 AC EMU classification does not seem to have been
used although common conjecture is that it was allocated to the
Lancaster/Morecambe/Heysham sets, which also were withdrawn quite early
on.
On the other hand, other oddities such as classes 14,16,21,28,70 and 77
were in the published lists although the locos hardly lasted much
longer, most of them disappearing before the end of 1968.
Cheers,
Simon.
In this thinking, you can include the SR Co-Co electric locomotives
which are often termed Class 70 - made up of 3 members, one of which
looked markedly different from the other 2- these 2 had BIL type cab
fronts where as the other had a flat SUB like cab.
HAL or mid-era SUB type, surely, not BIL? The BIL's had prominent lipped
roof surrounds over the cab front, the HAL's were flush, as were the Co-Co
electric locos. The SUB's had all three versions of cab fronts. IIRC and all
that!
Cheers,
Steve
Depending on how much work you want to do (and whether the making is as
important to you as the having afterwards), then you might want to
start with a Hornby class 21/29 body. You would need to fit this to a
suitable Co (well strictly A1A) bogied underframe.
PhilD
Just to follow up on this - and sorry to labour the point, but if
anyone is interested, I have pretty much finished my Worsley Works
Kit. I modified it from the "as supplied" spec by going for the
face-lift version with split headcode boxes, but I think it
demonstrates that the kit gives a good rendition of the class.
Still got some odds & ends to do but take a look and see what you
think. Remember this kit is available in just about any scale you
model - you just have to ask.
Genisis do a kit for the D600 in '00'
Base model ok but needs obligatory work doing on it and I think Silver Fox
did a resin version in ready to run or build and paint yourself.
Steve
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