Heads Up - New 0gauge LT models from Radley Models

[arun]

Greetings All - Hopefully in time for the Reading 0gauge show in the first week of December, there should be some new LT resin kits available from Radley Models.
The first is WPW1000 the ex-welding plant wagon now in working preservation as a simple well wagon at Didcot Railway Centre. It remains in frequent use as a jib carrier for the Centre's cranes as well as convenient way of moving loco boilers around the site.
The second is FB578 which, together with FB579, is one of the two 1935-built 10ton flat wagons converted to long welded rail train brake vans in the mid-50's. The model represents the vehicle in its present form ie., with the wider cab fitted around 1960. FB578 is currently preserved at Quainton Road.
The other kit newly released is the AEC Regent Breakdown Tender converted from the STL bus around 1950. Four of these still exist in preservation 738/9J and 830/2J.
At present the intention is to produce these in small numbers and in 0gauge only.

However, Phil Radley www.radleymodels.co.uk will be interested to hear from those who would like 00gauge versions.

The basic 10Ton flat wagon [F328/F329] from which the two brake vans were derived, is currently being developed as an 0gauge kit but is unlikely to be available before next years LT in Miniature Show at Acton.

Arun

NB - the AEC Regent has already been released.

[arun]

The test build of 0gauge WPW1000 is finished though, as we speak, the model is rather cleaner than the prototype today. Picture attached of a newly painted well wagon sandwiched between the LTM's L35 and B584. The model gets its first outing this Saturday at the 0gauge show at Reading.

[arun]

Following occasional requests for a 7mm trailer to go with the 1925CL DM, I've just completed the trailing ends of the 1931 Standard Stock trailer. The body sides should take very little time to do and of course the bogies are common or garden, V2 types as on the DM. Hopefully that will be available via Phil Radley sometime around the Telford show in early Sep. I would have done the 1923CL trailer but I think the surviving one at Acton has had all of its rather distinctive bodyside rivet heads sanded off so some more photographic evidence is needed before I do that one.

Arun

[metman]

Yes that early 23-25 batch had all the rivets standing proud on the body. Perhaps there are some photos from the Isle of Wight kicking about.

[arun]

[arun]

Whoops I forgot the text! This is the 3D Autodesk Inventor screenshot of the 1931 trailer - well, half of it anyway. Apart from the seats which shouldn't take very long, and the floor needing to be raised to clear the wheels, it is more or less ready to go off down the phone line to the 3D printers.

Arun

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I wish both Arun and Phil all the best with their O Gauge range and look forward to seeing O Gauge Underground layouts populated with their models.

Nigel

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If only I had more room. I love the idea of O Gauge, but I think it would have to be a garden railway.

[John Tuthill]

Apr 11, 2014 6:48:51 GMT metman said:

Yes that early 23-25 batch had all the rivets standing proud on the body. Perhaps there are some photos from the Isle of Wight kicking about.

"Tube Trains on the Isle of Wight" has good photos, but not close enough for that sort of detail.
Check out "Underground Movement" by Paul Moss Capital Transport, page 27. It shows a good 3/4 view of a 1923 BCWC DMC.
If anybody hasn't read this book, the tube train interiors of the 20's beggar belief. The lighting wouldn't last 2 minutes today, chandeliers? I kid you not.

[metman]

Yes Paul Moss has included some great photos in his book. The 1923 motor car photo would be an excellent reference.

Those lamp shades would be pinched I'm sure!!

[greenpark]

The tube stock looks good. Has anyone managed to find a supplier of nice O gauge motor bogies and bogies for tube stock?

[arun]

Phil Radley and I have hunted around for years for an 0gauge version of a SPUD/Black beetle type generic motorised  bogie where you just have to change the wheel dimensions and/or move the wheelsets further apart to adjust the wheel base. However, no joy so we use a finely detailed outer cosmetic bogie frame and, clipped within that, a generic motorised chassis of the appropriate WB. This is OK for battery locos, 1905 District Rly locos, standard stock, L8/9, L11, class 487 W&C line stock where the vertical motor [usually a 16xx] is inside a contactor compartment and thus invisible. For 1935/8/49 stock with its much smaller wheel diameter what is required is a small motor [12xx or 14xx] mounted parallel to the axles and driving an axle via a spur gear system. Bespoke versions of these can be readily [and are] manufactured as one-offs by ABC gears but are made to order only. The critical measurements are the distance from the axle to the centre negative return rail as that dictates the max. gearwheel diameter and whether the motor is contained wholly within the bogie frame envelope as that dictates how the bogie is pivoted and whether the motor is likely to protrude into the passenger compartment.

All of the above directly influences which stocks I design in 0gauge. Fortunately my long term love affair with Standard stock is entirely compatible with that.

It is entirely possible that sooner or later I will think about designing such a motor bogie since it will work just as well under any DMU/Diesel and/or electric loco as LT stock.

Arun

[greenpark]

Thanks Arun, that is most helpful.