35005 Canadian Pacific

Sometimes its hard to keep up with whats going on............. Tenders still Brunswick though.

 

HaHa you know we change our minds every 5 minutes on the railway

 

No comment!

But you're at Eastleigh......... Dave started to whip you into line yet?.......... or are you bribing him with tea/coffee & bickies?...........

 

Sort of, he sweetened us up with mini flapjacks which meant our tea break took longer ;-). In all seriousness work is progressing nicely as you can see from the photo we have almost finished cleaning and i for one am flipping glad of that.

 

I thought you said it would be finished by Friday............. or was that your Airfix model?........

 

If it was one of my kits it won't be done this side of 2020. ;-)

 

Thank god it aint.......... best get cracking Grommit!

 

Of the original air smoothed Bulleid's still with us, the count is five high sided , 4 modified, 1 without tender.

34007 - 4500 gal High sided (new body/new underframe/new wheels)
34023 - 4500 gal High sided (new body)
34051 - 4500 gal Modified, as withdrawn
34067 - 5500 gal Modified (new body)
34070 - 4500 gal Modified (ex 34023 body/new underframe/new wheels)
34072 - 5500 gal Modified (new body/new underframe/new wheels)
34073 - No tender
34081 - 5500 gal High sided (ex 34028 'demodified')
34092 - 5500 gal High sided (new body, mounted to 4500 gal underframe)
34105 - 5500 gal High sided (new body)

 

Oh for Wadebridge in malachite green and "sunshine" lettering! That would be such a fine sight...

 

Agreed!



Picture Source: http://www.wadebridge34007.co.uk/PicsFiles/001.html

 

go nicely with 925 and 850 then you would have the imediate pre war livery and the post 1945 livery 850 is in the livery just before Malachite was chosen i believe , parson's green isnt it?

 

Any idea why?

 

I would've thought authenticity would be the main reason?

Keith

 

Well 35006 has a class 33 wheel set for its tender as well and I always assumed it was something to do with mainline running so wonder if that was the reason behind Wadebridges original wheel set as well.

 

It's cheaper/quicker/easier to acquire some class 33 wheelsets rather than go to the trouble of casting new BFB wheels, acquiring tyres, making new axles and all the associated machining, pressing etc. I don't think mainline running comes into the equation.

Keith

 

Absolutely agree. The option for BFB wheelsets was taken for authenticity AFAIK. I think the MHR either had a pattern made or borrowed the one Southern locomotives possess.
I do remember seeing a gas axed BFB tender wheel laying on the ground outside Ropley shed many years back, so maybe this was used as a basis for a pattern.
34058 I believe has a full set of BFB wheelsets made and stored awaiting the turn of its rebuild.

 

Returning the thread to topic. New boss man has posted his first update on the Mid Hants website here

 

Are you sure that they're class 33 wheels? I seem to remember seeing the tender chassis when it was being built at Cammel Lairds (under a MSC scheme IIRC), and being told that they were class 40 wheelsets. Not that it really makes much difference.
Ray.

 

You could well be right. When 35006 returns to steam we can have a snoop hopefully it won't be long

The big question is who will be done first 05 or 28.

 

All I know is that the wheeles are off of the exact loco from the great train robbery. At this point I can only mumble about "green ones" and "blue ones" and gently doze off...