RMweb Premium daryll Posted December 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2022 Yes , its old , and yes its non-descript , neither BIL , SUB or anything else model on the Southern , but I love them. next is a strip down , replace bogies with Bachman 36-005A bogies using a plasticard floor and Ratio seats ,Printed seat covers , battery Lighting , and may be DCC , respray with halfords Brooklands green , new transfers from fox transfers , and flush glazing Some may ask why , why not 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 I have just bought one of these on ebay in shocking condition. But it now sparks its way round the oval like it's the no.1 song in heaven! 🤩 Even the headcode works. B.R. Blue for mine.....(you can't kill a Triang) 🤪 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 There's nothing wrong with having a liking for these units! I have couple of them myself, in various states of repair (bought cheaply many, many moons ago). Non-descript as they are, they still have a certain character about them. Enjoy them for what they are. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted December 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2022 Mix them with Triang M7s and suburban carriages and you have the basis of a nice period Minories. Add L1, BoB and 3MT with Mk1s and bogie van. Possibly, a something-like 4 CEP from cut and shut Mk1 parts and EMU power bogies (surely someone must have done that?). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 33C Posted December 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Flying Pig said: Mix them with Triang M7s and suburban carriages and you have the basis of a nice period Minories. Add L1, BoB and 3MT with Mk1s and bogie van. Possibly, a something-like 4 CEP from cut and shut Mk1 parts and EMU power bogies (surely someone must have done that?). Yep........Cheapo! Edited December 12, 2022 by 33C added photo. 18 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypherman Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 (edited) I have one of those Triang EMU's. It was my brother's before I got it. And I got it in 1955. He got it new. It still works well. I really do need to update it a bit, so I will follow how you get on with your modernization with some interest. Edited January 27, 2023 by cypherman 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Yes, I also have one of them. Not been used for decades, but had so much use in the past ,it was almost worn out by the time I got past my early teens and went on to other interests. Reading this thread has convinced me it needs at least a cosmetic update, so lead the way and some of us can pinch your ideas ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2022 Thanks to the OP I am now the proud owner of 4 car set. It's going to be part of a scrap train, I'm trying to recreate the trains I used to see going through Chesterfield on their way to Armytages. I realise the model is a bit of a work of fiction, but I'm going to replace the bogies with Bachmann 2 Bil spares so it can be de-motored and towed, maybe a bit of a repaint/renumber, yellow ends and that should suffice, it will be consisted with an old Triang SR bogie van which will have a detailing kit fitted, and voila, a condemned stock train. I'll probably keep an eye out for another set to make the working a little bit longer. Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2023 On 22/12/2022 at 20:33, Enterprisingwestern said: Thanks to the OP I am now the proud owner of 4 car set. It's going to be part of a scrap train, I'm trying to recreate the trains I used to see going through Chesterfield on their way to Armytages. I realise the model is a bit of a work of fiction, but I'm going to replace the bogies with Bachmann 2 Bil spares so it can be de-motored and towed, maybe a bit of a repaint/renumber, yellow ends and that should suffice, it will be consisted with an old Triang SR bogie van which will have a detailing kit fitted, and voila, a condemned stock train. I'll probably keep an eye out for another set to make the working a little bit longer. Mike. Update. I now have a 3 car unit, so in theory enough centre coaches to do two 3Sub units? I'm in the dunno camp about lengthening the coaches, what is the general consensus and has anyone got pictures of the short and long side by side to see the difference? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BernardTPM Posted January 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 I combined a Triang cab section (picked up cheap: broken side, no roof or bogies, painted silver!) with a 1970s Farish 00 suburban coach body to make something more like an Eastern Section 3-SUB or perhaps 4-LAV. 26 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 26, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2023 I think that Farish cut'n'shut is probably about as good as can be done with this model, and you might be able to make something like a 2-BIL in this way as well The big problem with Triang suburban stock (which is what these emus are based on) is that the gaps between the compartment windows between compartments were always far too large, remeniscent of first class gangwayed stock on the compartment side, such as LMS Period 1, Collett bowenders, Maunsell, and Gresley. I get why Triang made them that way; any less plastic between the compartments is going to seriously weaken the bodyshell's structural integrity, but it always put me off using Triang suburbans. I had the emu as a kid, and have to say the cabs are the best bit, not bad mouldings at all. It wasn't a bad runner either, but made an awful noise! The Tri/ish or is it Gra/ang hybrid is not a bad looking general impression at all. Friend of mine converted one to a 2-BIL by cutting between the window on what became the corridor side, didn't look too bad to me as a kid but it wouldn't cut the mustard these days! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 You're dead right about the Tri-ang suburbans, they have very generous legroom. Other than the curved, Mk.1 profile I think they look rather like early Collet GWR in both window shape and for those little horizontal handrails each end, but cutting and shutting to create Third Class compartments would be a truly heroic (and now quite a pointless) exercise. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 On 22/01/2023 at 02:49, BernardTPM said: I combined a Triang cab section (picked up cheap: broken side, no roof or bogies, painted silver!) with a 1970s Farish 00 suburban coach body to make something more like an Eastern Section 3-SUB or perhaps 4-LAV. I did something similar with some Farish coaches, converting them into a BIL and a HAL, using some slightly adapted white metal fronts and a cheap motor bogie fitted in the BIL, leaving the HAL as a dummy unit to be hauled. I still have them somewhere but no photos of them that I can find. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 On 26/01/2023 at 10:03, BernardTPM said: You're dead right about the Tri-ang suburbans, they have very generous legroom. Other than the curved, Mk.1 profile I think they look rather like early Collet GWR in both window shape and for those little horizontal handrails each end, but cutting and shutting to create Third Class compartments would be a truly heroic (and now quite a pointless) exercise. Don't let Clive M know you've said that! Roja 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Oooh, a B set from Clive? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium daryll Posted January 28, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2023 small up date. A rebuilt motor bogie , new bearings , felt pads , brushes ( these needed a slight mod), remagnetize magnet a good clean and a couple of drops of Sewing machine oil , purs like a kitten , both directions , very slow progress , due to illness 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Nice. How did you remagnetize the magnet 🧲? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium daryll Posted January 28, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2023 34 minutes ago, 33C said: Nice. How did you remagnetize the magnet 🧲? hi there 33C A friend of mine built a re magentizer , its 50/50 if you get the poles the right way round , as luck would have it , it was the right way round first time , a circuit diagram is available . https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-of-the-magnetizer-connected-with-the-coil-represented-by-Rmc-Lmc-The-elements_fig2_330520755 , the diagram is under copyright , so I only gave the link , looks a bit lethal if you ask me 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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