RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 19, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19, 2023 (edited) I loved looking at this yesterday…. with the G5 nearly here, this LT Tank, looking advanced. Then surely a Caledonian 0-4-4T cannot be far off being picked by someone. The coaches must surely follow… Edited March 19, 2023 by adb968008 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 19, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19, 2023 13 hours ago, PhilJ W said: CDC models are also making a body to fit on an M7 chassis but more importantly they are producing the Ashbury stock to go with it. https://www.facebook.com/1133764328/videos/pcb.1650170435443353/543656014578518 Link seems to be dead end? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus1 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 That's what I found as well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erixtar1992 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 6 hours ago, Metr0Land said: Link seems to be dead end? Probs as you arent in the london underground model railways group on FB 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 19, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 19, 2023 23 minutes ago, Erixtar1992 said: Probs as you arent in the london underground model railways group on FB The company that is producing the carriages, CDC design have already decided to drop the E class locomotive in view of the RTR model (neither company was apparently aware of the others plans). They are going ahead with the Ashbury stock and have Dreadnoughts lined up. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Devonian Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 On 17/03/2023 at 16:56, D826 said: Superb. My Dad, Ray Wood, was foreman at Neasden Steam Shed and drove L44- as well as Met F Class and the Panniers - (he's much photographed in the splendid book 'Red Panniers'). Going to have to get this. He smiled at the gentle treatment given to L44 in the first steam on the Met event in the early 90s. He said the old girl could take off like a rocket. He spoke fondly of L44, but loved, absolutely loved, driving the Panniers- said they would pull anything. This was the last run on the Sunday evening for the first Steam on the Met in 1989 . At the time it was thought that Steam on the Met was a one off and just in case it didn’t happen again they made sure they went out style ! No gentle treatment here . 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 19, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19, 2023 On 16/03/2023 at 15:10, AMJ said: Perhaps a 4TC in the fake Teak as used by the steam on the Met could be used behind it with the Bo-Bo on the other end It’s was an awful livery! Lucky enough to see Met 1 at baker st back during the 150th anniversary celebrations, was working for chiltern at the time and purely by chance had a 2 hour PNB at Marylebone so managed to pop over to baker st and grab a video of Sarah Siddons hauling the bluebell set with No1 on the rear, staked my spit quite early on so got a half decent video (obviously the old iPhone video tech shows in the video quality!) as it pulled in a service train pulled in on the opposite platform and blocked everyone’s view! I’ll definitely be ordering one soon, always enjoyed driving down the met with chiltern, my first experience of working the ‘underground’, ok a watered down bit of the system when it comes to the rules etc but still something interesting to have on the CV! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 19, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19, 2023 3 hours ago, Erixtar1992 said: Probs as you arent in the london underground model railways group on FB Thanks for the tip. Have joined today. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerTE Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Dreadnought stock bodies are also available as 3D printed items from Rue d'Etropol. Dreadnoughts were hauled by the E class, as Met. locos, from1910 when they were introduced until 1920, when the E class locos were all but replaced by the larger locos. However during WW2 when there were loco shortages LT used E class hauling Dreadnoughts on steam services north of Ricky. The E class never hauled the Chesham Ashbury stock (in service), but did haul Jubilee stock and the Ashbury stock as originally built. The only Jubilee stock kits I know of is sold by Roxey Mouldings. Ashbury (original) stock bodies are part of the Rue d'E 3D range sold via Shapeways. The Chesham set is available as a set of brass kits from London Road. I understand that Hattons are going to release their generic Genesis coaches in Met. livery so could be used. In an earlier post someone asked if the E class was used on the Brill branch. I can confirm that at least one was on the Brill branch when they dismantled it - my father's first job as a trainee fireman when he started working for LT. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) Just a side note to add to the information already given. There are book/internet photographs of E Class engines on the Chesham branch train, certainly in the 1920s and 1930s. From working timetables and a steam stock formation drawing, the typical Chesham branch train of that era seems to have been two coaches ('Main Line Stock'/Dreadnought). Formation was shown as a Third Brake and a Composite (one of three, surviving coach 509 in the VCT museum at Ingrow). Edited March 20, 2023 by Engineer clarification 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 20, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Engineer said: From working timetables and a steam stock formation drawing Where are these documents held? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) Sources of information - Working timetables and drawings - all held by LT Museum. Edited March 20, 2023 by Engineer Use of English 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pre Grouping fan Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Not yet had the opportunity to see Met 1 in person yet but just got to have one in model form! The EP sample looks stunning in the photos/video of it so can't wait to see the painted models. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2023 Did the E class ever venture on to East London line? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Narnia Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 3 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Did the E class ever venture on to East London line? I believe it did run a rail tour down there in the 1950s and I think L44 was used? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 (edited) See: https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/ 1 October, 1961 https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/611001lt.html Also, could have been occasional trips with an Engineers train over the years, but evidence needed. Edited March 22, 2023 by Engineer adjusted content 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2023 So that means that you could run one alongside the Accurascale J69. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2023 Moorgate. L44 & 'Metropolitan' railtour for New Cross Gate. 1.10.61 by Roger Joanes, on Flickr New Cross Gate. No. L44 running round its train. 1.10.61 by Roger Joanes, on Flickr 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2023 11 hours ago, PhilJ W said: So that means that you could run one alongside the Accurascale J69. I'm sure you could justify a route learner trip prior to the railtour 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Metr0Land said: I'm sure you could justify a route learner trip prior to the railtour My layout (Minerva Lane) is based on an extension of the East London line that was started but never completed, Whitechapel to Cambridge Heath. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nightstar.train Posted March 26, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2023 On 22/03/2023 at 22:38, PhilJ W said: So that means that you could run one alongside the Accurascale J69. I will, on my museum branch. I'm gaining quite a collection of weird and wonderful steamers for the museum. I'll have to have a Rapido cavalcade one day with the Stirling Single leading, then Thunderbolt, Met No1 and the Jones goods bringing up the rear. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 26, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2023 Found this on YouTube, featuring L44 (MET No. 1). 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebell Model Railway Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Had a look and a discussion at Alexandra Palace, the first Ep looks good, all round, a few things I brought up was the molded roof vents, which I thought was a little disappointing, either down to tooling reasons, or costs or a compromise on looks. All wheel pickup, some adjustments only minor apparently, but still deciding over ordering or not. Fortunately for me I have a few Ashbury (Chesham set) I 3D printed some 8 years ago now. Still on shapeways, currently, although I will probably pull them off there soon. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Narnia Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 On 19/03/2023 at 08:42, stewartingram said: I thought I saw a price of £120 for a 4-car rtr set? That’s a great price! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 (edited) On 26/03/2023 at 23:19, PhilJ W said: Found this on YouTube, featuring L44 (MET No. 1). Phil Thanks so much for posting this. I'm sure that's my Dad driving L52, shunting at Neasden. I have a CRColes photo here of him driving L52. He loved the F and E class, but he adored the pannier tanks. Said they would pull anything. Stopping was sometimes more challenging. Brilliant. Best regards Matt W Edited June 13, 2023 by D826 Completeness 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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