Nice to see someone else servicing this historical brand's locomotives, hope to see them running too. The Deltic has a Ringfield motor, the first ever incarnation as designed by electrical engineer Ronald Wyburn of Meccano Ltd. There is a top bearing oiling point on the motor unit and I also apply a tiny amount oil the bottom of the armature. Sometimes the magnet itself can depolarise and the armature itself can fail due to being wound around a plastic core which can break down, but yours sounds fine.
These look a lot like Trix Express but with normal width wheels. Did Hornby ever try to imitate the other feature that Trix had? Where you could control 2 (3 with catenary) locomotives on the same track?
Hornby did develop a system call Zero 1 as a digtal control system. dccwiki.com/Hornby_Zero_1. I have a Hornby Class 91 which can be run from the track or catenary. It has a switch on the roof to switch between the two.
Back in the 1950's and 60's Trix had a 3-rail system, as you say, which allowed two current supplies to the locomotives. This really appealed to me when I saw the adverts in the hobby magazines, but when I saw the Trix locomotives and rolling stock in the flesh, I considered Hornbydublo far superior in detail and realism. Hornby did not try to emulate the Trix system, maybe because of patents (?) or maybe because it would require a lot of redesign and retooling of their existing systems which had been designed and put into production in the 1930's. The main problem as I see it would have been insulating the wheels from each side. HD did have to undertake such a redesign in the 60's, of course, when they started producing their two rail track system.
The Coronation looks like a Dublo chassis under a Triang body… but… you say the body is die-cast ? Maybe it was a kit. Hornby Dublo only ever made the unstreamlined version.
@@forrestrobin2712 I'm also curious about this. Hornby definitely never made a streamlined coronation. After Dublo ended, a company called Wrenn had the tooling and continued to put out some variations including some streamlined coronations. I think this must be a Wrenn body as I'm not aware of any other metal die cast ones and the chassis is in the Dublo design. It's probably from about 1983 but the chassis could be original Dublo. If you want to sell it, let me know as I'd love to have a streamlined one!
Nice to see someone else servicing this historical brand's locomotives, hope to see them running too. The Deltic has a Ringfield motor, the first ever incarnation as designed by electrical engineer Ronald Wyburn of Meccano Ltd. There is a top bearing oiling point on the motor unit and I also apply a tiny amount oil the bottom of the armature. Sometimes the magnet itself can depolarise and the armature itself can fail due to being wound around a plastic core which can break down, but yours sounds fine.
Thank you for the information.
Good going, sir. Aye, you get to see it all, these days. Cheers!
Yes getting about.
Great demo and walkthrough, Well done and informative!
Thank you Anthony
These look a lot like Trix Express but with normal width wheels.
Did Hornby ever try to imitate the other feature that Trix had? Where you could control 2 (3 with catenary) locomotives on the same track?
Hornby did develop a system call Zero 1 as a digtal control system. dccwiki.com/Hornby_Zero_1. I have a Hornby Class 91 which can be run from the track or catenary. It has a switch on the roof to switch between the two.
Back in the 1950's and 60's Trix had a 3-rail system, as you say, which allowed two current supplies to the locomotives. This really appealed to me when I saw the adverts in the hobby magazines, but when I saw the Trix locomotives and rolling stock in the flesh, I considered Hornbydublo far superior in detail and realism.
Hornby did not try to emulate the Trix system, maybe because of patents (?) or maybe because it would require a lot of redesign and retooling of their existing systems which had been designed and put into production in the 1930's. The main problem as I see it would have been insulating the wheels from each side.
HD did have to undertake such a redesign in the 60's, of course, when they started producing their two rail track system.
Very interesting video, but chassis for steam and diesel do look different
Yes, but similiar motor.
The Coronation looks like a Dublo chassis under a Triang body… but… you say the body is die-cast ? Maybe it was a kit. Hornby Dublo only ever made the unstreamlined version.
Maybe, it is very old.
@@forrestrobin2712 I'm also curious about this. Hornby definitely never made a streamlined coronation. After Dublo ended, a company called Wrenn had the tooling and continued to put out some variations including some streamlined coronations. I think this must be a Wrenn body as I'm not aware of any other metal die cast ones and the chassis is in the Dublo design. It's probably from about 1983 but the chassis could be original Dublo. If you want to sell it, let me know as I'd love to have a streamlined one!