Hornby-Dublo All The Way
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- In this session I'm featuring Hornby-Dublo locomotives and rolling stock, unlike previous running sessions where H.D. has been featured alongside their successors in the Wrenn range. I've been fortunate to recently acquire some of the train sets where the contents have been in remarkably good to excellent condition even if the boxes have left something to be desired!
As is my want with these treasures I have undertaken some judicious cleaning and tidying up. The 'Coronation' has been cleaned and the brightwork polished up. The cylinders were very 'rough' and tired looking as well as chipped paintwork. I have smoothed down the cylinders to the bare metal and re-applied the maroon black and silver paintwork and applied new black and yellow lining. The tender chassis has been repainted and now looks much smarter. The 8F and 'Castle' were all in excellent condition, clean and tidy. In all cases I have repainted the buffer beams and buffers as these always looked like an after thought by H.D. and Wrenn. Coaches were well nigh perfect, no marks, scuffs, deterioration or frosting. Hornby Dublo holds a special place for many in this hobby and justifiably so and I hope you all enjoy this session.
Had those three locos and rolling stick as a young boy (my parents spoilt me), and what fun it was! Glorious! ❤❤
Hi, Many thanks for your comments and the nostalgia. I'm delighted the session brought back memories for you!🙂.
Just over spent, but gladly so, for a lot of locomotives that included a HD Castle. They have so much character and I enjoy restoring their tired selves to almost new running condition. It's such a joyous feeling to see them running
Thank you for your insightful comment. I completely agree.
With you on that. Good solid engineering. Love these Dublo locos. I’ve bought a few dogs on eBay and they’ve all been Saveable with a little work. My favourite is a really very worn and damaged non running 3-rail Duchess of Atholl. I repainted, renamed and renumbered her in experimental LMS blue as 6234 Duchess of Abercorn. She’s gorgeous, and after a strip down, a thorough service and a new neodymium magnet she looks and runs like a dream. She’ll haul 9 heavy tinplate coaches, including the weighty Dublo TPO coach with no issues. Look forward to your next Dublo video!
@@forrestrobin2712 Many thanks for your your comments and experience with restoration of H.D. models. Fascinating!
Aah, yes. City of London. Brings back memories of 60 years ago. My HD train set with that very same Crimson Lake Coronation choo-choo. Although I do remember it didn't take too kindly to corners... derailed more than any loco I had. Probably a combination of tight corners, weight of metal and a 9-year-old's predeliction for speed.
Many thanksfor your comments and recollections! Memories are a precious commodity. I'm guessing that the derailments had more to do with speed than anything else...😊
Superb models! I was really impressed to see level of detail in the valve gear. I don't recall seeing the piston-valve stem moving in modern models. So lovely to see these beautiful Hornby locomotives running so smoothly. Many thanks indeed for your painstaking work, and then uploading the results.
Thank you very much indeed for your thoughtful insights and keen observations. You are correct about the full actuation of the Walschaerts Valve Gear to be observed on Hornby-Dublo locos and their Wrenn successors. To be fair, Bachmann have been modelling the full operatonal movement of that gear for over twenty years now, it's just that you don't see it. First off, the motion on current models tends to be blackened or darkened for added realism and secondly the movement is only very slight indeed. This is probably closer to the real thing as drivers would alter the cut-off settings of steam admission to the cylinders according to optimum operational and economy requirements so the valve rod movements could be very slight in some situations. Hornby, as far as I know, have never had valve rod movements on their locos. I make no judgement on that for the reasons already stated. Hornby-Dublo (and Wrenn) have always had full Walschaerts Valve Gear movement (A4 late 1930s and Coronation - Atholl post war). One of the reasons you notice it more is the very shiny polished finish applied to the valve gear and rodding. Delighted you enjoyed the session!
Lovely ! Great video as usual . Love seeing the trains run on this layout
Thank you Russell. Always appreciate your contributions. Delighted you enjoyed!
Just shows once again that these old Dublo locomotives can really hold their own against todays overpriced chinese plastic equivalents. 👍🥰 Wonderful, thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
Another excellent running session and a lovely collection of HD models.
I think I have said before to you that I still have my late father's HD Cardiff Castle. My dad bought it from Gloucester in his younger days unboxed. I wonder if it has a different chassis on it because the motor doesn't stick out of the cab or it may have been a 3 rail to 2 rail conversion? I did find a genuine box for it.
Thank you again for your comments, observations and support. Yes, I do recall you mentioning the origins of your 'Cardiff Castle'. The first renditions of the 'Castle' and '8F' were three rail and they had a smaller motor, similar to the X03/4 that Tri-ang had in all its locos. When Hornby Dublo adopted 2 rail the 'Castle' and '8F' were outshopped with another variant of the massive Ringfield motor which necessitated modifications to the cab end and probably the chassis as well.
The Castle showcased here is from a train set I purchased recently and is in better nick than the one I've shown before which my uncle had left me. It's all good stuff!
@@crewelocoman5b161 Then with what you say then itay have started out as a 3 rail model?! I do remember my dad saying the there was a number of loco's being modified to 2 rail as 3 rail was becoming discontinued.
@@lyndengrant1657 Checking with my Hornby-Dublo Book of Trains, Both the two rail and three rail 8Fs came out at the same time in 1959. In 1960 48073 came out as a 2 rail powered by the Ringfield motor. Whether 3 rail production of the 8F continued after this date with the the Ringfield motor isn't clear from the chapter on the 8F. 🙂
Cor blimey!
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