Well well, I had no idea that an A3 was fitted with Peppercorn smoke deflectors. Every day's a school day. Your closing remarks were spot on: if your enjoyment stems from watching reasonably detailed steam locos hauling trains around at speed, then these are for you. Some of my favourite locos are from this era, too.
A very nice video. I have a Hornby King Charles II GWR 4-6-0, an Airfix Royal Scot and an LMS 4F, all tender driven and they are absolutely fine. The GWR King Class is definitely an express engine and does not do slow starts, for exactly the reason you describe, I think. The Royal Scot is a lovely runner. the 4F was an oil covered basket case when I received it in the post, but with an overhaul, some restoration of the tender buffer beam. a good clean and some adjustment of the back to back gauge it is now a lovely runner. Just as you say, tender driven engines can be a challenge but if things work out do offer a much more reasonably priced opltion.
Thanks very much Richard for replying to my comment. That's the great part about the hobby sharing ideas and learning new ideas from other people to improve my Channel. Take care and stay safe DD.
Hi richard Hope you are well and enjoying the heatwave? Am sure you are sick of hearing of me. I have 6 or 7 tender drive loco in my collection 3 Margate ones rest are China made seagull and lms St Albans the 3rd one I have forgot the name but it an a3 in br blue. All good runner I mite show them on a video soon. The Chinese made are good a slow pace on track. Thank you for the information you seeing your models run. Keep safe arp
Always a pleasure to hear from you, Adi. Normally I don't do too much in the railway room at this time of year, but it's the garage on the north side of our house so cooler than anywhere else at the moment! After completing the filming I realised that I had a couple of Britannias that are also tender-drive. Given how expensive the recent Hornby loco-drive model is, I'll not be upgrading any time soon. I ought to film them at some stage.
The problem you mention is very noticeable when running tender first. With the Hornby models that I have there is a spring in the linkage between the loco and tender. I guess that if that linkage was made more rigid (in the manner that Airfix and Lima did with their tender drive locos which were permanently coupled together) then the tender and loco would move off at exactly the same time.
Sounds like maybe one of the ringfield motor drive gears has split. You can sometimes get these as spare parts from people like Pete's Spares on ebay, or Lendons of Cardiff, but they will need to know whether it's a China or UK made tender drive (often it says this on the abse of the tender.
Well well, I had no idea that an A3 was fitted with Peppercorn smoke deflectors. Every day's a school day.
Your closing remarks were spot on: if your enjoyment stems from watching reasonably detailed steam locos hauling trains around at speed, then these are for you.
Some of my favourite locos are from this era, too.
A very nice video. I have a Hornby King Charles II GWR 4-6-0, an Airfix Royal Scot and an LMS 4F, all tender driven and they are absolutely fine. The GWR King Class is definitely an express engine and does not do slow starts, for exactly the reason you describe, I think. The Royal Scot is a lovely runner. the 4F was an oil covered basket case when I received it in the post, but with an overhaul, some restoration of the tender buffer beam. a good clean and some adjustment of the back to back gauge it is now a lovely runner.
Just as you say, tender driven engines can be a challenge but if things work out do offer a much more reasonably priced opltion.
Wow Richard nice video you done like and share thanks DD.
Thanks very much Richard for replying to my comment. That's the great part about the hobby sharing ideas and learning new ideas from other people to improve my Channel. Take care and stay safe DD.
Hi richard
Hope you are well and enjoying the heatwave?
Am sure you are sick of hearing of me.
I have 6 or 7 tender drive loco in my collection 3 Margate ones rest are China made seagull and lms St Albans the 3rd one I have forgot the name but it an a3 in br blue.
All good runner I mite show them on a video soon.
The Chinese made are good a slow pace on track.
Thank you for the information you seeing your models run.
Keep safe arp
Always a pleasure to hear from you, Adi. Normally I don't do too much in the railway room at this time of year, but it's the garage on the north side of our house so cooler than anywhere else at the moment! After completing the filming I realised that I had a couple of Britannias that are also tender-drive. Given how expensive the recent Hornby loco-drive model is, I'll not be upgrading any time soon. I ought to film them at some stage.
Those 90s models are really stunning, but the tender starting first has been a sort of turn off for me. Is there a way to solve this?
The problem you mention is very noticeable when running tender first. With the Hornby models that I have there is a spring in the linkage between the loco and tender. I guess that if that linkage was made more rigid (in the manner that Airfix and Lima did with their tender drive locos which were permanently coupled together) then the tender and loco would move off at exactly the same time.
I've got st frusquin which looks like tranquil it makes a loud cracking noise coming from tender tried oiling but still the same
Sounds like maybe one of the ringfield motor drive gears has split. You can sometimes get these as spare parts from people like Pete's Spares on ebay, or Lendons of Cardiff, but they will need to know whether it's a China or UK made tender drive (often it says this on the abse of the tender.