Bassett Lowke Class 10, 20, 30 and 60

[Geno6309]

"A common people separated by a common language."

[Peter]

It's not our fault the UK hasn't upgraded to the English 2.1b package yet

[AndyA]

It's not our fault the UK hasn't upgraded to the English 2.1b package yet Razz

Actually, from a strict linguistic point of view, the UK has upgraded whilst the US is still using version 1.3.0.8 ("Shakespeare"), although the West Coast seems to have service pack 2 installed.

regards
Andy A

[davidpk212]

Any progress? I've been thinking of bashing something into "George," a loco seen on "Hoyland Down," a garden at the RHS Malvern Flower Show just a short while ago. At least, I think it was called George... it looked very Bassett-Lowke-esque, as well... I think I'd like to learn more about the loco first, though. If anyone has any info about it, please PM me.

[Steph'H]

Hi David,

Here is a link to the website of the Downs School railway, who built the garden at Malvern.

http://www.dlrtrust.ik.com/p_HomePage.ikml

If you go to the locomotive page a photo of "George" is on there and there are more if you click on the image.

Following the Class 60 conversion with great interest, love it!

Cheers

Steph' H

[DCRfan]

Finally sorted out the bogies. The tender buffer beam and coal were both cut from the original tender.

[davidpk212]

I just realised - any reason for choosing the Bachmann model over the Hornby one? Do Hornby even do one, or am I wrong again? Hmm?

[DCRfan]

The Bachmann one was in the shop. Never seen a Hornby one.

[michael]

So you stuck with the blue ...... pity ...... Maroon would have looked great

[Bob Taylor]

May be of some help despite the delay in posting them. Sorry Paul. Various detail pictures of the cab area of River Mite Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway 2008.










Bob.

[DCRfan]

Thanks great pictures and very timely.
Wasn't aware an ejector mechanism was fitted for unwanted co-drivers/passengers When seated ejector (bungy cord) is hooked to person in left hand side. When the passenger talks too much the driver pulls back large lever on the right and the person is ejected into the countryside

[Brack]

sorry to re-awaken an old thread, but is there anywhere cheap/free for a good source of drawings for the class 30 atlantic? (or the sutton's - they're pretty much a 30) I like the class 60 too, but quite fancied having a bash at the atlantic as a very long term O9 project (when I've finished my 45% done garratt). Can't quite remember if there were side elevations in the ravenglass book, but thats at my dads house.

[Rob R]

As far as I rememember there is a full General Arrangement drawing in the Ravenglass Book (buried in the loft at the moment and SWMBO will start winging if I go up there now )

Rob

[DCRfan]

sorry to re-awaken an old thread, but is there anywhere cheap/free for a good source of drawings for the class 30 atlantic? (or the sutton's - they're pretty much a 30) I like the class 60 too, but quite fancied having a bash at the atlantic as a very long term O9 project (when I've finished my 45% done garratt). Can't quite remember if there were side elevations in the ravenglass book, but thats at my dads house.

I have drawings. I'll find them and PM to you.

[JackBlack]

I'm making my layout like that but a miniture railway.

[Brack]

have prised open the wallet to fund acquisition of a copy of the sutton book. Thanks DCR fan - Any drawings gratefully received, It'd be nice if there were a section on the gnatterbox where (copyright permitting) we could put drawings of 15" stock for non-profit modelling only. perhaps their may be less issues if the section was members only?

just thinking out loud - I know there are loads of legal issues around this, but many miniature railways are pretty modeller-friendly in terms of giving away drawings, presumably its good PR, good publicity if people see a model, and modellers often come to have a look at what they're building. Maybe it'd be easier to give away drawings on one place than answer repeated SAE requests?

feel free to shoot the idea down in flames - I know its likely too problematic, but it would be nice!

[DCRfan]

Well I've done my bit having drawn all the rollingstock and freely shared copies of said drawings of New Zelands prime 381mm gauge railway (the DCR).

With all our UK members you would only have to make 1 drawing each

OK who is going to start on your local miniature railway.....

[chris krupa]

A year or two ago I asked Severn Lamb whether they would let me have a drawing of one of their Santa Fe steam outline locomotives and got no reply. I know there are illustrative drawings on their web site but they are not detailed enough for model making purposes. One would have thought that the publicity of a model would have been useful.

Chris

[Gavin Sowry]

A year or two ago I asked Severn Lamb whether they would let me have a drawing of one of their Santa Fe steam outline locomotives and got no reply. I know there are illustrative drawings on their web site but they are not detailed enough for model making purposes. One would have thought that the publicity of a model would have been useful.

Chris

Which one do you want?

[chris krupa]

Hi Gavin, at the time, the 10 1/4 inch gauge version.

Chris

[Colin Peake]

To some degree, I can understand a commercial builder being rather reluctant to pass on drawings of one of their product lines. Whilst the chance of someone building a full size copy from them is slim, they perhaps feel they cannot take the risk. There are at least a couple of locos in the States that do appear to be 'reverse engineered' Severn Lamb products.

I once heard a story of an enthusiast who approached a Midlands engineering firm for loco drawings and was told he could buy them for £35... he declined!

Somewhere I do have an outline of one of the Rio Grande locos to 7mm scale, drawn up from known dimensions at the time. I really ought to measure the one my friend now owns

Colin

[Gavin Sowry]

Hi Gavin, at the time, the 10 1/4 inch gauge version.

Chris

...thought you meant to prototype AT&SF plans (which I can lay my hands on). They are only basic 'index' type plans, but have a lot of dimentions on them, enough, along with some good photos, to get a reasonable model.

[rockershovel]

good clear picture of the Severn Lamb loco at Ferry Meadows here

http://www.ferrymeadowsrailway.co.uk/News.htm

looking at it, the details seem to be indicative at best, ie the general impression of a steam loco but that's all. If you had the dimensions about right it would be an easy thing to make.

I have to admit, I haven't paid this railway any serious attention for a long while, despite living within walking distance. I've never been a great fan of 'steam outline' , particularly the 'diesel with a chimney' variety and the current loco is of this type.

I used to take the kids on it when they were small, but it had a real steamer then and anyway, they are grown now. It also has the great disadvantage of being a few hundred yards from the full-size Nene Valley railway, which runs full-size main line and imported Scandinavian locos, so it has a lot of competition.

maybe I'll have a stroll down there next time I'm home

[Brack]

Yeah, not a huge steam outline fan either - although the ones done well (the hudswell ones are nice looking beats though, although I'm still not a huge fan). But I agree, with a steam outline loco it must be much simpler to reverse engineer from a scale outline drawing than it would be with a steam loco.

[chris krupa]

I was very careful to explain what I wanted the drawings for and, I suspect, my name as a modeller is not unknown amongst the interneterati. Still, a nice refusal would have been helpful.

I've now sold the layout that I intended the Severn Lamb to run on but if I had access to drawings, I would be prepared to build another.

Chris