Oxford enter the loco market.

[Broithe]

..with the Adams Radial..

 

 

..it'll probably be a while before we actually see a model - but, would it be of interest to us? It has an air of familiarity, but I don't really know my steam stuff very well....

[Warbonnet]

think they've had a prototype on show. Hornby doing one too but Oxford should beat them to the punch. Also doing some private owner wagons.

[jhb171achill]

Always thought that was a very elegant design..

[colmflanagan]

I am not aware of any irish loco which looked particularly close to this, though some companies (GNR/BCDR/DSER) did use 4-4-2 tanks they were mostly of Beyer Peacock or Sharp Stewart manufacture, and looked quite different.

 

However, I once used an old whitemetal "Ks" kit for this loco as the basis for a BCDR 4-4-2 tank, No 30 (the one in Culttra); It wasn't 100% accurate (naturally) but it's still running and no-one has ever mistaken it for anything else.

 

 

The drivers are too small, you need to alter the rear pony truck wheel, remove outside cylinders...I don't think it would be generally practical to starting carving up an expensive Hornby or Oxford model, though. However, someone may want to do it. And you never know, I might just have another bash myself someday...

 

Colm

[jhb171achill]

Neat model, Colm.

 

The Adams "Radial" tank, as initially pictured in this post, could with substantial remodelling of the side tanks be persuaded to represent a WLWR C5 class (as GSR designated them). There were but two, surviving until 1949 and 1957.

[steventrain]

W3003 from Wrenn Railway catalogue in the 1980s But never make it.