Hornby J50

Kestrel · Post by **Kestrel** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 4:24 am

On http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/news/the-en ... /class-71/ Hornby have revealed a photo of the J50's components.

Scroll down the page to near the bottom and you'll see this. They will be discussing it in a fortnight.

manna · Post by **manna** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:46 am

G'day Gents

Oh good, they're going to sell it as a kit

manna

Hatfield Shed · Post by **Hatfield Shed** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:50 am

Hopefully the fortnight will allow for the test assembly to be shown. Good progress from the original announcement, could be here by year end, another very useful engine from the right design shop. Also good, looks like the same motor seen in the J15.

Horsetan · Post by **Horsetan** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:49 am

manna wrote:G'day Gents

Oh good, they're going to sell it as a kit .....

That would actually be an ingenious alternative way of selling a model - i.e. a CKD kit.

Wouldn't need the motor, gears or wheels in my case

52D · Post by **52D** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:44 pm

Horsetan wrote:
manna wrote:G'day Gents

Oh good, they're going to sell it as a kit .....
That would actually be an ingenious alternative way of selling a model - i.e. a CKD kit.

Wouldn't need the motor, gears or wheels in my case

An old Tri Ang idea remember they did a CKD kit of a Woodhead Electric with choice of names.

James Harrison · Post by **James Harrison** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 7:27 pm

Considering how many differences there were between the members of the class, Hornby might be onto a winner if they were to market it as a kit too.

No 'it's not the right subclass', 'the one Hornby modelled didn't run in my area at my chosen period', 'this/ that/ the other isn't fitted' claims, plus it'd be easier to hackbash/alter/superdetail without having to worry about damaging detail or paintwork you want to keep.

FelixM · Post by **FelixM** » Fri May 29, 2015 9:29 pm

There is a new Blog entry on the Hornby blog about the new J50:
http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/news/the-en ... ng-sample/

Kind regards
Felix

James Harrison · Post by **James Harrison** » Sat May 30, 2015 10:02 am

Certainly looks good to me.

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:52 pm

There were two of these at Darnall in the early 50s.

Always one in Park Station sidings, as the N2.s were not strong enough to shunt in there.

The other one was used to take coal to Neepsend Power station, again the N2.s would have struggled with the load the J 50s had to pull up to there

I think one was 68990 the other numbered somewhere near that, anyone who can confirm the numbers of the two we had.

45568 · Post by **45568** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:26 am

http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php? ... et&ad=&sc=

Seems to show that 68983 and 68990 were allocated to Darnall from 1/1948 to 11/1952.
Cheers from Oz,
Peter C.

teaky · Post by **teaky** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:57 am

Does anyone know if there is a pre-war LNER equivalent of this database please?

Atlantic 3279 · Post by **Atlantic 3279** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:38 pm

I believe that's called the "Yeadon's Register of LNER Locomotives" series of books. I'm unaware of any free database!

teaky · Post by **teaky** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:59 am

I suspected that might be the answer. A full set of Yeadon's is beyond my budget I fear.

manna · Post by **manna** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:08 pm

G'day Gents

Teaky, you'll have to be like me then, buy one at a time when you see the odd bargain, but with me I have to add at least 10pounds postage to Oz, I have the grand total of TWO, so far,

I wonder what else the chassis of a J50 will fit, J3, J4, ETC !!!

manna

Cullercoats · Post by **Cullercoats** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 2:29 pm

Hi, I managed to complete a collection of Yeadons using Amazon and the Book Law shop in Nottingham.

Rgds
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