This image is based on one of the most unlikely and least known models ever produced by Triang Railways and it successor. Based on an existing model of the UK Brush Type 2 (Class 31) locomotive and complete with inappropriate UK-style buffers, R307 was offered to the Australian market in the maroon and yellow livery of the New South Wales Railway. This rare model is understood to date from 1976 (updated 10-Dec-20)
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Lima drew heavily on artistic licence when it offered its Midland 4F as a psuedu-Irish steam locomotive in 1977. The real 628 was a Coras Iompair Eireann J5 Class locomotive that had originated with the Midland Great Western Railway. There was some likeness in the model, although the running number would more likely have been yellow and CIE freight locos did not seem to carry the ‘flying snail’ logo. Whilst it is easy to dismiss models such as this, they were important in establishing and stimulating a market for ready-to-run models of Irish prototypes (08-Jun-22).
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Tri-ang’s small diesel shunter was based loosely a design by the North British Locomotive Company supplied to British Railway’s Scottish Region in 1958 and 1959. By comparison with the actual locomotives, the model sports modified bonnet sides in order to accommodate the British Railways emblem (which, on the actual locos, was placed on the cab sides). This digital representation is based on one of the earlier D2708-80 batch, with the aforementioned bonnet side modifications. In reality, the North British shunters did not enjoy long lives with British Railways, being victims of declining freight traffic standardisation of locomotive types (17-Dec-22).
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Perhaps the most popular model of the early Hornby Dublo period was the LNER N2 0-6-2T, which launched the Dublo range alongside the Gresley A4 in 1938. Many variations followed - some more realistic than others, much to the confusion of schoolboy spotters. In reality, the N2 was a Gresley design for the Great Northern (later London & North Eastern) Railway and no locomotives of comparable outline could be found elsewhere. In the absence of more prototypically correct GWR, LMS, Southern models, it is not surprising that Hornby Dublo offered these liveries on its N2. More surprising, perhaps, is that some or all of these spurious liveries continued to offered by Wrenn when that company acquired the former Hornby Dublo tooling in the mid-1960s (16-Jul-22).
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Corgi must have done very well from its Stobart range of truck as, presumably, must Stobart itself from the necessary licencing agreements. Unfortunately, many of the models were well off the mark in terms of being accurate representations of real-life prototypes. I’m not aware of any rigid eight-wheelers in the Stobart fleet, other than the latter-day Scanias in the Stobart Rail fleet. That said, the ERF KV dropside was an attractive model. This digital representation is based on the Chain Bridge Honey Farm’s YMS III (itself the subject of an EFE model), photographed at Chester-Le-Street in 2006 (updated 20-Oct-22).
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