Hi All,
The Graham Farish class 108 DMU in Br Green with speed whiskers do BF include fittings for the buffer beam to replace the Rapido coupler in the bax from the factory if so are there enough fittings for both ends, forgive my ignorence on British locos but did the class 108 only run as they are released by BF in pairs.
Quote from: upnick on November 15, 2011, 08:10:13 PM
Hi All,
The Graham Farish class 108 DMU in Br Green with speed whiskers do BF include fittings for the buffer beam to replace the Rapido coupler in the bax from the factory if so are there enough fittings for both ends, forgive my ignorence on British locos but did the class 108 only run as they are released by BF in pairs.
Hi Nick ! Yep, all front end pipe's etc are included. Couplers are NEM pockets so you can just pull the coupling out. :thumbsup:
Quote from: upnick on November 15, 2011, 08:10:13 PM
forgive my ignorence on British locos but did the class 108 only run as they are released by BF in pairs.
They were built as 2, 3 and 4 car sets, Farish covers the 2 and 3 car sets with both single power (one engine per set) and power twin (two engined cars) variants although they don't yet do the roof mounted headcode panel variant, only the roof mounted destination blind type. They could run in multiple with any other compatible DMU with 'Blue Square' equipment (class 101 and class 121 for example using current RTR equpment), and were also often worked in hybrid sets using cars from different DMU classes; so you
could run a class 101 and a class 108 power car together for a hybrid 2 car set, or any other combination of 3 car and even 4 car sets.
I remember travelling to school on these units. Tyseley used to throw out some real oddball hybrids, my favourite was a 5 car set formed using a 101 driving car, 116 lavatory comp, 108 trailer, 117 driving car and a 122 bubble...and not all of it was in blue/grey. There was NSE and Regional Railways in the mix!
Many thanks 4X2 /Zunnan they would look nice running on a DC shuttle track for the layout so i have them in mind possibly.
As a Stourbridge line commuter in the late 70s, I well remember Tyseley's fleet changing from perfectly formed 3-car BR 117 suburbans to a ramshackle mixture of hybrids. I guess the new cross city line meant Tyseley had to go cap in hand all over the country for anything with a blue square on it.
It was fun waiting on the platform at Langley Green not knowing what on earth might turn up. Could be anything from BRCW, GRCW, Swindon cross country, cravens, met-cam, or good old 117. Sometimes there was even a 47 banking at the front, though this would be removed at Langley.
At least one of their 3-car units had three brake vans, resulting in hardly any seats. On the plus side, alot of them had declassified first class accommodation.
Quote from: tadpole on November 15, 2011, 11:33:38 PM
As a Stourbridge line commuter in the late 70s, I well remember Tyseley's fleet changing from perfectly formed 3-car BR 117 suburbans to a ramshackle mixture of hybrids. I guess the new cross city line meant Tyseley had to go cap in hand all over the country for anything with a blue square on it.
I believe they were all concentrated in one or two sites towards they end as policy. Certainly commuting into Brum on the Solihull line you used to get anything lashed together providing it had a cab at both ends and enough working engines, including sometimes throwing in a 121/2 to give it enough oompf. Made for an interesting ride.
Likewise I always used to hunt the 'ex first class' bits 8)
Alan