Quote from: Roy L S on July 31, 2025, 01:41:23 PMOf course we shouldn't forget that the Dapol J72 is on the way and is currently at EP stage, that would be an eminently suitable loco to pair with these wagons!

Roy

And the J72 was not unknown "North of  Hadrian's Wall" either.  Kittybrewster shed had a few in the 1950s.  Also Eastfield.  I might be tempted.

I think I've posted about J72 allocations on that thread-indeed there were some at Kittybrewster, Eastfield, Keith, St Margaret's and Thornton for various periods.

Martyn

Quote from: GlenEglise on July 31, 2025, 09:59:19 PMThese special editions are not really something I'd care to purchase.

Sorry Bachmann but It may fit with Rail 200 but not for me.

GE

Thanks for letting us know.

A bit of an unnecessary and sanctimonious comment Richard?

Dave

Quote from: Southerngooner on August 01, 2025, 04:18:18 PMA bit of an unnecessary and sanctimonious comment Richard?

Dave

Couldn't have put it better myself

Quote from: icairns on July 31, 2025, 03:07:36 PM

Quote from: martyn on July 31, 2025, 01:36:57 PMOne for icairns to post about.

Well, I would never have guessed Bachmann's new tooling announcement would have been about these NER and LNER hopper wagons in a million years!

Having built several of these wagons over the past two years (2mm Scale Association resin kit and West Highland Models 3D print) I really don't need any more but I think I will be in the market for two or three when they are released.
 
As previously stated, I believe that these hopper wagons were primarily found in the North-East of England in NER, LNER, BR, and NCB service.
 
They are noticeably "vintage" in design and I love the long end stations (end pillars) and distinctive hand brake levers.

One for @cmason to post about.

Ian

@icairns


Well Ian,

This is out of the blue and very welcome! and it is going to cost me a few bob isn't it?

And I am very happy to see quite a variety planned - albeit they all appear to be be from one underlying moulding - which, if one has spent the time I have with nose buried inside North Eastern Record as well as the relevant Taplow volumes and other sourced, does not cover all the variety ( such a huge number of P7s produced that was bound to happen).

Anyway it is most pleasing! One can never get enough NER rolling stock, with or without an L in front  ,

Cheers,

Colin.

Personally I'm delighted they've chosen a long-lived wooden hopper wagon. I'll buy at least five to mix with my rakes of N Gauge Society 21T steel hoppers (they ran in mixed rakes in the NE up to the late 1950s).

The logical model loco to go with these is a J27 or J21, examples of both are preserved, but perhaps I'm hoping for too much there. They certainly never ran behind a J72 in the Northumberland coalfield.

Quote from: Southerngooner on August 01, 2025, 04:18:18 PMA bit of an unnecessary and sanctimonious comment Richard?

Dave

i'm glad i'm not the only one hes had a go at.

I deleted an entire thread in order to avoid an online slanging match.

Quote from: BlythStationLad on Yesterday at 05:03:21 PMPersonally I'm delighted they've chosen a long-lived wooden hopper wagon. I'll buy at least five to mix with my rakes of N Gauge Society 21T steel hoppers (they ran in mixed rakes in the NE up to the late 1950s).

The logical model loco to go with these is a J27 or J21, examples of both are preserved, but perhaps I'm hoping for too much there. They certainly never ran behind a J72 in the Northumberland coalfield.

A J27 would be nice for these. Maybe something Sonic could get their heads around?

Agreed. There seems to be a distinct lack of smaller locomotives for all regions out there.