LNER O1 Thompson 2-8-0

[Mark R]

Hi,
Has anyone ever tried making up a LNER Thompson O1 by fitting a Langley whitemetal B1 body to a Farish 8F 2-8-0 chassis? I guess a GCR tender would be needed; perhaps Union Mills could supply one. It would be a useful loco.
Regards,
Mark

[Wingman mothergoose]

Just come across this!
That sounds like a good idea to try, I've already seen a K1 made out of the Langley B1 kit, and there was a REALLY good O1 on ebay a while back, but it went for stupid money unfortunately! How difficult are the Langley kits to solder up?

Chris

[dodger]

I made a lot of Langley kits about 20 years ago. The larger parts are easy to solder, but I often glue the smaller parts.

Dodger

[Roy L S]

The Langley B1 kit is about as simple as they come, I think six parts!

I think I must have made six or seven including one for a K1 conversion (Apply 3ft Rule!)
Cleaning up castings seems more of an issue these days but with care this kit goes together fine.

Personally I think the height of the running-plate would make it unsuitable for an 01 conversion employing the 8F chassis without doing so much surgery that you might as well scratch-build it.

GCR tender was available from GEM (Lychett Manor now) with the Director kit and also Foxhunter for their GC ROD kit, don't know about now.

Union Mills would no doubt supply a tender but don't forget it would contain a tender-drive unit and is very heavy so stripping the drive out and using it free-running would be far from ideal!

Regards

Roy

[Stevie DC]

For my 3D printed O4, I'm looking to use a Dapol 38xx chassis with a rebuilt tender chassis. If I was going to do an O1, I'd probably be looking to attach the valve gear from the Farish WD... Don't quote me on that as I've not saved up enough yet to get a 38xx chassis to prove the O4 idea...

K1 (yes Roy that's in my to do pile!), I'm holding out for the Farish N Class as a donor chassis - not quite right but very very close...

[geminijkr]

Hi Steve,
After my experience with the K3, I would be interested in an O1. I might consider an O4 as well but I have three foxhunter professionally built kits on Farish 8F chassis.
Keith

[Wingman mothergoose]

I've got a Foxhunter O4 on a Farish 8F chassis, it hates dirty track but it looks awesome!
Would have at least one more O4 though, and I'd love an O1 or 2!

Chris

PS, If you want to part with one of your O4's let me know! ;-)

[Stevie DC]

Hi Keith and Chris,

Rather than turn this thread into what I may do in the future (not my intention from my original post), I've contacted both of you privately on these matters.

Hope this is ok.