Old Farish Pannier

[Cutter]

Hi,

Can anyone confirm my hunch that the old Poole Farish Pannier Tank and their generic tank loco shared the same chassis?

I bought a tank loco to provide a donor chassis for the BH Enterprises LNER J52 tank loco body kit designed for the generic tank engine chassis,  and have now bought an old Beaver J52 kit designed for the pannier tank chassis. Fortunately the Beaver kit seems to fit the chassis from my generic tank loco. If I were Farish planning to produce a generic loco with no specific prototype I'd be inclined to use a chassis already designed and produced. I suspect that is just what they did.
Many thanks.

[Dr Al]

Can anyone confirm my hunch that the old Poole Farish Pannier Tank and their generic tank loco shared the same chassis?

Yes, the 94xx pannier and GP tank have the same chassis.

HTH,
Alan

[PLD]

Yep the GP Tank and the GWR 94xx Pannier shared the same chassis. GWR was the only 'Big 4' livery that the GP tank was not produced in... I think the same block may have been used with larger wheels in one of the Tender Locos, or was it the Prairie Chassis??

As an aside, it wasn't their only case of a 'shared chassis': The (08 Diesel Shunter) and the Austerity (J94) tank shared the same chassis and the same block was used with different wheels in the 4-4-0 Compound!

[Cutter]

Thanks so much. I hoped I was right and didn't need another donor chassis--or to find an excuse for running a bogus Southern Railway tank engine  on my planned LNER layout!