Porterbrook liveried Deltic

Pete Mc · March 04, 2012, 01:54:22 AM

Hi chaps,I'm going to try and get hold of a spare Farish Deltic body,preferably one that'll fit on the later tooling Deltic chassis that isn't dcc ready.I already have two complete Deltics,these being KOYLI and The Green Howards.Now what I want is to either paint or spray a shell into Porterbrook Leasings livery but don't have any photo's or anything for reference material.
As I understand,only one was painted in the livery,or was vinyl wrapped,not sure which but I found this livery very fetching.I can't quite remember where it was now,but I did see an o gauge Deltic painted in this livery on a garden layout thread somewhere before I found this forum but I can't remember where or what the garden railway it was on.
From my memory,it was/is an o gauge Deltic in Porterbrook livery featuring sound and smoke with fans blowing the smoke to make the diesel clag look more authentic.
Your help with this would be most helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Pete

HellsGuardian316 · March 04, 2012, 02:39:20 AM

Is this what your after? If yes, google images, 5 seconds

http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Main%20photo%20file/Deltic_Porter

http://www.whamart.co.uk/Paint%20Porterbrook%2047.jpg

http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Main%20photo%20file/57601

Rob H · March 04, 2012, 08:52:06 AM

I've been trying to purchase a Deltic in Portebrook livery for ages with no luck. I think Farish made a limited edition quite a while ago but they never seem to come up for sale.

Anyone got one they would like to sell, or know where there is one for sale ?

Cheers,

Rob.

Adam1701D · March 04, 2012, 09:13:45 AM

There were quite a few of these Purple Deltic bodyshells for sale a few years ago, after Bachmann took over. You may get lucky and fine someone with a spare (I've got one but I rather like it!)

Dock Shunter · March 04, 2012, 10:59:20 AM

This was released by Farish i think about 8/9 years ago.
It was a limited edition but it did seem to be around for quite a while at the time.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemoncat1/2290241910/#

Elvinley · March 04, 2012, 11:21:26 AM

They do come up on Ebay. My girlfriend sold one last wednesday I'm afraid. It went for 59 quid, but you can get them cheaper sometimes.

point blank · March 04, 2012, 05:39:40 PM

It was one of the last limited editions produced at Poole, they also produced a limited edition 47 in the Porterbrook livery.
If you are going to do your own repaint then don't forget that the Deltic was fitted with Wipac light units which Farish also included on their version. These were later removed from the prototype when it was repainted but very prominant while in the porterbrook livery.

Pete Mc · March 04, 2012, 06:45:03 PM

Thanks all,at the time I put up this thread,I was having problems with the browser on my phone so wasn't getting any results from a google search.
I now have been able to download some pictures of the Porterbrook Deltic along with some info on when it appeared in this livery.On top of all this I found out that Fox Transfers also do some waterslide transfers for this livery as well in n gauge/2mm scale although I'm not sure whether they are all over transfers or just the ones with the Porterbrook writing and livery flashes.
Thanks for all your info chaps,much appreciated.

Pete

HellsGuardian316 · March 04, 2012, 06:50:37 PM

Show us the pictures of the conversion when your done. It does look a nice livery so am interested to see how it will compare when put onto a model

bluedepot · March 04, 2012, 07:09:12 PM

did they actually hire out the loco for 'real' work on the mainline, or was this just a publicity stunt???

just been watching videos of it on youtube....

tim

Rob H · March 04, 2012, 08:37:08 PM

Anyone got one for sale ? Please !!

Pete Mc · March 05, 2012, 12:00:01 AM

Apparently,it was put into this livery in 1999 or sometime around then and did return to mainline running,but unfortunately it had a fire.Now the info that I saw was that it suffered a fire in the power unit.This is all it said but as they were prone to having fires in the exhaust stack due to them being two stroke engines,this seems plausable.Then after this fire it was returned to Crewe where it was dumped in a siding for a while.
Now this is where the info is sketchy,if a fire.occurs in the exhaust stack,one.way of putting out the fire is to rev the engine to the maximum so the.movement of exhaust gases puts out the fire.I have seen this on a dvd of deltics in preservation,and a fire occured on one on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.Revving up the engine didn't work on this occasion so the engines were shut down and the fire was put out by firefighters.This doesn't sound like any reason to just leave a loco with damage to its exhaust as being a reason to just dump it at Crewe,the only other explanation is that it may have had a generater flash over which can cause considerably more damage.
Thing is though,it may not have been too badly damaged as it was bought by.the company that owns Royal Scots Grey to be used as an engine parts donor loco so was returned to normal running at some point and repainted green,and worked on preserved railways for a while.Gordon Highlander was the loco in question.
I'll have to watch the dvd to confirm some of this but I'll do it this week.Interestingly,on the same dvd,theres no mention to my knowledge of it being in Porterbrook livery but again,I shall have a look to see.

Pete

bluedepot · March 05, 2012, 11:59:33 AM

cheers for info

when did porterbrook sell it? 2004 or something?

aren't the light clusters awful on the front btw...!!!!

tim

Elvinley · March 10, 2012, 04:14:18 AM

I saw this in 2002 in Doncaster when I was training with EWS.

Adam1701D · March 10, 2012, 08:23:11 AM

Here's a shot of 9016 working a VSOE Pullman service through Peterborough in 2003

Awesome machine!