A strange phenomenon......

[Irish Padre]

Flush with the profits of a recent birthday I deliberated long and hard before placing my order with a well known Liverpool retailer. So a day or so later my "Merseyside Express" arrived along with a blood and custard Mk1 BG plus three weathered Presflos. Whilst the Deltic was running in, I thought I'd give the cement wagons a whirl behind a Union Mills 0-6-0. Constant derailments followed, and this is very rare for my layout. Ran the wagons then behind a BachFar class 24- perfect running once more. Anyone experienced this sort of thing?

As a footnote, the Deltic is just amazing !!!! 

[davieb]

Flush with the profits of a recent birthday I deliberated long and hard before placing my order with a well known Liverpool retailer. So a day or so later my "Merseyside Express" arrived along with a blood and custard Mk1 BG plus three weathered Presflos. Whilst the Deltic was running in, I thought I'd give the cement wagons a whirl behind a Union Mills 0-6-0. Constant derailments followed, and this is very rare for my layout. Ran the wagons then behind a BachFar class 24- perfect running once more. Anyone experienced this sort of thing?

As a footnote, the Deltic is just amazing !!!! 

i have just hooked up my rake of Presflos to the back of a UM G2 and as i type they are running round my layout happily

is it just one paticular wagon that derails or do they all do it 

if its the first then i would check the couplings on the wagons
if its the latter then i would also check the coupling on the loco

i have had instances with derailments with certain loco/rolling stock combinations before but it's limited to peco wagons
or kit built wagons on peco frames when pulled by a farish class 47 where the couplings foul the buffers of the 47 resulting in
the rear of the wagon lifting and derailing 

also it's getting harder to resist the deltic with so many good reports and not many bad ones   
MUST RESIST 

dave 

[Newportnobby]

Hi Irish Padre,

I have suffered a similar issue before but resolved it by shuffling the wagons in the rake until it didn't happen. This was with Peco NR44 (Utterley) Butterleys

[Irish Padre]

Thanks gents - I've had this before with Farish planked opens ..I did try shuffling the vehicles and there was no difference! At least I know I've got one loco which can haul them-might try them with my G2.