From what I understand he possibly had connections with some old Mecanno staff but certainly had access to a lot of Dublo spares even making a few Black 5's in both 2 and 3-rail mostly from Dublo parts purchased. One person did purchase a few spare bodies in the 70's, maybe 80's and made up some replica 3-rail ones.
These are very easy to convert anyway with 4 wheels and a pick-up which are easy to source. It is not to say one or two of the factory specials were never sent abroad but that is all. A few reliable experts and the Dublo book by Michael Foster have never said such a thing. There is no mention or record of a production run in 3-rail for export. I will try to post photos of the 3 AL1s, Trix, Dublo, and Triang sometime. It's some months since I last dug out my Dublo AL1 and I can't check it at the moment. Alternatively, it could have the Triang chassis and motor bogie and the Dublo body with the holes for the chamgeover pin and IIRC, the letters A and B on the roof. I have one myself, slightly modified and playworn from ebay, as well as my own bought from new later single pan version.Īny crossover version would have a Dublo chassis and motor and a Triang body with the chsngeover switch slot and markings.
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Your model is the full fat early Triang version. Triang used the Dublo tooling and modified it to take the Triang changeover switch, the Triang chassis and motor bogie, and made a couple of other cosmetic changes to correct some of the errors in the Dublo tooling. The heads on the pans on my EM2 have some quite deep grooves in them, gouged out by the clips probably.Īs far as I know, there is no such thing as a crossover version. The pans on the Trix EM1, Dublo/Triang AL1, and Triang EM2 all had round colldctor heads so that they wouldn't catch on the clip edges, but ride over them. The trick is to taper the ends of the clips so they form a ramp, like a piece of penne pasta, but with the ramps on the same side, not opposite sides like the pasta. Also if you are using Triang catenary the pans will catch on the clips that join the ends of the catenary wires together. You may find that the heads on the Judith Edge pans don't run flat but twist so that only one side is touching the catenary. Deepcar also saw some of my Trix EM1s and Triang EM2s.
I converted my Heljan EM1 and ran it under the wires on Nottomgham MRS's Deepcar layout. Onwards & upwards,Ray.Judith Edge supply Judith Edge pans. Their colour lights were less successful thanks to the bulbs sticking out, but LEDs make an effective replacement. Luckily there are still plenty of Dublo signals about, even the electric versions, and only cost a few pounds. However 1978 was still Tri-ang(-Hornby) and the S.B.D. You are right, I had forgotten the earlier Tri-ang signals, but I think the arms are the same - they both suffer from generous dimensions. To me a generic basic workable signal based either on those of H-D or early Triang would be very welcome. I know we have Dapol signals, but there do seem to be issues on reliability. These are not the original Triang signals which to my mind looked much better with individual, junction and gantry signals. You could build a gantry of any size using junction signals and extension kits. If someone could make robust modern equivalents I think there would be a market for themĪs to the Hornby signals, these actually date from 1978 when a new modular range was introduced. *EDIT How did I forget 'Lego'! Edited Jby Il GrifoneĪgreed Hornby Dublo signals do still look the part. (A rather awful effort IMHO - even worse than the Trix model from the same period. The record price IIRC (it might have been 'bettered' since) was £33,000 for the remains (no loco chassis) of a pre-war Märklin LMS compound. (Carlsberg and Bang & Olufsen come to mind.).* Danish stuff does tend to be expensive though. Other manufacturers managed at a considerably lower price. That's what I meant by "offered at the right price"įor £200 I would expect the pantographs to work. Just goes to show how some collectors have deep pockets & good luck to them i say,however,my Triang AL1 pictured earlier cost me the grand total of £99.00 inc P + P which is more like it seeing as it seems to be a cross over version from HD toTriang.My Heljan EM1 cost nearly £200 & i still have to replace the pantographs to pick up from my catenary,i believe DC kits supply Judith Edge replacements.
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