Brightstar Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 A Hornby Dublo Castle class Loco, Cardiff Castle 4-6-0, pulling six standard class corridor coaches traveled for a total of 153 actual miles over a four day period without stop, in 1960. It stared it's jpounet at 11:00 am on September 2 and completed it's run at 11:00 am on September. It could have travelled further, but the trial was stopped after exactly four days. This endurance test was equivalent to travelling 11,600 scale miles at an average scale speed of 133.9 mph.The distance record was latter beaten in October 1973, when a Hornby Triang Black 5 Class 5 4-6-0 ran for a total of 273 actual miles, but it had to stop to have the worn brushes replaced.So the 10 miles run by James May's loco pales into insignificence in comparison.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6100 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 very true but the conditions were a lot different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brightstar Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 The dates of the first endurance run should be 2 September to 6th September 1960, on a 6' x 4' test board, the train making a total of 46,000 circuits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Triang Paul Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 A trial batch of Triang Princesses were made in 1973 with tender-powered motors. One of these LMS liveried locos ran unattended in Mevagissy for 8 days, 2 hours and 27 mins covering 273.84 real miles and an incline was in the layout so it did around 11 miles vertically !!This was beaten in 1990 by a standard 1984 mould Lady Patricia which did 867 nhours in Bournemouth.I dont knoe what the current record is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Do you know if that record at mevigissie was made at the World of Model Railways, I went their for a day on my holidays and enjoyed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6100 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 sorry bocaj, yes I am sure it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Triang Paul Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 I belive it was......... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaj Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Hi,Thanks for telling, have any of you been their, I have and enjoied it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 My 1951 Triang princess with plunger pick ups, is still on it's original brushes and motorm it runs every day on display in the shop, must have covered a thousand miles plus in it's lifetime without any major replacement parts. Just needs regular lubrication and cleaning, the cylinder block is original, wheels and frames are original too, the early models had a frame style affair as per the prototype and the wheels were acetate. The old girl just keeps running! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 10 miles in real world conditons pales into insignificence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaj Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 That sounds good The son of Triangman,I hope my locomotives last that long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Triang Paul Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 As i have said many a time, with all the spares around, there is never any need to scrap a Triang Princess or Jinty. I had a Princess stored open in a loft for around seven years.......and it went first time. Currently run 7 of them with 6 jinties almost daily - oh and another Jinty on its way ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Yep the oldies were built to last. Tri-ang Jinities and Princess's will run forever if properly serviced and cleaned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Although I cannot come anywhere close to SOT, I am still using a number of R50 and R52 mechanisms some of which date from 1953. Cleaning and sparing lubrication are essential. The fact that East Kent can no longer supply brushes for X04s is somewhat of a worry, however I am informed it is possible to canabalise vacuum cleaner brush carbon and solder it on to the brass arms. (Is anyone doing this? If so can they post some advice, please?). This will also soon become an issue for a large number of motor bogies I am using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Loads of new X.67 brushes on Ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 You can buy X04 brushes at toy fairs.I've got a few brand new ones somewhere I don't need. Not that that's a lot of use to anybody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96Ab17 Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 dont you thicnk that james mays train did a good job and did you see the now ones on bbc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I saw both attempts, I think James's Tri-ang-Hornby A3 did an excellent job considering it was made in the early 1970's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I wouldn't have chosen the Tri-ang-Hornby A3 with all it's valve gear and sound sandpaper clip rubbing on the back tender axle. I personally would have picked an old Tri-ang Princess with the simplified valve gear and without tender sound, much less to go wrong or an early Tri-ang 0-6-0 like a Jinty 3f without the smoke unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I agree SOT, an 0-6-0 would have been better at handling the uneven track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Triang Paul Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 A while back i pondered a similar question and came up with the Triang 0-6-0 chassis. No valve gear to slow it down, no extra bogies to complicate running and no tender to use up power by pulling what is basically another piece of rolling stock. Some may say about other 0-6-0 and even 0-4-0 chassis but these are lighter and less powerful - and unservicable so disposable.Hence the Triang 0-6-0 is now my standard in the garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Yep I totally agree Paul, a standard Tri-ang 0-6-0 is the optimum loco for such a run. A Tri-ang princess would also be ok, the simplified valve gear with the two valve gear screws held in with locknut and the like, the tenders are generally good at staying on the track if you go for one without the sound option and bogie and pony are good at track holding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnerZ Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 As far as James May's run is concern, I don't think he meant the longest model train run, but the journey of a loco on the longest train track - he didn't mean the distance covered by the train as such, more the distance of the track that a train covered... I that makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Triang Paul Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 At 273 miles in 1974, he has still got along way to go than just Barnstaple to Bideford !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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