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16.5mm`OO'gauge Hornby B.R. `9F' locomotive,
Overhaul, Repainting and Detailing.
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Turning a polished passenger express locomotive into a filthy hardworked goods engine.
This Hornby `9F' is a Ready To Run model of the British Railways 2-10-0 steam locomotive 92220 Evening Star. It has the old style pressed metal housing ringfield motor unit driving all six tender wheels, all tender wheels have traction tyres fitted and traction current collection is via eight of the locomotives ten driving wheels, the center driving wheels are not used for current collection and have no wheel flanges as on the prototype to allow it to traverse tighter curves. She will run on 16.5mm gauge trackwork and runs well on code 75 "fine" track and pointwork traversing curved isometric three way points smoothly. She will happily haul or propel a train round an 18inch radius curve with ease running forward or tender first. Some consideration must be given to the placement of lineside items on tight radii, the front bufferbeam does overhang a long way and it is surprising how easily a misplaced fence or hedge can become entangled round a buffer.
Set One
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Image 1-1: Tender with slight damage, small piece missing at rear lower corner of body with crack running upwards across body side.
Image 1-2: Cabside looking well polished with shiny plastic pipework below.
Image 1-3: High gloss finish on body. Shiny motion gear & connecting rods. These will be painted black & dirty giving a finer appearance.
Image 1-4: Shiny smoke deflectors & spotless cylinders. The EVENING STAR Nameplate sticker was easily peeled off, the sticky glue left behind was removed by rubbing with a soft cloth, this rolls the glue into balls which are then picked off leaving a clean surface with no mess. The Cylinders will be severely weathered with rust, scale and plenty of dirt.
Set Two
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Image 2-1: Shiny passenger express engine before repainting.
Image 2-2: Shiny passenger express engine before repainting.
Image 2-3: Last photo before repainting, smokebox door & bufferbeam still clean & shiny.
Image 2-4: First black coat shows up places that need sanding down. Where the nameplates have been removed from the smoke deflectors a raised edge can be seen. This edge is a detail of the deflector intended to aid correct placement of nameplates. The square holes in the smoke deflectors are normally hidden behind the nameplate, these will be filled and sanded down before repainting.
Set Three
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Image 3-1: On the drying shelf after first black undercoat.
Image 3-2: Original ringfield motor with pressed metal housing. Slight corrosion on motor terminals was cleaned off with a fibreglass pencil (burnishing tool). This motor still performs well but could do with having the commutator brushes replaced in the rear future.
The full scale prototype.
British Railways. `9F' locomotives.
The Standard class `9' 2-10-0 tender locomotive was introduced in 1954 as a British Railways Standard Freight engine designed to handle heavy mineral workings. The class had two main types with Nos:92000-92019 being built to the original single chimney design, whilst Nos:92030-92250 were fitted with double chimneys, there were also several variants to the `standard' design.
Nos:92020-92029 were variants of the `Standard 9' design fitted with Franco-Crosti double-barrelled boilers, the smaller `economiser' sections were removed leaving a single main boiler barrel smaller in diameter than those fitted to the rest of the `Standard 9' class, .
Nos:92060-92066 and 92097-92099 were fitted with Westinghouse air pumps for working the power-operated doors of the wagons used on iron-ore trains between Tyne docks and Consett iron works.
Nos:92165-92167 of the double chimney variant were also fitted with mechanical stokers.
No:92220 was the last steam locomotive built for British Railways, it left Swindon works on 18th March 1960 named `Evening Star' and was the only member of its class to be fitted with the Swindon design of copper capped chimney, it was also painted in G.W.R. Green with brass and copper fittings, all other locomotives of this class were painted black with standard fittings.
No:92250 was fitted with a Giesl ejector, this is a specially designed blast-pipe in order to reduce coal consumpion. (The Giesl ejector was widely used by many railways outside Britain)
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