Cf du Vivarais - Railcars

[berryr99]

I saw some very interesting railcars on a video called "Railway Roundabout" (I re-jig of the BBC series of the early 60's)

I have attcahed a couple of pictures of the railcars and I was wondering if anyone knew if there were any Hoe models available of these as they are quite unique

Thanks

Bob Berry

[engerth399]

Hi
Allen Doherty (Worsley Works) does a number of French railcars in various scales.  I think he does one of the A150D which is what is in your picture.  Be careful there were a number of different A150d's - the notification is:

A:   Autorail

150:  Horsepower

D:   Type of power unit (diesel or petrol)

Either Gecomodelle or Mougel did models in France some years ago but they have not been available for some time and are very expensive if they appear second-hand.

Peter

[berryr99]

Thank you Peter, I now know a lot more about these railcars than I did before.

I'll follow up with Worsley Works

Bob

[Sven]

Nice one. You can still see and drive in this Billard autorail. This is a report in English. Scroll to 3/4 of the page for the railcar.

http://www.martynbane.co.uk/france/lemistral07/07may.html

Website of the museum:

http://www.mastrou.com

Le Chemin de fer du Vivarais (CFV) is also called

[berryr99]

Than you Sven, that's a really interesting report. My schoolboy French is a struggling with the museum website but my daughter speaks good french so I'll ask her to translate

Bob

[Tante_Noisette]

Please bear in mind that CFV no longer use the base at Tournon and have not done for some time, all due to a combination of a number things, mainly the contribution that would have been expected of them to enable them to continue running their service over the reconstructed bridge over the Doux that they previously shared with the SNCF. Even before then the SNCF took more than 50% of their revenue.

However, the new terminus will be at St Jean de Muzols, adjacent to the Delas winery where there should be ample parking.

[engerth399]

Hi

Another possible supplier of railcar bodies has come up.  He already does 3d printed bodies of French narrow gauge cars in Nm.  I've not had direct contact with him but his Nm customer tells me it should be easy to re-scale to HO (or OO).  He's preparing a Nm A150D at the moment.

email address is: ifurness1@btinternet.com

Regards

Peter