New! New! New! UK r-t-r 009 locomotive at last

[MickT]

Did I sound like a pessimist? I hope not!  ;D
As Tigger says - where there's a will, there's a way.

Indeed not Ted! I was just quoting your posting to connect my ascerbic dig at somebody who I'm sure you know!

Tigger - I've got a couple of N205's held in the strategic reserve box - but they are very precious and therefore very expensive...........

Mick

[tedp]

Just pulling your leg, Mick! How many N205s did you say you have? They have become collectors items - perhaps more expensive than the L&B RTR loco is reputed to be, if I have to believe the wailing on the other forum...  ;)

[Tigger]

Thanks Mick -

I think I've got about eight N205s in reserve; a combination of bought new, bought secondhand from the 009 stand and acquired almost new from a friend who no longer needs them for his N gauge layout.  I'm trying to make sure I have one spare for every loco in the fleet that uses this chassis.  hopefully I'll have enough in stock to enable me to build the third VoR or another L&B loco (unless I opt for the WLLR Joan option I've also got squirrelled away somewhere...)

But I'm aware this is a bit of thread drift even though I managed to mention 'L&B loco' in the last paragraph!

So to re-cap, I'm delighted that Heljan have announced this and I'm already saving up!

[Paulc]

Just purchased the Oct RM which has an update.

Heljan have released the first CAD drawings (3 pictures in RM) Apparently initial release (no indication of when this will be) will cater for "original trio in modified condition"  and will incorporate a  .."flywheel fitted cam motor with double reduction gearbox  to the rear coupled axle....  Pickup from all wheelsets including pony trucks".  There is more detail in the text which refers to the heljan website www.heljan.dk  But it is in Danish and taking forever to translate!
Apologies if this is old news, but I did a quick search on the forum and couldn't find anything recent.

Paul

[B.Meldon]

To speed it up just copy and paste the text in to this web page:

http://translate.google.com/#

Brian Meldon

[Paulc]

Thanks Brian that is quicker - however it's even better if you click on the tiny union flag in the top right of the site  :-[ !

Nothing obvious and a site search for Lynton and Barnstaple: Manning Wardle and 009 didn't turn up anything. It may be in their newsletter which you have to sign up to. Maybe John our TLO will be able to get something from them to put in the news?

Paul

[invercloy]

I now have some photos of the Heljan CAD work that will be on display at the convention, and also in a future issue of the News.