Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Rail Express

    Weekend project: ‘Rudd’ coupling cams

    Aug 13, 2019 4 minutes

    HORNBY’S mini-range of modern ballast wagons which comprises of the ‘Rudd’, ‘Tope’ and ‘Clam’ is a very useful collection for late 1980s and 1990s modellers, with many examples of the full-size wagons surviving well into the Privatisation period. Like many infrastructure vehicles of the time, they are rebuilds of redundant revenue wagons, this time, the HTV coal hopper fleet being the wagons concerned.

    The models produced by Hornby are generally well received by modellers, despite the overly thick sides of the Rudd and Clam models. They are equipped with the same well modelled HTV derived underframe and close coupling cams which come fitted with quite a fierce spring. In practice, models with short underframes do not need close coupling cams and experience with the

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Rail Express

    Rail Express4 min read
    80% Of New Piccadilly Line Trains To Be Built In Goole
    SIEMENS Mobility has confirmed that 80% of the 94 nine-car 24 Tube Stock trains due to enter traffic on the Piccadilly Line from next year, will be built at its new factory in Goole. Previously, construction was due to be split 50/50 between the firm
    Rail Express7 min read
    ‘Western’-themed Livery And Name For Class 69
    GB RAILFREIGHT No. 69009, which was released into active duty in October still in its green primer coat, has finally received the attention of the Arlington Fleet Services spray booth at Eastleigh Works. The Class 69 worked from UK Rail Leasing, Leic
    Rail Express10 min read
    ‘50s’ On British Rail – The Twilight Years
    THE run down of the Class 50 fleet began in 1987, when No. 50011 Centurion was taken out of traffic for use as a testbed in connection with Class 50 power unit overhauls at Crewe Works. British Rail had introduced a new Cost Effective Maintenance (CE

    Related