Steve Johnson Modelmaker
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Southern
Railway 11001 0-6-0DM
This large shunting locomotive was designed by Bullied for the Southern Railway for shunting, trip work and passenger use. Powered by a 500hp Paxman engine, transmission was mechanical via a jackshaft. The locomotive was built at Ashford Works and finally emerged in 1950 as 11001. It's provenance is obvious with the use of Bullied/Firth-Brown 'Boxpoc' wheels. After just nine years, it was considered non-standard and was withdrawn.
I constructed the Judith Edge kit of this locomotive. The first image shows basic body and chassis construction. The following images show the models construction.
The image below shows some advancement in construction and is in fact waiting for the motor and gearbox to be fitted. The kit uses Gibson 4854S wheels with etched overlays. Gibson wheels are not self quartering and can be a fiddle to get right. As such, I will complete all work on the chassis first and spray it up before finally fitting the wheels and motion. This prevents the number of times the wheels have to come off the axles, which can lead to a widening off the axle holes and produce slipping of the wheels on the axles putting, out the quartering.
11001 primed and ready for a final tidy up before painting black
11001 painted and awaiting the Archer Rivet transfers.
11001 nearing completion with the addition of transfers. The body now requires a varnish, the buffers and couplings fitted and windows added, while the chassis needs completing. There is no interior detail in the cab because as Mike Edge says in the instructions, no photograph or plans of the interior have come to light, so we don't know what the layout was!
The chassis complete showing the High Level 54:1 two stage gearbox and Mashima 1024 motor. At the front is the Hattons 8 pin Mini decoder fixed between the frames (nowhere else for it to go!) with the 'Stay Alive' capacitor fixed on top. The decoder is actually marked DCC Concepts S2 Red Sleeve decoder! The 'hidden' coupling rod is visible here behind the rather large connecting rod. Depending on room in the body, a flywheel may be fitted, which is why I have left the motor shaft alone. Additional lead weight may have to be added between the frames above the trailing wheel and jackshaft.
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