Bachmann Ex-LNWR Webb Coal Tank (35-051) | Unboxing and Review

[@lachd2261]

Got one of these a few months ago in the LMS livery for a bargain price. Absolutely love this thing.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

It's an excellent model.

[@RobA500]

Bachmann do make some lovely models, just a shame their prices have gone crazy nowadays.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Do you think the increase in price reflects the extra quality/features? It seems like dcc, sound, lights, firebox flicker, etc. are becoming the norm.

[@RobA500]

@@LittleWicketRailway Only to a very small extent, many new bachmann models are over £150 or even £200 for a base model before DCC etc is added. The others have base models at a far lower price, Dapol's new GWR mogul for instance. Oxford rail are also much cheaper but still very detailed.

[@Samstrainsofficially]

@@LittleWicketRailway it reflects the risk. The world is not the same anymore, never stays the same anyway but to give the short version china is still on zero covid settings, this means your factory can shut down at any moment, you skilled staff be sent home, your 3rd party suppliers of motors or other services be equally shut down, delayed or otherwise impacted. Say you are bachman europe, you have capital to invest in producing a model, well in the past you could put in the order, get a date and know with some surity your product will arrive in spec on a set date without much risk. Now you invest you capital, you get a "might be done by this date", no guarentee that the skilled staff will do it or some agency or fill in staff will do it, no guarentee on when you'll see a return on your sunk capital. Result we pay more because the risk of going to manufacture is more. If the model isn't up to scratch then it wont sell and you'll lose out or have to take heaps of returns for refund. Basically the cost goes up across the board to sponge up any problem locos or rolling stock that represent a potential loss. Now each manufacturer has a different "risk appetite" and existing position of responsibility to existing liabilities and thus each manufacturer increases price to a different extent but risk drives it all, not greed.

[@foxcell]

Nothing wrong in getting it renumbered by TMC they do a good job 👍🏻

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Have you used their renumbering service? It's such a skill. Did you see Charlie from Chadwick's video when he gave it a go? Full marks for effort, but it doesn't look easy.

[@foxcell]

@@LittleWicketRailway I've have never had an issue ive had several locos renamed & renumberd aswell

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Now available for £59.99 in the sale at Model Railways Direct!!

[@redversb2347]

An nice detailed model. Tempted myself as available at a sale price of £59.99 in LNWR black.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

It's a quality model and I think that's a good price (cheaper than what I paid anyway 😫). Not the most exciting loco in the world, but I really like it and it should fit right in if you model LNWR. Let me know what you think if you get one.

[@jenniferphipps2012]

Webb The Rectangular Engine

[@nigellacey559]

I can't even begin to think where the line ran from new st to harborne. There can't be much of a foot print of that line left.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Hi Nigel, they've turned it into a walkway, so you can follow the branchline most of the way from when it crossed the canal just after where Monument Lane station was through to Harborne. The canal bridge is gone, but you can still see the bricked up tunnel portal and the piers that held it up over the water. Considering it's basically central Birmingham, it's a lovely little walk and passes a nature reserve. Sadly the cuttings where the two Ickneild Port Road stations were have been filled in. You can still see where Rotton Park Station used to be (you can find slight evidence of the platform buildings such as the toilet pipes) and you can see where Hagley Road with the coal sidings were. They've built houses where Harborne station used to be, so the walkway ends at the final bridge. Most of the bridges are still there. Lots of sleepers were used as retaining walls. I became obsessed with that branchline for a while, so much history for a really short stretch of track. Multiple run away wagons, near misses with land slips, some very tragic accidents, suffragettes setting fire to stations, safe robberies, coal thefts, station frauds, beer deliveries left in sidings for months causing court proceedings, etc. The line saw all sorts of traffic from LNWR and LMS steam through to small industrial diesels, even a DMU on a rail tour. It's a pretty steep line, 1 in 66 at the steepest and was one of Britain's most successful branches for a short period.

[@nigellacey559]

@@LittleWicketRailway I'll have to find it and have a walk. Sounds really interesting

[@dominichetherington2287]

Your supposed to run them in first !!!no wonder its was humming!!