Trash to Track. Episode 78. Dapol GWR 14XX tank loco’s.

[@pault1289]

These are excellent, I always learn something each time I watch. Thank you for taking the time to film and produce these! Paul

[@metrotechguru5863]

Both models turned out so beautifully. Your restoration skills are just brilliant. It's really a treat to see the beginnings and then the final product when you are through with it.

[@tombeck6335]

Well done Dan, another very good video.

[@davidhope7206]

Great work dan 👏 the locos look amazing 👏

[@ringmastermodels]

Be careful when varnishing over Halfords paint; although you can try to find matching acrylic or enamel varnishes, it will still cause a reaction: It’s the ingredients and solvents rather than the base. I’ve tried numerous types of spray varnish to seal models painted with Halfords paint and in my experience, only Mr.Hobby doesn’t cause a reaction. Mr.Hobby make UV resistant varnishes as well, which is a nice bonus. Hasn’t failed me yet!

[@delphjunction1168]

Hi Dan. What a fiddley job. Nice they have 5 pole motors, should be smooth running at slow speed. Great work buddy as usual. One bonus no Mazak rot. Body's certainly needed a good clean though. What a beautiful looking loco after you finished with it. Thanks Dan, great vlog. Stay safe. Pete.

[@flyingtardisOfficial]

these models you have date back to when airfix did model railways, and the original five pole motor was their design, the later M7 motor is actually dapol's doing as they use that same motor in the terriers and j94s, hornby just bought the toolings and ran with them as they were but what it means is depending upon what model your making, you can have either the center wheel or the front wheel driven for a model project, so say you want to make a fictional 4-4-0 you can use the dapol redesign because of where the motor sits and it won't fowl the cab, and with the original airfix style you could mount a modern coreless motor and finally have cab detail in a 14XX, or make a bizarre big wheeled 0-4-0 oh, and those bits of metal aren't spacers, they are there for the original airfix coupling to be re-centered as without those bits they flop and slop about and you can never get reliable coupling, it's why most dapol onwards ones have a bigger D coupling because of this design

[@trevorchapman5083]

Very informative video. I have 2 ailing airfix 14xx locos which lm hoping to make into a good one using what l have seen in your video. I also have a dapol 14xx which was very easy to fit a decoder to as it had different pick ups to the airfix one. The traction tyres were worn out so i just removed them and found the loco ran better without them.

[@AussiePom]

Actually for the filming of Titfield Thunderbolt two 14xx tanks were used 1401 and 1456 which was renumbered 1401 and turned to face in the opposite direction so filming could be done with either loco and look right in the finished film. 1462 was filmed on the "timetable" at Bristol Bath Road and a wooden mock up sitting on a Bedford lorry chassis was used to drive down Woodstock High street Oxfordshire and through Richmond Park in London. Other than Lion the other railway rolling stock used in the film hasn't survived to the present day. The Wisbech and Upwell tramway coach No.7 used in the film was scrapped and only No.8 has been preserved on the North Norfolk Railway. It has had a bar built into it to represent Mr Valentine's favourite sitting place. The only other piece of non railway item to survive from the film is Harry's steam roller. The dual between 1401 and Harry's steam roller took place near to Dunkerton Colliery and the level crossing was a fake the planks of wood being put there to represent a level crossing. The parachute water tank where they "stopped" to take water was a filming prop. When not being used for filming Lion was stored at Limpley Stoke Station. Titfield station was not a terminus station but a through station on the line and the level crossing gates beyond it were removed to give the feel of a terminus station.

[@henrybest4057]

Instead of taking off the wheel and re-quartering, could you not have just turned one of the axles over, so that the wheel on the left was on the right and vice versa, to make the quartering correct? One way round the quartering is 90 degrees ahead of the other wheel on the same axle. The other way round the quartering is 90 degrees behind the other wheel on the same axle.

[@ollychap1985]

You don’t happen to have a chassis bottom for a dapol 14xx ? I have a broken one that needs pickups It’s different to the airfix one you showed in your video the dapol and later hornby 14xx have a type 7 motor so the chassis is slightly different I have a dapol factory made 1401 video on my channel Thanks Oliver

[@shakeyhandsshedmodelrailwa2494]

titfield thunderbolt was 1953 , so in dr beachings cuts early years , but nationalisation was from 47 so at that time well into BRs reign so was more than likely BR black already as a GWR one would have been green so it may well have been BRs work rather than just done for filming

[@dansmodelrailways7886]

It was actually filmed in 1952 and released in 53. The loco (1401) when sought for filming still carried GWR on both of its tank sides, but was wartime black. The film crew painted over the GWR markings so they wouldn’t be visible during filming. The paint patches are visible on the film however. Some of The Big Four initials lasted for almost a decade on tank and tender sides after nationalisation.

[@Rob1972Gem]

The Dapol is a the old AirFix model 100% the same and it uses the AirFix five pole motor and the Hornby was a downgrade but the hornby model was a quieter runner