The LNER Encyclopedia

Next month I shall be taking delivery of a second hand Bachy K3. This will be repainted and run on Pilmoor at Ormesby Hall. Having an SEF kit in the pile, I thought I might use some of the alternative cab sides and make it into one of the Darlington builds with the lower cab windows. Pilmoor is set about 1938/9 and Yeadon tells me that two of these locos were not rebuilt with higher windows until after war broke out - but he doesn't say which ones. Can anyone with the Greenie help out with numbers?

Thanks.

As I was browsing that book again recently I had rough idea of where to look.

It states that 33, 36, 38, 46, 52 and 53 which were allocated to the NE area were altered "by about 1944-46" when Donny finally took over their maintenance. I believe these locos all had the very low windows.

If the Finecast cabs are faithful to scale I presume you'll have to add just under 2mm to the rear edges of the firebox (as I did on fitting a scratchbuilt GN cab) as the GN and NE cabs should be 5" 7/8 less in length than the GS cab provided by Bachmann.

Excellent, thanks for that, Graeme. I'll be back to that, hopefully this side of Christmas. I'm up at Newcastle in November so I'll get hold of a Dave Alexander flared top tender body while I'm there.