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O gauge has a lot to offer the modeller which is defferent to the smaller scales.
The bulk of the models gives a visual presence, a sense that a wagon is an actual usable railway vehicle. The weight also provides reliable running at very slow speeds and the sound of metal wheels running on metal rails. Add in the ability to easily use real 3-link couplings and the model railway 'operater' gains a sense of driving and shunting with a real train.

The introduction of small ready-to-run locomotives, particularly the Ixion Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 saddle tank, makes modelling in O gauge no more difficult or expensive than OO. A range of ready-to-run wagons is being developed by Dapol which cost little more than many kits and track is readily available from Peco.
Don't forget the kits however. Part of the O gauge experience is the satisfaction of building a real wagon, Parkside and Slaters kits supply all the major components of a real wagon moulded in plastic. Assembly is straightforward and immensely satisfying. Build a real wagon, not just a kit.

Small layouts are also practical, shunting engines are particularly suited to 'operating dioramas' based on small goods yards and industrial sites. Private sidings and 'odd corners' of the railway network built in confined sites can provide insipration for a compact and realistic O gauge layout.

We are now taking pre-orders for the newly announced Dapol models.
Remember! Anticsonline orders over 75 pounds are post free to mainland UK addresses.

Ixion O Hudswell Clarke 13in x 20in 0-6-0 Saddle Tank RTR Green (HC2)


A detailed ready to run model of a Hudswell Clarke saddle tank industrial shunting engine, modelled on the builders' standard 24-ton, 13in cylinder locomotive. Fitted with finescale wheels, a high torque motor with a flywheel drives through a 40:1 gearbox.
The model is supplied with an etch of name, number and makers plates plus a set of fire irons moulded in plastic.

These locomotives were designed for use by construction contractors, light enough to be run over temporary tracks. Many contractors engines stayed on with railway and docks companys at the end of the construction contract and several locomotives were used by light railways in passenger service.
Many of these industrial shunting engines were purchased from the builders' stock and would have been painted in this style of green livery, a standard Hudswell Clarke finish.

On February 15, 1888, the first of a new class of 24-ton standard gauge industrial tank locomotives, Makers No. 299, rolled off the production line of the Railway Foundry, Leeds. This saddle tank featured 13 x 20in inside cylinders and a simple, robust design and construction. Later known as the firm of Hudswell Clarke, this manufacturer eventually had produced eighty of this class of locomotive when the final engine, Makers No. 1750, was completed on July 19th 1946. The model represents the class as built in the late 1920s through to the mid 1930s.

Lower photo shows a production model in the more realistic shade of green.

  • An injection-moulded, painted, ready-to-run body and chassis
  • Finescale wheels
  • Six-wheel electrical pickup
  • High-torque flywheel-equipped motor, driving the rear axle
  • 40:1 precision gearbox for slow, smooth running
  • Sprung rear wheels, and prototypically correct 'inside-out' coupling rods (front rod outside rear rod)
  • DCC and sound ready, with provision for easy speaker installation
  • Full cab detail
  • Sprung buffers
  • Hook drawgear, with three-link couplings
  • Choice of three liveries: lined maroon, lined green, and lined blue
  • Included is an etched brass fret containing a selection of prototypically correct cabside Maker?s plates, plus suitable saddletank nameplates, and engine number plates
  • Also included is a set of injection-moulded 7mm scale loco tools, including shovels, picks, pricker, hammers, oil bottles and bucket



PROTOTYPE INFO
On February 15, 1888, the first of a new class of 24-ton standard contractor?s industrial tank locomotives, Maker?s No. 299, rolled off the production line of the Railway Foundry, Leeds. This saddle tank featured 13? x 20? inside cylinders, and a simple, robust design and construction. Later known as the firm of Hudswell Clarke, this manufacturer eventually had produced eighty of this class of locomotive when the final engine, Maker?s No. 1750, was completed on July 19th 1946. The model we are producing represents the class as built in the late 1920s through to the mid 1930s.

Over a period of over 70 years, these little engines worked on Light Railways (famously including the Easingwold Railway, whose loco No.2 was of this class), railway construction duties, in collieries and government and private industrial facilities across Britain.

One engine, Maker?s No. 1530, of 1926 was bought by the Sydney County Council in Australia, and worked the Bunnerong Power Station sidings until its sale in 1947. It ended its days at the Wallarah Colliery at Catherine Hill Bay, south of Newcastle, NSW.

Ixion O Hudswell Clarke 13in x 20in 0-6-0 Saddle Tank RTR Green (HC2)
 
Stock:
Website: 1
Available from shops: Cardiff: 1, Sheffield: 1 (explain)
(Prod Ref #22696)

MRP: £299.00
Antics Price: £225.00
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