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The Bulletin Vol 23 No 144 February 2006 continuing to improve quality, manufacturers have obviously THE BULLETIN remained keen to meet expectations by offering new traction For the members of the Model Railway Society of Ireland in and steam models in more or less equal measure. There its forty-third year has always been a strong “contemporary factor” – thus younger modellers choose traction models as they are familiar with the prototypes they can see at work every day, Head of steam and many steam modellers select BR liveried versions as It is not unusual to meet enthusiasts who hark back these are what they remember from their youth. The nostalgically to the “good old days” but it was a shock about results of the recent Model Rail “Wish List” poll therefore 18 months ago to read a letter in the model press from served up some surprises. Firstly, more than double the someone whose golden memories rested in the BR blue number of votes was cast in favour of steam prototypes as livery era of the mid-1980s. But that is only yesterday, one for diesel and electric. Secondly, the top five steam thought. Actually of course the interval is something like 20 selections were all of pre-1923 designs. years which makes the end of 2557’s “golden years” some 45 years old i.e. 1960, the last year that British steam was in Some rationale can be discerned in the choice of the top five abundance rather than in retreat. steam outline types. Two are large freight tender engines, a category that has received comparatively little attention We all risk tunnel vision in this hobby and because 2557’s from RTR manufacturers. The other three are four coupled interests are heavily steam-orientated, he erroneously tends types which are usually harder modelling propositions for kit to lump the BR Traction green/ blue / multi-livered/ and and scratchbuilders (one is the LSWR M7 0-4-4 tank, privatised eras all together. This telescopes a period of 50 perhaps the hardest wheel arrangement of all to balance years or double the time that the Big Four companies were effectively). Further, all five types were very long lived and around. In that half century we have seen much change in therefore have application on pre- and post- 1923, as well the railway scene, and sadly too much has been in the form as nationalised, layouts. of rationalisation and reduction. Nonetheless, there has been plenty of interest in that transition and we are fortunate In the traction category, the blue Pullman as a precursor to that photographers, authors and publishers have been so the far more successful HST was an understandable first thorough in recording all that has happened. choice, while there was obvious logic behind the class 101 DMU (now out of normal service) which came fifth. Elsewhere in this issue, there is a description of a However the class 14 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic (2nd), the Class particularly noteworthy series of publications about British 17 Clayton (3rd) and the BTH class 15 (4th) were all short- locomotive history that have quite rightfully come to be lived rather obscure failures of the BR first generation diesel regarded as standard reference works. Recent motive power fleet. Are diesel enthusiasts really so hard up investigation into the history of a relatively well-known Irish for fresh ideas or are they so well served by the existing steam class elicited the sad conclusion that nothing RTR model range? If so, then Hornby/ Bachmann might remotely similar in terms of detail, authority and accuracy before long find themselves with some real problems in appears to exist in the ranks of Irish railway literature. sustaining sales growth in a market that type-wise will be Authors comprise the lowest paid profession in the world saturated and writing railway books has always been a labour of love, rather than of any monetary reward. The proportionately OO is by definition a scale/ gauge compromise, the origins smaller demand for Irish railway literature has meant that of which are now buried in history. However, these offerings have been that much fewer. We should therefore manufacturers might consider building on their recent be doubly grateful to those individuals and organisations impressive progress by tweaking that gauge incompatibility that have assumed the commercial risk in making valuable a little more in recognition of the growing interest in what published works available. Perhaps the Committee could these shores have to offer. How about an 071, or a Class consider adopting a policy of purchasing for the library one C, or a Hunslet Bo Bo? How about dropping them a line copy of every new Irish railway book that is published from and inviting them to take a deeper look in our direction? now on? --- o O o --- 2557 The principle yardstick for this hobby’s demand trends must surely remain the British 4mm RTR sector. While For more information about the Model Railway Society of Ireland, please visit: www.modelrailways.ie 1 Vol 23 No 144 February 2006 Wheel Arrangements by 082 In a previous article in The Bulletin it was inferred that ignorance of showed him an IRRS Journal which he browsed, nonchalantly the nicknames used in the Whyte System of wheel arrangements saying “englisches Klassifikation” when he saw the Whyte system for steam locos would have a detrimental effect on one’s modelling as used in these journals. A Spanish language railway journal in abilities and on coursework credits accrued with the Loco Building 082’s possession does not use these nicknames or arrangements Classes. Based on this remark it was also inferred that the Whyte either. Thus the Whyte System nicknames are confined to English nicknames should be learned off by rote and thus risk becoming an speaking world. In the November 2005 edition of Rail Brief, anorak. Iarnrod Eireann’s staff newsletter, there is a report from the steam loco Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary. This report makes Regarding the use of the Whyte system of nicknames in the Irish reference to MAV (Hungarian state Railways 22034, a 1-2-0 tank scene there are only a handful of locomotives which would have loco (or 2-4-0T in Irish parlance) and gleaming Polish 1-5-0s (2-10- wheel arrangements that would suit these nicknames such as the 0s). This again shows that the Whyte system is not universal Woolwich Mogul, as modelled by Bachmann and the Baltic tanks of throughout continental Europe. Reference to the Whyte system the Belfast and County Down Railway. The majority of Irish steam here as “Irish parlance" appears to be an error of the contributor. locomotives were of the types 0-6-0 (mainly freight, though some passenger) and 4-4-0 (passenger). There are no nicknames for Continental is the notation used to describe the wheel arrangement these wheel arrangements according to the list with the Whyte of diesel and electric locomotives by designating non-driving axles system. In The Observer’s Book of Locomotives and Rolling Stock by numbers and driving axles by letters. For example C-C means of Britain edited by HC Casserley and published in 1966, the no leading wheels, two sets of six coupled driving wheels and no Whyte Wheel Arrangements are listed as nineteen arrangements trailing wheels whereas Co-Co indicates the same except that the with only eight of these having nicknames. Interestingly it lists 2-6- driving axles are independently powered. A1A-A1A is a similar 6-2 as “Garratt”. wheel arrangement except that the centre pair of wheels is In August 2000 082 visited his Austrian pen friend and her family in unpowered. This notation is commonly used for diesel and electric Vienna. The pen friend’s late father, an elegant, dapper Viennese locomotives. Thus: gentleman was quite a knowledgeable railway enthusiast. 082 B two coupled powered axles (G601 and G611 class Deutz shunters) C three coupled powered axles (E401 and E421 class Maybach shunters) D four coupled powered axles (K801 of the GNR(B)) Bo-Bo two powered axles in each bogie (B141 class, C201 class) Co-Co three powered axles in each bogie (A class, 071 class, 201 Abhann class. Do-Do four powered axles in each bogie (Centennial locos of the Union Pacific built by GM-EMD) A1A-A1A middle axle is unpowered (Sulzer B103 preserved by the Irish Traction Group in Carrick-on-Suir) 2-Do-2 middle set comprises of four powered axles. At either end is a bogie with two unpowered axles (X and XA class Metrovick locos of Westrail, Australia) The arrangement called “Stalin’s Engine” in The Bulletin, the 4-14- intended to explain prototype and modelling terms to beginners. 4 is actually called Andriev. Having punched Andriev into Google, I This has some interesting Whyte nicknames not already mentioned discovered a British website called Steve’s Railway Glossary, in The Bulletin: Allegheny o-OOO-OOO-ooo 2-6-6-6 Bigboy oo-OOOO-OOOO-oo 4-8-8-4 Bulgaria o-OOOOOO-oo 2-12-4 Challenger oo-OOO-OOO-oo 4-6-6-4 Columbia o-OO-o 2-4-2 Dominion oo-OO-oo 4-4-4 Hungary o-OO-oo 2-4-4 Mastodon oo-OOOOO 4-10-0 Northern oo-OOOO-oo 4-8-4 Overland oo-OOOOO-o 4-10-2 Texas o-OOOOO-oo 2-10-4 Despite these nicknames being listed it appears that some of these While knowledge of the Whyte nicknames is an advantage, it is were applicable to specific loco classes rather than any loco of that important to regard them as an aid to identifying and building locos, arrangement.
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