English Electric loco shunting at the depot

[Melbournesparks]

The English Electric loco shunts some wagons at the depot. This loco has a trolley wheel instead of the regular sliding contact, which reduces the need to swing the trolley pole around for every reversal of direction. Certainly a useful feature for shunting! This is a somewhat modified LGB loco, running on 32v DC overhead power. 45mm gauge, 1:24 scale.

 

[dunnyrail]

The English Electric loco shunts some wagons at the depot. This loco has a trolley wheel instead of the regular sliding contact, which reduces the need to swing the trolley pole around for every reversal of direction. Certainly a useful feature for shunting! This is a somewhat modified LGB loco, running on 32v DC overhead power. 45mm gauge, 1:24 scale.

Nice running with good shunting speed. Left me wanting to see more as do all of your vids of your super line.

 

[casey jones snr]

The English Electric loco shunts some wagons at the depot. This loco has a trolley wheel instead of the regular sliding contact, which reduces the need to swing the trolley pole around for every reversal of direction. Certainly a useful feature for shunting! This is a somewhat modified LGB loco, running on 32v DC overhead power. 45mm gauge, 1:24 scale.

I much prefer the trolley pole to bow collectors. Lovely video.

 

[Neil Robinson]

Excellent modelling.
Be brave, have a go at one of these!

 

[Rhinochugger]

The English Electric loco shunts some wagons at the depot. This loco has a trolley wheel instead of the regular sliding contact, which reduces the need to swing the trolley pole around for every reversal of direction. Certainly a useful feature for shunting! This is a somewhat modified LGB loco, running on 32v DC overhead power. 45mm gauge, 1:24 scale.

Oh wow !

 

[Melbournesparks]

Nice running with good shunting speed. Left me wanting to see more as do all of your vids of your super line.

Thanks! I'm usually too lazy to take video, I really should make more. This loco still has the original LGB motor block, which is very smooth even though it's probably older than I am.

I much prefer the trolley pole to bow collectors. Lovely video.

I like trolley poles too, building overhead for them is good fun. The fleet is about a 50/50 split between trolley poles and pantographs at the moment.

Excellent modelling.
Be brave, have a go at one of these!

That'd be fun, though I'm not sure if I have space for one at the moment. These trolley pole reversers seem to be an interesting an uniquely UK occurrence, I'm pretty sure we never had any in Australia. Presumably it's related to UK trams often not having any trolley ropes. You'd have to be confident the overhead was good!