Hammond Carriages

[Elmtree Line]

I have had delivered this week a rake of the new Hammond Toys/Newqida Carraiges.

I have currently the blue and white DR versions with the new roof, this version is believed to be being produced exclusively for Hammond Toys. Model: 58072

A brief summary:

* After postage and customs charges each carriage works out at £50.
* You only get a hook n loop coupling on one end of the carriage
* The lettering print is much crisper than previous carriages by this manufacturer
* Blue and Orange "Train" boxes with incorrect product stickers are now being used
* The boxes are all now barcoded
* Scuffing of the plastics is much less than before but still evident on the roofs
* The carriages are spraypainted blue then white over, some blue shows through the white still
* The carriage end doors still have no handles on them
* Wheels are plastic and are not true
* Carriage undersides now have moulded into them "Newqida made in china"

There is no one else in the market selling carriages For £50 each. They are very good value for money.

If anyone would like me to go into further details or include pictures please say so

 

[MRail]

Thank you, Keith
An interesting summary.

 

[Zerogee]

Some detail pictures would be great, Keith!

Jon.

 

[Elmtree Line]

So, as a follow up i should maybe mention that the carriages move very freely on the rails, the bogies seem to be made of a slightly better plastic too now. The interior seating is half blue and half black. The lightness of the blue is a very close match to the Piko diesel shunter i reviewed a few weeks ago, it is not quite as light as the pictures here show.

So anyway here are some pictures as requested:

Hope that helps people

 

[Zerogee]

Excellent photos, Keith, thanks.
The quality certainly does look better than the early batches of solid-colour coaches, these look very nice and I'm quite tempted to get a rake of them before they sell out!

Jon.

 

[whatlep]

I have had delivered this week a rake of the new Hammond Toys/Newqida Carraiges.

I have currently the blue and white DR versions with the new roof, this version is believed to be being produced exclusively for Hammond Toys. Model: 58072

Keith - very interesting review. Thanks. A couple of questions, if I may:
1) Is it the wheels which are not true or the axleboxes. Put another way, would substituting metal wheels as is my normal habit fix the problem?
2) One of your pictures suggests that the roof profile does not match that of the passenger compartment, leaving a gap. Is that correct?

Thanks in advance.

 

[PaulRhB]

Any chance someone could copy and upload the pics to the forum as they won't display on the pc or iphone for some reason from the hosting site I just get a question mark.

 

[Steve]

Pics emailed to Paul

 

[Elmtree Line]

Whatlep Said....
Keith - very interesting review. Thanks. A couple of questions, if I may:

1) Is it the wheels which are not true or the axleboxes. Put another way, would substituting metal wheels as is my normal habit fix the problem? yes it would, a nice easy fix!

2) One of your pictures suggests that the roof profile does not match that of the passenger compartment, leaving a gap. Is that correct? As you can see in the picture, the black end moulding of the roof ends before the carriage end piece does, this is somewhat bizarre, it therefore only clips onto the side of the carriage in a couple of places and it not a mm tight fit, for accessing the carriage interior this is great but does leave that little gap, that glue would of course solve if you did want to remove it and didnt want access to the interior. It looks like the roof moulding was not made for the carriage but adapted from something else, what i'm not sure.

 

[Elmtree Line]

Direct link to the set is here if it helps:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_grass_roots_railway/sets/72157627177400919/ < Link To http://www.flickr.com/pho...ets/72157627177400919/

 

[PaulRhB]

Thankyou Keith and Steve (for the emailled version) mine have just popped up on the tracker as having cleared customs, so just the vat bill to deal with.

 

[PaulRhB]

It looks like the roof moulding was not made for the carriage but adapted from something else, what i'm not sure.

I think the roof moulding has been specially made to deal with the saxon coach body's shallower profile roof so that it now matches the Harz ones. The gap looks tiny and I doubt it will be noticed on the railway.

 

[yb281]

Thanks for the info Keith.

 

[stockers]

It looks like the roof moulding was not made for the carriage but adapted from something else, what i'm not sure.

I think the roof moulding has been specially made to deal with the saxon coach body's shallower profile roof so that it now matches the Harz ones. The gap looks tiny and I doubt it will be noticed on the railway.

As Phil says - the coach body is of a Saxon coach and has had a Harz roof added, which is more rounded.
The little slot, centrally at the top, originally had a securing screw fitted.

 

[Steve]

I am sure your correct stockers but i thought the slot was for wiring at least it appears to be on my DR coaches

 

[steve parberry]

A good review but i have just brough a load of the saxon versions just need collecting all eight of them

 

[stockers]

On my LGB DR coaches there is a screw in that position, in a hole not a slot. Not certain about the Saxon coaches as I dont have any (YET). The started set coaches do have a slot, as does the celestory DR coach.

 

[PaulRhB]

not sure when I changed me name to Phil, but Alan is right what is a screw hole on the DR coaches and RhB vans is a slot on the nqd version.

 

[Spule 4]

I acutally kind of like the blue and white scheme. Thanks for posting the pix!

 

[Elmtree Line]

Yes I have to say that they do look terrific, if not prototypical

I acutally kind of like the blue and white scheme. Thanks for posting the pix!