Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Part Way to an N gauge HST

I am part way to an n gauge HST in the Intercity Swallow livery. That is I have purchased three Dapol coaches that are TF, TRSB, and TS.

TF, TRSB, and TS
To complete it I am now waiting on Dapol to release the TGS, a renumbered TS and the HST bookset. The bookset is composed of two DMB, a TF, and a TS.

The fun part with the HST is that formations could be changed, I plan to mainly use the formation DMB-TGS-TS-TS-TS-TRSB-TF-TF-DMB. But I do plan to be able to mix it up a bit by having some extra coaches such as:

  • 1 extra TRSB
  • 2 extra TS
  • 1 extra TF
Which can be stabled at my planned major station layout module of my heritage line. Which will be a long way off, as initially I plan to build a small branch line terminating station layout module.
List of codes and their descriptions.

When I first  saw the HST in a Hornby catalogue in the late 80's, I knew I had to get one. It has been approximately 25 years since, and I plan to have one.

Wikipedia links about the HST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_252 <-- Prototype
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Classes_253,_254_and_255
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_43_(HST)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Mark_3#HST_vehicles <-- Coaching Stock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_125
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_corporate_liveries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_(British_Rail)

Formations
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/38178-hst-formations/
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/18939-hst-formation/
http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=2452.0
http://ftp.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=71376&p=855859

Misc links:
http://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/HST.htm

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