British Rail - Class 43 Intercity 125 - 8 wide

[Redimus]

Perhaps it's because I used to have an actual model railway, but other than fudging things to power them, I always want to make it look as close to the real thing rather than adding play value.

[garethjellis]

I have finally finished it and took it to a great show today with my LUG. The video is at the end. We did a display at the Mid America Train and Toy show.

Edited December 2, 2014 by garethjellis

[zephyr1934]

Looks great in the video, please post photos too.

[English Electric]

Didn't notice that about the sliding doors.

Some people just like making their models functional, even if the functions probably won't be used.

For info, the Intercity 125 coaching stock is not sliding door, they are slam door stock with central locking.

Fantastic model by the way, you've captured the look perfectly! It would look awesome with a few more carriages!

[Heppeng]

For info, the Intercity 125 coaching stock is not sliding door, they are slam door stock with central locking.

Fantastic model by the way, you've captured the look perfectly! It would look awesome with a few more carriages!

I think he may have been referring to the internal doors, which are sliding on the full size. It has to be said, it never ceases to amaze me just how much realism can be achieved with lego bricks. Well done!

[garethjellis]

I sadly didn't take enough pictures got absorbed in a few coupling problems, but here is one sat net to the Class 455. Thank you all for the kind words.

https://flic.kr/p/pj7hUb

Edited December 2, 2014 by garethjellis

[Redimus]

I think he may have been referring to the internal doors, which are sliding on the full size. It has to be said, it never ceases to amaze me just how much realism can be achieved with lego bricks. Well done!

Indeed, the external doors are slam doors, but the internal are automatic sliding doors.

[pirzyk]

In the video, the curved track the train was running on did not look like standard lego curves. Was it? If not, what was the radius?

The train is gorgeous, very impressive, kudos.

[garethjellis]

Thank you pirzyk. I need to iron out some running issues but was eventually pleased with its performance. The curves are home build 72 stud Radius. I made a jig and used Plastruct ABS I beam MEK'd to the top of 2x8 plates, they worked very well.

[zephyr1934]

Thank you pirzyk. I need to iron out some running issues but was eventually pleased with its performance. The curves are home build 72 stud Radius. I made a jig and used Plastruct ABS I beam MEK'd to the top of 2x8 plates, they worked very well.

Excellent! When you have time it would be great to see more about your jig and the curves too.

[Commander Wolf]

Nice to see a whole train, especially at a beefy scale like this.

Everything looks a little bit big compared to the wheels, though... how long/high is each car?

[garethjellis]

Hi Commander Wolf,

Scaling is the most challenging with Lego due to its rigid stud system, However, this makes for a more fun and challenging hobby.

Each coach is 64+ studs long, Engines are 51 studs long. All the train is 10 studs high from rail height. and * studs wide. Have a look at the scaling picture attached, My version mostly fits the scaling. As far as I can tell the wheels on the real one would scale to just under 2.3, inner rim to inner rim. (see below) so the lego train wheels dimensions are 3 to the flange and 2.30 to the inner rim. So in actual fact the outer dimensions of the Lego wheel flange are too big for this model.

When I ran this train with the 6 wide's it does look big for sure. Its total length was over 9 ft.

[willhappy]

Love the inter city 125 had it as a hornby train set a long time ago lol.

Any plans to do more on this 

will