No. 145 Weighing up the Dean Goods
I have been taking advantage of the Spring Sales and have bought myself a BR black engine driven Oxford Rail Dean Goods. I bought my first Dean Goods back in 1985. It was a Mainline model with a tender drive. The perceived wisdom was that the model was conceived and designed by Airfix just before that company folded. I thought the tender drive came with an unrealistically high mound of coal, to hide the motor, and it could be noisy. It did have a good haulage capacity. Mainline Dean Goods from 1985 I thought the model well detailed for its age and I believe reasonably accurate. It was one of the earliest mass produced models to feature blackened coupling rods. Oxford Rail Dean Goods from 2017 Moving forward to 2017, Oxford Rail introduced an engine driven Dean Goods. This model has generated significant ‘froth’ from modellers, particularly those interested in pre-nationalisation engines who note numerous dimensional and detailed deviations fro...