No.52 So – How much weight have you added? –Full Brakes mainly of the Hornby variety.
In an earlier Post I detailed the construction of some corridor connectors for my Bachmann Collett coaches. I have now added a Hornby Hawksworth Full Brake coach. I like the look of the Hornby Hawksworth coaches, perhaps with the exception of the corridor connectors, which could well be the subject of a separate Post. I bought my first Hornby Hawksworth Full Brake coach back in October 2010 for use with a rake of ‘express coaches’. Most recently I have added a Full Brake to the local ‘semi fast’ set. Initially I had problems keeping the Hawksworth Brake on the track. At one particular location where there are both horizontal and vertical curves the Hawksworth coach at the front of a seven coach train would jump the track. In my opinion the Hornby Hawksworth coaches are very light weight and I solved the derailment problems by adding some additional lead ballast. I think the Table below might be quite intuitive. This confi...