Hornby 08s

[Bittern]

Just questioning the accuracy of the Hornby 08s. The lower part of the body (wheel area) look like they do in this picture: http://www.overthepoints.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/webassets/o8diesel.jpg

Meanwhile, the Bachmann 08s (for example) look like this: http://www.oliviastrains.com/userfiles/image/Post 03 09 09 Images/Class_08_410_Limited_Edition.jpg

There's a very clear difference.

Naturally I would expect some difference between the models as they're from different companies, but I've only ever seen pictures of 08s that match the Bachmann style. Is the Hornby style accurate to some real-life locos?

 

[sprinterguy]

The Hornby 08 pictured there is from the Railroad range, or is a considerably older model. The Hornby Railroad class 08 uses, I think, the same chassis and wheelsets as the 0-6-0 steam locos in that range and is non-prototypical.

A couple of years ago Hornby did a major retooling of the class 08 to make it competitive against the Bachmann model, to make it considerably more detailed and accurate than the Hornby example shown there. I much prefer the Bachmann 08 for realism myself, but many people think the new Hornby 08 is very good: All 08s feature wheels and motion as depicted on the Bachmann 08, and also on the new Hornby 08, whereas the Hornby Railroad 08 depicted above has much simplified, unprototypical wheels and motion.

 

[Viscount]

The difference between inside and outside frames. The prototype locomotive only ever had outside frames - the rest of the story is told above.

 

[K9-70]

The Hornby 08 in your link can be traced back to 1956 when introduced by Tri-ang as a cheap locomotive by utilising what they had available.
In this case the chassis of the Jinty was reversed and the body of the shunter was tooled up to fit it.

http://irishrailwayimages.fotopic.net/p42971391.html
1968 version of the Tri-ang 08 shunter

It was never intended as a scale model, just a cheap toy to keep children of the day interested in model railways

K9-70