Weekend project: ‘Rudd’ coupling cams
HORNBY’S mini-range of modern ballast wagons which comprises of the ‘Rudd’, ‘Tope’ and ‘Clam’ is a very useful collection for late 1980s and 1990s modellers, with many examples of the full-size wagons surviving well into the Privatisation period. Like many infrastructure vehicles of the time, they are rebuilds of redundant revenue wagons, this time, the HTV coal hopper fleet being the wagons concerned.
The models produced by Hornby are generally well received by modellers, despite the overly thick sides of the Rudd and Clam models. They are equipped with the same well modelled HTV derived underframe and close coupling cams which come fitted with quite a fierce spring. In practice, models with short underframes do not need close coupling cams and experience with the
