WD "Austerity" 2-8-0: In Game, Part 4 (British Railways)

As promised, today we are showing the British Railways livery.
There are a lot of pictures so we'll keep the text to a minimum and get on with it!

1950, in general running condition

ex-GWR

90466 was an ex-GWR that carried a yellow stripe on the cab side as it was banned from the WCML south of Crewe "under the wires" due to the taller Swindon clack valves

Overhead warning markers for the engines that were allowed under the wires

Optional side deflectors fitted to some WD 2-8-0's

Optional washout plug covers - many of which were lost along the way!

Optional snowplough (with animated snow effects)

In the late 1950's and early 1960's a number of tenders for engines at ex-Eastern and ex-Central region sheds were fitted with special water treatment equipment for softening the water

From 1961 many engines were fitted with AWS

Footplate of the 1950's livery

Footplate of the 1956 livery, with single arm reverser and AWS equipment

The WD's were probably the least cared for engines under British Railways, only ever clean the day they left the factory after painting. There are many photographs of them running in what looks like almost scrapyard condition.
We have provided a "worn" WD livery with all of the options and tender logos available.

 

And the footplate is not much better!

And we couldn't finish without a look at the only named WD 2-8-0 under BR, No. 90732 "Vulcan"

Next week we are looking at the Dutch NS 4300 and the only preserved WD 2-8-0.

Victory Works Product Catalogue

Note: Despite the date of original posting this blog entry will always be kept up to date with a list of our available add-ons.

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All add-ons listed by Railway Company:

GWR
GWR Steam Railmotor
GWR 14xx & Autocoach
GWR Large Prairies
BR(W) Large Prairies Lined Liveries (requires GWR Large Prairies)
GWR 4200/5205
GWR 7200 (Requires GWR 4200/5205)
GWR Pannier Tanks & Autocoach
GWR Saint & Travelling Post Office
BR(W) Saint Liveries (requires GWR Saint & Travelling Post Office)
GWR 1000 Class 'County'
GWR Small Prairies
GWR 56xx
GWR 7800 Class 'Manor'

Southern
Stroudley A1/A1X Terriers - Main Pack
Stroudley A1/A1X Terriers - Early Years (requires Main Pack)
Stroudley A1/A1X Terriers - Later Years (requires Main Pack)
Southern Bulleid Q1
Stroudley Terriers (Isle of Wight ONLY - NOT compatible with the above expansions)

LNER
LNER J21
LNER Peppercorn K1
LNER Raven Q6

BR
BR Standard Class 9F
BR Standard Class 9F Franco-Crosti (requires BR Standard Class 9F)

Other 
USATC S160
WD "Austerity" 2-8-0 
WD "Austerity" 2-10-0 
GT3 Experimental Gas Turbine


Free Software
Victory Works Locomotive Number Generator


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Steam Octoberfest Sale 2019

Apparently it's Octoberfest, and that seems to demand a sale!

Just four of our add-ons in this one but they are 4 of our most popular and all half price so grab a deal from today until October 7th.

Click this link to see all of our DLC on Steam or click on an image below to view a particular pack.

GWR 14xx - 50% off

GWR Saint Class & Travelling Post Office - 50% off

USATC S160 - 50% off

GT3 Gas Turbine Prototype - 50% off

WD "Austerity" 2-8-0: In Game, Part 3 (LMR)

Today we are taking a look at two of the most anticipated engines in the WD "Austerity" 2-8-0 class.

Although a majority of the returning WD's were sent out to the Big Four railway companies, two engines continued to be held in WD stock. These saw service on the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire (along with two of the WD Austerity 2-10-0s). They were engines 77337 and 79250, and in the WD 1957 renumbering scheme they were renumbered to 400 and 401.

Each engine was given a name and a fine looking nameplate on the running board to match. 77337 became Sir Guy Williams and 79250, Major General McMullen.

Sadly both engines were scrapped (along with all but one of the WD 2-8-0's) but we are delighted to bring them back to life again in Train Simulator with their very distinctive blue LMR livery.

Sir Guy Williams as 77337.

Major General McMullen as 79250.

Sir Guy Williams as No. 400 after the 1957 WD renumbering scheme.

And Major General McMullen as No. 401.

Next week it's 1948 to 1967 and nationalisation! The Big Four became British Railways - but what happened to the WD 2-8-0's?

WD "Austerity" 2-8-0: In Game, Part 2 (Post War)

Continuing from last week we start with images from the footplate of the war time variants of the WD 2-8-0.

Sparsely outfitted they only had locomotive steam brakes and train air brakes (in TS they are set up with vacuum brakes behind the code so they can be used on standard rolling stock), but the Riddles/LNER design influence can be clearly seen, even down to having comfy padded seats!


Speaking of the LNER, after the war 733 engines were returned to the UK and the LNER took 200 of them into service.

The Southern also took a number of them, the only significant modification being the addition of 2 extra lamp brackets on the smoke box door for use with the Southern railway's 6 lamp head code system.

Even the GWR took some WD 2-8-0's.

They fitted them with Swindon clack valves and a protective cover however these were frequently lost, exposing the valves as per the originals.
Friday Fun Fact: later in life when some of the Swindon modified engines were transferred and used on the WCML they were banned from working south of Crewe due to the clack cover height and the overhead wires and they carried the yellow stripe on their cab side denoting this.

Another peculiarity of the GWR engines were that some had a new fire iron tunnel fitted in front of the cab on the right hand side of the engine. These seem to have been very unpopular and although some BR engines still had them fitted even ex-GWR crews didn't use them, preferring the additional fire iron storage on the side of the tender.

That wraps things up for this week.
Next week our WD 2-8-0's will be having a bad case of the "blues" ;-)