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[contact address provided]
Launceston, Cornwall |
 01566 880157 |
INFO LAST CONFIRMED:
17th May 2011
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request by email - sent as PDF. |
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Worldwide Export: Yes |
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Scales:
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Quainton Road Models produce 7mm scale kits for the Great Central Railway and the Metropolitan Railway. (Some of the prototypes modelled were in use into LNER and BR days). They are etched brass and nickel-silver kits with appropriate castings in whitemetal and lost-wax brass. (Please click on the link to the left for information on former, current and future products. I attend very few exhibitions and shows, so please make contact via the information provided here. (G0G and GCRS Member)
Current and imminent products: --
GCR/LNER 6-wheel Fish Van dia 49 £90.00 --
MS&LR/CLC/GCR/LNER 6-wheel 29' Passenger Brake Van £90.00 --
A range of whitemetal castings for Metropolitan Railway wagon springs/axleboxes and sprung buffers. --
My 6-wheel kits have compensated Cleminson running gear with the underframe and body constructed as independent units.
Kits include appropriate whitemetal and lost-wax brass castings, but not wheels. I can supply 6-wheel, 3-axle packs with brass inside bearings for £14.00 - these packs include Slater's 3'-7" Mansell wheelsets. --
I am now accepting expressions of interest for a kit of the Metropolitan Railway class K 2-6-4T. This will be a limited edition kit, so please contact me for further information and to place a reservation. --
Some of the future kits to be released will be re-designed and re-mastered versions of the sides and ends etches I offered in the 1990s but these will available as complete kits. The range includes these MS&LR/GCR/LNER 6-wheel coaches: --
Brake 3rd diagram 2A16 --
Brake 3rd diagram 2A17 --
5-compartment 3rd diagram 2B8 --
4-compartment 1st diagram 2Q2 --
Luggage composite diagram 2K2A --
Earlier Metropolitan Railway kits released in the 1990's, but no longer in production included: --
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Class H 4-4-4T locomotive --
10 ton goods van 12’ 6” wheelbase --
10 ton goods van 10'- 6” wheelbase --
6 ton 2-plank dropside wagon --
10 ton highsided goods wagon --
10 ton lowsided goods wagon --
Weighing machine/tool van --
About me: My name is David Howes. --
As a modeller, starting with Hornby-Dublo 3-rail in the 1950s, I always wanted to re-create some small part of the history of the area in which I grew up. This was not a personal nostalgia, as I had no first hand recollections of many of the subjects I wished to portray. The major influence that first the Great Central Railway’s London Extension and later the growth of Metro-Land had on the countryside close to my youthful years in Buckinghamshire, provided the basis of my interest. --
But I was somewhat thwarted. As we moved into the early 1990s where were all the kits for the GCR and Met? (Actually today the GCR is well served with locomotive kits). Turning this apparent setback into opportunity, Quainton Road Models was established as a hobby venture - the name taken from the junction station of the two railways of primary interest. --
I traded during the 1990s, but then moved abroad. I’m now spending more time in the UK, and hope to revive Quainton Road Models as a brand associated with the Great Central and Metropolitan. --
So I hope you will be able to enjoy my efforts to record something of our railway heritage. --
One day I will set to and start to work on my own model of Quainton Road itself! --
In the meantime this part-time, one-man operation will do its best to provide the kits and bits that you need to model the railways in which we share in interest. So do let me know what you want, particularly if it has a Great Central or Metropolitan connection. |
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