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Southern Electric Modelling Gallery -
4mm scale ready to run electric and electro-diesel locomotives
  
Below are illustrations of 4mm scale mass-produced ready to run electric and electro-diesel locomotives.  Details of how to contact manufacturers and suppliers can be found in our modelling contacts section.

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Golden Arrow Productions HA
GAP HA - click to view larger picture
 Golden Arrow Productions of Hastings produced this custom-built ready to run HA.  The body is cast resin with whitemetal bogies.  One thing that has to be watched for when modelling Southern Electric in OO gauge is the position of the pickup shoes - has the bogie width been modelled to true 4mm scale or narrowed to reflect the compromise of 16.5mm gauge?  In this model's case, although it was advertised as only available in OO gauge the bogies are to 4mm scale width as and so the pickup beams run outside the third rail , and the dummy pickup shoes foul conductor rail fixed to OO gauge track.
GAP HA - click to view larger picture

 

Hornby Class 92
Hornby Class 92 - click to view larger picture Hornby produced their first Class 92 model in 1995, the same year that Lima did.  Unlike the Lima model it is still available - in EWS livery.  The SEG Modelling Secretary has compared the Hornby and Lima versions side by side and considers the Hornby model the better, but only by a narrow margin.

 

Lima Class 73
Lima class 73 green - click to view larger picture Lima's first Class 73 model appeared in 1986 and it is certainly one of their better efforts.  However, this lily can be gilded, as can be seen on our kit-built, super-detailing, conversions and scratch-built locomotives page.  The pickup shoes align perfectly with a conductor rail fixed to OO gauge track however if the rail is at scale height the shoes are moulded slightly too low so lifting the loco fractionally and impairing adhesion.  A few moments with a file or knife can cure this!  Three dozen different versions of this loco are known to have been produced, seven of which are illustrated left roughly in order of appearance of prototype liveries.  Incidentally Lima produced a model of E6005 - a JA - incorrectly with a JB body and incorrectly in Brunswick green with a grey lower stripe and incorrectly with a loco - not carriage - emblem.  It is hoped to picture this model after the next photographic section.

Following their acquisition of Lima, Hornby selected the Class 73 to be among the first tranche of British stock to be re-released under the Hornby brand.
Lima class 73 early blue - click to view larger picture
Lima class 73 corporate blue - click to view larger picture
Lima class 73 large logo blue - click to view larger picture
Lima class 73 Network SouthEast - click to view larger picture
Lima class 73 umber and cream - click to view larger picture
Lima class 73 South West Trains - click to view larger picture

 

Hornby Class 73
Hornby R3045 73202 Gatwick Express - click to view a larger picture Hornby have made minor improvements to the EDL. It now has a 5 pole motor with a DCC socket, and couplings in a NEM pocket. The bodywork, bogies and underframe remain largely the same, as do the pizza cutter wheels.

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