Original page created on 07/08/2008.
Brand - Reference
Hornby 7310
Type
Dd2 Est metallized luggage van
| UIC number | Revision date |
| 50 87 92-47 141-1 1 | — |
Weight
113 g (NEM: 76 to 99 g)
Comments
In the 1970s, I had equipped this van with WL bogies with a tin frame and moulded flanks after those of Romilly Jouef. I have since reassembled the original bogies because the flanks of the WL were taking off (photo).
Decidedly, luggage vans are missing in the current industrial production (2016). Neither this one, nor the 2-axle Nord Dd2, nor the bogie Nord Dd4, nor the Sud-Est B4Dd, exist, while all these models (the Nord Dd4 to a lesser extent) were omnipresent in the Nord and in the Est in the sixties to eighties.
As a result, and for lack of anything better, I still use this van in my Nord-Est compositions.
See this topic on Loco-Revue forum.
Modifications
- Central handrails levelled; red light caps removed (state of the photo).
- Makette elongation drawbars. Original bogies reassembled. Buffer heads replaced with home-made nickel silver and brass models. LS Models bellows mounted (one unfolded, one folded).
History
These luggage vans result from the metallization of former Dy vans from the Est, Sud-Ouest and Sud-Est, carried out from 1951 to 1957 at the Romilly SNCF workshops and at the Société Lorraine des Anciens Établissements De Dietrich.
Among these vans, 52 have a lateral corridor (Dd2s), 120 have gangway with bellows but without corridor (Dd2), and 9 have a postal compartment (DPd).
According to its number and eurocity64, the Hornby van would be of Sud-Est origin. This is a Dd2, i.e. without gangway.
Documents
- Loco-Revue sheet
No. 7 b 14 (former series). Photo above. Sheet preview.
Photo SNCF.
| Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall length | 17 470 | 200.8 | 196 1,0 |
| Chassis length | 16 140 | 185.5 | 180.7 |
| Width | 2 505 | 28.8 | 31.5 |
| Height | 3 890 | 44.7 | 45.2 |
| Pivot distance | 10 700 | 123.0 | 115.5 |
| Bogie wheelbase (WL or Y2) | 2 500 | 28.7 | 28.2 |
| Wheel diameter WL bogies | 1050 | 12.1 | — |
| Wheel diameter Y2 bogies | 920 | 10.6 | 10.4 2 |
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Document available as a PDF.
If you are interested, please let me know by e-mail,
specifying the title of the document-s.
For conditions, see page
Loco-Revue documentary sheets. .
Vehicle too short about 5 mm. In this regard, I don’t understand this obsession of shortening, which could be justified on a long vehicle (to avoid excessive overhangs on curves too tight), but five unfortunate millimetres on a short vehicle? Maybe it was in that time designers’ collective unconsciousness, impregnated by ultra-shortened Hornby toys, at the O gauge (let’s not speak of scale!), of the 1930s to 1950s?
Hornby made the effort of switching to UIC numbering when it appeared, but they forgot to modify the painting that should have been completely green, including the roof and the ends.