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What's this, I hear you shout, a tone of indignation and outrage apparent in your voices? Bash and Dash - not in their original form? Well, if you recall "HiT Characters - Good Buy or Bad Bargain? Part 2", I pointed out that there was no point in bringing a pair of 0-4-0 tank engines all the way over from the States, so instead I decided on using two of the North Eastern Railway's H Class (LNER Class Y7) as their prototypes. Their chasses come from a pair of L&Y Pug Class saddletank engines with the cylinders removed, but their bodyshells (originally intended to be the smaller K Class, or LNER Y8) were built entirely from scratch and painted in ex-LNER unlined black livery.

Following an accident with North Sodor Logging Company No. 8, the railway's second Shay, and the condemnation of its No. 7, an elderly Dunkirk vertical-boilered engine, the company bought a pair of Y7 tank engines to replace them on the lighter runs closer to the sawmills. The two engines, nicknamed Bash and Dash for their sprightly personalities (but not including that irritating trait of always finishing off each other's sentences), were built at Gateshead on the 30th of September 1891, and mostly worked at Tyne Dock, Northumberland, until the Great Depression brought about the contraction of dock work and prompted the LNER to sell them off in 1932. Although they were officially assigned the numbers of the engines they replaced, the North Sodor Logging Company's rather complacent attitude to repainting meant that they retained their LNER numbers throughout their working lives on the logging railway network. Following the closure of that system, they were reallocated to Tidmouth Harbour where they regained their original role as dock shunters.

One thing I need to point out though - don't even think of suspending Dash from a great height, or you'll scare the clinker out of him!

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What's this, I hear you shout, a tone of indignation and outrage apparent in your voices? Bash and Dash - not in their original form? Well, if you recall "HiT Characters - Good Buy or Bad Bargain? Part 2", I pointed out that there was no point in bringing a pair of 0-4-0 tank engines all the way over from the States, so instead I decided on using two of the North Eastern Railway's H Class (LNER Class Y7) as their prototypes. Their chasses come from a pair of L&Y Pug Class saddletank engines with the cylinders removed, but their bodyshells (originally intended to be the smaller K Class, or LNER Y8) were built entirely from scratch and painted in ex-LNER unlined black livery.

Following an accident with North Sodor Logging Company No. 8, the railway's second Shay, and the condemnation of its No. 7, an elderly Dunkirk vertical-boilered engine, the company bought a pair of Y7 tank engines to replace them on the lighter runs closer to the sawmills. The two engines, nicknamed Bash and Dash for their sprightly personalities (but not including that irritating trait of always finishing off each other's sentences), were built at Gateshead on the 30th of September 1891, and mostly worked at Tyne Dock, Northumberland, until the Great Depression brought about the contraction of dock work and prompted the LNER to sell them off in 1932. Although they were officially assigned the numbers of the engines they replaced, the North Sodor Logging Company's rather complacent attitude to repainting meant that they retained their LNER numbers throughout their working lives on the logging railway network. Following the closure of that system, they were reallocated to Tidmouth Harbour where they regained their original role as dock shunters.

One thing I need to point out though - don't even think of suspending Dash from a great height, or you'll scare the clinker out of him!