The GC and Met in OO

Are those POWSides transfers?

 

Black corner plates, maybe?

 

Good to see some relevant POs that aren't RCH 1923 12 tonners.

They are indeed POWsides transfers.  I was debating what to do about the ironwork (which is usually black) but the livery notes with the transfers just said all bodywork to be red. 

 

To my knowledge the Dapol 9' wagons are the only ones available RTR that are pre-1923 (?- could be mistaken on that). 

There are also the Oxford Rail models of the North British Railway "Jubilee" coal wagons of the 1880s, though they're a distinctively Scottish design with the big hinges on the end door. Some of the design were, I think, privately owned, and North British wagons have been seen as far south as Southampton, though I don't know how much the coal wagons tended to stay local.

See also my start at getting to grips with the Hornby 6/4/3 plank pre-1923 (pre-1907) wagons. And there are kits - POWSides pre-printed use the Slaters kits (their website indicates) or there are the Cambrian ones.

There are also the Oxford Rail models of the North British Railway "Jubilee" coal wagons of the 1880s, though they're a distinctively Scottish design with the big hinges on the end door. Some of the design were, I think, privately owned, and North British wagons have been seen as far south as Southampton, though I don't know how much the coal wagons tended to stay local.

 

Of course!- I've even got one of those!- don't know how I forgot it. 

 

 

See also my start at getting to grips with the Hornby 6/4/3 plank pre-1923 (pre-1907) wagons. And there are kits - POWSides pre-printed use the Slaters kits (their website indicates) or there are the Cambrian ones.

 

I have several of the Cambrian ones either built or under construction, and generally they're pretty good.  I've not built any Slaters yet but have a pair to be doing, which will follow my last Cambrian open (work on which has just begun).  I'll look out for the Hornby ones too.