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Some Arc Roof Stock, part I


James Harrison

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Well, I'd finally finished my rake of Metropolitan Ashbury carriages. I'm not entirely happy with how they've turned out, but they'll do. Until I find something more appropriate. I found something more appropriate a lot quicker than I was expecting though!

 

Pretty much everybody, I guess, has a pile of bits and pieces that may come in useful someday. In my own pile are about seven or eight Hornby clerestories. Some have been used as donor vehicles for GCR carriages, some have been scrapped and reduced to bogies and underframes, and one or two are sitting in as-made condition waiting for me to decide what I want to do with them.

 

About two months ago I visited the Severn Valley with a friend and in one of the bric-a-brac carriage fund shops in Bewdley I came across another pair of the clerestory carriages. Except that this pair had lost their roofs and been given arc roofs instead. The brake third had also had it's bodywork cut and shut- it was quite plain that somebody had made a decent attempt at turning them into GCR-style arc roof stock. I think I got them for a few pounds each....

 

On returning home I went through my own bits and bobs pile and I find I've got a pair of Hornby clerestories, a composite and a brake third, complete and unsullied. Not for long! I've bought a pair of carriage roof mouldings from Dart Castings- I am sure you can see where this is going....

 

1. The already-converted pair. Clean them up, new interiors, new couplings.
2. Convert my pair of clerestories to match.
3. Salvage what parts are useful from the Ashbury stock and scrap the remainder.

 

Now the Ashbury stock, I reckon the couplings, the bogies and the buffers will be salvaged. That gives me four sets of 5' bogies that I can use for something else- and it strikes me I have a GWR Siphon tucked away somewhere with a view to conversion to another GCR bogie fish van.

 

And when all this is done, I might just get around to some more silhouette cutter work on my clerestory and Barnum rakes....

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