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Going black and blue...a tale of Locomotive Exhange locos, an WD tender and A4

Graham_Muz

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Gosh is it realy 12 months since I added a workbench entry...thats shocking.

 

In my defence a number of my project have also formed aprt of an article or two for Hornby Magazine so I have not been able to let the cat out of the bag so to speak.

 

Speaking of Hornby Magazine, some of you might have seen my article in the march issue earlier this year about the Locomotive Exchanges of 1948 and my creation of City of Bradford and The Hussar as they ran on the Southern coupled to a WD tender.

 

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I have to confess that both photographs were taken using the same modified Bachmann WD tender as I had only been able to source one tender at the time. I have since via the classifieds on here obtained a second WD tender and this weekend have modified to the coupling to be compatible with the Hornby style tender drawbar by drilling and tapping for a 6BA screw. As this started life as a karki liveried tender I have also reapaited it black via my usual method of a thin coat of Halford Plastic Primer followed by a top coat of Halfords Satin Black. It now awaits LMS decals

 

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Continuing the Locomotive Exhanges theme I have be wanting to find for some time a garter blue A4 but without the valances so that I could model 60033 'Seagull' in the form that she worked on the Southern during the trials. My search was ended last weekend as Gareth of Trains4U has a second hand Backmann A4 Lord Beaverbrook' . To be an accurate represention of 'Seagull' it requires a douuble chimney and also a modification to the tender to cut down the raves slightly at the rear.

 

I have made a start by removing all the decals, using my usual method of a little thinners on a cotton bud and also started to remove the single chimney (I will be picking up a replacement double chimney from Gary at 247 Developments at Warley next month) Masking tape has been used to prtect the paintwork and lining around the chimney.

 

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I will next make a start on the slight modifaction to the rear of the tender to cut back the raves at the rear which is lowered to just above the moulded line seen either side of the top of the corridor connection and then curves up and over the top of the corridor connection. I am being lent a book which contains an image of this arrangement to work from so should be able to make physical progress on this next week.

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James Hilton

These look interesting projects and something a little different to the norm :)

Can I ask more of a historical question? Not being very well read on the era, for what reason was the WD tender lettered for the LMS, whilst the locomotives had gained their BR identities?

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Hi James

The question of the LMS branding on the WD tenders is very good one which I have tried to find an answer for myself.

The branding as such was inconsistant during the trials for example the stanier tenders with water scoops fitted to the Southern Bulleid pacifics when they went off Southern metals had British Railways in full Gill Sans on them and most locos in th trials were given their BR style number although Mallard retained its LNER number 22 whilst its tender sported British Railways. It seems like it was left down to the MPD concerned.

I am of the opinion thatthe whole set up of the trials was more of a poorly exceuted PR exercise rather than a mechanical comparison (for many reasons hich i discuss in my Hornby Mag article) as these inconsistancies highlight further.

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