Cattle truck, short version

[relaxinghobby]

 

Does this count as an LNWR wagon, I started from a drawing of the short and cutest cattle wagon drawing found on the LNWR website.

Although it is not LNWR it's meant to be one in its later years and  in service on an independent light railway.

An ex-LNWR cattle wagon.

Just recently I've found a drawing in an old Railway Modeller of practically the same wagon but as an LYR one. Did the NW build some for the Lancashire and Yorkshire?

Axle box casting has come un-glued.

Edited October 21, 2018 by relaxinghobby

[Londontram]

Sorry can't help you but it's s lovely little model though.

[LNWR lives on]

Hello Relaxinghobby

 

I am guessing that you based the model on the link below, which is the LNW Diagram 20 Small Cattle Wagon. I dont know if the LNW did build some for the L&Y, certainly at one point they built some engines for the L&Y I believe so wagons as well could be feasible, but the text in the link does say that 'other companies used similar vehicles.' 

 

http://lnwrs.org.uk/Wagons/cattle/Diag020.php

 

I agree that it looks a lovely model and I would certainly like to see it with the underframe attached. 

 

I have nudged one of those running the competition to come and answer your question regarding entry. 

 

David

[wessy]

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Does this count as an LNWR wagon, I started from a drawing of the short and cutest cattle wagon drawing found on the LNWR website.

Although it is not LNWR it's meant to be one in its later years and  in service on an independent light railway.

An ex-LNWR cattle wagon.

Just recently I've found a drawing in an old Railway Modeller of practically the same wagon but as an LYR one. Did the NW build some for the Lancashire and Yorkshire?

Axle box casting has come un-glued.

 

Hello relaxinghobby,

Yes it does count as it was built by the LNWR, even if it is now used by someone else. We want to send every registered entry a selection of colourised photographs from the Society's collection, so if you contact me via lnwr-competition@lnwrs.org.uk and include the following information:

your name

your RMWeb name

your address - all logged entries will be put into a draw for a Gerald Broom LNWR print, so we need to know where to send it

a short description/title of the entry

the category it is entered in

the period being modelled

 

you will get some, which have been designed for use as screensavers.

 

Good luck in the competition.

[relaxinghobby]

It's taken many attempts to get it back on its wheels, one of the white metal axle box combined W iron moulds came unglued getting it back into place so the wheels are parallel and straight so the little wagon does not crab down the track took ages and for some reason the super glue did not take and it took several goes before it all worked.

Then a coupling broke off.

Transfer time had to hunt around to find some info on early markings should it be just one diamond or two?

Any numbers tare or tonnage or just an LNWR registration plate on the solebar?

Next is to add a bit of weight to it's delicate plasticard mass and do a little weathering and the lime stains around the lower parts.

 

 

The unpainted one is to use up the parts on the printout.

 

 

The other side is labelled as a light railway version. The brake lever has been broken off during the W-iron reattachment fiddling process.

Edited November 15, 2018 by relaxinghobby

[sharris]

If it's an LNWR hand-me-down whether to limewash or not will depend on the date you're considering.

 

Lime was not good for cattle hooves and the practice was stopped in the 1920s. This thread has more information.

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/70648-cattle-wagons-and-limewashwhitewash/

 

Nice looking wagon.