Continuing the construction of stock for my pre-grouping layout, focus has turned to coaching stock as I need something for the locos to pull.
In the Summer of 1912, apart from the odd postal, parcel or fish van, the vehicles in the North to West expresses were all 8 wheel. The local trains that shuttled up and down, between Hereford and Shrewsbury and some of the intermediate junctions such as Craven Arms, were mainly 6 wheel trains. But the longer distance local services were 8 w