As I promised earlier (rashly!) a few more photographs of rolling stock for the light railway project.

Last year I bought from a society 2nd hand stand a largely built etched brass kit for some sort of non-passenger freight stock, which proved to be a Roxey kit for a S&D van. Well at the time my railway is set many of these vans had been absorbed into Southern stock, so this seemed like a sound idea to follow and a good friend lent me a book on Souhern liverys.

Well to say it made my brain hurt and eyes nearly start to bleed is not too much of an exageration! The publication in question (and I'm sure some folks will know the one I have in mind) was in essence a collection of various articles on the subject written over the years and subseqently collected together and published.

well, at the end of this imformation gathering exercise (ha!) I gave up on the original intention and decided the light railway had aquired the vehicle mainly for the conveyance of watercress and other perishables up to the main railway network.

This fiction was aided by the aquisition of an "as new" Hornby utility van from another society 2nd hand stand, I was being good though as I left it 's purchase until the second day of the show to give anyone else a chance. It's conversion to EM gauge though was to say the least interesting!

The next vehicle is another complete crib from "Relaxing Hobby", he had the fine notion of using 009 or similar narrow gauge wagon body's (suitably widened) for "old style" standard gauge vehicles. I'm afraid I couldn't resist widening a Parkside 3' gauge van body and fitting it to a shortened "Gloucester" underframe, fitted with archaic wooden brake blocks from Kenline.

To draw this saga to an end for now we come to the last vehicle, another salvage job. Aquired from a friend this' partially built brake van by "Jidenco" was just crying out for a home on the light railway or my industrial model. The work involved a little tidying up, making some footsteps, sandboxes, brakegear (including brake standards) and a roof. Rounded off by a wee man standing at one end waiting for something to do (I won't tell him he never will have anything to do if you don't).

The roof is not destined to stay white, it just wasn't painted at the time the photograph was taken.

There we are, a few more items of rolling stock for a railway that doesn't yet have a complete engine. The first one though is a terrier bought as damaged from a certain well known internet auction site and already built to EM gauge - curently "in works".

watch this space, but as I've said before please don't hold your breath!

John.