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SECR (ex-LCDR) Brake Van Progress - Nearly Finished

SRman

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Quite some time ago I started building a London, Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR) brake van from the etched brass Roxey Mouldings kit. It was 95% complete when the build stalled due to my problem in effectively attaching the footboards. I have now done so using wire hangers bent to support the boards. The upper ends of the hangers are hooked and superglued into holes drilled into the brass solebars, while the step boards are soldered to the lower supports.

 

The smaller steps under the guard's doors are also soldered, although one of them took me several attempts before it stayed solidly put.

 

The whole lot is painted South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SE&CR) wagon dark grey with black below the solebars. Lettering has commenced with HMRS pressfix transfers, but is not yet complete. I have glazed the various window openings but I'm not sure that all of them should have "glass" in them - it's not at all clear from the drawings I have or any of the limited number of photos I have seen.

 

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Footboards are such a pain! A nice build of a nice prototype, it's becoming a very attractive train.

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SRman

Thanks, Mikkel.

I wanted something fairly colourful to go with the pre-grouping locos I have, so bought quite a few Private Owner wagons. I had no suitable brake van for the train with the Bachmann SECR C class locos hauling it, though, hence locating the Roxey kit, and building it, with the help of DougN and his resistance soldering unit.

I already had a 1980s Hornby LBSC/SR brake van to go with the Bachmann LBSC E4 and the Dapol and Hornby terriers in Stroudley's improved engine green (I know they were really passenger engines, but ...). I have also been building some LSWR brake vans (also in the blog, somewhere) from Smallbrook Studio - one is complete, two more nearly so.

I then decided that the train should also have some railway owned wagons, starting with some more "local" ones from the SECR, LBSCR and LSWR from Cambrian Kits. These were followed by the GWR ones from Parkside recently described. Once I have the lettering on these and the SECR brake van completed, I'll post a picture or two of the train in my layout topic.

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