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Day 5: Coaling


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Done some more work on the wagons, finished the painting, and added coal. I added some lead in the bottom of the wagon, covered it in a sheet of thick card, then added the coal over that - unfortunately I forgot that lead and PVA don't mix well, and now I have some authentically bowed-out wagon sides. Oh well...

 

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And the Hudswell contractors loco got coaled too.

 

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What I'm not so convinced by, is a coal factor owning / hiring wagons with sheet rail. I could imagine company-owned wagons with sheet rail being pressed into mineral traffic at a pinch.

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In my defence, the sheet-railed one was a test print to make sure the model was printable - the subsequent ones built for the layout are without sheet rail, like the grey one.

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Many Ashford-built "coal" wagons had sheet bars, since all such were dual-use wagons.

 

Suggestion for why Kent Coal needed sheeted wagons: they deal in lime as well as coal.

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